Is almost everyone on here loaded?

[jako999]

I would much rather stay in a field then a big site. I can afford the sites but we love small rallies the only down side I suppose is when you pull on and everyone stairs at you because you’ve come to a £12 a night rally in a 150k van. We’re not snobs we are just normal people I think a lot of people who go to expensive sites just want to show off and be able to say “oh we stayed at £75 a night site the other day” my answer to them is you must be stupid then. I’ve got a neighbour who seems to change his 100 grand car every 6 months just for show, where as I buy what I want at the time, at one point I sold my high end Porsche and bought a 3 grand mx5 people never understood but I was just as happy.
people who spend a fortune on sites are just mugs the little cheep places are far nicer, the only time I will pay a lot for a site is for convenience to somewhere like York.

 

[Derbyshire wanderer]

I don’t mind the odd night or two at £30 or so for a particular location like Edinburgh but will dilute that with some nights at a £15 CL or FLT stops.
Usually can do a 2 week holiday averaging between £10 to £15 a night.

 

[EuroTrotters]

CS £16 a night with 16amp EHU

Another site nearby , £10 a night if you stay 6 months

 

[dash300]

 

[Quackers]

£12.50 a night here at Woodside Field, and only 2 in this evening. Sometimes I wonder if we charged £20- £30 would we always be full?

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[Captain Yoghurtpot]

I will do what I want to do, when I want to do it providing I can get on the site I need at the time.
People will need to take us as we come, and warts an’ all.

 

[suavecarve]

£12.50 a night here at Woodside Field, and only 2 in this evening. Sometimes I wonder if we charged £20- £30 would we always be full?

I do wish you would stop advertising your site, if you continue then several other people will find out how bleeding lovely it is and keep turning up and causing me to have perhaps have to book.
Eggs for us this autumn please, dont know when, but I know we will be coming so stop telling people please.

And whatever you do, dont tell them to click the link woodside.co.uk which is available in your signature so they see how nice your place is.

In case you forgot this is your link here not to tell them about

 

[Dave7]

Where’s £100 a night
I’d never pay that much as can’t see it can be worth the money

 

[chesterfield hooligan]

We have just the basic state pension so we don't do the UK as to expensive we prefer France, Spain, or Portugal we try to do 7 weeks at a time ferry £120 return biggest expense is fuel so we budget to stay within our pension we don't do any sites FLT all the way and really enjoy travelling and meeting and chatting to all and sundury life is about living not worrying what the person next door has I always ask if people we meet if they want a cuppa or a beer

 

[Wildbill]

If it wasn't for getting involved with councils and h&s and other rubbish I would be glad to let folks park in my fields for a fiver, money for nowt.

You can allow camping on your feald 28 days a year without planing consent you can hold rally's with a motorhome fun exemptions on you land a tap a IBC for emptying Hedge for gray water
job done

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[Diggerdi]

Never given a thought to how much state pension I get and I've been drawing mine for 10 years.
Maybe I'm naïve but I'd be surprised if many folk with motorhomes have only the state pension as their income

Hubby and I have one state pension and two tiny personal pensions between us. I gave up work early last year after my mum died and I thought life's too short to wait another 8 years for the government to give me my pension. Fortunately, I inherited a small sum from mum, but that covers all motorhome expenses, diesel and site fees (I still refuse to pay more than £25/night). We are certainly nowhere near "loaded", many jobs need doing on the house but we don't have the funds to do them. Then again, we are away in the motorhome most of the time. Next step is to take as much equity out of the house, we have no one to leave it to.

 

[Minxy]

For a weekend you cannot beat the value of a rally or meet.

If you don't mind crowds

Some love crowds and especially the rallies/meets/show ones with lots of free flowing alcoholic drinkies ... don't you irnbru & the Malvern mob!

 

[Lenny HB]

Don't ever think motorhoming is a cheap hobby.

I think it's very cheap, depreciation on Motorhomes is very low running cost fairly low and no way could we afford 120 to 150 nights a year in hotels.

 

[Lenny HB]

Ah yes maybe but how much did you pay in cross channel fares and diesel to get to those aires?
Work it out over the holiday and the UK campsites are not a lot dearer.

Don't know how you work that out we find it far cheaper to pop across the channel even done it for long weekends in the past.

One gallon of fuel to get to the ferry port £160 - £180 for return ferry then we spend 6 weeks or more camping for free or just a few Euro a night.

And get down to Spain you can get a good 3 course meal with a bottle of wine for £12 - £15 each, nice home cooked food none of that plastic stuff they serve in the UK.

 

[bobnick]

The very few nights we have done wild?ing we have really enjoyed and looking forward to doing more.
However, our preference would be smallish sites with EHU.
We do look at cost's but if one wants to equate i could say the total amount we have spent on site fees in the last two years have probably been a lot less than the costs associated with owning a dog or two (oh bugger i've gone and done it again) so i would say we are in pocket not owning a pet.

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[Dawn B]

weve only got a single state pension to live on and just enough savings to deny anything else

Dittto

 

[Reallyretired]

We got permission for 5 caravans/motorhomes 5 years ago, then it was just to park on the field but now I think you have to provide services, water, shower, toilets, bins. Not sure, only stayed on a few recently and they provided all of these. Don't want the hassle and means you can't go away yourself

Gina

Many years ago there was an extensive network of cheap stays with only water and dump which is all most motorhomers need. Now loads of cls are just mini sites with toilets ehu etc at high prices which defeats the object as I see it. Even bins are not essential for a short stay, a black bag and take it away with you.

 

[jumartoo]

You couldn't pay for this view. Wilding in Galicia. Taken through the window without even leaving my bed.

We, now we have all our pensions, have more disposable income than we've ever had, but we still draw the line at how much we pay for places to park. We don't want bars, pools, super facilities, we just want an undisturbed night somewhere. We still aren't rich when compared to some people. No £150,000 motorhome on our shopping list. We keep considering changing our 2006 motorhome, but it would be change for the sake of change, because our present motorhome layout suits us.

We feel rich, because we've have time to travel, and hope to continue for some years to come. We will pay for a site if it's suitable for what we want to do. ACSI prices are coming down from next weekend in some parts of Galicia so we might have a few days of "luxury" on one or two of them.

 

[chaser]

I seem to have stirred up an argument here which wasn't my intention, but to put it a different way, I have thirty acres that I rent out to a bloke with sheep at £50 an acre for a YEAR and I am happy at that, but then to go out and pay £35 for 30 square yards for ONE night doesn't add up to me, and the people who are charging this are maybe even running sheep on it when there is no vans.
Crazy figures.

 

[Shrimp]

We, myself and Manic, cannot imagine how anyone can justify some of the campsite fees and how do people find the incredible amounts of money to buy a new MH?!?!
We sold our house quite a few years ago now, still have a small amount left and I draw my state pen now with P Credit so you can see we don’t spend on many luxuries and definitely not on expensive campsites!
We are definitely not loaded….(with money, just other things)

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[Lenny HB]

Many years ago there was an extensive network of cheap stays with only water and dump which is all most motorhomers need. Now loads of cls are just mini sites with toilets ehu etc at high prices which defeats the object as I see it. Even bins are not essential for a short stay, a black bag and take it away with you.

As I've said many times on here, problem with the UK is they are pandering to the caravan community and its not what Motorhomes want.

 

[The Wino]

Everyone is different. We could probably afford to spend way more than we do but it's hard to change the habits of a lifetime so we do watch the costs. I suspect most on here are going to leave a fair bit to the next generation it could be some are just better into the mindset of spending what they've got.

 

[Lenny HB]

chaser Always amuses me when you create a thread like this Charlie.
With your assets you are probably more loaded than most of us on here.

Like a lot on here we are living off our small private pensions and our state pensions. Never earnt much but always been good at saving and had some reasonable investments.
Motorhome comes out of savings, using it comes out of pensions.

 

[Lenny HB]

We could probably afford to spend way more than we do but it's hard to change the habits of a lifetime so we do watch the costs

Yep, that's us, real tight arses when using the van, only thing we don't mind spending on is buying the van.

 

[The Wino]

Yep, that's us, real tight arses when using the van, only thing we don't mind spending on is buying the van.

We're the same but still on the same van after 8 years we can't see anything worth spending that much upgrading on particularly as we don't do that many nights in it now we're in a better area to live in

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[carolyn]

There are people from all walks of life on MotorhomeFun as you soon find out especially if you go to some of the rallies regularly and get to know people better. They don’t brag about money, I don’t mean that but you can just tell from what they’ve done with their lives.

Nick and I are lucky in that we both had jobs we loved and have decent pensions. I retired early at 55 as I was worn out otherwise mine would have been even better but no regrets that’s for sure. We are enjoying spending ours.

We enjoy a mixture of rallies, camping in the UK and abroad. We don’t need fancy campsites like we did when we had children with us but if we’re staying a few days to go exploring on our bikes we prefer a campsite. We do occasionally use Aires for overnight stops, I’m ready with my CCP card now for France. We even went on an organised tour of Norway a few years ago and loved it, we’re off on another shortly, not cheap but great fun.

Nick and I sometimes stay in hotels, I’ve just got back from 6 nights in Barcelona with my Daughter. The hotel seemed clean, haven’t noticed any bedbug bites yet!

There are people with every budget on here, sadly prices are going up and will continue to do so, it’s not fair to blame people being willing to pay them. That’s like blaming increased food prices in supermarkets on people being prepared to pay them.

 

[chaser]

chaser Always amuses me when you create a thread like this Charlie.
With your assets you are probably more loaded than most of us on here.

Like a lot on here we are living off our small private pensions and our state pensions. Never earnt much but always been good at saving and had some reasonable investments.
Motorhome comes out of savings, using it comes out of pensions.

On paper you maybe would say I'm loaded, but money in my pocket,I ain't got none, but that doesn't alter the facts for other people, anything over £15 for one night in a field is daylight robbery but folks can't seem to see that, and my op was are they that loaded that anything upto £100 for one night is good value.

 

[The Wino]

On paper you maybe would say I'm loaded, but money in my pocket,I ain't got none, but that doesn't alter the facts for other people, anything over £15 for one night in a field is daylight robbery but folks can't seem to see that, and my op was are they that loaded that anything upto £100 for one night is good value.

If on paper you're loaded either carry on happily not spending much or turn it into cash and blow it. If others choose different it's up to them.

 

[VXman]

I feel fairly lucky and fortunate financially. Retired at 58 so no state pension for a while yet but I have a work pension and savings/investments. However, we stick pick and choose what to spend money on.

We did pay £90 for 2 nights at the Bristol docks site recently - expensive imo but in the end worth it for the location. We have just done 2 weeks in Ireland - didn't pay a penny for any stopovers.

We have done many expensive foreign holidays in the past 30 years or so and will still do so when we feel we want to. For me it's about value for money and getting the best deal for what particular holiday, event, purchase you want. Everyone will vary.

Just about to travel to Italy for 2 months. Wouldn't do that trip on £50 per night campsites as it would become unaffordable so will be looking for lots of free stops. That's the compromise for us in being able to go away for an extended period.

 

[chaser]

If on paper you're loaded either carry on happily not spending much or turn it into cash and blow it. If others choose different it's up to them.

Nothing to blow it on, I have pretty much got what I want, but still won't be chucking £35 away on a park in a field, and as a matter of fact I live quite happily on not a lot more than my state pension .

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