caravan & camping show

Hi OLDMAGPIE, YES I DID GO AND NEVER AGAIN, Firstly parking was willey nilley then lined up for 45min to get told to go for a walk to gate 7, another 10min, then get inside and it was as if they opened the gates and said go for it set up your stands. IT WAS THE MOST UNORGANISED SHOW I HAVE BEEN TO. I am in the market for a hard floor campertrailer so I found the Cub stand and the pioneer stand got the boy a icecreamand got the hell out of their. I diddent even go in to the rangercamping tent to look for goodies.

Steve
PS. Did you end up getting the BBQ side burner?

I was there as well, however found the parking pretty good and the gates were well signposted, had no problems getting in....

But as said above the cooking demo was ummm, interesting?

One thing I did notice was the ?? brand of shelving system used in some of the new 4x4's was so dam high off the ground that the lid of the Engel fridge just cleared the rear door opening...

Yes... you did need a set of steps to see into the fridge as the top was almost level with the Yota's roof line.

The 'highlight' could have been when one 'lady' said they could only have been designed by a bloke - and many had to agree with her, as eventually did those sales reps who attempted to tell her, when she asked them what was written on the top of the fridge lid, yes it was a trick question asked by a very pretty and smart woman, as obviously nothing was written there, she was just making her point to the sales reps who did not like her at all for showing their total weakness of "practical design" in their own product, yes they look good but without a step ladder no one could look into the top of the fridge, she made her point well.

It was hot as hell and with the Engel and Waeco guy's competing directly against each other with the addition of the Bushman and EvaKool fridge, all quoting the same old 4x4 test report from 'history' and putting their own spin on the results, funny how all four fridge retailers claim to have the 'best' fridge available because of the same old 4x4 test report.

I think a 'highlight' was to see the Suntech and a Sharp panels side by side and see the 'physical' build differences between them, but then I'm a 'sharp' distributor
no pun intended :-)

I went on the Saturday, parking and entry didnt cause me a problem. But iwas disappointed with the content. Great if you wanted to buy/look at caravans, campers. But there was not a great deal of other content.

I went with a leave pass, and a empty credit card and a list of stuff to get. I came back home with a veggie peeler. I wanted to look at small tents for the kids and their where only two camping shops with tents and they had a total of 2 small tents. The rest were the usual Taj Mahal's. I wanted to look at tyres and big boys toys (electronics and gadgets) and there where no tyres sellers and very few gadgets.

SPent more money on the way home getting a bag of dim sims from HArvester in midland and a bottle of white port frm jane brook.

Alan

I went to the gold coast one and it was fantastic....organised new tyres, new camper trailer, kids went on a 4 wheel drive track and for 12 bucks it was a great couple of hours...some of those big gooseneck trailers just blew me away.

I have a heap of brochures to read...

I just wish I had have got there earlier...

I dont know what you guys are winging about?