Large Vans & Caravan Parks

Second the above and always quote the OVERALL length

That is from towball to behind the four bikes you have on the back.
LOL

Ours is 26ft OVERALL , thats what we quote and usually thats what is asked.
Havent had any probs in 9,000km with another 10,000 to go.

Parks in smaller places quite often say here's the plan go pick a site.

Nige, We know where you are coming from with that, we usually travel in a reasonable size tent as some of our trips have been for 2-3 months long. In some Parks the site allocation for campers quite often left a lot to be desired. We used to ask to see the site before we booked in, as we got stuffed around too often, a lot of the time in the campers sections there are no designated sites jut fit in where you can and parking for your vehicle was on the other side of a fence. It's a joke. Funny thing was for a powered site it costs the same as a caravan site. So the buggers make more money out of getting 2 lots into a normal size site. Worst place was at Weipa in 2007 on our way to the Top, we had been on a site for 2 nights then on the 3rd we had been out most of the day got back and the back half of our site was taken over by the new arrivals next to us who had 3 tents so they sprawled well into our site. Complained at the office and after jumping up and down for a while they gave us back half our site fee for the 3rd night. We were gone early the next morning, rattled the pots a bit and had the radio on as well. But yeah a small amount of park managers don't have any thought or respect for campers needs but will gladly charge the same as a patron with a van. That could be another post though.