Got a letter this morning informing us that Vantage have gone out of business.
We store our caravan there and were asked to phone immediately to arrange removing it from the yard; despite paying nearly £250 just after Xmas for the year.
The bank has shut the firm down and all people with vans in storage have lost their money AND storage! After some feverish phoning around we managed on the sixth attempt to find somewhere and went to get our van from Vantage; where the gates were shut and the closed notices up.
We were lucky, as we were off work and at home when the letter arrived, but the storage yard is emptier than usual due to the Easter getaway so there will be people who return there only to find locked gates and a closed notice; God only knows what we'd have done if the place was shut after we had returned from a long haul holiday and found we had a van on the back with nowhere to park it.
Anyway it is now in the hands of the liquidator to discover of we get any of our money back for the remaining 8 months of storage, and another £300 to park it somewhere else; but we are glad we found somewhere before the rush of people looking over the next week or so.
Our thoughts also go out to the staff at Vantage who have always been helpful to us since we took up caravanning; It's a sign of the times I guess.
Chewie
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Topic: Vantage Caravans - closed down!
