How Much Has Our Motorhome Cost? | What Benefits? | Four Year Ownership Review Pt1
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- We look at how much our Motorhome cost us and what benefits we have enjoyed over the last four years of ownership.
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Thanks for being so open and honest about the cost. The great thing about camping and caravanning is that there's a way to do it on just about any budget as there are so many options.
Thanks both for the open and honest review and especially for convincing us that we have done the right thing. We are looking forward to trying to catch you up on nights away.
Thank you both for a very open and honest appraisal of your cost.
Well done guys, great review. The costs is part of the reality of owning a motorhome.
Thank you for this great video (must have missed it at the time.....) The information was really useful and very helpful to complete novices like us.Hope you enjoy making years more memories and videos to share with us all Bob,Jenny and Poppy x
Excellent Excellent video - well done for all the details but more importantly as you rightly highlight the benefits of the RV lifestyle are enormous. The travel, the discovery - the being out there and DOING things - the benefits to health and Mental health are tremendous.
All that great activity and visits and for fraction of hotels / cottages / bnb and like you said more opportunity for more nights away for the same outlay.
So thanks for making the video which equally applies to Motorhomes , Caravans and Tents for getting out there and doing.
Very Intresting Video Bob! Looking foward to the next review video
Cheers Oliver
Thank you both, it’s very useful information to have in advance of buying a van.
Top breakdown. Thanks for sharing. One place that blew me away was Norway and there are no bad parts but Lafoten is special. Well worth your time I promise.
Excellent breakdown!! It gives me some idea for things I will be doing in not to distant future
Great video one of your best ,very clear .
We too love our campervan and been keen kayakers and mountain climbers it's a great way to travel and stay at our chosen destinations to follow our sports . We have been all over France climbing and kayaking and stayed in amazing locations in the van .
Thank you for sharing your stories and look forward to next vlog or blog
Like it? I loved it, long may you both live to enjoy it and share your experiences with us. thank you and stay safe.
Great review. You inspired us to go down the motorhome route. I agree with you about staying in hotels and renting holiday homes, having your own space is so comfortable and doing things as and when you want to is a more relaxing way to holiday.
Thank you for your lovely comments.
Hi bob and Jenny a lovely video thanks for sharing even though it cost a lot of money look what u got out it a lovely motorhome and great adventure traveling all over the country and meeting new people .money well spent and u get to share it with your subscribers so well done to both of u all the best .kev
Great video, very interesting how it all adds up but worth it for the freedom and adventures. We decided that we could either go on a decent cruise every year or have unlimited holidays in a motorhome. Motorhome won and we’ve no regrets, and our dogs love it too.
Congratulation on the start of your new adventure and wishing you both all the luck in the world
Brilliant video keep your Motorhome and keep using it as you are if it works well for you keep hold of it well done for your brilliant break down of cost we have a new Motorhome after having 5 before we have got it right now with what we have now all the best for your future travels and adventures 👍
Excellent video. Keep on doing what you're doing. Looking forward to your future videos. ;))
Very open and honest of you to share your costs, I would compare 500 nights on site with 500 nights in a hotel and the expense is validated. Then the the freedom to go where and when you want.
We were the same 4 years ago ...spending a fortune on cottages and holidays abroad then we bought our caravan ..
and met up with your lovely selves ... we love similar things ...castles houses and scenery ...but hate shopping !!.
It’s a good lifestyle and hobby
I enjoyed that. Shocked with how much it costs with Poppy, we have 3 dogs so no wonder we don't have any money but like you said worth every penny. Like you and other people have said once you buy a motorhome the money is not too bad.
A brilliant video giving a comprehensive insight into the financial costs of owning a motorhome. Simply excellent information for a newbie like me. Also enjoyed you personal insights into the benefits of owning a motorhome. A big thank you for your efforts!
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Thank you very much for your video, that really helps us with the planning of getting a Motorhome, getting out there and discovering this beautiful country would be a great boost for are health and sanity, thanks again Jenny and Bob, 👍👍.
Great video Jenny bob keep them coming 👍
Great video, As we are newbys to motorhomeing (pick up my first van on Wednesday) this video is quite informative about potential running costs. I have watched quite a few of your other vids and fond them very helpful. We have loads of questions that still need to be answered so am going to be watching as many of your videos as I can. looking forward to watching future
video's.
Thank you, glad you find them useful.
Fantastic, I know initially it sounds a lot and indeed it is but, just look at all the places and good times you have had and people you have met. I'm retired and a pensioner but, my wife is only 51 and we are working out our finances to see if we can get her to retire next year. We have just changed our Bessicarr E540 for a new 4500kg Hymer which should last us for many years and we are hoping to go away next year and subsequent years for 3 months at a time abroad using both Aires and the ACSI card.
Just found you and delighted ...feel like friends already. Getting our van in 2 weeks, so excited.
Great to hear, exciting times ahead!
Well done you two great video, we don't take delivery of our new MH until March. We will both be retired by then and looking forward to our journey during our retirement hopefully visiting places similar to yous. Very interesting facts and figures of cost over 4 years......
Thanks, bet you can't wait.
your living the dream so well done
And Bob x jenny if you hadn't bought your motor home ?
You could never have shared your brilliant accounts via vlogs and made so many viewers so happy to watch 👌
As always ...I thank you 👍💟
Thank you Bridget, as always your comments are appreciated.
we are four years in and we love it i still work but got 83 night away could not do that with out the motorhome thanks for the video
Fantastic Vlog.
Bob and Jenny thank you so much for a super vlog so informative .... we are relatively new to motorhoming (18 months) we used to have a home in Spain but we didn’t like leaving our boys (aka mini schnauzers) behind although they did come with us on several trips, .but having the the motorhome has really been the best decision we have made .... so many places we have visited and many a great dog walk has been found 😊 we have gleaned so much from your travels - we have booked to go to Ypres in Belgium next year and now have car in tow with an A frame I do hope maybe on our travels in the future we bump into you both and Poppy- looking forward to seeing your review of your
Motorhome - I do hope Poppy
Forgave you Jenny for sitting in her seat 😃😃 we have the same with our two when we have pitched up, they always want the captains chairs!
Thank you, I for one, will miss visiting Ieper. Poppy is the boss, so we can't argue with her! :-)
We are starting to book our tours for next year so hopefully we can meet up somewhere next year.
Great review.thx.
I had 2 westies, both have died now, They lived to 15 years and 8 mnths and the other 17 years and 2 mnths, And our vet bills were a lot every month for both them .. i think in pounds was about 350 a mnth but worth every penny. Nice to a more serious channel on travel life x
Scary eh , when you add everything up. I love motorhoming as you can find so much nicer places, than trying to find a cottage that's available when you want it, a nice area and most importantly dog friendly. Also if you're in a cottage you don't talk to neighbours, this is a surprising benefit , I didn't think about. Great work .
Absolutely right, nearly everyone is friendly on campsites.
Hi from NZ . Really enjoyed your chat about the costs of owning a MH and of course Poppy! Of course some of the charges are different here in NZ we have diesel road user charges you seem to have a tax of some sort. By the way picked up our Autotrail yesterday hoping to go away on Monday for a few days down to Lake Tekapo & Lake Pukaki where you have lovely views of Mt Cook if its a clear day of course.
We have the dreaded Vehicle Excuse Duty. It's £165 A year for mine as it's a Private Heavy Goods Tax band! Sounds lovely in NZ!
Great vid...i love your easy gentle way with each other..💕..we haven't used our MH much this year due to moving house in the summer so looking forward to 2019...... my Mr wants to see Scotland... any tips? Don't forget the motorhome wave!😂
Thank you for your kind comments. Tips for Scotland? It's all great, but we love the West Coast Highlands. Prefer to go May/June quieter and less midges. But above all, just go, Scotland is beautiful.
Hi Bob, very informative video as in the future we will swop the caravan and big car for a Motorhome. Some of the costs with the caravan are similar, site fees, insurance, service etc. So not a big jump as it initially sounds. In education, being pc you can't use brainstorming, it needs to be shower thoughts or some other such daft terminology.
Thinking of getting a motorhome thanks for great info love your videos
Glad it was helpful
Great little video.
Thanks
You guys are so funny. Love the sense of humor about everything. I like how thorough you are, the whole brainstorm thing like when you work at a company. I wish I enjoyed keeping track of expenses. But I don't. I made a spreadsheet and keep track of all income and expenses for a few years and then last year I didn't do it. I just can't motivate myself. But it is really nice to see the total for the year and where the money went. And I'm just taking about house and living costs. I don't own a motorhome.
Hi bob and Jenny what first class book keeping all the best T and C
Hi Bob Great Video, Have You Come over to Ireland yet. Richard.
Thanks for that, no, we haven't been to Ireland by Motorhome. We went to Kerry in the car about 20 years ago, when they were finalising the Good Friday agreement.
brilliant....good people
Good Video Jenny & Bob. Wow - Jenny is so organised, she must have been an accountant.
Close, we sold accounting software.... 😀
@@BobEarnshawMoHo I am a retired Lecturer in Computer Systems and our college taught Sage Accounting - whew! that looked complicated
Hello
Fantastic video I found it very interesting. Karen and I will be picking up your first motorhome next weekend and I hope we in joy it as you guys. What are the pros and cons for having a tow vehicle? Thanks Wayne.
Thanks Wayne and Karen, hope you enjoy motorhoming as much as we have. As for towing a car, have a look at our A Frame videos, especially this one;
th-cam.com/video/9Zgk85cnVQQ/w-d-xo.html
Thank you bob & Jen for sharing your costs over the 4 years ,its gives an insite as to what the basics cost and the essentials cost ..bob as you like russle hobbs microwaves ,were you something to do with working for them lol ? ..we have been watching the burstner range .look very well made and offer equality except the habitation door is on the os so not sure I like that would rather it be on the ns ..
No, I just like the shiny doors plus we had one replaced on a Bailey Advance Tour. Plus it's very easy to use, I'm told. 😉👍I would prefer the habitation door to be on the correct side too, but I'm sure I'd get used to it.
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Isn't retirement awful? Some people do not look forward to it, but you are a good example of how you can live in retirement. I think you have beaten our nights per year even though we had seasonal pitches for five years - 8 month season
Really enjoyed your video and very interesting. Scary how much poppy has cost you. Do you mind us asking what your professions were before you retired ? Jenny is very efficient.
Graham Tyrer we had our own business for about 15 years and we were Sage Business Partners and wrote database systems as “front ends” to Sage. Prior to that I worked in a bank and Bob worked for BT
A very interesting video Bob, the costs are likely to scare many people away.However, it looks that you have depreciated the vehicle costs over the 4 years, so the next few years will see some large cost savings- unless you change the van.Owning a motorhome isn’t a particularly cheap affair, but has its advantages, if you take you costs over the 4 years it’s about £15k per annum, you can have some great holidays for this amount of money but possibly not going away for over 100 days a year, some people may not wish to be away this amount of time. I have been discussing with Alan Heath the high costs of such vehicles here in the UK compared to Germany, which makes this keeping lifestyle unaffordable to many. To arrive at a more realistic cost, I would be tempted to depreciate the vehicle over 10 years, and there would be some residual value left for a potential part Ex judging by the second hand values of these vehicle. I hope you agree?
Thanks, we didn't make the video to scare people off. The main point is that the biggest cost is buying a new Motirhome or upgrading to a new one. I don't think we'll be keeping it for another 6 years though, so some expence will be incurred.
Hi Bob, thanks for your response.Your video reflected an accurate and open assessment of operating such a vehicle and was worthwhile sharing your experience for the benefit of existing owners and potential purchasers seeking the flexibility of pursuing this lifestyle.We were seriously tempted ourselves now that we have retired as we love to travel all over the UK and Europe, we looked at several vehicles and even hired one for a short trip to the Isle of Wight, which was interesting for our first adventure especially navigating the narrow roads and small villages!. The circa £50k plus for a decent vehicle was a bit daunting but affordable if we used to for about the same period as you and your good wife.However, my Certified Accountant wife decided we could perhaps pursue our love of travel using bricks and mortar accommodation for roughly the same cost albeit for slightly less number of days on the road. I remain very interested in Motorhome life and continue to watch all your videos as well as Alan Heath and Andrew Dutton for their great reviews etc.
Hi. great film, great details. You spend about the same per year as I do in a little house with my hounds. Am just wondering about the extra cost towing your car? It would have extra wear an tare too, all the miles you do with the 'van,' the car's tyres would do too? though their would be no load on them, is it difficult to deal with? Like when you used the big trailer, you said that was hard to do, with the A-frame, is that easier? Cheers
The A Frame is far easier to handle than that big trailer, plus I can't fold up the trailer and put it in the car's boot. We have done 21k driven miles in the car in nearly six years and I've changed worn tyres once and brake pads never. Probably equivalent to doing 30-35k miles.
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I think the original purchase price should be considered an investment and the true yearly cost should be offset against the joy of the life you get from it. We call our westie jack the 36K dog because we bought our first motorhome because of him. Never looked back and now looking at our next one. Love watching your stuff and most of all seeing the love you both so obviously have for each other.
Yes, I can't put a price on the places we've been, the things we've seen and the the time we've spent together in the Motorhome.
Very interesting. You didn’t factor in the vehicle depreciation. Is this because you intend to keep this vehicle for good? If so, the depreciation isn’t a consideration. If however, you intend to update your vehicle at some point, then it must be a factor. Just a thought. Really enjoy all your episodes.
Thanks, no, but we factored in how much we needed to put in after trading in the previous 'van. We do keep a record of depreciation in our Money Tracker program and we know how much we'd need to find on a new 'van! Which is scary.
Excellent video - great content and really explains everything. It would be great if Jenny could do tuition on Excel for me 😁 👍🏻
She used Microsoft Access, and no we won't be doing tuition on it anytime soon, sounds too much like work. 😃
I bet it is, its amazing to have a full detailed record of everything though. Recently discovered your channel and we’re watching from the start to make sure we don’t miss anything. Keep up the good work, thank you. 😁
How do u finance your journey? pension? having a business from your home/camper and getting taxes back. i cant imagine u get money from this channel on youtube pr maybe u other channels?. love the insight you gave x
Well it's certainly not funded by TH-cam. Let's just say the harder we worked the luckier we got.
Hi Bob,Jenny & Poppy..One question i would like to ask is where is your favourite place you have been out of your vast list? Thank you
Sandra Harkness Favourite place has to be the west coast of Scotland 🏴
@@jennyearnshaw7892 many thanks Jenny..My hubby and I are totally with you on that choice..Wishing you more amazing journeys and memories.!!!!
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Beautiful couple love your videos
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Hey up - does the Kon Tiki sport come with Factory Fit sat nav? It does look like it - cheers in anticipation
It didn't last year. Not sure about the current model.
@@BobEarnshawMoHo thanks - it looks superb and we wanted the 560 Lounge - ticks all the boxes but NEED Sat Nav!! Thanks again to
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This is the one we bought. th-cam.com/video/ezuzf1Ycc6I/w-d-xo.html
Surely the cost of the investment in the vehicle shouldn't be included in the four year assessment, as a cost, because it's not exactly a consumable item in that it should continue to last longer than the four years unlike the other costs. Only the depreciation of the vehicle should be considered. This will greatly improve the truer costs accrued over the four year, 500 night, days of use.
Great video's, we've just ordered a used fiat Ducato cherrikee wheelchair accessible modified motor caravan after years of caravaning and struggling with heavy awnings and excessive equipment carrying. Hope to see you one day. Dave and Sue.
You must be looking forward to the new Motorhome, have a great time.
Do you drive with the gas bottle open?, would recommend not to do this your fridge freezer works well on the battery when driving.and should switch between 240V, 12V, and gas as it is available.
We have a Truma crash sensor that shuts off the gas in the event of an accident, so if you want to use gas for heating on route, you can. The fridge has auto energy selection, so that when the motor is running, the fridge will not switch to gas, and use 12v. For safety reasons, the fridge will not switch to gas until 15 minutes have passed after the engine has been running. However, you should switch off the gas at fuel stations and on the Eurotunnel.
based on your figures for fuel if 1.00 a litre your average mpg is 24 and at 1.20 a litre is is over 28 mpg. My guess is that on average it will sit nearer the 28mpg as it hasn't been often 1.00 a litre has been obtainable.
I only went off the average on the dashboard, probably inaccurate.
@@BobEarnshawMoHo what does it say on the dashboard as an average? With Luton 3.5t commercial vehicles which had a higher frontal area you can usually get 30 mpg driven steady.
My biggest concern is depreciation.
Depreciation is pretty low on Motorhomes! Saw a 15 year old motorhome for £19k the other day, cost new around £35k. How much would a £35k car be worth after 15 years?
Hi both normally people name their motorhome I think.? Do you name yours?
Hi, many people do name their Motorhomes, we thought of a name, "Billy Bolero" but never used it - it's often just "the 'van".
My daughter thought I was having a midlife crisis, buying my romahome, now she has said " I think you are on to something, the cost of staying anywhere is horrible!!!" Lol
I have told she can borrow it!
Thats good price for 4 years how mutch would you spend on hotels holidays without a motohome.
It would be around £25k if we stayed in Travel Lodges!
Why did it cost that much for Poppy?
I honestly can't remember what we said, but she's a West Highland Terrier with a good pedigree.
If you paid £60,000 for a car 4 years ago it would be worth at best about £10,000 today. You simply can't put a price on memories.
No No you got that Wrong gods country is SCOTLAND.
So it's averaged out at a whopping £123pn for everything!
If you say so, but the places we've seen and the things we've done with our motorhomes far out weigh any cost. You only live once as they say.
The tracker is a bit of a waste as they just rip them out before they steal the Van 😡
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Sp it's an absolute no no, on a pension...
We're pensioners.
@@BobEarnshawMoHo I know. I am talking state pension. I intend to do the same as you, when I retire. State pension, would not cover it. I have just finished paying for my camper, so no outlay on buying one :)
@@cravan1982 No the state pension is barely adequate. We were fortunate to have provided addition income for ourselves in retirement. At least the video highlights the cost involved.