Hiring a motorhome in Croatia - our experience of a 'bumpy ride'

Those of us who live most of the year in a motorhome are used to spaces.
We were going to kill each other in a " Plåtis "!

Perfect! Our campervan that we borrowed here in Portugal was a bit cheaper, but one particular version had no toilet.

Hi, from what I have seen in the pictures, it looks identical to our KNAUS BOXSTAR FREEWAY 636. From 2013.
And the same colour for the interior. So it must be a renamed Knaus.

Sounds very tempting but that "pretty much" in the sentence "pretty much fit in a regular car park" scares a sissy like me 😉.
Significantly more comfortable than tents anyway. But after all, we live cheaper in hotels (at least when Anders books 😉 ) so I probably continue on my line with hotel camping.
🙂

Funny to read about your experiences from another so-called motorhome, although now it is also called the plated for me as well.

Would probably be enough for us - looks perfectly OK 🙂 .

Renting a motorhome on site certainly sounds like a convenient solution.
I found the lack of equipment to be an unfortunate feature. Although these are details, they are important ones that are used daily and therefore can easily contribute to devaluing the holiday experience.

Very nice to read your evaluation on "plåtis". But it was not really like standing height at the beds in the back and I think it is nice now. But there was also a liftable bed so maybe it was good to stand around it.
Good with the kitchenette so you can see out and also good that the food smell disappears.
We have only rented a campervan in the US, a Volkswagen camper which was with us for a long time and in New Zealand for 10 days but this "plodder" seems smooth. However, I see it as a rather expensive option considering that driving costs and camping fees are added. But also a freedom... And it is worth a lot.

Compact living for sure! But it's often the little things that annoy you, especially if you "stumble" over them several times a day.

Oh, and the square bedding - that seems to be an Eastern European "speciality". The apartment we had in Poland also had "baby blankets", which my 1.95 metre tall husband didn't appreciate either. Moreover, the duvet covers were made of synthetic material...

It sounded positive from you:) Our flat has never killed us and yet we are both quite tall. I am a rather crass person and can still live well. Our oven is an omni and we cook all our food there, so we have not missed the oven. What I miss most is underfloor heating and waterborne heating as we are outside even in colder seasons. Nowadays we also have a large Kabe caravan that our lorry pulls in Sweden but not south. One week is too little to test, then everything goes well. 4-5 weeks works great during the summer period. Yesterday we were down by a small fishing pond and could easily drive on small forest roads. So it can be difficult to choose, but what I see with a slightly larger motorhome is that you unfortunately do not get much more, it becomes a small two-sofa and the chairs, thats it. If you go up to large models, you are not free to drive wherever you want. Yes, it is difficult with all these choices.

So wonderful for you to test a plate ice as well. Very nice view from the kitchen and the sleeping area you really had there:) I probably prefer the motorhome for a while longer :))

What a nice post about your trip with that motorhome. I am a complete novice to motorhomes, never having travelled in one, but it sounds very nice.

Interesting reading about the Plåtis. I used to say that, the next motorhome will be a Plåtis but then something else happened and it became the one we have today. But the next one might be a hahaha Now you went in the heat, how do you think it is when the weather gets worse rain snow with boots wet clothes, do you let out much of the good heat with a draft door?
Hugs

Hello!
Thank you for a nice report on travelling with a barge.

I have experience of travelling with both a motorhome and a flatbed for some time, but only in Sweden, as I started building my alcove car with a seating area around it in 1980.

It is now older, but still fulfils our needs perfectly, as I have always kept it indoors in the winter and serviced it regularly.

We have now also bought a flatbed, as we have begun to appreciate compact living more and more, partly to have a flexible car for loading sports equipment and also to be able to load smaller building materials, such as long floor mouldings etc.

The flexibility of a flatbed has allowed us to park our car for more or less the entire summer season, and in our case we use the flatbed as our regular car, perfect for example when we go shopping and can put fridge and freezer goods directly in the fridge.

We realise that the range of use of a plough is greater for us in terms of time.

In our case, one does not replace the other, and for longer summer stays in the same place we prefer to stay in our motorhome.

To use a caravan in everyday life as a means of transport, we think the flatbed is superior, where we also discovered the feeling of being able to wake up on a hot summer morning and have the rear doors wide open as you show in your pictures, with a mosquito net stretched over the doors.
We call that freedom.
sunny beach