Caravan Guard crowned top motorhome insurance provider
Motorhome insurance specialists, Caravan Guard, have once again been crowned as winners of What Motorhome’s magazine’s insurance provider of the Year 2023. Already the chosen insurance partner of hundreds of motorhome and campervan dealers,judges chose Caravan Guard as “a clear winner” for its “keen pricing and feature-laden policy”. What Motorhome surveyed 11 motorhome insurance specialists and analysed the features and benefits of their motorhome insurance policies against the cost of their premiums. When choosing Caravan Guard as the winner, What Motorhome said its policy was “one of the cheapest around”. Editors also highlighted that the Yorkshire-based company was one of the only providers to offer UK breakdown as standard, and that “most rivals are more costly, even though they generally don’t include vehicle recovery”. They also highlighted Caravan Guard’s generous claims limits, with its excess starting at £150* Other cover benefits include unlimited windscreen cover, a £1,000 limit for replacement locks, high personal injury benefits of £15,000, plus legal cover. “We’re extremely proud to be named What Motorhome’s insurance provider of the year for 2023,” said Caravan Guard’s Partnership Director Neil Menzies. “It’s a very competitive market and we’ve worked really hard with our underwriters, RSA, to offer market-leading insurance cover so customers can trust us to insure their freedom. “Over the last 12 months, we’ve seen good growth in our motorhome insurance scheme and we’re insuring more motorhome owners than ever. They’re clearly impressed with our brilliant customer service, extensive cover benefits, and big savings for claim-free driving, security and safety.” It’s the third time Caravan Guard has won this annual survey, having been highly commended many times before, and scooping the title in 2020 and 2021. The insurance specialist was also voted as Best Motorhome Insurance Provider by customers in the Insurance Choice Awards 2022. To introduce your dealer customers to Caravan Guard’s award-winning policies, with great value premiums, excellent service and extensive cover for your customers, plus healthy levels of commission for your business, contact our friendly team: development@caravanguard.co.uk.
The Weirdest Sights You’ll See in a Caravan Park
The Weirdest Sights You’ll See in a Caravan Park We all love a staycation and with the cost-of-living crisis set to continue, more than a fifth of us are looking to avoid costly flights in favour of a UK-based trip. And we’re looking beyond hotel stays to caravan and camping holidays. In 2022, the market size of the caravan and camping site industry in the UK rose by a third as people in the UK took 16.7 million caravanning and camping trips. With an estimated 755,000 caravans and motorhomes and 365,000 caravan holiday homes in regular use across the UK, many are buying into this kind of staycation. If you’re ready to join the caravanning trend, you need to prepare yourself to see some strange sights that are unique to the caravan holiday! Pure Leisure, which offers Lake District lodges for sale, has spoken to caravanners and campers to find out about some of the weirdest sights people have seen during their holidays. Parking palavers and new neighbours Reversing your caravan onto your pitch requires a certain level of driving skill and spatial awareness. Unfortunately, not everyone can expertly position their caravan exactly where they need it to be. If this is your first time parking a caravan, get ready for your new neighbours to stop what they’re doing to critique your technique! You can expect an audience of happy campers ready to offer advice about how best to align your caravan with your plot and tips on proper mirror usage. Difficulty reversing can lead to holiday-makers parking their caravans in weird places, nowhere near the agreed plot, looking as though they’ve been abandoned! Watch out for lacking driving skills amongst your new neighbours and prepare yourself for spirited discussions about wheel placement, tow bar securing and whether they’ve left enough space for the fold-out deckchairs. Once your neighbours have finished trading parking stories, the discussion might switch to ‘the noisy ones’. There’s usually one group of caravanners who are louder than the rest – if you haven’t met them, it might be you! Instead of complaining about potentially loud music, late-night conversations or happily screaming kids, why not join in? Chatty neighbours can make for great company and many of the people we spoke to have made lifelong friendships through their static and touring caravan holidays! Crazy caravans When deciding on which caravan to buy, we have plenty of considerations – do we want a static caravan in one location or a touring option? Many of us will also choose the most spacious option available. But the QT Van takes this idea and does the opposite! Standing at just 2.39m in length and 1.53m in height, this is one tiny caravan. Named the world’s smallest caravan by the Guinness Book of World Records in 2014, the QTvan features a full-sized single bed, TV, bookshelves and even a minibar! The tiny trailer can be pulled by a bike or mobility scooter, making it a brilliant sight if one arrives in your caravan park. If you’re the proud owner of a QTvan, you’re sure to encounter more questions from your nosy neighbours, so be prepared! Tent rope trippers If you’re parked up on a site that also allows tents, the likelihood is you’ll see someone trip over a guy line before your holiday is over. From small missteps to full-blown faceplants, these ropes that hold a tent upright are a common camping site hazard. To make matters worse, they’re even harder to see at night, especially if you’ve forgotten your torch. Watch out as fellow caravanners and campers go flying across the site after getting caught out by one of these ropes! The ‘catavan’ With 53% of travellers choosing to bring their pets on holiday, it’s no surprise to see canine or feline campers. What is a strange sight however is a furry friend with their very own caravan. When a stray cat wandered onto a caravan dealership in Staffordshire, the park employees decided she needed her own mobile home. They developed a bespoke caravan, perfectly sized for the cat, even fitted with its own tow bar and set of wheels! Look out for other pampered pets travelling with their owners at your next caravan site. A ruined first kiss Many caravan sites feature picturesque views and sweeping lakes. On the surface, these make for the perfect romantic setting. But as one couple we spoke to found out, they can also be fraught with accidents! After spending a lovely day together exploring the caravan park and the stunning views, the couple shared their first kiss at the edge of a large lake…only to both fall into the water! The freezing lake put a bit of a dampener on the moment. It all worked out eventually though, as the pair are now happily married! Canine capers If you don’t see a pampered cat with its own personal caravan on your holiday, you might see a sports-loving dog. One caravanner remembers walking past a fellow holidaymaker playing table tennis. Nothing too unusual there, except for the fact that their opponent was a dog! The crafty canine was holding the table tennis bat in his mouth, hitting the ball back towards his owner. If only there were a video of such a brilliant sight! Goldilocks and the three caravanners The popularity of certain models of caravan can sometimes lead to embarrassing mix-ups, with people trying to unlock the wrong caravan or knocking on the wrong door. Things went one step further for one family when they returned to their caravan to find someone else in their bed! The couple had been fishing all day and returned to what they believed was their caravan for some well-earned rest. The two caravans were the same model and colour and the couple didn’t realise they were in the wrong one until the family woke them up! Caravanning and camping holidays certainly throw up some interesting, quirky and downright silly scenarios – and that’s part of their
The Sanibest Pro transforms Art Deco building
The Sanibest Pro – a heavy-duty macerator suitable for heavy usage public or commercial environments – from Saniflo UK is helping the residents of Eastbourne provide valuable services to people in need out of a large, four-storey Art Deco building in the centre of the town. As temporary custodians of the building, the Living Life Eastbourne charity provides a community hub, including an affordable café, which required a new, accessible WC, basin and baby-changing unit. Access to mains drainage would have required digging up a solid concrete floor, creating an expensive, time-consuming inconvenience. The solution was a powerful Sanibest Pro – a robust unit that caters to the demands of public space – installed behind the WC. The pipework runs behind a false wall and goes up and across the ceiling of a corridor behind the newly created bathroom, dropping down into a gravity-fed drainage pipe and drain that connects to a street-level sewer. Living Life Eastbourne was designated as a warm space during the winter, which helped local residents who couldn’t afford to heat their homes, and it’s also recently been designated as a safe space for the Eastbourne Carnival. It’s a meeting space for community groups and offers a friendly, welcoming space for the homeless and those who live alone. The Sanibest Pro from Saniflo is a heavy-duty macerator suitable for heavy usage public or commercial environments. It can pump up to 7m vertically or 110m horizontally. In the Living Life café in Eastbourne, it combines both; lifting the waste 3m and pumping it across approximately 10m where the waste falls into a soil stack.
London calling … Willerby makes its capital debut!
We’re taking the Willerby experience and holiday homes lifestyle into the heart of London … and we’d love you to join us! For the first time ever, we’re promoting all that is great about Willerby holiday home ownership with a high-profile presence in bustling central London. The Willerby showcase will promote the fantastic experience enjoyed by owners of Willerby holiday homes and holiday makers at the many beautiful holiday parks across the UK. We’re taking two of our most popular homes to a high-footfall site at Southbank Centre Square, on the south side of the Thames, for three days later this month. And we’ll be joined by our friends at Park Holidays, which operates more than 50 holiday parks, many of them in the South and South East of England. Chloe Lidster, our Director of Customer Experience, said: “As the UK’s holiday homes market leader, we’re very excited to bring a Willerby showcase to a prime location in London. “Working with our friends at Park Holidays, we’ll be presenting all the many advantages of holiday home ownership and staycations on holiday parks across the great British countryside and coast. “We’re asking busy Londoners, commuters and visitors to the city to take just a few minutes out of their day to visit our holiday homes and experience the style, comfort and luxury they offer. “We’re inviting them to imagine being able to enjoy regular holidays or short breaks away from the big city in a high-quality holiday home at a fabulous countryside or coastal holiday park. You never know, their imaginations might just lead to the best lifestyle decision they ever made!” The location for our London event has been chosen because it is passed by huge numbers of people walking to and from Waterloo Station into central London via Hungerford Bridge and the Golden Jubilee Bridge – the busiest footbridges in the capital. We’re taking two Willerby homes to London for this exciting event – a 40ft x 20ft, two- bedroom Mapleton and a 38ft x 12 ft, two-bedroom Gainsborough. We’re looking forward to showing visitors and passers-by around these stunning models and opening their eyes to the outstanding quality of accommodation and experience they offer. We’ll be at Southbank Centre Square, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, from Tuesday, June 27th , to Thursday, June 29th, and everyone is very welcome to pay us a visit. We’ll be open to visitors at the following times: ● Tuesday, June 27th, 10am-8pm. ● Wednesday, June 28th, 8am-8pm. ● Thursday, June 29th, 8am-6pm. Come along, meet the Willerby and Park Holidays teams and discover the very best of the great British staycation, in one of the busiest parts of central London!
Saniflo exhibits at Installer Show 2023
From 27-29 June, Saniflo – a leading designer and manufacturer of pumps, macerators and lifting stations – will exhibit at the Installer Show at the NEC in Birmingham in Hall 5, stand B100. The decision to exhibit at this year’s Installer Show is thanks to the success of last year’s show. This year, customers and prospects will be treated to a display of Sanifos underground pumps – popular with domestic and commercial customers – that feature multiple connection points to pump waste black and grey water from whole buildings when the building level is lower than the mains drains. Also on display will be the new Saniflush, a modern WC with an easy-access, integrated macerator that can take the waste from a sink. The sleek, seamless design highlights the simplicity of converting an unused space into a stylish cloakroom or bathroom when gravity drainage isn’t accessible. In addition, visitors to the stand will find a range of condensate, submersible, and shower pumps. All visitors to the Saniflo stand can enter a special prize draw to win £100 Amazon Gift Voucher by answering the question on the competition entry form. One lucky winner will be chosen randomly at the end of each day. Saniflo UK Marketing Manager, Amanda Mills, says: “We had a successful Installer Show last year and we’re looking forward to this one and having the opportunity to showcase the quality and durability of the Saniflo range of products to existing customers and prospects. We’re particularly keen to demonstrate the benefits of the Sanifos range and the success Sanifos is enjoying with domestic and commercial projects. The Saniflo experts will be on hand to answer all questions. We look forward to seeing everyone there.” To register for a free ticket to attend the show visit: https://installer-2023-visitor.reg.buzz/show-website
