Cost per night

I worked it out a few years ago because I was asked. For us, it was the same as staying in a four star hotel for the equivalent nights away. 

I caravan but if I worked out the nightly cost taking everything into account (depreciation, storage, maintenance, ferry, extra fuel etc etc) we would probably sell the caravan, get a sports car and stay in 5 * hotels!  BUT, that is not what it is all about.  We partake in a hobby, enjoying the freedom that it gives us.

Ha, we did it the other way round......it didnt make sense to have two cars when we bought the MH so one had to go....

i had an economical, well built, comfortable, practical German estate car.....and my wife had a compact two seater.....

she lost.....

the estate car then got 'transferred' to our sone and we have a tiny runabout.....funnily enough, twas only yesterday when we both thought about another open topped jobbie....must be this weather...

as for understanding costs with a MH.....dont do it 

Well walk along any campsite, on one pitch you will see a couple with an old Mondeo estate and a battered ageing van... it has a catherdial size awning and thay have 5 kids and 2 dogs in company with them.

It is possible even likely that the couple are camping as it is the only way they can get away as many times as they want and take the family with them.

Next to them there is a couple in a  brand new Range Rover with a luxurious top of the range caravan picked up just a few weeks ago, or a brand new Motor home, when driving it is a fortune going down the road.

Now that couple is unlikely to be doing it because it is cheep they are doing it because it is a life style they love and enjoy

Ironically they will probably get along fine and both couple will enjoy their holiday might even shear a glass of wine or a bear on a pleasant evening. They will from experience certainly help each other out is someone needs to borrow a gas bottle spanner or a can opener etc

Both are doing it because it is what they want to do, I have no idea what it cost per night in our Motor home and I don’t care we can afford it and if we were not doing it could be doing something much less pleasant instead.

All hobbies have a cost if we added it up most might not bother and what a dull boring world that would be as has been often said you can’t take it with you, there are no pockets in a shroud, if you like something and can afford it life is just to dam short not to do it.

It isn’t always about value for money it is sometimes about quality of life

Just my thoughts