With its luxury Italian kitchen, top-of-the range flat screen television and iPhone controlled heating system, it’s not your average caravan.But then, at £550,000, it doesn’t come with the average caravan price tag either.The luxury three-bedroomed static holiday home has become the most expensive caravan in the country after being sold to a millionaire couple last month.Nestled on the seafront in Abersoch, North Wales, the chalet has spectacular views over the Lleyn peninsular and even its own private decking and staircase to the beach below. The site is popular with the Cheshire set. They pay several thousand pounds in annual lease fees on top of gas and electricity bills. The site also has a gym, club house, tennis courts, restaurants and four swimming pools Nestled on the seafront in Abersoch, North Wales, the chalet has spectacular views over the Lleyn peninsular and even its own private decking and staircase to the beach below The anonymous owners, thought to be a
professional couple from Warrington, Cheshire, paid more than £500,000 - three times the average UK house price - to lease the holiday home for 20 years on the exclusive Warren holiday park.Known as the Anniversary Lodge because it was built to mark the 75th anniversary of park owners, Haulfryn Holiday Homes, the fully-furnished property has the look of a footballer’s modern, luxury pad, rather than a cramped, shabby caravan.It comes complete with furniture designed in Milan, Italy, an integrated sound and television system and underfloor heating, which can all be controlled from the owner’s iPhone, even if they are hundreds of miles away.The master bedroom has fitted wardrobes, silk sheets and an en suite spa shower and toilet, while the marble-tiled bathroom comes complete with jacuzzi bath.The caravan also has reflective double glazing - designed to keep the heat out in summer, but in during cold winter months - and bi-fold doors which open the front of the property out entirely, giving unhindered views of the picturesque coastline.
The marble-tiled bathroom comes complete with Jacuzzi bath while the master bedroom has fitted wardrobes, silk sheets and en suite spa shower The caravan is heated using a eco-friendly system, which pumps air out from the lodge and warms it using a chemical, before pumping it back inside to heat the water and under floor heating throughout It is heated using a eco-friendly system, which pumps air from the lodge and warms it using a chemical, before pumping it back inside to heat the water and under floor heating throughout.Despite all the extravagant extras, the lodge is still technically classed as a caravan because it is on a chassis and has wheels.The Warren, which has around 700 holiday homes, is popular with the millionaire Cheshire set who privately own many of the static caravans on the site. They pay several thousand pounds in annual lease fees to Haulfryn, on top of gas and electricity bills. The site also has a gym, club house, tennis courts, restaurants and four swimming pools.
Jim Gandon, director of sales and marketing at Haulfryn Holiday Homes, said: 'We don’t shy away from the fact it’s still essentially a static caravan.'That’s the heritage of the holiday park. The great British holiday has evolved and we should embrace that. 'Nothing quite like this has ever been sold before.'The trend for ‘staycations’ has soared in Britain as families shun going abroad in favour of home comforts on their doorstep, driven partly by the economic downturn and collapse in the value of the pound abroad.Last year Manchester United footballer, Rio Ferdinand, 31, shocked fans when he decided against jetting off to the Caribbean or Dubai for his annual break and booked his wife and two young sons into a caravan park in Prestatyn, North Wales.The Ferdinands hired a £400-per-week “prestige” caravan, which was larger than normal and came with extras like a microwave and DVD player. Other famous names who have stayed on caravan parks recently include television presenter Les Dennis, actor Robert Lindsay and Jade Goody’s ex Jeff Brazier.Councillor Wyn Williams said while house prices had fallen in Abersoch, along with everywhere else in the country, this latest sale proved prices were recovering.'Abersoch is a very popular place and the Warren is one of the sites which is recognised for its quality
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