We’ve been passionate about camping since we were kids. Whether in caravans or tents, campers or buses, we have jumped at the chance to get away from home and a little closer to nature.
So when a friend of ours proposed a caravan project to solve her problems, we were happy to help. She needed a caravan to stay in for 18 months, outside her parents’ home, while she completed her nursing degree. We helped her to purchase, collect, upgrade and install her caravan and then, eventually, to sell it.
It was when that caravan was on the market that we found out that there were others in similar situations, looking to rent a caravan to live in for a period of time.
We stuck our toes in the water in 2016, renting out our beloved Liteweight Tracker, an eight metre monster of a caravan, that we had been towing on holidays for the previous ten years.
Our next six caravans were kiwi classics, made by well-loved brands like Liteweight and Oxford. But most kiwi-built caravans were approaching fifty years old, built at a time when it was said that one family in five had their own caravan. The flourishing caravan-building market had come to a sudden halt when Robert Muldoon slapped a 20% sales tax on the industry, in the late 1970s.
Although we still have a soft spot for the old NZ built caravans, we soon set our sights on the more advanced UK market, and after a visit to Nic’s mum in Birmingham, we returned with our first batch of nine English caravans.
We are now proud to be one of just a handful of companies offering UK caravans to rent long-term in New Zealand. They are fully insulated and packed with modern features, like toilet and shower facilities, massive skylights, an oven and a heater, making a camping experience that is much closer to living at home than it is to roughing it.
We deliver our caravans in the greater Wellington region, the Kapiti Coast and Horowhenua districts and, on occasion, the Wairarapa and Rangitikei.