We spend three months a year travelling in our motorhome – here are our four simplest ways to keep holidays cheap

A FAMILY of 5 person visited much than 20 countries successful their motorhome, spending 3 months holidaying connected the roadworthy each year.

Known arsenic the Roaming Radfords, Steve and Lyndsay person been holidaying successful a motorhome since 2007, erstwhile their eldest lad Eddie was conscionable a twelvemonth old.

The hubby and woman team, who unrecorded successful Milton Keynes, person been to France, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Portugal, Sweden, Norway and Morocco successful their motorhome.

Their astir caller travel took them to Turkey, wherever they spent six weeks exploring the state with their 3 sons, Eddie, Harry and George.

Steve and Lyndsay papers their adventures connected their Youtube channel, the Roaming Radfords.

And with much than 17 years of experience, it's harmless to accidental they cognize however to question connected a budget.

Steve and Lyndsay told Sun Online Travel: "We see ourselves 4th timers, truthful each twelvemonth we walk astatine slightest 3 months of our lives successful our motorhome."

The household spends the entirety of the schoolhouse summer holidays successful their motorhome, utilizing European car parkland schemes to support transportation costs down.

Steve added: "It's overmuch easier to spell 'off-grid' successful Europe. For example, successful France, there's a strategy called aires wherever motorhomes tin enactment overnight successful registered car parks.

"They're not precise caravan friendly, and you person to enactment wrong your parking space, but they're fantastic successful presumption of determination and price."

Holidaymakers tin walk the night, oregon adjacent the full day, parked astatine an aires site, without spending a penny oregon precise little.

Similar schemes run successful different European countries, including Stellplatz successful Germany.

The Roaming Radfords usage the inexpensive car parks aft agelong days spent driving.

Steve said: "What you don't privation to bash is thrust until 9pm and past wage €50 for a campsite lone to permission the next morning."

While these car parkland schemes aren't arsenic communal successful the UK, Steve recommended spending the nighttime successful a pub car park.

He explained that pub landlords are often blessed to speech a escaped overnight car parking abstraction for the terms of a meal.

For a greater accidental of success, the Radfords suggested parking motorhomes successful the country of the car parkland to support the longer vehicles retired of the mode of different motorists.

Those holidaymakers who privation to enactment connected campsites and person entree to facilities tin inactive travel connected a budget.

Steve and Lyndsay recommended becoming a subordinate of the Camping and Caravanning Club because holidaymakers tin wage for pitches astatine members' rates, which are cheaper.

Signing up for rallies is different mode to support transportation costs down too, with rallies held astatine rally fields astatine campsites.

The brace added: "You'll get entree to each the facilities but won't person a circumstantial pitch, truthful they're cheaper weekends".

Steve and Lyndsay besides encouraged holidaymakers to navigator their ain meals and dainty agelong trips arsenic if they're self-catering.

They added: "You're successful your motorhome/caravan, you've got everything you request to navigator a delicious meal".

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