Why do People Choose a Motorhome With a Garage?

For most people, motorhoming means a lot of time spent within the vehicle itself. A certain amount of driving for everyone is to be expected, of course – but for some people spending most of their leisure time in the vehicle is preferable too. Proper ‘home-from-homing’ – living a normal daily domestic life from the comfort of the sofa, never venturing too far, but parked up in today’s beautiful location.

Others, though, love to park up and venture further afield – perhaps on a bike or, if they’re at the beach, with some surf or marine equipment. These are the people most likely to immediately opt for a vehicle which has its own garage – but we believe buying one is something everybody should consider. Here’s why…

Storage for your adventure stuff
Garages on motorhomes are externally accessible storage areas, meaning you have a highly convenient option to take along all the fun and adventure gear you need. All of those pieces of equipment which are just too large and cumbersome to fit into the ‘normal’ part of the motorhome, and all the bits that you don’t want lying around – skis, football nets, cricket sets. If you have a motorhome with a garage you can take all these on trips with you, without worrying about compromising your relaxed enjoyment of the living quarters. No-one wants to go for a shower to find it’s full of surf-boards or be confronted with a kayak in the kitchen or visit the loo and have to compete for reading room with a bike!
Storage for everything else, too!
Nobody likes the thought of that huge and untidy mass of random stuff crammed into their spare room, under the stairs or in the shed. Nonetheless this phenomenon does occur more often than anyone would like to admit – and it’s always a good feeling to get it sorted out. Tidiness is key for great peace of mind and for enjoyment of your space, so you’ll really want to keep the living areas in your motorhome as free from clutter as possible. A motorhome garage is the answer. It’s ideal for storing extra luggage or (if you have unpacked your luggage into the fitted wardrobes within the vehicle) your suitcases. If you’re planning on spending some of your break socialising, relaxing and dining just outside your motorhome, the garage is a great place to store your BBQ, too!
Mess-free living
If you’re down at the beach you won’t have to worry about sand and seawater getting inside the motorhome and messing up the furniture, as you can use the garage to store your wetsuits once you’ve stripped down and dried them outside the vehicle, as well as other shore clothes you’ve been wearing. You can also use it to store your buckets and spades, windbreaks, inflatables and life jackets. In essence, a motorhome with a garage could be thought of as a utility space as well as a storage facility, and it offers the freedom to transition from the outdoors to back indoors without any issues.
Convenience for the less abled
A motorhome garage could also be used to store living aids such as mobility scooters or wheelchairs – and because of this convenience there will be more opportunity, more scope, for a fulfilling holiday or trip for those less abled.
It’s a dog’s life
The garage of your motorhome could also double-up as the chill-out space for your dog, the area it knows is its own, when you’re outdoors. Dogs do like to have a space to retreat to, perhaps for their nap, as it’s tiring worshipping their owners all day! The garage space might also be the best place for your family to feed the dog, too. It will certainly also offer a better place for you to clean and dry your dog after being on the beach or on a muddy hike, or in the rain or river!
Stay within the law
You should bear in mind the extra weight of the items you’ll be taking along on your trip and storing in the garage, so that you can make sure to stay within the acceptable payload for your motorhome. Driving an overladen vehicle is dangerous – and illegal – and so you should ensure you don’t exceed the maximum capability as well as making sure that the weight is distributed evenly, not more than any individual axle load.

Buying a motorhome with a garage really does extend the idea of vehicles giving a proper home-from-home experience. The garage will change your perception of what’s possible on trips and holidays, as the whole experience will be so much more convenient and fuss free. In this brief guide we hope to have given you several ideas of how the garage is suitable for use, and the kind of things you can store in it, thus relieving the interior of clutter and allowing you a much more relaxing holiday, short break or once in a lifetime trip!