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Make Sure Your Motorhome Is Covered If You Hire It Out

If you’re an old insurance man like me, going grey and still carrying a liking for old early 70′s bands like soft machine and caravan, then you probably think that you’ve seen the last of your summer music festivals with nights spent cramped under the canvas of a tent and waking up with aches and cramps in places you didn’t know existed! However, another way to go is to take your motorhome (or somebody else’s) along to the festival and enjoy the music and the atmosphere without the nights spent on the floor under canvas.

Many people prefer taking a motorhome with them to festivals rather than the traditional tent camping because with a motorhome you get the best of both worlds, i.e. you get the comforts of home living like a cup of tea in the mornings, a warm, comfy bed to sleep on and most of all, a shower! As well as all this, you also get the atmosphere of the music festival and the thrill of the live music.

Many owners of motorhomes rent out their motorhomes for events like this because they know that lots of people enjoy music festivals but don’t look forward to the camping, however what a lot of them don’t realise is that doing this, while perfectly legal, is usually not covered under a standard motorhome insurance policy.

I remember seeing a couple at Glastonbury last year, blissfully leaving their motorhome in the sunny early hours of the morning having breakfasted under the awning, only to return late at night to find that one of Glastonbury’s famed monsoons had filled the awning with water causing it to twist, break and generally be ruined, That’s about 1000 worth of damage and all uninsured if the vehicle had been hired out without the authority of the insurance company.

If you think you might like to take your motorhome to Glastonbury or a similar festival, or that you might let someone else take it, it is well worth getting it covered for the trip as you really don’t know what might happen.

If you’re not going yourself, it is probably best to start by loaning your motorhome to friends or family rather than people you don’t know because adding friends or family to an existing insurance policy is by far the easiest way to go. So you can watch the festival from the comfort of your own home, safe in the knowledge that your motorhome is being looked after and even if it isn’t, you’ll know you have the right insurance to cover it.

If you are on the look out for motorhome insurance then you should visit Coversure, they are one of the leading providers of all kinds of vehicle insurance providing everything from standard car insurance to caravan insurance

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