{"id":37961,"date":"2020-04-30T18:09:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T17:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/?p=37961"},"modified":"2021-06-14T15:59:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:59:34","slug":"when-will-motorhome-travel-be-possible-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/when-will-motorhome-travel-be-possible-again\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s 2020 &#8211; When Will Motorhome Travel be Possible Again?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This post looks at how motorhome travel might start to open up again, allowing trips, holidays and tours in the UK and abroad, when COVID-19 restrictions start to ease. I&#8217;ve tried not to speculate too much. We&#8217;d be interested to hear your thoughts too &#8211; please pop a comment below and we&#8217;ll read them all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I type this we&#8217;re into week five of the UK&#8217;s COVID-19 lock-down, and all but essential travel is banned. Similar situations exist across Europe, and hundreds of thousands of motorhomes are sat unused on driveways and in storage locations. The travel plans of millions are on-hold and full-timers, who have no bricks-n-mortar home to move back into, have been forced to either rent a house or find a semi-permanent place to hole up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSC06771-1280x640-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"Motorhome parking Mefjordvaer Norway\" class=\"wp-image-22976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSC06771-1280x640-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSC06771-1280x640-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSC06771-1280x640-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSC06771-1280x640.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>One day this&#8217;ll be possible again: <a href=\"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/touring-norway-in-a-motorhome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Norway in a motorhome<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The silent question on most of our lips is whether we and our loved ones will get through COVID-19 in one piece. This is the critical thing, but something we have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">only so much direct control<\/a> over. Focusing on it too much, obsessing over the darkness can only serve to skyrocket our anxiety levels. For many of us thoughts of travel in the wider world will surface more and more as the weeks and months pass, if only to give ourselves hope and to stay on an even keel. This raises the question: when will motorhome travel be possible again? There is an obvious answer of course: no-one knows, I certainly have no idea, sorry! What we do know is that travel will, at some point in the future, start to resume, so we can at least start to think the problem through a little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s Stopping Us All Travelling?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a series of challenges which prevent non-essential travel at the moment, even short distances within the UK:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Primarily we&#8217;re all staying at home and socially distancing <strong>simply<\/strong> <strong>because it&#8217;s the right thing to do<\/strong>. By keeping ourselves away from others we deny the coronavirus the ability to jump between hosts. As it can&#8217;t live for more than a few days\/weeks inside a single human, this gradually kills it off, and significantly reduces its ability to get into those most susceptible to it. As I&#8217;ve written before, we&#8217;re all weapons now, and it&#8217;s our duty to treat our bodies as such.<\/li><li>The UK is currently in an &#8217;emergency period&#8217; as defined under <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sidley.com\/en\/insights\/newsupdates\/2020\/03\/covid-19-control-measures--uk-police-powers\" target=\"_blank\">the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020<\/a>. This means, by law, the police have the power to make us stay at home unless we have a &#8216;reasonable excuse&#8217; to be out. This &#8216;lock-down&#8217; currently applies until 7 May 2020. At that point it might be extended a further three weeks or the lock-down conditions could be altered, and after that another 3 weeks and so on. At the time of writing it seems very unlikely there&#8217;ll be any significant relaxation on 7 May.<\/li><li>The majority of UK campsites are closed (latest news: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk\/helpandadvice\/travelplanning\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\">Camping and Caravanning Club<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanclub.co.uk\/whats-on\/caravan-club-news\/novel-coronavirus-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\">Caravan and Motorhome Club<\/a>).<\/li><li>Anyone travelling in a motorhome at the moment may attract unwanted attention, even if they&#8217;re using the van to do essential shopping or go to work.<\/li><li>If we were to require hospitalisation, I would hazard a guess that most of us would prefer to be at a facility close to our homes and families. <\/li><li>Among more rural communities there is an understandable reluctance to accept tourists who could become ill en-mass and overwhelm local health care facilities.<\/li><li>For info, your insurance policy will still cover your van during COVID-19, even if you park it off-road and SORN it (some statements here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.safeguarduk.co.uk\/contact-us\/covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\">Safeguard<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comfort-insurance.co.uk\/blog\/coronavirus-do-i-need-insurance-if-i-sorn-my-motorhome-or-campervan\" target=\"_blank\">Comfort<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saga.co.uk\/coronavirus\/saga-insurance-coronavirus-update\" target=\"_blank\">Saga<\/a>).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As an aside, if you are needing to use your motorhome for essential travel, then:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Breakdown cover still appears to be operational assuming you have no symptoms and aren&#8217;t self-isolating (statements here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theaa.com\/about-us\/coronavirus-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\">the AA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rac.co.uk\/covid-19\">the RAC<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.greenflag.com\/covid\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greenflag<\/a>). With less people available to answer the phones they&#8217;re asking that you report incidents online where possible. <\/li><li>Many garages will be closed, so if a roadside fix isn&#8217;t possible then recovery home may be the only option after which you&#8217;d need to get the van to a garage when they re-open.<\/li><li>Six-month MOT exemptions apply from 30 March 2020, but <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/vehicle-owners-to-be-granted-mot-exemption-in-battle-against-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\">the gov website<\/a> says this is only for people to &#8220;continue to travel to work where this absolutely cannot be done from home, or shop for necessities&#8221;. Three-month extensions apply to lorries, buses and coaches, so this *might* apply to motorhomes over 3.5 tonnes? One of our tenants also told us she&#8217;s had to get an MOT anyway, despite being a key worker, as her last MOT had an advisory notice on it.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What About Travel Abroad?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Further challenges apply to taking your motorhome abroad for the time being:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The UK foreign office has <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/travel-advice-novel-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\">advised against all non-essential travel<\/a> outside the UK, and advised all British nationals to return home.<\/li><li>The EU Commission has restricted non-essential travel into the EU until at least 15 May 2020. Emmanuel Macron <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/tamarathiessen\/2020\/04\/11\/europe-borders-may-close-until-september-due-to-us-covid-19-threat\/#9b306e15056e\" target=\"_blank\">has suggested access could be restricted<\/a> until September 2020. <\/li><li>Within the EU, individual countries have re-introduced border controls, preventing any kind of tourist traffic other than those returning home. For example, to travel to France at the moment you need to prove your main residence is in France, or you&#8217;re a health professional or cross-border worker or are transporting goods. The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurotunnel.com\/uk\/travelling-with-us\/latest\/covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eurotunnel<\/a> and some <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurotunnel.com\/uk\/travelling-with-us\/latest\/covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\">ferry services<\/a> are still operational, but you can&#8217;t use them to travel to France unless you can prove one of the above reasons to go.<\/li><li>Travel insurance policies will very likely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insureandgo.com\/help\/coronavirus\">exclude &#8216;COVID-19-related events&#8217;<\/a> from claims as it&#8217;s a &#8216;known event&#8217;. Insure and Go wrote to us yesterday to tell us our travel insurance policy was about to auto-renew, and when it did it would no longer cover caused by or relating to coronavirus or any claims relating to any fear or threat concerning the virus.  Cover would also no longer available for losses caused by insolvency of failure of any company which supply the following &#8211; flights, holiday accommodation (including hotels), car hire, coach, train or ferry tickets. As you might guess we logged onto their website and stopped the auto-renew. When we do come to buy travel insurance again, we&#8217;ll be looking very carefully at what it will cover.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s the Way Forwards?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ju and I have had the great privilege of spending 55 months on the road these past years and we&#8217;ve had a blast. It seems we accidentally hit a &#8216;sweet spot&#8217; in long-term touring, which looked about to be curtailed by <a href=\"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/the-death-of-the-year-long-motorhome-tour-of-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the end of free movement<\/a>, only for that minor bureaucratic problem to be blown out of the water by the COVID-19 torpedo. All that travel&#8217;s difficult to sum up in a single sentence: we lived a lifetime in those 55 months! While that doesn&#8217;t mean we&#8217;re done with travel, it does mean we&#8217;ve been immunised from the worst effects of no-travel fever. We&#8217;re all in different situations though; from those who&#8217;ve been in touch with us two in the past weeks, you range from folks who:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>have decided &#8220;stuff it!&#8221; and are planning to buy a motorhome once this is all over (we don&#8217;t blame you!)<\/li><li>had just bought a motorhome but are unable to even collect it<\/li><li>had a hard-earned holiday planned in the UK or abroad but are unable to go<\/li><li>had the van sat on the drive ready to go, but have since SORNED it<\/li><li>had completed the long preparation to tour abroad but were forced home within days or weeks of starting the adventure<\/li><li>are longer-term travellers, faced with the dilemma of staying put abroad or returning to the UK<\/li><li>have underlying conditions which mean you have to self-isolate for the foreseeable future<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems to us that the way forwards for all of us will involve a good degree of patience. It seems likely UK holiday travel will become possible much more quickly than overseas tourism. The timing for this is anyone&#8217;s guess, maybe in the summer months? For those of us fortunate enough not to be in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/coronavirus-covid-19\/people-at-higher-risk-from-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\">the at-risk groups<\/a>, this seems to be the series of events which will signal tourism is again possible:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>we need to wait for the government to allow non-essential travel, at this point it will become legal to use our motorhome for tourism within the UK,<\/li><li>at this same point we guess it will start to become a very personal decision on when\/where to travel,<\/li><li>the requirement to socially distance will likely remain in place for many months. On the face of it a motorhome is good place to practice this, especially for those who use all of their on-board facilities. However, while travel abroad is impossible, restricted or simply less desirable, sites could become uncomfortably busy,<\/li><li>personally we&#8217;ll probably use the big UK camping clubs as a canary. Our feeling is these companies are relatively conservative, and will only re-open once the situation is considered relatively safe for their staff and customers. They may introduce on-site restrictions such as limited or no access to shared facilities like shower and toilet blocks,<\/li><li>as we&#8217;ve long-term self-isolating family to think about, any trips Ju and I take will likely be for a few days at a time in the local area. Since this includes the magnificent <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.peakdistrict.gov.uk\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Peak District National Park<\/a>, we&#8217;re hardly deprived.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What About Going Outside the UK?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Extending this to touring abroad, these are the areas we&#8217;d be thinking about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>we&#8217;d need to first wait for tourist access to the Schengen zone to become legal again,<\/li><li>we&#8217;d also check that all borders within the Schengen zone which we wanted to cross are also legally open for tourist traffic (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/home-affairs\/what-we-do\/policies\/borders-and-visas\/schengen\/reintroduction-border-control_en\" target=\"_blank\">there&#8217;s an overview of all border controls on this website<\/a>),<\/li><li>before travelling abroad, we&#8217;d check the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/foreign-travel-advice\" target=\"_blank\">foreign office travel advice<\/a> for the countries we plan to visit and carefully consider what it says. We wouldn&#8217;t travel anywhere while there&#8217;s an explicit statement saying not to,<\/li><li>we&#8217;d also have to carefully consider the fact all travel insurance will exclude any issues with COVID-19. <\/li><li>if we were heading to France, we&#8217;d have a browse around the Le Monde du Camping Car (French for &#8216;Motorhome World&#8217;) website (there&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=fr&amp;u=https:\/\/www.lemondeducampingcar.fr\/&amp;prev=search\" target=\"_blank\">an English version of the site here<\/a>). This would help us to understand the law in France and whether any campsites and aires are likely to be open (there&#8217;s likely to be a patchy re-opening of aires as many are under local municipal control), and whether French motorhomes are starting to use them,<\/li><li>the current news from France is that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.fr\/20200428\/revealed-this-is-the-plan-for-post-lockdown-life-in-france-after-may-11th\" target=\"_blank\">travel up to 100km from home<\/a> will be allowed for those living in France from 11 May, but it&#8217;s not clear if overnight motorhome stays will be legal at that stage. Even if they are, Le Monde du Camping Car implies (quite correctly I think) that the most &#8216;prudent&#8217; and &#8216;honorable&#8217; thing to do is to stay put and wait before engaging in tourism,<\/li><li>we&#8217;d also need to be aware of any need to wear a face mask\/gloves, or any other new legal requirements, and any need for quarantine upon returning to the UK. Ju and I have already <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/two-weeks-of-isolation-over-the-relative-freedom-of-lock-down\/\" target=\"_blank\">spent 2 weeks in full isolation<\/a> after returning from Spain, it wasn&#8217;t a big problem for us but it&#8217;s not pleasant either,<\/li><li>if taking a pet dog, we&#8217;d make sure we knew of a few vets abroad that were accepting UK dogs for the worming treatment required under the Pet Passport scheme. We might pre-book an appointment for peace of mind.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summing Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In times like this, tourism can only be seen as a luxury. But for many of us, it&#8217;s also a release from day-to-day life, and for others a dream, a significant life goal to tour a continent. For others it&#8217;s not so much tourism as travel: the very real need to go and see friends and loved ones. At the time of writing though, the overwhelmingly ethical thing to do is nothing. For the greater good of our loved ones and our communities, we need to do the right thing and live within the lock-down rules, grateful for our health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That won&#8217;t be the case for ever though, and it&#8217;s equally important that we stay hopeful. The restrictions we&#8217;ve living with will ease slowly (more slowly for those at-risk), but they will ease. As Ju and I can attest, it&#8217;s a beautiful world out there, one well worth waiting for. Stay sane folks, stay hopeful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"721\" src=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC06808-1024x721.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC06808.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC06808-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC06808-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC06808-705x496.jpg 705w, https:\/\/ourtourmedia.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/DSC06808-450x317.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Keep going folks, one day the world will re-open (photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/swiss-playground-beneath-the-stone-glacier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Stone Glacier, Swiss Alps 2019<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A parting shot: now&#8217;s a great time to think about your life goals and how you might achieve them. While we&#8217;re unable to physically move around a great deal, we can move freely inside our heads. If the pandemic&#8217;s pushed you to think about shifting your focus from work to travel, it might take a few months to engineer such a change, to research your ideal vehicle, to arrange your finances (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B01ERJSO7A\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=dailyposts-21&amp;creative=6738&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=B01ERJSO7A&amp;linkId=d0f0cb7a3fe9168187db3e97065405fa\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s how we did this<\/a>), to read up on destinations (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/search\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=dailyposts-21&amp;keywords=lonely planet europe&amp;index=aps&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;linkId=b2e1dca7d6e7e7296e298a19bcd1991d\" target=\"_blank\">we tend to use Lonely Planet<\/a>) and pore over maps (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/google-tour-maps-from-motorhome-bloggers\/\" target=\"_blank\">there&#8217;s a good selection here!<\/a>). Now&#8217;s the perfect time to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheers, Jay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post looks at when motorhome travel in the UK and Europe may start to become possible again during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,1482,415],"tags":[134,1374,318,396],"class_list":["post-37961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motorhome-blog","category-travel-during-covid-19","category-at-home","tag-motorhome","tag-restrictions","tag-tour","tag-travel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>It&#039;s 2020 - When Will Motorhome Travel be Possible Again? - Our Tour Motorhome Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This post looks at when motorhome travel in the UK and Europe may start to become possible again in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ourtour.co.uk\/home\/when-will-motorhome-travel-be-possible-again\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It&#039;s 2020 - When Will Motorhome Travel be Possible Again? 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