After weeks of planning, finally the time came for Travellers Autobarn to hold an annual ‘Thank You’ party for the local agents in Sydney.
Just received another customer email with some awesome feedback and helpful hints and advice on your next Oz trip. Check out Xaviers roadtrip moments here…
“The best 2 weeks of my life…
So, me and the boys decided we wanted to do a little road trip for a couple of weeks. We didn’t have a clue where to start with the planning – we thought we could just rock up same day, get in a car and just drive off into the sunset! That’s the way we have always travelled we don’t like to plan things!
Unfortunately, it doesn’t really work like that when you want to hire a campervan, theres all sorts of insurance, age limits and bonds and stuff! Fortunately for us Travellers Autobarn helped us out… Me, Craig and Matt wandered into the shop and started looking at the cars in there, we couldn’t decide whether to get a campervan or car – we just wanted to do it cheap! We ended up booking a stationwagon (a kind of estate car what we have in England) as this was the cheapest option. We must have looked like a bunch of clueless idiots but the staff were great and explained all the insurance options and prices very clearly (which was good because we really ARE a bunch of clueless idiots! Ha ha!) All booked, we could pickup the car tomorrow…a last night out in the Cross to celebrate!
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HEADLINE – RELAX
KEY TAKE AWAY POINTS
Our thoughts and sympathies are with the farmers, familes and businesses in the affected areas, not long ago the area experienced a 10 year long drought.
Now that the ‘silly season’ has passed, the opportunity to own one of our ex-rental HiTOP campervans has arrived! There really is no better way to see Australia– especially if you are planning on travelling for longer than 6 months.
The formula is simple: Take the most trusted van in Australia, convert it into a functional campervan, and then maintain it using professional and trusted mechanics across Australia!
Lauren, a Travellers Autobarn customer, just shared her great blog with us.
Roadtrip planning
Half term happens, you guessed it, halfway through term; this means you’ll have known your potential travel buddies for a month or so by the time you’re deciding who to travel with – scary stuff! The way to get round this is pretty obvious – arrange to travel with happy, chilled out people whose company you enjoy; get everyone involved in booking, planning, playing and arranging so that one person doesn’t end up feeling like they’ve done all the work and no one can complain that they’re not getting to go where they want. My group came about from all the people who wanted to roadtrip, but didn’t fancy driving too far and didn’t care too much about where they ended up. For us this meant not having much of a plan apart from a few key things we wanted to see and a very certain notion that we were not going to spend a whole week in the car. Other people drove a lot and even drove by night (which is dangerous due to kangaroo collision possibilities), but they went about 4 times as far as we did and saw almost the entire coast North of Perth. Both sets of people had tonnes of fun so just think about what suits you and what you want out of your trip. For me, having time to relax, laugh with my friends and chill out on beaches was as important as seeing the sites. In hindsight, it might have been sensible to have a more precise plan as we had to make a lot of spot decisions that often involved turning full circle in the middle of the, luckily quiet, roads!
