There are many advantages to owning a holiday lodge or caravan versus a bricks and mortar holiday home.
Buying a luxury holiday lodge or caravan holiday home has many enticing advantages. It is a more affordable way of achieving a holiday lifestyle dream and will offer a special private space away from home for downtime activities and relaxation. What’s even better, all ground maintenance, services, and security are taken care of, even when you are not there!
Choosing your ideal holiday park to suit your aspirations is key to achieving happy holiday memories that are conducive to hassle fee getaway.
A holiday home – be it a luxury holiday lodge or caravan – is for relaxing, switching off, recharging, enjoying new surroundings and exploring new places. It’s even an opportunity to meet new friends with similar interests and a way to find a happy balance between everyday life and your holiday downtime.
Finding a special place that offers you peace, tranquillity, nature, and a gateway to discovery and adventure, is sometimes difficult. A bricks and mortar holiday home can also be a more expensive option because of high land prices when they are located in sought after, awe-inspiring places, or where there are uninterrupted views.
Whereas, holiday parks are often positioned in locations that are popular for holidays, be it rural retreats or coastal havens.
Finding special locations that are still hidden gems, with picture perfect views and spacious countryside plots, isn’t always easy. But they do exist!
Maes Mynan Park, a new holiday park development and is an excellent example of a hidden gem, where spacious holiday lodge and caravan plots in the country are still available. Being part of unspoilt landscapes at a more affordable price tag, with less long term hassle when compared to bricks and mortar second properties, will maximise your holiday lifestyle and Maes Mynan Park offers that in spades.
Owning a holiday lodge or caravan has a lot of pluses to offer. With plenty of luxury lodges and caravans to choose from, finding your stylish boutique hideaway is only a step away.
Here, we explore six benefits for buying a luxury holiday lodge or caravan over a bricks and mortar holiday home.
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Reduce stress with low maintenance costs
When luxury holiday lodges and caravans are built, they are designed to be low maintenance holiday homes, with everything neatly laid out and integrated for maximum comfort and enjoyment.
Holiday lodges and caravans maximise space and use materials designed to keep maintenance to a minimum.
The choice of construction methods, roofing applications, windows and single-story layout, usually means that any maintenance, or repairs, if necessary, are quick to rectify.
Maintaining the internal and exterior finishes of a holiday lodge or caravan is designed to be quick and effective for longevity.
A bricks and mortar holiday home will always need repairs, upkeep and maintenance – costs which can be considerable. These costs become more expensive if it is an old building, where damp, roofing repairs, pointing, re-rendering, electrical and plumbing issues mean long waits for tradesmen to get back to you. Gardens require maintaining too, which can be considerably time-consuming if you are away for long periods of time.
If it is a holiday lifestyle you yearn, is spending time sorting house problems out, part of the dream plan? Generally, you don’t want stress following you from home to home.
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Keep cool or warm depending on the season with an energy efficiency luxury holiday lodge or caravan.
Holiday lodges and caravans are largely suitable for all year-round use when a holiday park has a 12-month holiday licence in place.
The British Standard BS 3632 relates, in part, to energy efficiency. That means holiday lodges and caravans built to a residential specification, benefit from a certain thickness of insulation. This means you will use less energy and save money on energy bills over the course of a year, whatever the weather and season.
Although bricks and mortar holiday homes will have insulation, the depth and efficiency within the home will depend upon age, maintenance upkeep and interiors of the property. Re-insulating a bricks and mortar property incurs greater costs and includes hassle when trying to find a tradesman in an area you don’t normally live in. Or if you are doing the work yourself and hate DIY, then it eats into your downtime, which means you have less time to relax and enjoy what you really like to do.
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Holiday breaks away anytime without the hassle
Buying a luxury holiday lodge or caravan gives you an opportunity to take a break at any time, not just holiday times. Luxury lodge and caravan manufactures understand their niche market, creating inspiring boutique holiday homes to support easy holiday living.
Owning your own luxury holiday lodge or caravan in a beautiful slice of paradise, like Maes Mynan Park, will give you instant access to boutique style holidaying.
Buying a luxury holiday lodge or caravan in a UK location will ensure a familiar, comfortable environment every time you visit. A home from home experience with the added bonus of knowing all the ground maintenance and security are taken care of, even when you are not there!
This is something a bricks and mortar holiday home won’t always offer, and its upkeep year-on-year will often turn into a chore!
Having your very own place to stay in a destination you love, could also save you time on travel, as well as money on expensive hotels or cottage rentals year after year.
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Turnkey finishes will save on the cost of interiors and furniture when you buy a luxury holiday lodge or caravan.
In contrast to many bricks and mortar holiday homes, luxury holiday lodges and caravans are sold with fully fitted kitchens, bathrooms, flooring and furniture.
There are also bespoke options available for internal finishes and furnishings included within the overall holiday lodge price and a list of optional extras for caravans too. This saves time and money and reduces the need for interior designers and tradesmen, something required for renovations on traditional bricks and mortar build.
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Save on Stamp Duty, taxes and legal costs when you buy a luxury holiday lodge or caravan
If you’re thinking about buying a luxury lodge or caravan holiday home for personal use, you are unlikely to pay Stamp Duty on a holiday park that is designed to cater for holiday only lifestyles.
However, depending upon the cost of a bricks and mortar second home, there may be stamp duty to pay and with governments always looking for new ways to tax second homeowners, this is another cost you must bear in mind. For further information visit www.gov.uk.
In addition, you will always need a solicitor or conveyancer if you are buying a bricks and mortar second home. This will include disbursements, as well as their fees, for things like searches and land registration fees and are extra expenses to consider.
Holiday parks, offering space for luxury holiday lodges and caravans, work to a licence agreement. Holiday parks will offer a lengthy licence period for luxury lodges as part of the sales process.
For example, Maes Mynan Lodge Park, offers 35-year licences to all their holiday lodge owners and 20 years from date of manufacturer on caravans on all Acorn Leisure Holiday Parks. This offers customers and their family’s certainty, all backed up with Park Rules and Terms and Conditions that includes no subletting for extra peace of mind, safety, and security.
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Escape to the country and experience your own slice of paradise
If you feel inspired to own a place in the country, but really don’t want the hassle of a bricks and mortar second home to maintain in your absence, consider buying a luxury holiday lodge, or caravan on a countryside holiday park instead.
Maes Mynan Park as a country holiday park has much to offer holiday home owners.
If you would like to find out more, please come and see us and discover this hidden gem, that was once described in the 1870’s as the ‘Arcadia of Wales if not England’, for yourself. Today people prefer to refer to Maes Mynan as ‘Little Switzerland’, just as the farmers once did.
As custodians of this beautiful place, we are very much looking forward to sharing this magical place with you in your country retreat holiday home. If you would like to book a tour, and view one of our holiday homes for sale (luxury lodges, bespoke lodges and deluxe static caravans), please get in touch. We are here. You can call or WhatsApp Peter on 07836522444 or Louise on 07917876819. If you prefer, email info@nullacornleisure.com or send us a message here.
