Who's up for a camping meet in the Spring? Lots of other owners group do it so why not have one for us Hiace folks?

I'm just trying to gauge interest at the moment as I'm sure there must be enough Hiace based campers to make this worthwhile.

Everyone interested in camping with their Hiace whether campervan, caravan or tent is of course welcome.

Here's my basic idea
Let's keep this frist meet reasonably informal. As I'm quite central I thought I'd see if I can find somewhere suitable for us to meet and socialise and with as little cost as possible and hopefully throw a few local places of interest for good measure. I used to be in a completely unrelated group and I was always impressed at the places the group managed to camp on at very little cost.
My intial thought was to find a nice country pub with a handy space we can get permission to camp over on. I'm hoping this will provide us with basic facilities and a nice warm place to meet during the evenings. Or maybe a basic camp site near to somewhere we can gather in the evenings.

I don't have any date forecast yet other than to suggest maybe after Easter. I know it's cold and damp and dark now but the prospect of Sping is something to look forward to.

I'm not thinking of anything too structured at the moment like BBQ's and stuff as these need volunteers to organise them and I know they might not be to everyone's taste (sorry for the pun). I'm open to suggestions and offers of organisational help but the main idea is to share our joy of owning our Hiace's

Even if we only get half a dozen of us together it's a start so please have a think about it and show your interest on this thread.

UPDATE I've started a list of those interested just so I can keep track

Fasteddie (Me)
Admin
Clive
Entwistlea
Chrisandhiace
Timbo
Jimsmim
anthonyJ
Yamman

Sounds like a great idea... I would be interested.

I too would be interested but am with the Bongos over Easter.

I'm running a meet at Brean on 14th May, had 3 Hiace at the last one.

Everyone welcome.

sounds good

Hope you'll be posting info about your May meet in the forums Clive?

Clive wrote:

I too would be interested but am with the Bongos over Easter. I'm running a meet at Brean on 14th May, had 3 Hiace at the last one. Everyone welcome.

Thanks for your interest so far folks. I'm really pleased at this early response.

It would be really nice to see a few more people generally interested as I'd really like this event to happen. Looks like I'd better start to make some enquiries of places to stay.

Not much of a camper, but may be interested if it falls on a weekend off and its north of Brum.....

ahh come on, it could be fun :-) I'm no camper either and the other half will kill me, but what the hell :-)

Sounds like it could be fun ...... i'm up for it - dates permitting etc.........

I'm pleased to see interest growing. Keep it coming folks!

In answer to your question Jimsmim I'm thinking about keeping it as central as possible for a few reasons not least of which is trying to be within reach of as many people as possible. I can take a ride out and view any possible sites before making a decision. I’m hoping to be able to use my own local knowledge to direct people who want to make an excursion to local towns and attractions.

I appreciate that it's a long trek for you and many others Jimsmim but I'm hoping that others will take this lead and perhaps organise a meet in their region too?

I'm very pleased with the interest shown so far and I'll be doing some reccy's in a couple of weeks and reporting back. I've found quite a few pubs with camping and I really need to view before we book as I want to make sure that there are sufficient facilities for everyone. Some of the pubs I've looked at so far don't offer loos outside opening hours and some offer 24hr access and showers. So far my reckoning is that the many will be pitching tents next to their Hiaces so I want to ensure all of life's basic needs are catered for.

Central sounds good.........

Just thought I'd bump this and see if we can gather a bit more interest.

I'm gathering info on suitable locations and will be visiting them over the next couple of weeks to check out the facilities.

So come on Hiacers and join us at a meet up and put faces to names and see eachothers vans and chat Hiace til your heart's content.

Count me in especially if there is a pub attached!

Definitely will do Anthony

I've started a list of those interested in the first posting of this thread