Episode 35 – My Tips and Advice for buying a Campervan

Driving Horizons - Campervan & Travel

In this show, I talk about the things to consider when buying your first campervan.

I chat about the size of the van, storage, number of seats, and what might be best for you.

This is after owning a campervan for over 5 years, and perhaps about to embark on a new purchase.

If you would like to see the Blog Post, then Click Here to read!

Transcript (Auto Generated so apologies for any mistakes)

It's Friday, the 21st of May, this is episode 35, and welcome back to driving Horizon's.

Hello, hello, hello and a good morning, a good afternoon and good evening to whenever or wherever you are listening to this Richard here.

And welcome back to the podcast. If you are new here than welcome and if you are a regular, then welcome back. It's been a quiet week. This week we haven't really been too far.

We've been spending some time just planning our February trip really.

And well, if you don't know where we are heading off to the Lake District, but we are doing something a bit different. We have a camper van, as I have no doubt you are aware, but we are hiring something a little bit bigger with a view to perhaps changing our VW California in the future.

So more on that in the future, and it will all be documented over on the YouTube channel. I'm sure I'll mention it here in February at some point as well. And that got me thinking, and you know, what we want to change are our van and what do we what we really want to make it perfect for us.

I think it crossed my mind for about 1,000,000,000th of a second to build our own. But I have neither the time and most importantly, needs the skills, so we're not going to do that. So we are going to look to get something as close as we want to achieve what we want to have off the off the shelf, if you like. But it got me thinking that it can be quite an overwhelming process to, you know, to buy a motoring or camper van is a lot of money to spend how it's going to be right?

Have you really thought of everything you're going to do with it, how you're going to use it, where you're going to go, how it's going to fit into your life, your lifestyle, your family? Your day to day comings and goings, if you like, so he could be thinking I would write down everything that we should think about . And of course, one thing led to another and it turned into a blog post over on driving horizons dot com. Check out the website over there and you'll see that as one of the most recent posts, and I thought that that would be a great subject for this week's podcast. Have a quick chat and to give you my thoughts on what we need to think about when buying a camper van for the first time. There is so much to consider. There are so many choices out there, so many different alternatives. There's a lot of money to spend. Choosing the right one and getting it as close to perfect, if not perfect as possible, is is going to be your main aim. So I don't want to call it a buying guide because it is in by put together this little guy that's that's over on the website that I'm going to run through quickly here. I'm going to try and again, as always, keep it to a 15 or 20 minutes, but there is so much to think about, so I'm not going to waste any more time offering I am going to crack on with it. For anyone who's buying a camper van, especially for the first time, this podcast is not really going to tell you what camper van is right for you. What it will do, however, is it's going to give you something to think about and hopefully some things to consider that you may know or things to think about that you may not have considered. And that would be an option or an issue or even crossed your mind. So as I said in previous fire podcasts and in various other places, I'm going to cover my time shows he share. The first one is actually next week