Guest ian Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Why do some people spend £50,000.00 on a fantastic new motorhome complete with luxurious end bathroom and shower complete with spacious kitchen with every appliance, blown air and electric heating insulated to sub -20 climate......... and never have a shower, never wash up and only use the motorhome in summer on club sites with all facilities??? Please tell me WHY?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alf W Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Is this a debate worth starting ? Each to his own ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dave Newell Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Hi Ian, I have often wondered why some people spend £50,000 plus on a motorhome but are too tight to pay £20 for a proper step, preferring to use on upturned crate and fetch water in a rinsed out milk bottle? Regards, Dave. And yes, I think this is a debate worth starting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pete walker Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 we spent a lot on our motorhome and yes we use an upturned crate, because it fits in the well by the door and meens we don't have to keep moving it around. pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mel B Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 It could also be that once you've bought your 'van you're too skint to pay for anything else!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dave Newell Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Perhaps I shouldn't use the phrase " too tight" it is rather offensive and I apologise for that but surely if you can afford £50,000 plus then £25 or so for a proper step and a fiver for a proper water container won't break the bank? I do take your point that the crate fits the step well but surely a proper step could be carried elsewhere. We carry a plastic Fiamma step in the bathroom and it cost about £15 if I recall correctly. No offence intended I assure you, but it does always amuse me to see (for example) Hymer owners fetching water in a milk bottle. D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maureen Smith Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Exactly Ian! I have been saying the same for ages. If you only use a motorhome to sleep in then you might as well put a mattress in the back of an old van and save your money! It is much nicer to have your own toilet and shower. You know exactly who has used it before you!! As for traipsing along with a bowl of dirty crockery, I have never understood that. How many people take their dishes out into their garden to wash them? A motorhome is exactly that - a home with a motor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rodger Hilton Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 I use a couple of 6 pint milk bottles to keep my water tank filled up for a variety of reasons. First I enjoy topping up the water whilst my wife is getting ready in the morning. Next the milk bottles fit under the sink and I use the water for drinking and making tea (Had a nasty experience with some Hungarian water 3 years ago and took a long time to clean out the main fresh water tank)They pour better than the camping 1 gallon bottles at home in the garage. They are lighter than the one gallon containers making pouring easier. And finally (I think) I enjoy the chat that often takes place whilst filling up the bottles. Rodger And I was born in Scotland with a scots mother Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pete walker Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 i asure you we use our clubman to its full shower, toilet and kitchen, but its a nusiance in a van of this size to have even the smallest of steps as you need to move it out of the way all the time. pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Georgina Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 We have a cheap old motor home, but we need a big step so we have an expensive posh double step, which is a bit of a pain, as we have to keep it locked to the 'vans fitted 'too small' folding step with a bicycle lock and cable or it will walk. I won't say get stolen as motor homers are all honest folk. So I don't blame owners for using a milk crate or plastic bakers bread box, and fetching drinking water in a handy sized washed out milk can. Good luck all, roll on summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Clive Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Simply because you can if you want to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bill Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 I sometimes wonder if these people who pay £50K (and up!) for their motor-homes, and then use them 2 weeks a year, ever stop to work out how many nights in a good hotel they could get for that sort of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Georgina Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Ah! but who slept in that hotel bed last night? I know who slept in our motor home bed! And I know whose dust mites they are! And when do they stop serving breakfast? I will get up for breakfast in my motor home when "I" want! Get the jist of the debate??? Our M/H cost nine and a half thousand, it is now perhaps worth £8,000. If we're lucky, and if kept in good nick, will always worth about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bill h Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Been doing hotels for years and got fed up with all the food. Never eat breakfast, half a sandwich mid day and a snack in the evening. A hotel charges you for large meals. I could probably have bought a M/Home on uneaten paid for food over the years. bill h Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pat price Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 A wealthy client of mine once told me he had stayed in some of the top hotels in the country. He invariably found something wrong with his room or the meal etc. In his motorhome if there was anything wrong he could fix it and relax. I have never forgotten his comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Clive Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Done 5 star travel and hotels. All that dressing up and cow poo! Na, Relax when and where you want and take all your toys with yoi in a motorhome, even a chef/conquebine on call 24 hours a day!. (I shall now duck) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mel B Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Quack .... BANG .... splat! Impression of Clive earlier!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest David Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Perhaps those whospend £50,000 on a Motorhome think like us. (Ours £31,000) We have a Country Cottage in every County in the UK. we have lots of houses/cottages any where we want in Europe, we can go to them when ever we want, any time of the Year. I agree £50,000 can give you a lot of Hotel holidays but if you dont like the Hotel you are stuck if we dont like the Camp Site we move. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest phil Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 whats a club site with all the facilities.£3 a night and nothing but a green field and sea views works for us.A motor home is a home first phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Clive Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 The mind drifts onto Motorhome accessories. The prices charged for many of this "nice to have" bits on offer are normally more than a tad on the high side. However I at least get more satisfaction using something I have made than something I have purchased. I have previously when I was a tad younger fitted out 3 motorhomes but now just fiddle with we have. I had one of those expensive Beauclaire gas kits but after making a replacement set of kit having looked in detail at a propper griddle in a burger van and using a sensibly priced gas ring purchased in Agde I gave the Beauclaire away to my daughter. Having said that son-in-law uses it regularly. My DIY version uses the cut off base from an old aluminium saucepan for the air shield. So its not being tight (I am anyway) but its the satisfaction of using home brew equipment that gives the warm glow. P.S. Wife gave me a red card and a verbal warning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Brian Kirby Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 Phew! having read that lot, my answer to the first quastion, is why not? If you can afford the £50,000, and prefer not to do everything in the van what's wrong with that? You may, after all, have bought the £50,000 version for reasons other than doing the washing up, showering / washing aboard and using the on board toilet. Granted some do have splendid washrooms, but most 'vans have a sink and toilet, and quite a few even have usable showers. Ours cost well under £50,000 but has sink, wash basin, shower, toilet, and running hot hot water, yet we prefer not to use these most of the time. Laziness, I suppose, but the more you use the on board water, the more often you have to fill the tank and empty the waste and the more you use the toilet, the more often you have to empty the cassette. We use mainly sites. They have nice roomy showers (ours is a bit tight for practical purposes, so reserved for emergency use. No emergencies to date, so unused, but it came as part of the 'van, the rest of which we like) and mostly decent toilets, all of which someone else cleans. So, given all this, why use the(relatively) cramped on board facilities and make an avoidable cleaning job? Most sites also have hot water for washing up, so we use that (and leave the area tidy afterwards) and, again, let someone else do the cleaning - besides which our 'van has no drainer and little work surface, so washing up in the 'van is not that easy. We also enjoy talking to all those nice Dutch people you meet over the washing up! We're not fanatical about this approach so, if the weather is foul, we use the on board facilities, if fine, and the site facilities are up to standard, we use those. I think Ian should get out more. He's worrying about quite the wrong things! He should be far more concerned with how to get his hands on £50,000, so he can join them! As for those of you who so worry about the unmentionable horrors of who last used what before you. If the risks were that dire, we'd all long since have died - unless, of course, we have, and motorhomes are the new Heaven! Live, and let live, say I. Regards, and thanks for all the fun! Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Norma Posted January 31, 2006 Share Posted January 31, 2006 We too have done the 5* hotel bit and spent some very expensive nights working in hotels and not even slept in the bed that some stranger had vacated. As for knowing that someone else had been in that bed - we shared our van with many unwelcome guests. They didn't even use the washing or toilet facilites provided. Just rudely left little messages all over the van. However, one morning and two cans of expanded polystyrene, a trap and some chocolate and we are, for the first time in 6 years, free of these freeloaders. I'm sure two of them even spent a weekend in Aberdeen with us. Now to travel with our own 5* hotel on wheels is just wonderful. Started off for the first couple of years using only the on board facilities but now often use the site facilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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