Buying that first motorhome

Wendy and I have enjoyed a number of holiday homes over the years we’ve been together, including a converted Coromandel motel, a former Presbyterian Church in Albury (South Canterbury) which we adapted into a stylish, comfortable openplan holiday home, and more recently, we tried tenting with a multi-roomed Zempire inflatable tent that we bought at a tent expo in Taupō where we now live.

We had to move on from both the Coromandel unit and (very reluctantly) the Albury Church when we moved between Islands, and age and inconvenience saw the tent lose some of its appeal, although the relatively small monetary outlay was a positive.

The answer to our need for somewhere to holiday seemed to lie in a caravan or a motorhome, and again the capital cost involved with a caravan held more appeal to me than the considerably higher outlay involved with a motorhome.

So began the long and sometimes very confusing research into vehicle reviews, as well as searching out people’s views and reasons they purchased a motorhome versus a caravan; our search took us to countless caravan and motorhome dealers round the North Island; and saw us chatting to owners of both caravans and motorhomes whenever we had the opportunity.