Couple sees £50k of bookings with Camplify

When the pandemic hit, Jess and I asked ourselves how we wanted to spend the summer with our young son. I thought back to my own family holidays in Cornwall and we decided on a motorhome staycation, though we wanted to take it up a notch from a standard campervan holiday.

When researching motorhome rentals, we couldn’t find anything that fit our requirements. With a small child, we wanted to stay somewhere comfortable and our desire for ‘glamping’ perfectly complemented our need for a work project. So, we decided to buy our own motorhome. As we’ve both always had our own businesses, we approached this new venture from an entrepreneurial perspective with the idea that we could invest in a ‘Glamper Van’ and hire it out to like-minded people looking for a high-quality experience.

When researching how to hire out a campervan, we quickly found Camplify, and learning about how successful the platform had been for other people really gave us the confidence and perhaps justification to say, ‘we can do this’. We can purchase a luxurious vehicle because we can hire it out to families like us and to first-time glampers to offset the cost somewhat.

We didn’t set out to earn a lot of money from hiring out the motorhome, but we were so busy with reservations throughout the first lockdown, that we decided to invest in a second motorhome. Coming into the 2022 season, we already have a high number of bookings and there is still strong demand this year, which is reassuring.