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At the risk of causing offence, anyone out there own a hobby and had any problems being granted access to sites?
Reason I ask is that I mentioned to a guy at work that I had seen a nice Hobby campervan for sale and without hesitation he said don't get one of those everyone will think you are a pikey! They all have them (caravans presumably).
Was just wondering if this is a widely held prejudice that causes any issues for normal vacating campers?
PLEASE NOTE:
WE DO NOT ACCEPT THE FOLLOWING MAKES OF CARAVAN*: HOBBY, ROMA,TABBERT, LMC,TEC & WEIPPART.
*CORRECT AT TIME OF PRINT. COMMERCIAL VEHICLES NOT ALLOWED ON RESORT.
This is a notice on a site in Somerset which I left today.
______________________________________________________________ Barry
Yup,
friend of ours had a tag axle Hobby and on his first holiday in France since buying it he was turned away from 2 sites even thought my brother was accepted with a british tag axle van.
The site owners stated that only travellers have tag axle Hobbys and they would always turn them away.
Gerry
we have never been turned away from any site at all.
Chris
Me neither. Never been turned away from any site. We have toured in Ireland, N. Ireland, France, Spain and Portugal. Also came across lots of Hobbys and Hobby owners on sites and never heard of that being the case
It may be true of caravans, since travellers do favour certain makes and they all tend to be tarred with the same brush as the bad ones who steal and leave an awful mess .
I would think it VERY rare for a motorhome to be refused.
I've moved the thread to "Hobby Motorhomes" so you may get more first hand reports.
I have been refused entry to sites in France on two occasions in the last three years; the warden points to the twin axles and waves you away.
The first site was in the Loire Valley, the second in the Dordogne.
I cannot remember the names of the sites, we just shrugged and drove on to the next site, normally it is not a problem.
Some sites in France do not allow twin axle caravans because of their association with the traveling community, you would think that they would realise that that an English tag axle motorhome was not full of itinerants but we could not be bothered to argue the toss.
Forgive me for being dim, new to this motorhome world, what is a tag axle motorhome?
Also wondering if a Transit based Hobby would be more likely to draw negative prejudice than a Fiat base one?
Cheers for the responses so far
Al
This is a tag axle: an ALKO chassis with two rear axles. It is highly unlikely that a single axle Transit Hobby would cause a problem; it is mainly twin axle Hobby and Fendt caravans, favoured by travellers, that are regarded with suspicion.
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