Caravanette Holidays

[callan]

There's a bloke round the corner from where I live selling an early seventies sherpa caravanette, its up for around fifteen hundred quid and will probably need a little bit of cash spending on it to get it upto speed.
I'm tempted to buy this thing of beauty as it should provide me and the Family with low cost holidays for the next 5 years, added benefits as I have already pointed out to the missus are being able to stop enroute to enjoy the onboard catering facilities, plus there is spacious sleeping accomodation provided in the concertina hood should the kids get tired.
All in all from my point of view this is a complete no brainer, and I should go round there and snap this bargain up, the wife however is dead set against the idea and is telling me I will be holidaying alone if I buy it (I have even caught her looking at package holidays on the internet for the October half term week).
So my question to the SZ faithfull is two fold, firstly does anyone on the zone have any experiences of Caravanette holidays?
And secondly should I just buy the thing anyway and tell the wife that the final decision on where everyone holidays rests with me and she and the kids will abide with whatever I decide?

 

[Smiffy]

Buy it anyway mate, maybe you can take us all to a few away games in it!

 

[Dept36]

Buy it leave the wife and live in it,that will show her who is the boss.

 

[The General]

I always think caravan's are a bit pikeyish!

 

[WestRoadShrimper]

Freddy Eaastwood, de de de de!!!!!!

 

[shrimpled]

Put your foot down callan. Go and buy it, you might even make a profit if you decide it's not you for afterall and want to sell it immediately, it seems cheap.

 

[Benfleet A1]

1. Its a Sherpa Van which went out of production almost 20 years ago. Parts will be very expensive if you can even find them.

2. £1500!!?? Is this man called Hood by any chance. At least Dick Turpin wore a mask.

 

[Southminster_Shrimper]

A mate of mine has a campervan thing. Get the feeling that the maintenance is quite high on them.

Get a VW version, strap an ironing board to the roof and head off to Newquay......:cool:

 

[WestRoadShrimper]

Get a VW version, strap an ironing board to the roof and head off to Newquay......:cool:

Why, is it easier to do the laundry down there? :angel:

 

[Southminster_Shrimper]

Why, is it easier to do the laundry down there? :angel:

Just a cheap way of responding to the "surfs up" cry.....

Have you seen the price of surfboards in Newquay! Most hotels include a trouser press or ironing board.....so double its use!

 

[Firestorm]

I hired a motorhome for 3 weeks in NZ a couple of years back and have thought about getting one myself. I also did a lot of Caravanning with my parents. The big drawback with Caravanettes / motorhomes is that you have to leave your pitch everytime you want to go anywhere (unlike a caravan which you leave on site) which does mean you have to pack everything away when you just want to pop down the road. You could put a bike rack on the back and take the families bikes though which is alright if you don't want to go far.