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Do you bring your Camper to weddings

  • 24-04-2014 11:47am
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 381 ✭✭


    What are peoples opinions on bringing a campervan to a wedding (as in to sleep)?

    Has anyone done it before?
    If so, do you park at the hotel (any trouble doing this?) or in a nearby campsite or wild park somewhere else?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 460 ✭✭Malta1


    Have done on a couple of occasions.......sometime we sleep in it sometimes we just park up and stay in hotel

    Always parked in Hotel carpark without any hassle - mind you I would always ring them and ask them if its OK to park up overnight ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 381 ✭✭Repolho


    Malta1 wrote: »
    mind you I would always ring them and ask them if its OK to park up overnight ;)

    Really, and they don't mind? I would have thought the hotel would want you to book a room?


  • Registered Users Posts: 460 ✭✭Malta1


    usually happy enough to get u to buy a few pints and maybe th ebreakfast the next morning;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 381 ✭✭Repolho


    Rang the hotel, their policy is no campers :'(

    Might just chance it anyhow or maybe find somewhere to wild park close by.


  • Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Repolho wrote: »
    Might just chance it anyhow or maybe find somewhere to wild park close by.

    +1

    I've done it at a wedding, parked around the corner. Some parking meters you can pay for the morning the night before if you plan on a lie-in in a pinch.
    Also few times for work in the Hotel car park as a contractor when I was due 6 hours sleep and didn't fancy rush hour in the morning.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 235 ✭✭karmaan


    Went to a black tie charity thing in Clontarf castle, turned a few heads when we pulled up in our t-rusty lt35


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,549 ✭✭✭*Kol*


    Repolho wrote: »
    Rang the hotel, their policy is no campers :'(

    Might just chance it anyhow or maybe find somewhere to wild park close by.

    What did you expect??


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    *Kol* wrote: »
    What did you expect??
    I've seen plenty camper vans parked in the hotel park at weddings.


  • Registered Users Posts: 220 ✭✭nailer8


    I camped in the Maldron in Kilarney and the Clarion in Sligo at weddings. Didn't ask permission but nobody said anything.
    Even chanced Merrion sq one night for a party in Dublin. Thought where would be safe, decided accross from the Dail couldn't be bad.
    Mind you it was a fairly modest sized panel van conversion.
    Dont think i would chance the current 6 bert plastic yoke.

    Had a couple of friends in campers for my own wedding and they asked the hotel and they didn't mind.


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,249 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    *Kol* wrote: »
    What did you expect??
    If they're booked out anyway, I'd expect them to be ok with it. That's my experience anyway - although it wasn't a hotel, but they were only iffy whilst they had accomodation available. Once they were booked out, it was extra money for them (had to drop a few bob, but didn't mind as we were effectively hooked up too).


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  • Registered Users Posts: 381 ✭✭Repolho


    Went to the wedding in the camper after all. Didn't have the nectar to park in the hotel so we parked up down the road a little bit.

    Hotel still had rooms available so I can't blame them really for their no camper policy.

    Have a couple more weddings this year so might try it again :-)


  • Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Empty presses, UHT milk, kettle filled with water from the bathroom, crap tv, magazine about golf courses and watches, view outside of a hotel or car park...jaysus...maybe the bar's more interesting....

    My camper is way nicer than most hotels I've been in. Better facilities too for the most part. :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,549 ✭✭✭*Kol*


    Empty presses, UHT milk, kettle filled with water from the bathroom, crap tv, magazine about golf courses and watches, view outside of a hotel or car park...jaysus...maybe the bar's more interesting....

    My camper is way nicer than most hotels I've been in. Better facilities too for the most part. :pac:

    Wow. Can you post a pic of your camper?


  • Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Sorry Kol I was taking the photo and silly me I tripped over my free mini-bar and dropped the camera in the pool. :p


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,549 ✭✭✭*Kol*


    Sorry Kol I was taking the photo and silly me I tripped over my free mini-bar and dropped the camera in the pool. :p

    No probs. :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 460 ✭✭Malta1


    *Kol* wrote: »
    No probs. :)

    Jaysus, I thought the CCTV System in your van was good enough to capture a few "stills" from??


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