Caravan Moans

[bertieboy1]

It never ceases to amaze me you buy a caravan (thousands of pounds) just to put a bit of string around the cable to keep it from trailing on the ground.
Blue lights - thats another one,who in their right mind thinks a bright blue light is desirable or even attractive.We've got a bit a cardboard cellotaped over the blue lights so we can sleep at night.

 

[VicMallows]

Blue lights - thats another one,who in their right mind thinks a bright blue light is desirable or even attractive.

Our caravan pre-dates the fashion for blue .... ours are red and green . However my wife knows exactly what you mean........every light has to be covered up - even the flashing lights on smoke/CO detectors; and the flashing light on the router (which is hidden inside a cupboard).

Personally, I just fall straight off to sleep

 

[KeefySher]

In the caravan we fix a tea towel with crockery on the worktop to hide the blue fridge LED, turn the tv antenna booster off at night.

When staying in hotels with green LED lights on smoke detectors, put a plaster over the light. I stay in hotels a lot, often the same one for months at a time, always interesting to see if the plasters are removed by the cleaners!!

 

[camel]

In our previous caravans when we had the green light on the fridge I was ok with it but it did the wife' s head in so she happen to have a little box 35mmx55mm and this just pushed over the top of the green light,

 

[Dodger524]

It never ceases to amaze me you buy a caravan (thousands of pounds) just to put a bit of string around the cable to keep it from trailing on the ground.
Blue lights - thats another one,who in their right mind thinks a bright blue light is desirable or even attractive.We've got a bit a cardboard cellotaped over the blue lights so we can sleep at night.

Have you tried closing your eyes, I find it works quite well?

 

[otherclive]

I've never had problem with night lighting as for some years I spent time in an environment where it was red at night throughout. Even now my wife insists on a night light (small LED elephant!) which is a left over from when one of our grandkids wanted one. But it is useful in that I don't tread on the dogs on my night time visit to the "rest room".

 

[camel]

I don't moan very often but in this case I will make an exception, so why is it that caravan sites regardless of who they are, club owned or commercial, go to the trouble of creating pitches that are not level, just but a couple of slabs down on the pitch on a firm base that are level for the wheels to go on, :woohoo:

 

[DrZhivago]

why is it that caravan sites ... go to the trouble of creating pitches that are not level, just but a couple of slabs down on the pitch on a firm base that are level for the wheels to go on,

Take a couple of wooden slabs with you. I prefer my sites to be just grass (Ok with some unobtrusive hook-up points), not incipient concrete jungles.

 

[woodsieboy]

I am with camel on this one we recently spent a week on a site that advertised all pitches serviced, great I thought,.on arrival hardstanding pitch sloped 5'' left to right, and more front to back, resulting in chocks lifting the nearside of the van making it difficult for swmbo to reach the top of our step when exiting the van, on top of that the water and drainage was split between 2 pitches so our water feed in had to come across the front of the van, and the water out had to go round the awning and just for good measure had to drain uphill.Alternative would have been to put the van in front first and look out at a stone wall.Shame as the site was good in many ways, but every other pitch in our row had the same issue, the owners had spent a lot of money creating the pitches but had not taken the trouble to make them level, we will not be returning.

 

[Raywood]

We like the blue light on the fridge as it gives just enough illumination at night to see without disturbing us which basically suggests you cannot please everybody. The smoke detector has no light on it though.
The basic moans involve the TV aerial which gets in the way in the wardrobe and the front locker lid which fouls the jockey wheel unless it is down very low.