Spending as many hours as I do on the motorway and dual-carriageway network, I see a lot of the big coaches around, the National Express, Megabus and Falcon Coaches especially, and I’ve often thought about converting one as a touring mobile home, with the possibility of having an on-board garage with a small car, motorbike and mountain bike in.
Getting a car in might be doable if it’s like an Ariel Atom, or you’re going for a full double-decker, but the normal size coaches would just be good for storage in the lower bays, with the top deck as accommodation.
As has been pointed out, it’s parking the sodding thing! It’s certainly not going to be possible to just pitch up at the small holiday destination of your choice with a thing that size, there just wouldn’t be anywhere that could take it.
And I’d hate to try to get the thing down a South Devon lane, even the A-roads around Dartmouth and Kingsbridge are a nightmare with a regular size saloon…
Fine if you’ve got millions to spend and can find places to park where cost isn’t an issue, but horribly impractical under normal circumstances.
Better to spend the money on a Unimog with an expedition back on it.
Just looked at that used coaches site, the sort of thing I see, like the Van Hool coaches, are astronomical!
2013 one here, for nearly £200,000!
http://www.usedcoachsales.co.uk/Vehicles/View/5377
‘Gulp’ You could buy a house for that!
In fact, that’s about what my house is worth.