Obtaining your holiday caravan insurance
Article by Richard Burgess
There are a number of distinct sorts of caravan, each with its own certain kind of holiday caravan insurance.
A list of this sort of caravans could generally contain vehicles such as:
• touring caravans - covered by touring caravan insurance, which normally includes caravan travel insurance• static caravans - which may need static caravan insurance• motorhomes covered by motorhome insurance, which as opposed to the other two types is not optional - unless you have completed a Statutory Off Road Notification procedure with the DVLA, then your motorhome legally wants to be insured whether or not you use it or not.
If you are asking yourself why park houses are not included in this list, the cause is basic sufficient.
Park houses do not require holiday caravan insurance. A park house demands to be protected with parkhome insurance cover that takes into account that this type of caravan is utilised as your main place of residence and not as a holiday property (in truth if you reside in a park house you may normally take your holidays elsewhere).
Touring caravans
Even though your touring caravan may give you the freedom to take items as they come when you set off on holiday, there is always the risk that, must something occur to your caravan and towing automobile although you are away, you may not just have lost your means of transport, you may also have lost your accommodation in to the bargain.
Touring caravan insurance, which includes funding for option accommodation if your caravan has to be taken away for repair, may appeal to you.
You might wish to bear in thoughts that:
• not all holiday caravan insurance might cover you for continental travel as regular
• some touring caravan insurance policies may only offer continental cover for a restricted number of days or miles, so you could need to have to check that a policy can meet your travel needs.
Static caravans
Even though this type of caravan clearly does not have the identical type of travel considerations as a tourer, its immobility signifies that 1 of the greatest dangers that a static could face is from flooding.
You may possibly consequently find that if you locate your static on a web site with no history of flooding, static property premiums might be discounted as a outcome.
Motorhome
Apart from the SORN considerations noted above, you might also wish to bear in thoughts that policies for motorhomes might usually be based on their use as recreational vehicles and so might not cover them for use for commuting.
New for old replacement
Whatever kind of caravan you have, holiday caravan insurance may normally use different qualifying criteria (based on the age of the caravan and the number of owners that it has had) for new for old insurance replacement - if your caravan is damaged beyond the point where it makes sense to repair it. So you may wish to check this out before generating a buying selection
Richard Burgess is Director of cover4caravans (http://www.cover4caravans.co.uk) a dedicated UK caravan insurance broker. Their easy to use web site and friendly staff will get you multiple quotes from specialist insurers for caravan insurance at a competitive cost.






