mccheese
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Hello,
I'm hoping you lovely experienced people can help.
We are very on in the early stages of planning to buy a motorhome with the view to travel around Europe for a year.
We will be early 40s by the time we get ourselves organised enough (18 months we think), so still have plenty of time to plan.
We have experience of a tourer caravan so aren't entirely new to seeing if we still like each other in a confined space but we would like to remain married so space is definitely something to consider
We went around a local motorhome dealer yesterday and quite quickly determined things we felt suited us. For example we felt for us a fixed bed was a waste of space, as we don't mind making a bed up and would rather the space was used for other things.
Things we would like:
End bathroom and preferably a bathroom that was more like a bathroom at home (eg: not one piece/plastic floor). I would swap an end bathroom for a lounge in this area, if it meant we had different areas we could relax in and wasn't left with a teeny bathroom.
No fixed bed.
No overhead bed above driver/passenger, as we felt this could feel oppressive when driving long distances and think it takes away light from living area. (not sure if anyone else feels like this)
Storage for two paddleboards (these are deflated and in bags but quite bulky - think tent bag size).
Close to as normal sized kitchen appliances as possible (I like cooking!).
Ideally spend would be about £30k but could possibly go to £40k.
When we went away in our tourer, the van would normally have all items in the middle eg: awning, outside chairs etc... in a motorhome do you do the same? It didn't matter so much in the tourer as we would tend to be settling on site for a while so didn't mind getting things out the van and set up (and out of the way in the caravan) but can't imagine you would want things in the way like this in a motorhome.
We are planning on hiring a van prior to throwing all our eggs in the basket, but the more advice we can get in the meantime the better.
Thank you
I'm hoping you lovely experienced people can help.
We are very on in the early stages of planning to buy a motorhome with the view to travel around Europe for a year.
We will be early 40s by the time we get ourselves organised enough (18 months we think), so still have plenty of time to plan.
We have experience of a tourer caravan so aren't entirely new to seeing if we still like each other in a confined space but we would like to remain married so space is definitely something to consider
We went around a local motorhome dealer yesterday and quite quickly determined things we felt suited us. For example we felt for us a fixed bed was a waste of space, as we don't mind making a bed up and would rather the space was used for other things.
Things we would like:
End bathroom and preferably a bathroom that was more like a bathroom at home (eg: not one piece/plastic floor). I would swap an end bathroom for a lounge in this area, if it meant we had different areas we could relax in and wasn't left with a teeny bathroom.
No fixed bed.
No overhead bed above driver/passenger, as we felt this could feel oppressive when driving long distances and think it takes away light from living area. (not sure if anyone else feels like this)
Storage for two paddleboards (these are deflated and in bags but quite bulky - think tent bag size).
Close to as normal sized kitchen appliances as possible (I like cooking!).
Ideally spend would be about £30k but could possibly go to £40k.
When we went away in our tourer, the van would normally have all items in the middle eg: awning, outside chairs etc... in a motorhome do you do the same? It didn't matter so much in the tourer as we would tend to be settling on site for a while so didn't mind getting things out the van and set up (and out of the way in the caravan) but can't imagine you would want things in the way like this in a motorhome.
We are planning on hiring a van prior to throwing all our eggs in the basket, but the more advice we can get in the meantime the better.
Thank you