Financing a motor home

BeenThroughItAll

There's not really any need to be a tool about it is there? You're the person who launched into a partial rant about caravans vs. motorhomes, I was simply putting forward an alternative point of view based on 25 years of experience.

fred246 wrote: »

Well there you go ericbanner. Beenthroughitall reckons you don't need campsites. Obviously you could save a bit by wild camping. You have to decide - would your kids prefer to be on a site with loads of other children playing in play areas, going in the pool, water slides, football, etc or sitting with mum & dad in a layby by a lake?

You don't *need* campsites, as I said; and it's got nothing to do with 'saving' - it's got everything to do with experiences. If you want your kids' holidays to be a week of sitting on the same campsite playing in the pool, then fair enough for you. Perhaps, like my parents with me, the OP would like to offer their children an opportunity to see more of the world, and broader experiences.


Have you considered, fred246, that perhaps you only think your kids "prefer to be on a site with loads of other children playing in play areas, going in the pool, water slides, football, etc" because you haven't offered them an alternative? Maybe they'd actually prefer to spend more time with their Mum and Dad but aren't being given the opportunity to do so because YOU prefer to sit on a campsite for a week or two instead of moving around.


Who said anything about laybys? We've camped perfectly happily and legally on beaches, shoreline parking, in forest clearings, in the grounds of chateaux, on farms, in parkland and a wide range of other places.

fred246 wrote: »

I found this guide to motorhome levelling by an expert
http://forums.motorhomefacts.com/394762-post.html
I liked this bit: There are of course, some less usual, but more complicated situations, like where once you're half way up the left hand chock and the front is nearly level but the side to side adjustment isn't quite right and half the campsite is watching you, in this situation, just pretend that you're level and your street cred should remain intact.
Adults compensate well without being perfectly level. Children don't. If the table slopes towards them they can end up with their laps covered in food.

That 'expert' clearly isn't that good at levelling, I'm afraid. Using levelling blocks is not rocket science in any way - and if he's the sort of person who gives up because he feels pressurised by being watched, then he needs to man-up a bit.


Your earlier assertion that you need four grand's worth of levelling system as a 'must-have' for a motorhome to be safe and level simply demonstrates how little knowledge and understanding you have of them, I'm afraid.

How un-level do you think people are parking for food and drinks to slide unaided by carelessness off a table? You'd have to park on a bloody Alp. Do you carry blocks around with you every time you go out to a pub/restaurant or caf! just in case the table's a bit wobbly?

I don't know about anyone else's kids, but I've never ended up with food in my lap as a result of being a few degrees off level; mainly because I'm able to use a plate, knife and fork - and I've been doing that for as long as I can remember.