We bought our FC in 2006 for when it was just 11 months old and saved £1,095 off the RRP in the process. We were lucky because the seller had gone to great lengths to have full electrics fitted professionally - which brought it almost to Pennine Sterling standards. We've since spent an additional £600 or thereabouts purchasing 2 x matching awning extentions, inner tents, a pair of bed skirts and a matching wardrobe unit.
The very same model as ours with all the extras would now cost £7505! The base price shot up from £4595 to £5595 in one season!!!!!.
As much as I love our FC, I really don't think I could justify paying that sort of money. The reason we looked at a FC in the first place was because it was within our budget. I really wanted a caravan but £3500 didn't afford us the standard of van that I would be happy with (what can I say, I'm fussy!).
What's with the price hikes?
------------- Claire x
Jan 2013 - Skiing, Kühtai, Austria
May - Swiss Farm
Fforest Ffields
Aug - Saumur, France
Oct - Somewhere...
Jan '14 - Skiing, Les Houches
I thought they were pricing them selves out of the market but with fuel the way it is thats the most expensive part of our weekend/week away. Site fees pale into insignificance.
------------- Good friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.
Well compared to other types of holiday it still is a cheap break - some friends of ours go to Florida in 3 weeks and have just been stung with a £680 surcharge...if that was us, we would have to cancel the whole lot as we wouldn't be able to find that sort of money in such a short period of time. Let's hope ferry companies don't start surcharging!!!
------------- Claire x
Jan 2013 - Skiing, Kühtai, Austria
May - Swiss Farm
Fforest Ffields
Aug - Saumur, France
Oct - Somewhere...
Jan '14 - Skiing, Les Houches
Yesterday a friend said why don't we go abroad. She is single and paying just over £300 for herself for ten days in Sorrento - I said four of us could have a week away for that!!
Its still cheaper for us to holiday here. We don't mind the weather but for some strange reason we always get a good week, whethere in June or October. Last June we had the only good week for weeks. October was lovely too.
I'm also glad that we didn't decide on a campsite further down France....that would have doubled our fuel costs - and I imagine the tolls will have increased too.
------------- Claire x
Jan 2013 - Skiing, Kühtai, Austria
May - Swiss Farm
Fforest Ffields
Aug - Saumur, France
Oct - Somewhere...
Jan '14 - Skiing, Les Houches
when looking in to buying our TT we looked at the cost at renting statics for all six of us to go away in a static for a week on a haven site ( kids love it) we would have paid the cost of our TT in 2 years woth of hoildays and still have the TT for weekend use. Hubby once looked at the cost of going to Grece for a week in school hoildays, it would cost a lot more than it cost us to buy our TT so when you look at it like that its still a cheap holiday for us
I was just saying to DH yesterday that two weeks holiday at a camping and caravanning club site doesn't cost as much as one week in a static caravan or poky little holiday apartment. Plus with an FC you have the added bonus of going whereever you want whenever you want and having a different view every morning if you want - all for the same price as one week!
Amazing family weekend with old steam engines, classic car displays, market stalls, and full catering and bar. And camping on site - Save £25 by booking in advance.
Topic: How expensive!!!!
