Always something to look forward to and plenty to see. The Rally at Ellerslie Racecourse generously put on by Covi is always good too.

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I arrived early on the Thursday morning and not long after, one of the parking guys turned up to open the gate and let us in.

Friends of mine who I haven’t seen for a while Nolina and Walter, were there too so it was great to see them as well.

We were directed up onto a mound running alongside the track and parked in lines one behind the other. All very organised.

Within an hour or so there was about 50 or so Motorhomes all parked up and more arrived as the day wore on in the brilliant sunshine.  Later in the day, we were surprised by the arrival of old friends Liz and David who had been delayed and weren’t sure they’d be here. It was really nice to see them too.

Later in the day, we all caught up for the 4pm ritual of Happy Hour. As we were in a designated emergency road, we moved around the corner to join some new friends next door, a lot of fun and nice to meet some new people.

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The next day, I wandered down and caught the free bus into the Auckland Events centre where the show was on. What was noticeable was the huge amounts of Caravans from previous years, a lot more from Aussie too.

Talking to some of the vendors that were saying how quiet it was and I noticed that in the smaller than usual number of Motorhomes at Ellerslie as well. The plus side of this meant it was easy to get in and see what you wanted to see without huge queues which was good.

I checked in at UCC’s stand to chat to Rob who showed me their new 2026 Dethleffs Sunlight with a Luton Cab. At only 6 metres it fits in a supermarket carpark and at just under $160k, it is great value. Nice to see Rob again too.

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Popping into one of the bigger stands, Zion, I had a look at the new Chic S Plus Cathargo 4 berth Motorhomes. This baby is on a Iveco 3l motor and at 7.9 meters long, offers plenty of space.

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From here it was on to the NZMCA stand where I caught up with Ryan and the team and then onto see a huge Unimog based custom adventure Motorhome built by Chris’s team at ACM Motorhomes.

What a monster.. but a fun looking machine.

From here I had a look through some of the small accessory stalls where I ended up buying a set of nice ceramic pots from RV Mega.

It was a bold attempt to replace our mismatched collection of cast offs from our house which seem to spend every trip rattling in a drawer. It doesn’t matter what you do, they want to rattle 🙂
We’ll see how that works!

The Caravans were interesting. From the small Polish Enka, we started with some 13 years ago, they have come a long way with battery systems and using all the available spaces.

The Eriba is slightly bigger than the Enka we had but an interesting addition to the market.

I also had a nosey at the Swift Challenger before looking Jayco’s new 48volt, Projecta powered caravan. Nicely set up and an amazing new concept in powering a caravan.

There seems to be a move to smaller Caravans and Motorhomes and a big change to the use of technology on the road.

I headed back to the bus stop and caught up with my neighbours for a bit of debrief and something wet 🙂

Later in the day Fiona arrived, and we had another look in at the show to see if there was anything we missed! A fun few days.