Caravan newbies

Thanks for the info each, that’s another thing sorted..

Re the change to a caravan, we go to Spain every winter for 3-4 months and get very jealous when we see caravan owners drive off for the day in their tow cars and we have to hire a car which can get very expensive, but on top of that  is the financial aspect in that our Motorhome is probably parked up for six months of the year but we still have to tax and insure it along with our old Mondeo.

There are defiantly advantages and disadvantages to both Motorhomes and Caravans but apart from the financial and as we like to visit medieval villages and mountain roads(minus the van) we thought a caravan would probably suite us better as we have run into problems with motorhomes on numerous occasions on narrow roads and streets but when using just a tow car it should be less stressful.......fingers crossed.

Again thanks for the feedback.

Yes Grey it's the freedom to go on what I call my mystery tours that keeps me as I am!  I hope you enjoy the change.

I don't find any problem with the caravan and gas.   We occasionally give the heating a boost and we regularly use the cooker rings, grill and oven.  We started with two 6.5 kg Calor Lite bottles on board but now just carry the one but just make sure we have a reasonably full one before going away.  We go for six weeks at a time and have yet to make any impression at all into one bottle in that time.  I would confidently go out for as long again and not worry about the gas.

Just for the record. I estimate that I used 4kg of gas over 2 nights last weekend. It is dangerous to generalise, and gas consumption depends hugely on how, when and where you caravan. 

Write your comments here...My comment was not a generalisation, in fact it was very specific.  I gave a brief description of my pattern of usage and of timescales.  That is my experience (we do more than 60 nights a year out in the van including 40 nights on the continent) - if the person asking the question thinks that their usage pattern would differ greatly from mine then they would take that into account.