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And I have my opinion as well which is that a coach built motorhome is far more suitable for us then a van derived conversion or a caravan. We want to tour in luxury and not feel cooped up or cramped when the weather dictates we have to stay inside. We want a nice spacious lounge area for bad weather days which a van conversion just doesn't offer due to the limited internal space. We don't plan to use the motorhome to be sited in one place. The intention is to tour with it and stay in each place for a day, two at most. Much like we used the boat, it was a very rare occasion that we ever stayed anywhere more than 24 hours with that as well.

The Bilbos Nexa looks nice but it's not for us. You get far more accommodation on a coach built bodied motorhome and far better insulation for winter trips. Much bigger beer fridge and proper cooking facilities as well in what we want. We have made sure we have got the important bits right

We really don't want the hassle of a caravan. The towing and having to have a second vehicle capable of towing a decent caravan makes it a no for us. We won't have a second car with the motorhome, the motorhome will be the spare vehicle for the very odd time we need one. And with a caravan we would have to pay for storage elsewhere rather than it being sat on the drive. We don't plan to be properly sited with the motorhome a lot of the time and will be moving around daily or every other day so being able to set up camp and leave it doesn't really matter to us. We are also used to not getting close to shops with the boat and don't mind a decent walk to get to shops or other facilities. We also plan to travel Europe with the motorhome and stop on Aires and the like, most of which are motorhomes only. Our travel in the UK will make good use of Britstops and Pub Stops and most of those don't allow caravans either. As you say it all depends how you plan to use what you have and for us it is a no brainer to get a motorhome rather then a caravan.

The motorhome we are getting is only 6m long so it isn't huge by any means. No bigger than a panel van, in fact some LWB panel vans are longer than the motorhome we want. Our covenants on our estate say you can't park a commercial vehicle, caravan or boat on the drive. A motorhome is non of those things. Mind you there are a lot of people that have taken zero notice of the commercial vehicle, caravan or boat restrictions as well. Luckily with the layout of the houses and driveways where we are no one will have a view of the motorhome from their main windows. We have no windows facing the drive, our direct neighbours across the drive only have a WC and stair window facing the drive and the houses on the opposite side of the road are a mirror image of our houses so again no windows to face the drive. We have broached the subject with all of the neighbours, especially the ones who have a drive side by side with ours and they are all fine with the idea of it being parked there. If the worst comes to the worst there is a storage yard for caravans and motorhomes literally a 2 minute drive from our house, but we really don't think it will come to that.

Well the motorhome will certainly be more fuel efficient than the boat that is for sure 🤣🤣🤣 Got around 7mpg as an average from the boat. The motorhome should be closer to 30mpg as an average 😀

The several ignorant ones who will drink far more and spend far more money than the one intelligent one who is likely to spend all afternoon "savouring" the one pint?

I do believe it would be unfair to those of us who are way down the vaccination list to suddenly introduce the need to have had the vaccine to go in pubs. It could well be July time before I have my first jab. That would be over three months of not being able to go to a pub purely based on my age and good health, and not being under aged for once either

It will work the other way as well of course and folks who have never been to the Broads before this/last year may well find that they really enjoy it and book again for next year and continue to do so in following years.

We know what we want, there just are very few coming up for sale at the moment. We want one of these: https://www.marquisleisure.co.uk/motorhomes/stock-item/benimar-mileo-202 Our preference would be not to buy new but we do want one 2017 or newer as that is when they upped the standard spec a lot. It is just a case of waiting for one to pop up for sale, although we have said we will take a view later in the year on whether we will end up buying a new one if nothing suitable is coming up for sale.

No. We want a proper coach built motorhome not a conversion!!

We have had our fill of boating now Trying to buy a motorhome at the minute but that isn't proving to be an easy task

Yes the boat has sold.

12th April

18 Months ago your budget would have been fine and would have got you a cheap S23! Every man and their dog is after a boat at the moment and that has pushed prices up. Not just boats, motorhomes and camper vans are the same. If you can you might be better of waiting 12 months until some of these boats bought for staycations start to come back for sale again as foreign travel comes back.

Don't just look on the Broads. 25ft boats can be easily and cheaply transported by road by the likes of Tony Anderson (aka Tony Tugboat). He moved our boat around several times and was never expensive.

You won't be getting a Sealine S23 or S25 in your budget. They have increased in price this last couple of years and are fetching daft money now. We have just sold ours cheap and that was £28k. You might get a petrol S24 in your price range but I suspect the diesel ones will be out of your range as well. You are looking for the same sort of boat as a lot of other people at the moment I'm afraid. If you do find something you will have to get in there quick!! I have just had a quick flick through the usual brokers sites we watch and there is nothing in your price range that isn't already under offer.

RIP Sabine. I always enjoyed watching here drive.

You will find out on 12th April

We hired Viscount from Richardsons in 2017 and agree they have done a cracking job in refitting and modernising it. It was a lovely comfortable boat that handled really well. The refit still looked good after a few years on hire.

We used to leave our 12v TV onboard all the time. It was never the cold weather that killed those off it was forgetting you had not put it safe and jumping over someone's wake that killed those off.

Nothing to do with fuel duty. The current rise in fuel costs as the above post says is the rise in the price of oil. This time next year however you can blame the rise in fuel duty for the rise in cost of fuel

That looks like it could be a nice little set up. Will need a bit of investment to get it up to scratch and ready for letting but it does look like it has the potential to be a nice little earner that one. I like it.

100% agree with this. And the only way to keep that choice is to use them.

It's funny how people view things differently. We went to the Fur and Feathers last time we visited and can't remember it being overly expensive. We both had a steak and a few pints.

I'm not so sure about that