Entertain the Children during the Holiday Journey

As parents, we all know how bored children can get on their way to the family caravan holiday so it’s really important that you keep your children entertained during the journey – to help protect the sanity of your whole family. In this article we discuss just a few things you and your family can do to keep stop boredom on the journey to your caravanning holiday;

• Play ‘I Spy’, it’s a really simple game where the first person says “I Spy something beginning with …” and then gives the first letter that everyone in the car can see. For example it may be something beginning with ‘c’ and the answer could be cars. Everyone takes turn to guess what it could be and the first one who gets it right is the next person to have a go!

• Find the Car. The driver calls out a colour and everyone must shout when they see that colour car. The first person to spot five cars of the selected colour wins that round and then chooses the next colour car to spot.

• Make a Word is a game for older children. You all have to spot words in the number plates on cars that go past you on the road. Numbers can be used as letters, for example 3 can be E and 0 can be O.

• You can play ‘Catch the Waves’ this is when you wave out the window on your side of the car and count how many people wave back. A time limit is put on the game and the winner is the person who gets the most waves back from drivers.

What games do you play on long car journeys to your caravan holiday?

Questions You Should Ask While Buying Static Caravans

If you are planning to buy a new or used static caravan, there are a number of questions that need to be answered. You have to first visit your preferred holiday park so that you can find out if the option you are opting for is right for you and your family. While selecting a static caravan for short breaks in the UK, the questions you require answering are as follows:

Question#1: Does the holiday park offer the facilities you require?

The first question to ask is whether or not the holiday park offers the facilities you and your family wants. If it doesn’t, don’t choose the particular static caravan park as it won’t facilitate you the way you want.

Question#2: What is the total cost involved?

The total cost involved is often more than you are being initially told. You should ask about all the costs that you would have to take care of before you take over the caravan. The costs involved will also include the taxes, maintenance fee and so on.

Question#3: How long does the holiday park open during the year?

Not all the holiday parks stay opened all year round. This is because, well, they are holiday parks! They aren’t supposed to stay open 12 months a year. However, you should emphasis on this question as this can make or break the deal.

Question#4: Can the static caravan be rented out?

You don’t know when you are need of renting out the static caravan for short breaks in the UK. The reason could be that you need money or just cannot live in the caravan for a long time. Whatever the reason is, you should hold the power to rent the caravan out whenever you want. So ask the caravan provider whether or not you have the option to rent the caravan out.

Thus these are some of the most important questions that you have to ask your static caravan provider to make sure that you are investing in the right property. If the caravan provider fails to convince you with their answers, move on to another provider that can satisfy you.

The Weekend Is Here!

You have worked hard all week long and the weekend is finally here – Hip Hip Hooray! Put your feet up, relax and enjoy yourself. If you buy a mobile home, purchase a park home or hire a static caravan the possibilities of the fun you can have this weekend will be endless!

You can literally go straight on holiday from work every Friday, drive off to your little holiday in your own little (what feels like) paradise and chill out. You can enjoy a fishing holiday every weekend of the year if you choose to do so!

If you like bike rides in the woods you could enjoy them every weekend from your adorable holiday home, which has everything you need under one roof. Just make sure you choose a holiday home on a holiday park in or near the woods.

If you are a sun worshipper, maybe choose to buy a park home on a holiday park near the beach, this way every weekend of sunshine can be a holiday at the beach.

With a holiday home the ideas for a weekend away are endless!

Looking For the Best Static Caravan Deals? Chose the Winter Season

If you have decided to acquire a static caravan for a short break in the UK, you are not the only one. There are thousands of people that are realising sooner or later that owning a static caravan is the best decision for spending quality family caravan holidays. When looking for the best static caravan deals, winter is one of the most appropriate times to start the search.

On many static caravan parks, the prices of the caravans are low in the winter season. This is because most of the tourists end their vacation as soon as the winter arrives and many caravan parks get emptied. This is the scenario when caravan park owners or managements bring the prices of the caravans down. As a result, high quality caravans located on the most beautiful spots in the UK are made available on cheaper prices during the winter.

However, the prices of the static caravans would vary city to city and area to area. There would be those static caravan parks as well that would be as expensive in the winters as they are in other seasons. It is you who has to search for your desired caravan until you find the right one. You can find cost-friendly static caravans during the summer as well and all you would have to do is to do your research, find various deals, compare them and finally select your desired static caravan.

The process of finding a good static caravan deal for family caravan holidays isn’t too difficult. You can choose your favourite search engine to start your search using keywords such as “second hand static caravans”, “holiday homes for sale in UK” and so on. After finding a number of websites providing different static caravans in various prices, you have to choose the one that seems most appropriate to you.

The Life Cycle of a Marshmallow

The lifecycle of a marshmallow is a pretty sad state of events, it starts out all squishy and happy and then it goes off on a family caravan holiday and gets stabbed through the middle with a stick, fork or prong. The marshmallow then gets put over a BBQ at the holiday park and gets toasted ready for munching by those enjoying their family caravanning holiday. That’s it; the happy squishy marshmallow has been born, stabbed, burnt and then chomped on – what a sorry state of affairs?

If you feel sorry for the marshmallow then why not consider some other sweet treats to enjoy on your caravan holiday, sweet treat ideas that still involve a family BBQ but with no harm to the happy squishy marshmallow?

Maybe try something like chocolate bananas? Take the banana out of its skin, make small slits in the banana and put chocolate buttons into these slits. Then wrap the banana in tinfoil and place in the coals of the BBQ. After a few minutes you will be able to enjoy a delicious (and a little bit healthy) dessert without any harm being caused to happy squishy marshmallows!