Anyway, seemingly out of my control the whole thing was agreed – we were going on a summer holiday to Cornwall all six of us. Having had very little say in the whole thing to that point, it was delegated to me and my wallet to come up with a location and accommodation – thanks guys I thought. So I started the task of finding somewhere for us all to stay. The first call was the internet, I searched for holiday cottages, apartments and hotels. The prices for the week ranged from the extortionate to the mere sublime.

How on earth could I give the whole family a great holiday at a great location and in comfort at a reasonable price? Then I remembered my childhood of caravanning on the East Coast. My parents at one time owned a static caravan. So I started the research. The first thing that hit me was the sheer luxury of static caravans these days. Boy these things were like luxury pads now. Clearly gone are the days when you had to fetch the water in a kind of plastic milk churn from a communal stand pipe. Hey and these things even have their own toilets these days – no more traipsing to the dimly lit toilet block in the middle of the night, even worse was hearing you father peeing in a bucket in the bedroom. Now you experienced caravan people might be thinking where has this person been for the last 40 years. Well the answer is clearly no where near a static caravan.

I then began to look at the location of these static caravans and the facilities and entertainment on the sites – all seemed very impressive. The true bonus in all this was the price. The cost of the holiday was a fraction of the price of hotels and apartments and to be quite honest the luxury of these caravans out-performed all I had seen.

I made enquires and the first static caravan site I contacted was near Perranporth, Cornwall I got lucky, they had had a cancellation earlier that day. I reserved the booking and then the next task was to tell the family – “things were all sorted, oh and by the way, we’re staying in a caravan”. I really wasn’t sure what the reaction would be of the kids.

So that evening I gathered the family together and told them the news. To my surprise they all cheered and said fantastic. What’s more the whole caravan thing seemed liked such an adventure to the children. My parents, were also over the moon. My mother preceded to talk for about one hour on all the good times she had had in caravans.

Well departure day finally came and all excitedly we made the journey down to Cornwall. When we got to the site and the caravan it lived up to all it’s expectations. All of us had such a great time and the static caravan was just the best. Anyway, to cut a long story short, we got hooked on static caravans, so much so that this January we actually purchased a brand new static caravan. We are now official caravan fans. Oh and we of course insured our caravan through Lets Caravan Insurance – ok, ok I had to give them a plug seeing as they allowed me to tell my story to the world.

Caravans-r-us :)

Mr J Rowbottom
Bristol