28ft Auto Trail Forums

Madasa-Soles

Can any one help with a 28ft Auto Trail how do you find them and are there restristion on the sites?? we belong to the Caravan Club

Rapide561

Hi

Here goes a saga.

I booked into a Caravan Club site and advised them my van was 30 feet long. It is actually 29 feet long, but that is not the point. I arrived on site and all the larger pitches were occupied by smaller units. Now I know we all like a large pitch, but some of us need one due to unit size. As it turned out, a short time afterwards, someone was leaving and so I took their pitch. The caravan club staff stated that every member had a free choice of pitch. Hardly - as there were none suitable for me despite the fact that I had pre booked and advised of unit length.

The Camping and Caravanning Club is far better. You pre book and tell them your unit size. On arrival at the site, the staff direct you to a pitch. Never had a problem with the CCC.

Also, never had a problem on privately run sites etc.

Russell

Madasa-Soles

Hi
Is your rapide on a fiat chassis if so hows the fuel consumption.
MD

Rapide561

Hi

The user name is Rapide! The motorhome is a Swift.

I average about 24mpg "cracking on a bit". It is a 3.0 MultiJet and the van is pretty much loaded to it's 5000kg limit.

Russell

Madasa-Soles

Hi Russell
So sorry about that 24 is pretty good. We have got a Ace Firenze on a Fiat 1.30 multijet but have been looking at an auto trail Chieftan tad axel on a fiat 2.8. so just wanted to ask around how others find the longer vans
and any other info I could get
MD

lindyloot

Hi Madasa-Soles, we have an Auto trail Cheiftain had no problems so far regarding sites. We joined the camping and caravan club after talking to various people as they seem to be more MH friendly. We did a 300 mile round trip at Christmas and used £70 of fuel and that is with no engine mods to the ECU just the standard 2.8 jtd engine and fully loaded including a full water tank on the way down
Lin

anita302

Hi

We also have an 28ft Autotrail Arapaho which we also tow a car on the back and have never had any problems getting on any sites.

Anita

DJP

Same for us. Chieftain with car on the back (no trailer Laughing

)

Madasa-Soles

Thanks all for the information much appreciated.

RainDancer

Hi
I have the 28 ft Chieftain and before that I had the 840 again 28 ft. The only problem I have ever come across was the C&C site in Harrogate. I booked on the net and under special requirements I requested hard standing due to the wei