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29 minutes ago, Stephen Sugg said:
I looked into hiring a boat for the end of May for a long weekend, just me and my wife, far too expensive, so we're driving to Bruges and staying on a hotel boat instead, half the price, all in, including the tunnel. Unless we go with another couple, my (narrow) boating days are over.
We are heading the Bruges later in the year. Not been before but it looks very nice.
We will definitely be going on a boat trip while we are there
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10 hours ago, MtB said:
On that, I was idly looking around a car lot flogging VW campers. I looked at a particularly nice one with £7,995 on the screen and I thought blimey that looks good value. Then I looked again and it was actually £79,995, lol!
Yep. They are not cheap.
A new one of our van is now knocking on the door of £90k. And that's a mid range van.
High end manufacturers are well over £100k now.
Not a cheap choice anymore. Used vans are holding their prices well because new ones are so expensive.
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8 minutes ago, IanD said:
Though of course if you had to hire the campervan the gap would be rather smaller... 😉
Just had a very quick Google for something vaguely similar to ours and for the same dates (1st week in July) we could get something for £80 per night, so £720 for the 9 nights we will be out.
https://www.leisurerentalsdirect.com/motorhome-hire-doncaster/17311
Still considerably cheaper than a boat hire!
(Was surprised to find availability for this summer so easily. Looks like van bookings are slow this year as well)
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11 minutes ago, Ronaldo47 said:
We were looking at boat hire prices recently, and they do seem to be on the high side.
Don't forget that Portsmouth now has a ULEZ zone that you have to enter to get to the IOW ferry terminals.
Our van is compliant with the Portsmouth ULEZ requirements so that won't cost us anything.
Ferry cost has come out at £160 return with the Caravan and Motorhome Club discount and I have booked us on sites for 3 nights out of the 7 we will be on the island. 2 nights at Stoats Farm which is fully serviced at £37 a night and 1 night at Kite Hill Farm which is £20 but not a serviced pitch just a spot in a field which is fine for the last night and it's near the ferry terminal. The other nights we will just find park ups and pubs to use.
Leaves a lot in the fuel, food and beer fund to match the hire boat price!!
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1 hour ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Just looked at a static caravan, 5 people, end of July, 7 nights, Devon, £2289
Yes it isn't just boating holidays that are overly expensive in the UK.
Little wonder that people are heading back abroad again!
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We looked to hire a boat on the Broads this summer for a week but very quickly changed our mind when we got to the price page. (£2768 + £25 parking + £40 pet charge)
We have booked the Isle of Wight ferry instead and will have a week over there with the van. Including food, drink and fuel it will come nowhere near the cost of the boat hire!
The hire yards are very much at a point now where they are pricing themselves out of the market. Foreign travel is open for business again and it makes holidaying in the UK look damn expensive.
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On this day 2013
A sunny day (remember what those are?) on the Fossdyke.
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On this day 2014.
Off CRT waters and onto The Old River Witham to the Thywritt Arms.
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On this day 2017
Cocktails in the Electric Bar, Brayford Pool
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3 hours ago, peterboat said:
It's a good place to stop in an emergency
It's a good place to spend the weekend. A couple of lovely pubs within walking distance.
We spent many a weekend there.
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1 minute ago, Momac said:
I wonder whether the above pictured pontoon at Dunham survived the winter floods.
It has. We drove over the bridge at the weekend on our way home from a lovely weekend in Louth, and the pontoon was still there.
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On this day 2017
Fiskerton to Dunham Bridge, River Trent
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45 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
It can't be done. How do you force fit a tracker to a boat? Chuck it out the window or hit it with a hammer and you're back to the unlicenced, unnamed and unnumbered boat problem, to which the only solution would be to tow them away and scrap them without warning - which could just as easily be done now to any unlicenced or unidentifiable boat.
I guess in a similar way that it will eventually be rolled out to all vehicles on the road?
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On this day 2012
Leeds to Whitley Lock, Aire and Calder
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11 hours ago, Momac said:
That's a good price.
For me this was the third BSS on the same boat by this surveyor.
Will you attend during the exam ?
I prefer not to be present and have never attended a BSS exam.
I used to do house surveys and always thought the presence of the owner a distraction.
We had 3 tests done on NC all by different surveyors. (Boston Marina, Geordies at Langrick and Ian Lumley at BW)
Never had a problem with them.
We were never present for any of the tests, but we were always within the locality for if a trivial item needed attending too that could be done there and then.
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On this day 2022
Brancaster Staithe
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On this day 2022
Wells next the Sea
Looking forward to heading back here towards the end of May.
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On this day 2022
Burnham Deepdale
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The trick to avoiding the midges is to go to Scotland whenever we are there. It is always persisting it down when we go so no midges to be seen.
Not had a problem with them yet.
Mind you that has probably jinxed next years summer holiday around Dumfries and Galloway
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On this day 2017
A sunny day on the Fossdyke
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On this day 2014
River Witham
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32 minutes ago, nicknorman said:
Obviously it depends on why you are going, but neither Inverness nor ft William have much to offer in themselves, other than as a base for exploring the countryside or the waterway. The NC500 is very popular and the top of Scotland is very nice - awesome even - so that would be my recommendation, but obviously you would need to drive up (long way) or fly/train up and hire a car or even a campervan.
You can fly Bristol to Inverness direct on EasyJet for about £100 each return which IMO is a no-brainer if time is tight. Under 1.5 hrs flight time
Midges tend to be worse on the west coat, but they don’t like wind. Just pray for gales and that keeps them grounded. You can get netting to put over your head, which also comes in handy if you have an urge to rob a bank. This sort of thing… https://www.amazon.co.uk/midge-hat/s?k=midge+hat but don’t have bare shoulders like the foolish lady in the pic!
They don't fly in the rain either so just pray for persistent rain, which isn't difficult to find in Scotland
The NC500 is a very pretty drive. We loved it but again I don't think a whistle stop tour would do it justice. We did it over 16 days, one way, a few years ago and it was nowhere near enough time to stop and see everything that we wanted to see.
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On this day 2023
Tewksbury
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We always found that using fuel rather than storing it was the best way to keep it clean!
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Where are all the boaters?
in General Boating
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£160 return with the Caravan and Motorhome Club discount.
Not that expensive!
We were supposed to have a boat hire in Belgium but Covid got in the way of that one and it got cancelled so we never got to go.
Looking forward to spending a few days there this year. We have a couple of nights in Bruges and then a night in Domein Bovy on our way across to Cologne.