Motorhome, Caravan Books, Maps Campsites and Aires Guides

Go Motorhoming Europe (in stock) This is the totally comprehensive guide and reference book that answers every conceivable question about the realities of buying, using and enjoying your motorhome in the UK and in continental Europe.

This groundbreaking publication has for the first time given all the answers in one easy to read, highly recommended book. Go on to any motorhome forum and ask about Go Motorhoming, it will be recommended. You can find out lots more by clicking on the Go Motorhoming link on the left hand side of this page.

Mothorhome Monthly magazine Nov 06 "No matter whether you are new to the world of motorhomes or have been an owner for many years, this book is full of interesting information, including contact details for all of the topics covered. ...a complete reference ...with every aspect of life with a motorhome: buying, selling, living in, using accessories, campsites, free camping, traveling around Europe and much more."

CamperStop Europe 2007 (in stock) The new edition is greatly improved, it has 800 more stopovers, now over 7000 are listed in 16 countries. The full colour, clearer layout is much easyer to use and the directions are suported by satnav, GPS referances accompany most listings, making every stopover easy to find. A small section for UK has been included, this is the best aires guide for English speakers.

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Camper-stops are places exclusively for motorhomes encouraging stopping overnight, often for free. They are in Idyllic locations, nestled in quaint hamlets and in the suburbs of capital cities. Most have water and toilet dumps, some even have free electric.

The satnav coordinates will be downloadable soon. We are building www.camperstop.co.uk which will provide full details, including fully loaded Garmin Nuvi machines. The downloads will be country specific and list all the camper-stops as well as many of the points of interest. You will see the page number, and name so you can find the details in the guide.

This guide is multilingual including English.

Vicarious Books LLP are the UK distributor (trade enquiries are welcome)

Guida Camper (Italy) in stock This publication has set the benchmark for stopovers guides. Firstly it is beautifully clear 1:300'000 road atlas, with street level city plans at the rear. The masterstroke was marking the stopovers directly on the maps. The guide uses a key written in English to convey the essential information.

Guida Camper details over 1000 stopover all of which were visited and vetted, Spring 2006. Addresses and some satnav coordinates are included.

Guida Camper is essential for anyone motorhoming or caravanning in Italy. Caravans are allowed to use the Stopovers in Italy, the only country that allows them.

Practical Motorhome magazine Feb 07 "Don't leave home without it. ...A durable, accurate Italian road atlas with reliable information"

ACSI Camping Card, The best discount scheme With the ACSI campsite guide, written completely in English save up to 50% on camp site prices. Stay at campsites for €10, €12 or €14 per night. Price includes motorhome or car and caravan, electric hook up and two adults. With 1120 campsites to choose from it is one of the biggest discount schemes. There is no front commitment and no cheques to purchase, simply present the card at reception of participating campsites to gain your discount. Essential for all campsite users.

Discounts are available most of the year, except July and August. The only thing you need to do is write your name and address on the back of the card, that presses out from the cover. You can of course use the campsites all year and at only £7.50 you only need to use it 1-2 nights to start saving.

ACSI Campsite Guide DVD (InStock)

This excellent campsite guide can be used with your laptop. Covering 8400 campsites in 14 countries, each entry is full of detailed information about the site, often with pictures. The DVD allows far more information to be contained than in book format, and you can search and sort campsites based on your own preferences, including open all year, pets welcome or disabled facilities.

There is route planner software (like autoroute) included, now you can plan your route between campsites including your own points of intrest. Essential for all travellers with a DVD player on their computer.

Britain's Best Caravan Parks 2007 (in stock)

This simple to use, site packed guide boasts 1533 star-rated campsites across Britain and Ireland. Each site is graded from 1-5 stars by the British Holiday & Home Parks Association and the National Caravan Council.
The caravan sites are graded on their merits rather than the range of facilities. Each campsite has full contact details and excellent directions.

A simple key provides the rest of the information.
The guide is published from the same family as Caravan and Motor Caravan magazines and is ridiculously good value.

The Motorcaravan Manual (2nd Edition)
Author John Wickersham

John is probably the most prolific writer of caravan and motorcaravan books in the industry. Not only has he a suite of haynes publications he also writes technical articals for most of the magazines.

This book is basically essential for all new motorcaravanners and is recomended in Go Motorhoming Europe. Indeed it is so well writen that the authors decided not to cover the technical information but refer the reader to it.
For anyone going fulltiming it is essential, for example it fully explains how to service a fridge, not that you should but it may help in a breakdown situation when abroad.

Build your own Motorcaravan
By: John Wickersham

This haynes Manual is essential for all those considering building their own motorhome. Written by motorhome builder John Wickersham, this manual talks the would be builder through everything they need to know, from how things work to where to source parts. Anyone considering this project should invest in Build Your Own Motorcaravan before they begin.

"Holds your hand through every process of creating a camper" Which Motorcaravan

Hardback, 176 pages, 480 colour illustrations.

The Caravan Handbook
By: John Wickersham

The perfect compliment to your first caravan. This guide talks you through everything you need to know, from towing to setting up on a campsite. For the first time caravanned this book will explain all those little things you never knew you needed to know and help you through your first caravanning experience. We all saw what happened to Jeremy, Richard and James on Top Gear when they went caravanning, it needn't happen to you with The Caravan Handbook.

'a great guide for all caravanners, both new and experienced' Caravan.

'we cannot fault the content' Practical Caravan.

Paperback,304 pages, Full colour throughout.

Great Sea View Camping and Caravan Sites in Britain
Author Brian M Leahy

This guide was written primarily because the author likes the seaside and had got fed up with being lead astray by wonderful pictures in caravan site advertisements, then taking days out of the holiday to find a site with a sea view. So he traveled round the British coast looking for such sites. Having found close to four hundred he thought it a good idea to write a guide on them. This guide was revised in the summer of 2005. This second book was created as a guide to the top 150 sites that the author would call "Great Sites" and includes full colour photos of the view at each site.

(Sole distributor trade enquiries welcome)

Reise Mobil Bord Atlas £17.99

This is a German stelpatz guide, listing about 2000 stopovers in Germany, also having plenty in Austria and Poland. It is completely written in German but is still popular with English motorhomers. Most people tell us they get by with it and learn a bit of German along the way. We will produce an accompanying how to guide ASAP with key word translations.

Towns are listed
alphabetically and include the postcode. Simple maps have a red spot identifying a listing in the guide with the town name. Gps coordinates are provided in the following format, 49’58’59N/7’15E

This is a hefty guide weighing 1.4kg strangely new postal charges make viable to post first class, this is why this guide is well over its RRP.

Alan Rogers Superior Campsite Guides
Since 1968 the Alan Rogers Guides have been the impartial guide to the best inspected and selected campsites across Europe. Annually updated, campsites are regularly inspected and featured by means of independently written, detailed and candid descriptions.
Widely regarded as the most authoritative voice when it comes to forming an independent view of a campsite's quality, they provide real peace of mind when planning your holiday. Entries in the guide cannot be paid for - each site is chosen on merit alone. To many thousands of readers they have become a glovebox necessity and an armchair companion.

Alan Rogers Guide to Britain & Ireland 2007 £10.99
The Guide to Britain & Ireland includes details of over 550 inspected and selected camping and caravanning parks in Britain & Ireland suitable for short breaks or longer stays.

Alan Rogers Guide to France 2007 £12.99
The France Guide 2007 is the biggest edition ever by a long way. It now includes over 900 inspected and selected campsites in France and Corsica – and at the same price as 2006! Includes a special mobile home section.

Alan Rogers Guide to Europe 2007 £12.99
This guide features around 850 inspected and selected campsites in 27 European countries including destinations further afield including Slovakia, Latvia and Croatia. A good all-round touring guide.

Alan Rogers Guide to Italy 2007 £7.99
This guide includes full reports on around 280 of Italy's finest sites, all rigorously inspected and selected, and all included on merit alone. Includes regional information and tips on touring.

Alan Rogers Guide to Spain & Portugal 2007 £7.99
The Guide to Spain and Portugal features independently written reports on nearly 250 campsites throughout the Iberian peninsular. Includes regional information and useful tips on extended winter stays.

Alan Rogers Guide to Central Europe 2007 (Coming Soon) £7.99
This all new guide features emerging destinations such as Croatia and Romania, and many of the new EU accession states, including, Poland and Latvia. The guide includes details on around 270 campsites as well as traveller's tips and advice on touring.

Motor caravan & Camping Parks £6.99
This super guide lists 2067 motorhome and caravan friendly touring parks throughout Great Britain and Ireland. These tend to be smaller independent sites that focus on tourers. Produced by IPC Media publishers of Caravan and Motor Caravan magazines, it lists the reader’s top 101 caravan sites. Addresses, websites, general information about the area and site are included as are opening times and a simple key for further facilities.

Caravan Clob Europe 1 - 2 £15.99

Caravan Club Europe 1 and 2 are the most comprehensive campsite guides available. Caravan 1 lists more sites in France Spain, Portugal and Andorra than any other campsite guide written in English we know of. There are over 125 in Portugal alone and we believe this to be just about all of them. Readers nominate and provide the details of the campsites including costs, opening times, facilities, hook up amperage, size of site, dogs welcome, shade, levels, local attractions, ambiance, etc and excellent directions.
The touring information in the front of the guide is second to none and should not be overlooked. It covers all the necessary subjects of road law but also a lot of other useful and need to know information about, pets, ferries, insurance, money, tolls, mountain pass suitability and country specific information. Maps at the back of the books show the locations of campsites against the local town and are colour coded red for those open all year.
In short this is the best campsite guide of its kind, we used them extensively when we were full timing and despite the big price rise to £15.99 are worth every penny.