Travelling with a caravan or a motorhome has been a popular option for a long time. It may seem like a bit of a strange option (carrying your home around with you like a tortoise) to the uninitiated, but there are plenty of great reasons to do it. Here are five.
1. You can make it as fancy or simple as you like, and your home is always with you
Tortoises may be on to something, you know! The best part about travelling with a mobile home of one kind or another is that you can make it exactly as comfortable as you want. No arriving at a self-catering location to discover there are no decent knives. No checking into a fancy hotel to discover you don’t like the feel of their sheets. You can outfit your caravan or motorhome exactly to your own taste, and then take it with you on your travels, thus ensuring all your little quirks and idiosyncratic needs are met.
2. Travel Insurance is an easy one stop affair
Travel insurance can be a right pain in the proverbial, but there are plenty of places where you can get very simple insurance for your caravan or motorhome without hassle. Take a look at a site like the Caravan Club, for example, to solve the insurance problem quickly and easily. (That site actually has a lot of other useful caravanning titbits, so it’s worth a nosy around.)
3. You can stop (nearly) anywhere
When you’re travelling in the conventional manner, there are generally two options. One is plan everything ahead of time like this ambitious blogger has, complete with accommodation bookings, but then if you find something interesting you want to spend time over, tough – you’re on a tight schedule. The other is to travel spontaneously and hope for the best, and risk not finding anywhere to stay and having to sleep uncomfortably in your car. With a caravan or a motorhome, for the most part, you are free of these hindrances. You shouldn’t actually stop just anywhere, of course, but it does give you a whole lot more freedom.
4. So much better than a tent!
The only other way to travel as cheaply as caravanning is with a tent, and let’s face it, a tent is neither as comfortable, nor as customisable as a caravan or motorhome. Tents are vulnerable to all sorts of nasty weather surprises, and even the best ones can be intruded into by bugs and spiders. Better to go with a caravan or motorhome – you can still be ‘roughing it’, but with a much better chance of not laying your head to rest next to a spider!
5. It’s cheaper in the long run than hotels, or other hired accommodation
While buying a caravan may seem like a big expense, if you travel a fair amount, you’ll find that you make it back pretty quickly, compared to staying in hotels or even self-catering accommodation. Once you have it, and it’s outfitted, your accommodation costs drop dramatically. You’ll need to pay small sums to stay in caravan parks, but it’s negligible compared to other kinds of accommodation.
If you love to travel, it’s well worth having a look at the option of caravans or motorhomes – they’re lots of fun, and have many advantages. Check them out!
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