8 Reasons To Buy A Caravan

Picture this: a pink and amber dawn streaks slowly across the cobalt sky.

Woken by the warble of magpies, you’re sipping coffee, standing ankle-deep in a frothy tide.

While this week on the beach was bliss, you’re looking forward to next week, when your backyard will be a lush national park.

This is your life when you own a caravan, and, if that’s not enough to convince you that it’s the life for you, here are 8 reasons you should buy that caravan you’re dreaming of.

1. Great value holidays

A sad fact of travel is that you can only roam as far as your wallet will let you.

When you caravan, though, money stretches a lot further. You’ll save hundreds in accommodation by driving your own digs, and also in loads of other ways.

Catch your own dinner and brew your own coffee, and make your own entertainment with hikes, ocean swims and four-wheel driving.

Then, wake up in a new place just days later – without dropping any cash on airfares!

2. Go your own way

With your own caravan, you’ll live by your own schedule.

Imagine spending the morning lazing on the beach, the afternoon hiking through a World Heritage Area, and sunset sharing a drink by a crackling fire.

That’s freedom in the purest sense, and the hallmark of caravan ownership.

If you don’t love the park you’ve booked, move on. If you can’t bear to leave it, stay longer. Feel like stopping for cake for breakfast? Do it.

Your caravan is your ticket to freedom.

3. Enjoy quality family time

When you invest in a caravan, you invest in a lifestyle perfect for your kids.

They’ll love spending their days exploring caves, swimming with fish, and climbing trees.

You’ll love seeing them connect without screens, bonding over bonfires and learning about nature and travel.

Plus, if you choose to park at any of Australia’s wonderful, kid-friendly caravan parks, they’ll enjoy everything from swimming pools with waterslides to go-kart tracks and rock-climbing walls.

And if you’ve got fur kids? They’re often welcome, too!

4. Make memories with old friends

As we grow older it can be harder to connect with our mates, but a caravan is like a time machine to bring you all back together.

Caravanning with friends means people to share the driving load, and cost of park fees.

You’ll be cooking the catch of the day while sipping wine together, chatting around a late-night campfire, and snapping group shots at Australia’s best landmarks.

With your own caravan, you’ll lead your friends into adventures you’ll talk about for years to come.

5. Make memories with new friends

Ask any caravanner and they’ll tell you – they’ve met people on the road they’re still friends with today.

That’s the beauty of van life – communal kitchens filled with the day’s adventures; the campfire glow urging people to share their stories.

Plus, you never know what exciting new things meeting like-minded wanderers may bring!

You might just meet a surfer who’ll show you how to hang ten in exchange for your birdwatching expertise, or double date with a duo who also love to snorkel.

Caravanning is a great community to join.

6. Learn new things

By now, you know that education doesn’t stop when we leave the classroom – in fact, that’s when it truly begins!

Manoeuvring a caravan is a special skill in its own right, but life on the road has much more to teach you.

Broadening your car maintenance skills is a given, but you’ll also learn about flora, fauna and indigenous history.

You’ll hone your fishing prowess, learn to spot the constellations, strengthen your survival skills, and come to know the land down under like the back of your hand.

What a way to stay young!

7. Make a great investment

While caravans do indeed require an upfront investment, they’re one you’ll be glad you made.

Aside from the savings, you’re going to enjoy on hotels, airfares and activities, caravans hold their value quite well (and used ones even more so), so you can resell or trade up down the line without losing out.

Plus, you can even make money off your van by hiring it out to other travellers when you feel like staying put for a while.

8. Get to know yourself

Travelling companions and those you meet along the way aside; caravanning is a wonderful way to reacquaint yourself with yourself.

Long driving stretches give you time to think, and there’s nothing like a day on the water or night by the campfire for self-reflection.

Without the melee of media and hustle of home, you can journal your thoughts, ask yourself the big questions or even wrestle some inner demons.

Then, with each new leg of the trip and each new sunrise, you’ll shed the old you like a snake’s skin and emerge as a more rounded, grateful and worldly-wise version of yourself.

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Aside from the many tangible reasons you’ll love owning your caravan, there are little, hard-to-explain moments that make life on the road so sweet.

You deserve them – go get them.

Ready to take up the caravan lifestyle? Speak to a Credit One finance broker to discuss financing options and get a quote on a caravan loan. Take the first step by submitting a no-obligation enquiry here.