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Caravan Owners are not checking their holiday insurance documents to see if they are covered by the disruption caused by volcano eruptions. This Easter saw the elevation of caravan holidays to the status of “most convenient”.

What a great feeling it was, pulling my caravan home beneath planeless skies not even having to think about whether my insurance covered far-off eruptions. As a breed, it feels like caravan lovers all over the UK have been vindicated. Next time someone comments that caravan pulling cars are slow and getting in the way, remind them that during the Easter 2010 debacle, we could get from almost anywhere in Europe, to almost anywhere else in Europe faster than the average plane.

As well as that, most anti-caravan type people often refer to caravans as being tight and claustrophobic, but even the smallest of caravans would have seemed thankfully open and spacious compared to a spot on an airport floor or a single seat on a coach.

This is all, of course irrelevant within the caravan community; we like our holidays and you like yours. How tedious would the world be if we all liked the same things? However the reason for the somewhat smug nature of this article is that those who are not into caravanning often tend to poke fun at our choice of holiday, while we rarely, if ever, do the same to them.

So… given that we didn’t have quite the same concerns this Easter that many other holiday makers had, what were we thinking about? I’d like to hear some good stories. I wasn’t thinking about whether my insurance covered me for all those untold additional costs that the plane brigade were worried about, but I did have some additional costs to think about. And they were costs that I couldn’t insure against too.

I took the latest edition of Caravan Magazine with me on my travels because we are thinking of buying a new caravan soon and we had planned to read all about the cost of our next purchase, but ended up reading their insurance survey. It seems after reading this survey that because I couldn’t be bothered to buy my insurance through a broker, I overpaid for it by quite a lot. If you are looking to get cheap caravan insurance it would be well worth shopping around because there were loads of comparisons in Caravan Magazine and I was quite surprised by some of the results.

If you are looking for caravan insurance, but want to make sure you get the best deal, you should arrange it through Coversure. They are an insurance broker with excellent relationships with providers and can always secure a fantastic deal on touring caravan insurance or static caravan insurance.