Motorhome show???????

[GWAYGWAY]

I am on my way home after a trip to the West and particularly to go to a Motorhome Show at Exeter Racecourse, I went to a few places for a break but called into the show site before it opened tomorrow to survey the land, I was expecting to see a load of trade stands but there were none. Only actual motor homes from the local area dealers, hundreds of them but nothing else at all. It was going to be a Motorhome show so I cannot complain as I didn’t pay to get in but I would have had a drip had I gone tomorrow and found out what it actually was for a £fiver. I suppose we are used to Warners Shows, where there are more stands than vans. I think that some dealers might well be trying to offload as much as possible before the financial crash arrives.

 

[Wooie1958]

We went to a Warners show last year and we won`t bother again, it was shyte and a mere shadow of what they used to be

Went ( pre-booked ) for the whole weekend and we`d looked around the show in literally in just over an hour and that was with really taking out time

Years back we went to them regular, they were great and took at least a couple of days to look around them properly with loads of new and used motorhomes and masses of trade stands but not the one last year which was by far the most expensive we`ve ever been to for what turned out to be crap.

 

[GMJ]

Yep I agree. We did the Warners show at Shepton for 2 years running and after going around the trade stands we were done. The dealers seem to have a variety of MHs for sale - presumably ones they struggle to sell off their forecourts - so unless you are looking with a wide open mind as to what you want, it would be a struggle to find a specific make/model I think.

We went to the big one at the NEC last October as we wanted to specifically research MH's with certain layouts. We came away satisfied that nothing matched what we had in mind!

 

[Wooie1958]

I`m going back a few years Graham but Warners were the dogs bollocks of motorhome shows with the East of England showground at Peterborough being the daddy of them all and we used to have a great time from thursday to monday for not a lot of money.

Absolutely loads and loads of new and used motorhomes to view, masses of trade stands and you would get a good discount on items fitted at the show..

I had cruise control fitted at the Lincoln show back in 2008, the guy came to our spot on the camping fields after the show had finished and fitted it there and then, he happily let me watch and answered all my questions, it still works as good today as the day he fitted it at a very good price.

The one we went to last year was the Norfolk show, admittedly one of the smaller ones but it was an absoliute waste of time and money, it was pathetic.

 

[GWAYGWAY]

this was not a Warners show

 

[Moonraker 2]

I think these big shows might have had their day. I went to the Bath and Wells show and was not terribly impressed. No small animals, no WI, ect. A friend said the big show at Ardingly, Sussex was the same.
Times are a changing.

 

[Pudsey Bear]

We used to do the York and Harrogate ones but they started to get a bit boring and a lot of hard sell, we just went for the day out on free tickets, not been for many a yonk.