Jolly Campers - Yorkshire

Hi Jolly & Aly,

Here are some pictures from our glorious week's holiday in 'the baron'

campervan. 

We were blessed with a week of outstanding weather and really did feel we were 'living the life or dream' as Martin Dorey so aptly puts in his book 'The Campervan Coast'. 

We started with the Moonbeam wold top folk festival north of Driffield and then went up along the yorkshire coast and over the yorkshire moors staying at some lovely campsites. Your website was very good at giving us some ideas and was very comprehensive.

We found the van so well kitted out and designed so were very comfortable and found you very helpful and re assuring answering all our questions. Your instruction book was brilliant - particularly on getting the bed down! The test for me was returning and my husband a somewhat reluctant camper turning to me and saying ' that was one of the best holidays we've ever had'. We look forward to some more trips - you have started us on a journey and who knows where it will lead! We will be recommending you to our friends.Thank you.

Annette & Jerry

JollyCampers - Wild Camping

Wow long time no post, a very happy belated New Year to you all.  It really annoys Jolly when I say it but I really don't know where the time goes.

So far Penfold and The Baron have been nicely busy this year but they can always fit more adventures in so if you fancy taking full advantage of this glorious weather we are forecast to have over the next couple of weeks take a look at our availability calender and get in contact.

JollyCampervans Availability Calender

We are actually going on our first camping exhibition of the year this weekend with some university friends and their family to Bosworth Water Trust Campsite so super excited about that.

Anyway point of the blog was to share this lovely review we have just received from another Jolly Camper

We recently celebrated our first wedding anniversary by hiring a camper van from Jolly Campervans. 

The van was ready and waiting on the date to pick up with Jolly there to talk me through all of the details from how the van drove to how to operate the cooker which put me at ease.

The service was excellent, I was delighted at what came with the van and the fact we didn't need to bring pans etc, and that we could set off and be ready to pull up anywhere to enjoy the view.

That's just what we did, toured across the Yorkshire Dales and then through the Clevelend Hills across the North Yorkshire Moors wild camping all the way. We pulled the van up where we could, which was surprisingly almost anywhere, made sure we took away what we brought and took in the surroundings.

The van ran efficiently and took on the steep winding moorland roads of the North Yorkshire Moors with no problem. Such a joy to experience driving across the country side and having the world look at us in awe at the style. The van became a talking point where ever I pulled up bringing a smile to my face and whoever I passed.

 I have no doubt that I will be hiring a campervan from Jolly and Aly again and again. 

 They are spacious with the roof up, with everything you need and a fantastic service. 

 Mr and Mrs Walker.

Mini adventures

Just got back from a mini adventure up in the Lake District. I love that feeling of flying up the motorway at night, parking up the campervan in the dark, but knowing that when you wake up you'll be surrounded by the most awesome scenery.
We stayed at Sykeside campsite at Brotherswater, which combined with on site Inn and great food, beer fails to disappoint.
This followed by a wet (well it is the Lake District after all) but really fun blast around the mountain bike trails at Whinlatter, Keswick in the morning.
Big smiles all round!

JollyCampers - Down South

“We had a tip top time in Penfold this summer – Hertfordshire 1 night, East Sussex 3 nights, Dorset 6 nights, Cheltenham 2 nights – so we certainly made him sing for his supper.  And sing he did – Penfold cruised along quite happily fully loaded with 3 happy campers inside. 

Boris loved sleeping in the roof and opening the zips every morning with a report on what he could see wherever we were and it was great to have a solid roof over our heads on the nights when the weather turned bad.

Jolly Campervans were really helpful and flexible with our plans for the trip and this enabled us to enjoy our annual family gathering in Cheltenham on the way home from Dorset instead of having to drive all the way back up North and then down again in the car the next day – thanks for that!  They were even kind enough to fix the van aerial I broke (rather stupidly) without any fuss and at a lower price than I had found online anywhere.

We have recommended you to all our pals who like doing this kind of thing and we’ll definitely be back for another helping of Penfold (or maybe The Baron next time).”

Cheers

Dan, Ruth & Boris

Jollymooners

Just a quick note to say thank you. We have both loved every minute of our trip in 'The Baron'. We have certainly fallen for the charm.

Thank you for getting in touch after our initial enquiry, we had the perfect transport for our wedding and the perfect accommodation for our 'mini-moon'

Laura & Graham

Our first Publication!

Ok so the title is a little exaggerated but we are very excited to have been included in Martin Dorey's new Campervan Cookbook as a recommended supplier  Link to where you can buy a copy  Not only is it a great book as we are in it but the recipes are superb either for whilst you are camping or at home, great atmospheric photographs which totally get you in the mood to hit the open road and some useful tips on foraging and places to visit. Below is a recent email we received from Martin about what he has been up to lately. Hello! Firstly, thanks to everyone who has bought my latest book, The Camper Van Coast. I have had some really lovely feedback about it although some people have commented on page 136. It's one of the best shots in the book but...even so, I am sorry! The publicity department at Hodder have been working overtime to get the word out about the book and have had some great results. It has been featured in Coast magazine, Food Magazine, The Saturday Telegraph, ES Magazine and The Sunday Times. I've been interviewed on Steve Wright's Radio 2 show, Five Live and plenty of BBC local radio shows. It's been fun! I have been to a few shows this year too, notably Volks World at Sandown Park and the Just Kampers Open Day. Both were great fun so thanks for coming if you did. I had a really good time at both. Come with us on a new adventure This summer my family and I have decided to take some time out and do what we do best - go off in our camper van. We're heading to France and Spain to give the old girl a good outing, rack up a few miles, cook up some new food, try a few new camp sites and generally live the four wheeled life for a while. Our route will see us follow the Atlantic Coast, almost to the border with Portugal. I have been asking people on my Twitter page to tell us where to go, so if you have a few special places from trips to that part of the world, please let us know. We'll be blogging and taking pictures as we go so, if you want to follow our route and keep up with what we find along the way, keep your eyes peeled on my blog here. I have some books to give away for those with the very best suggestions. A little good news too No doubt you will know that I get involved in beach cleaning. Well, I'd just like to let you know that, together with my twitter friends, we managed to secure a small victory for the beach this year. Having noticed a lot of similar plastic containers on the beach near my house I got in touch with the company who made them to find out why they were there. As it turned out these things were appearing all over the place, from Jersey to Devon, after a container of 100,000 of them was lost at sea. It's a long story but the upshot of it is that the company donated £2000 to the Marine Conservation Society to help with clearing up beaches. This was as a direct result of Twitter pressure and pictures of the items sent in by people all over the country. That money will go towards paying for beach cleans in September. It's a great result and if you got involved, thanks. It shows that we can make a difference (even if it's just a little bit) if we want to!

JollyMooners - En France

We would like to thank Jolly and Aly so much for the amazing campervan which not only started off our wedding in style, but was the focal point for our French road trip honeymoon!

The Baron offers so much as a home as well as a classy form of transport with a huge amount of interest from onlookers! The bed was incredibly comfortable and spacious as was the driving section of the vehicle.  Having a set of hobs, sink and fridge offered us so much more than a typical camping trip would offer and will always seek Jolly for future camping trips both in the UK and Europe.

It doesn’t stop at the van either, both Jolly and Aly offered their support for any type of enquiries from assistance to general tips, not that we needed them with the great tour of the van initially and information pack in the glove compartment.

We would absolutely recommend JollyCampervans to anybody looking at booking a holiday with a difference or wishing to try out a VW before investing in their own – it really is the pinnacle to jolly camping in our book!

Dylan & Jo Taylor