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Post by Sir Rowley Birkin on Jul 26, 2019 13:08:24 GMT
I just noticed a site advertising "£10 per person per night" (not that I'm interested, just maybe a cheap CL for me). It got me thinking... I roll up, on my own, and pay £10 for just me, and maybe a few extra quid for extras like hook-up, Spazy Tuggers Tent, dog, etc. But then someone else rolls up, a couple, same extras, £10pppn = £20, WHAT are they getting for the extra £10? As far as I can see, it's just an extra shower. For TEN QUID??
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Post by Barry B'stard on Jul 26, 2019 14:30:07 GMT
CL is the way to go this time of year (or any for that matter) unless you find a good wilding spot. This one is seven quid a night although we never pay that much and we can hookup to the farm house if we want to (no need this time of year). There are never going to be more than five vans so hopefully never hoards of kids and loads of space. Campsites are shite and for Tuggers and tents IMO.
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Post by Sir Rowley Birkin on Jul 26, 2019 16:18:24 GMT
I know they put a lot of money into these sites, cinder or tarmac roads, electricity throughout, superb washblocks and so on. Plus s very short season in the UK. But by 'eck, some of these places are ripping the arse out of it. £25+ a night I've seen! I only wanna parking place... I've got everything on board that I need. The French have got the right idea, although I see their sites are now beginning to join a club for Aires and are charging... Doesn't look good.
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Post by Barry B'stard on Jul 26, 2019 16:57:39 GMT
£25 in mid summer is probably cheap! Plenty of free aires in France still.
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Post by Joe66 on Jul 26, 2019 18:34:49 GMT
Some one was complaining on Scottish wildcampers site that they were charge £78 for 2 nights, I know what I would have told them.
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Post by Barry B'stard on Jul 26, 2019 20:16:19 GMT
Yeah me too. I think on one five month trip one year into mainland Europe out average nightly cost including services was about 35p or something like that. I just feel like I have failed somehow if I end up on a campsite. It's not so much the money (well it's important on a long trip) but I just don't like being corralled, told where to park etc.
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Post by Sir Rowley Birkin on Jul 26, 2019 21:07:39 GMT
Yeah me too. I think on one five month trip one year into mainland Europe out average nightly cost including services was about 35p or something like that. I just feel like I have failed somehow if I end up on a campsite. It's not so much the money (well it's important on a long trip) but I just don't like being corralled, told where to park etc. I absolutely agree with you, Baz. Amongst all the crap you normally come out with, this is spot-on! Yes, it IS failure if I can't find a parking place like all the other motorists. That's all I want - a parking place, FFS.
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Post by Barry B'stard on Jul 26, 2019 21:48:50 GMT
It used to be a bit of an obsession of mine to find the Perfect wild camping spot. When I imagined going motorhoming it was always in my head as the top of a fecking great mountain somewhere or by a lake or on a beach. I used to always be on the lookout on the bike and would drive down likely tracks or back roads looking for them.
There was a bloke on the Wildies called the Belgian (Leo) who just spent his life searching out wild camping spots all over Europe and sharing them. We became good pals and I still have his database somewhere. Sadly he passed away a couple of years ago.
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Post by pippin on Jul 27, 2019 10:49:34 GMT
HEAR! HEAR! To all of that.
Except the sad bit about Belgian Leo, of course.
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Post by Milly on Jul 27, 2019 12:20:28 GMT
HEAR! HEAR! To all of that.Except the sad bit about Belgian Leo, of course. Showing off now are we.
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Post by Sir Rowley Birkin on Jul 27, 2019 14:22:39 GMT
It's Ok, Mildew... He's DEAF
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Post by Dead Monger on Jul 27, 2019 17:25:54 GMT
Tight feckers ... Drive around in half a million $$$$$ motorhomos and wont spend feck all on sites and lovely showers ... Fecks sake its gypsy rags like you lot that are fucking that Europe up for the rest of us ... Last year outside Paris on a site waiting for the showers a French woman offered to share the next shower with me ... She looked like a male version of wet whinge bag Barry ... Yuk ... I ran off and stripped naked and had a bath in the pool
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Post by Barry B'stard on Jul 27, 2019 18:10:11 GMT
Tight feckers ... Drive around in half a million $$$$$ motorhomos and wont spend feck all on sites and lovely showers ... Fecks sake its gypsy rags like you lot that are fucking that Europe up for the rest of us ... Last year outside Paris on a site waiting for the showers a French woman offered to share the next shower with me ... She looked like a male version of wet whinge bag Barry ... Yuk ... I ran off and stripped naked and had a bath in the pool The only person that would offer to share a shower with you would be Dave dead minger and everyone knows you are banned from lovely Europe and have only been as far as Scarbados.
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Post by Joe66 on Jul 27, 2019 18:41:14 GMT
Tight feckers ... Drive around in half a million $$$$$ motorhomos and wont spend feck all on sites and lovely showers ... Fecks sake its gypsy rags like you lot that are fucking that Europe up for the rest of us ... Last year outside Paris on a site waiting for the showers a French woman offered to share the next shower with me ... She looked like a male version of wet whinge bag Barry ... Yuk ... I ran off and stripped naked and had a bath in the pool That sounds like boggers squeeze, Tarquin,
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Post by Sir Rowley Birkin on Jul 28, 2019 13:26:08 GMT
Tight feckers ... Drive around in half a million $$$$$ motorhomos and wont spend feck all on sites and lovely showers ... Fecks sake its gypsy rags like you lot that are fucking that Europe up for the rest of us ... Last year outside Paris on a site waiting for the showers a French woman offered to share the next shower with me ... She looked like a male version of wet whinge bag Barry ... Yuk ... I ran off and stripped naked and had a bath in the pool You're right, but if I go on a site, I sit in my "parking space", don't need hook-up or showers, nuffink. So why pay £25 for nuffink? Great if you don't use your own loo, go to the showers to meet transvestite French "women", or relax in the clubhouse, drinking piss-poor Leffe and being entertained by 'karaoke'... But all I want is a fuckin' parking place!!
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