Mayday rescue

A few years back, prompted by a significant increase in my travel insurance, I opened a Nationwide Flex Plus account.

It costs £13 a month and includes UK & European breakdown cover.

I got it for the worldwide travel insurance which, looking at the prices quoted here, is costing me about £20 a yea more and there is mobile phone  over as well.

I don't think £130 a year for specialist recovery options for two vehicles is too bad. Had I not opted for the "home" service it would have been even cheaper. You can always find a product that is cheaper and for those that do good luck but given that most of us pay for this type of service in the hope we will never use it most will want to be covered from all angles, particularly if you have a problem whilst on holiday in the UK.

David

For Green Flag cover as compared to Mayday, they will cover any caravan not exceeding 7 metres excluding the A frame.  Covers most vehicles i think and having used them, they are to be recommended.  If your van is larger than say 7.4 metres then Mayday makes sense

As a motorhomer, the benefit to me of the Mayday cover through the Club is the specialist lifting equipment service, as I found out last October when returning the MH to our storage location post lockdown after a period of torrential rain.

We pulled up onto the grass as we had done for the last 10 years (in all weathers), tried to reverse into the barn and promptly got bogged down in mud !  Don't you just love front-wheel drive MHs 

There wasn't enough room to pull the MH out of the mud with our 4WD so a phone call to Green Flag was required.  A short while later, a heavy recovery vehicle arrived and set up a winching pulley system and we were freed in no time.

I shudder to think how much that would have cost had I not had Mayday.  We too have Personal cover which covers the MH, both our cars and any private vehicle we are travelling in - a bargain at £132.00 pa.

I too have personal cover which of course covers both our cars and caravan and so I thought that I would never need home start as if one vehicle was not mobile we could use the other one ,.dam locking wheel nuts  was our achilles heal  the mechanic said that they caused problems on most PSA made cars and recommend that we fit new ones at a cost of £25.00 so will do asap

 just had a quote from Green flag for similar cover to Mayday comes in at £138.88

Yes, a very common sight on campsites. It’s amazing how little mud is required to stop a MH in its tracks. All that weight and tiny tyres isn’t a good combination on grass. Many swear by cut down bread baskets as an aid to getting out, but they take up quite a bit of space.

cut down bread baskets as an aid to getting out, but they take up quite a bit of space.

Not if you can sneak them back behind the local store before their next delivery . . .  !

Just arrived in the post this morning is our Mayday renewal same price as last year, have had a read of updated? small print and it advises  that if outfit breaks down on journey to campsite you Will be taken to destination , and car to be repaired ,followed by Or take you and your vehicle back home if cannot be fixed , I would think it should say and rather than or?

You no longer can claim the £10for late arrival of engineer?

And they will not attend if the trailer weighs more than the weight of the empty tow vehicle?

I think taken to destination only counts if you have pre-booked a pitch. Something I'd guess most of us do most of the time.

Colin