If you are an experienced motorhome owner who has spent many years travelling around in your leisure vehicle whether it is for a weekend break or a longer summer holiday you will no doubt be familiar with where it is best to spend the night in your motorhome. However, if you are new to owning a motorhome and are considering planning your first trip away in your vehicle then there are a few things to bear in mind when it comes to where best to park up your leisure vehicle overnight.

For instance, it may be a sensible way forward to focus on staying at one or more established campsites that allow motorhomes to stop overnight. On site you will no doubt find that there are bathroom and toilet facilities saving you having to use your own facilities should your motorhome have them. There will hopefully be washing up facilities on the campsite. You will hopefully have access to an electric hook-up and even Internet access. Staying on a campsite is probably more secure than parking your motorhome “in the middle of nowhere” as you are less likely to have it broken into.

Much as it is lovely to park your motorhome for the night overlooking a beach do check first that you are permitted to do so. If it is on private land it is quite likely that you will need the permission of the landowner to spend one or more nights their.

Don’t assume that you can park your motorhome overnight on the seafront in the middle of a seaside town as some councils do not permit leisure vehicles to do so. So, check the signage in the vicinity in this respect.

Wild camping doesn’t appeal to everyone. If you fancy spending the night in your motorhome parked 1,500 feet above sea level in a remote country area with nobody else in sight do make sure that you are allowed to do so. Don’t just assume that you can pull over a few yards or so off the country road and catch up on some sleep. Check very carefully if you are allowed to do so.

We do hope that some motorhome owners find the above of benefit.