Looking at Buying A Motorhome. Advice Welcome!

Posted on 22/02/2021 10:35 by Takethedogalong

Think outside the years of caravan experience would be a good start.

Exactly what you want to do, and how you will choose to use your MH will be the key. Using it for proper touring, quick set up and pack up? Move on more frequently than with a van? Use it for getting around daily off Site? Or......

Have lots of comforts around you? Pitch up and leave it on a pitch? Rely more on walking, cycling, public transport once pitched up?

Nothing wrong with either choice. Slightly smaller outfit will be best for first option, getting around, carrying less, much more mobile. You will have the benefits of your private loo, your mobile catering options, your dry, warm nest wherever you go through the day. Second option, size of outfit won’t be as crucial as it’s just left on Site. 

We have a small AS monocoque (no leaks😉), we are both tall, like our comfort, and tour with big dogs, carry ebikes, and a large chariot for our elderly dog. We tour all seasons, so well used to cold and wet as well as hot and dry. We spend weeks away, hopping from place to place, vehicle goes out with us usually. Tables are integral, store nattily behind one of seat backs, clip together to be freestanding for outdoors. We carry two comfy but light chairs that slip into bathroom during transit, or in Fiamma box if we aren’t carrying bikes. Floor space behind cab is free for dogs, pull up catering. We have clothes needs down to a fine art, everywhere has a laundry of some kind for longer trips, we don’t carry too much. Any bulky/ heavy storage goes under side seating to spread load, not that we have much. Fitted with a roll out canopy. 

Life is easy if you travel light, keep clutter to a minimum, use your storage wisely. Set up takes 10 minutes, pack up takes 10 minutes, but we have comfort, warmth and easy access to bathroom and cooking at all times. Think totally different to a caravan and it becomes very easy.