Caravan chic is the new way to holiday
According to the 100-year-old club it has never received applications for membership at such a rate with 7,210 people signing up every month compared to the normal monthly average of 5,600 new members. Total members now stand at almost one million.
It's not just retired geography teachers taking their home on the open road either. According to the Guardian some of those new members could well be celebrities with Kate Moss, Jenson Button, Sean Penn, Nicole Richie, Jamie Oliver and Lenny Kravitz all espousing the joy of caravan vacations.
"Caravanning has become very fashionable," Nikki Nichol of the Caravan Club told the paper.
"Young couples who want to go surfing or travelling are trying it, as are families and retirees, and it's been made stylish by the revival of the VW Campervan and designer Airstream caravans, which were recently adapted for narrow European roads."
Underlining its popularity, new figures show that caravanning is now the most popular paid-for UK holiday, accounting for 17 per cent of all holidays taken in Britain.
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11.09.2006.