Insurance and Storage

Difficult to answer the question in a few words, but we don't go for the cheapest option.  We insure the caravan with the Caravan Club not only because of the level of cover, but also that we have had experience in claiming through the Club, and I have to say they dealt with the process efficiently and sympathetically - absolutely no quibble with our claim when we has a van stolen in 2009.

Insurance cost can depend on a variety of things including location in the UK and how/ where the caravan is stored.  We keep our caravan in a Cassoa Gold storeage site.  We decided we wouldn't compromise insurance caver and storeage security so we pay more heavily for it.

David 

As DSB for us also ,you pay for what get

£111 per eyar for insurance, I would wonder what level of cover I was getting for that small amount.  For storage sites I would not go near if you had to leave all teh securoty locks off, where we store ours everyone has hitch locks, wheel locks etc and its a gold site.

When we had the caravan we used the CC for insurance as like DSB said when you have to claim they pay up, for storage obviously you are limited to what is in your area and the value of your van.  Some vans I see in our storage yard are green with algae etc. and it must cost more to store them than the van is worth!  But if its a decent van then gold storage is obviously the best and you will get a discount for it as well to offset some of the cost.

Just renewed my insurance with the CC yesterday. Held a little competition with them and Caravan Guard. Both good companies with whom we've insured in the past.

We are insured through the Club and certainly pay more than £111 a year insurance a year,  but can't remember what. We have hefty wheel clamps on both wheels and the storage site is covered with CCTV - for which we pay £220. Good hunting.

Our storage site fits and refits our Alko wheel lock and hitchlock when they move our caravan in and out of the storage compound for us.  They keep the wheel lock insert (not sure what the correct term is) and give it back to us/we give it to them depending on whether we're going out or coming home.  They also hold the spare keys.  Wheel lock fitting is one of the conditions of our CC policy.

I realise my post (above) doesn't really answer the OP question, except to say that storage sites vary enormously, and some will fit wheel locks to enable you to comply with with the requirements.  You also get discounts on CC insurance for: Having done the Practical Caravanning course, ATC, alarm, secure storage, tracker, amongst other things, so it's not as expensive as you think.  

I managed to get my Caravan onto a Cassoa Silver site.  It's covered by CCTV.  I can come and go as I please, no need to book the van in or out, just a quick text message when I'm doing it, so the site don't think it's been stolen.     It does get me some cash off the insurance, combined that with the Practical caravanning course.  My insurance is about £150 for my first year.  btw, this wasn't the cheapest option either.   Was speaking to the broker and found out that spending a little more in the insurance ended up with a much much better level of cover.

Our storage is £340 a year, land is well back has private drive, 24 hour CCTV someone on the site 24/7, 2 sets of electronic gates, each time fob is used records the users details.

We now have a Motor home but before that had a Caravan and used both wheel lock and hitch lock with no problems 99% of vans have them.

The idea of getting a van away if there is a fire sounds unrealistic to me fire moves fast and you would have to just happen to be standing there to do any good might need move 2 0r 3 to do any good and frankly would be risking their life to do it. If the fire brigade want to do it they will just drag the thing out the way regardless of hitch or wheel lock.

That is why you pay the insurance premium, if you are new to this and your van is just a couple of thousand or less I can understand going for the cheaper option after all how much to you spend to protect say £1500 but if you have spent £5000 plus remember you hope you never need it but when you do you want it to work and pay out

Just my thoughts

Hiya i have just insured my old caravan for £130 its value is £4500 and also has up to £1000 contents , its stored on a gold cassoa site and has hitchlock and wheel lock:)

last year it was £87 with no contents with the cc :) our storage site dont mind us having both locks on , oh yes its a £250 excess , i suppose the more valuable the caravan the more expensive the insurance ? Cheers mrs bc :