Why motorhomes with garages are perfect for adventures
Bailey’s most recent addition to our motorhome line-up, the Adamo range, is purpose-built to be the perfect companion to any adventure. The range offers three flexible layouts that up to 4 people can travel in, and an externally accessible garage storage area so you can take all your adventure equipment along with you.
This is also the first Bailey motorhome range with an automatic gearbox and includes cruise control, automatic headlights and rain sensing windscreen wipers.
Here are the top five reasons why an Adamo motorhome with garage storage is the perfect choice for your adventure getaways.
Why choose a motorhome with garage storage?
The Bailey Adamo range of motorhomes all come with a garage. The garage is a large, externally accessible storage locker perfect for keeping all larger items you don’t want to store inside and means any muddy or wet outdoors items don’t spoil the interior of your motorhome. The size of the garage depends on the model.
Use the links below to jump to sections in this article that explain several different reasons why a motorhome with a garage can enhance your holiday experience.
1. Indulge in outdoor hobbies with a bit of luxury
A motorhome with garage storage is perfect for those who enjoy outdoor hobbies like hiking, cycling or watersports.
All the models in the Adamo range have an externally accessible garage space that includes floor mounted lashing rings to secure your kit, heating to help everything get dry after a day out, plus 12v and 230v power outlets.
The 69-4 and 75-4I models also include hanging rails to allow you to hang up damp clothing and wetsuits so they can dry off either on site or in transit.
With an onboard kitchen, washroom and warm bed waiting inside at the end of a day exploring, you can look forward to a good night’s sleep and leisurely breakfast in bed the next morning. Then if you are planning to, you can travel with all your kit in your self-contained vehicle to your next location and do it all again!
Our motorhome ambassador Andy Torbet has written a blog post on using a motorhome as a mobile adventure base
2. Easily take the bikes away
The Adamo 69-4 in particular is great for transporting your bikes as it has the largest garage in the range. This model also allows you to access the garage from the inside of the motorhome, through a sliding door in the bathroom – handy if you want to remove things stored in your panniers or other bags once the bike has been loaded onto the motorhome.
As the shower is right next to the sliding door, you can also pull through any muddy shoes or kit you might want to wash off in the bathroom, before returning them to the garage to dry off in this heated space.
There are many great places to cycle in the UK – our motorhome ambassador Marcus Leach has written a blog post on his favourite cycling locations in the UK which are perfect for travelling between with a motorhome.
3. Upgrade your beach experience
While a beach break comes with many upsides – the relaxation, beautiful scenery and fantastic food, there is also plenty of kit that might need to come along with you – especially if you have children.
With the Adamo, families, surfers and other beachgoers alike can carry all the essentials that they might need in the garage of their motorhome. Buckets and spades, paddleboards, surfboards, windbreaks, wetsuits, life jackets… the list of kit can be endless, but you can store it all in the Adamo’s rear garage.
As the garage is also accessible from the outside, you can prevent sand and seawater from entering the inside of your motorhome and making a mess. And when you’re finished for the day, you can use the onboard washroom and shower to clean up before having a hot drink and a bite to eat using your motorhome kitchen. It’s certainly an upgrade from drinking a flask of coffee while wrapped in a beach towel in the back of the car!
Your four legged friend can even make use of the garage. There’s an external dog lashing point just outside the garage so you can keep your dog safe close to the motorhome, and they can even relax in the garage space if they want to spend some time under cover.
If you’re looking for new beach holiday inspiration, you can find a blog posts in our News and Events section from Finding Our Adventure who wrote about their top 5 beaches in Cornwall and how they explored the Welsh Coast one beach at a time in an Autograph 69-2 back in the summer and autumn of 2020.
4. More entertainment for the whole family
Motorhome holidays are ever popular with families with young children because campsites offer them a chance to play safely and get in touch with nature. However, one of the issues can be the kids always wanting that ‘one extra’ toy that couldn’t quite fit in the vehicle and had to be left at home.
A motorhome with garage storage helps address this issue with plenty of space to fit extra toys and bulkier items like scooters, bicycles and paddleboards. The possibilities for outdoor entertainment is nearly endless, as will be the number of hours your kids are kept occupied.
And the Adamo range doesn’t stop at the garage storage when it comes to entertainment options – inside the motorhome there is also a multi-directional and multi-angled slide out TV bracket that allows you to mount a TV for evening entertainment. So when all the toys are secured away in the garage overnight, you can curl up and watch family movies with some popcorn, before following up with a bedtime story.
5. Adventures you’ve never thought of
Perhaps the best thing about a motorhome with a rear garage is the number of possibilities it opens you up to. Inflatable kayaks, skis, bows and arrows for archery and many more items can all be stowed in the external locker, and all can be used within easy reach of campsites across the UK. Perhaps the best thing about having a garage is the access to new hobbies you haven’t even thought of yet.
You can get more motorhome holiday inspiration from Chrissie Wellington OBE who travelled around Scotland for three weeks in a Bailey motorhome with her husband Tom and daughter Esme. Combining trips to see friends with a trip up Ben Nevis and a BBQ on the shores of Lake Lomond shows just how versatile a motorhome holiday can be.
View the range of Adamo 4 berth motorhomes with garages.
Writer profile: Bailey of Bristol
The Bailey story started back in 1948 when Martin Bailey designed and built the first Bailey caravan in his South Bristol garage. His caravans soon captured the nation’s adventurous spirit, and Bailey grew into the thriving, family-run business it still is today. Now the UK’s favourite leisure vehicle manufacturer, you can view our caravan range here and our motorhome range here.
