Tayport Links Caravan Park is open for almost the whole year closing down on January 12th and reopening on March 1st, although please note you can now hire from us year round.
Tayport Links Caravan Park has a 24 hour laundry and lots of peace and quiet! The majority of our caravan owners come to our holiday park in Scotland because of our location and also the tranquillity of the site. For our younger visitors, we are very lucky to be surrounded by over 15 acres of community parkland with a great childrens playpark and a nature pond. Our proximity to both Dundee and St Andrews is also a great asset. On site, we offer a lovely relaxing environment with beautiful gardens and over 200 trees and shrubs. A lot of work but it looks wonderful!
Tayport Links Caravan Park strictly forbids the private renting out of owner’s caravans. We pride ourselves on the peace and quiet of our Scottish holiday park and this would be jeopardised if we allowed the renting of caravans.
Absolutely, as long as they are made aware of the more important rules of the caravan park – the main ones being only 1 car allowed to be parked at each caravan (extra cars can be parked in the car park) and no noise after 10pm please! – then friends and family are welcome to use your caravan.
Dogs are welcome at our caravan park in Scotland as long as they obey the obvious rules! In fact many of our caravan owners have dogs and there are many wonderful places to walk adjacent to the caravan park. We have three luxury caravans available for hire that we accept dogs in.
Tayport Links Caravan Park often has current, or soon to be, vacant pitches, so if you like the look of our Scottish holiday park and have a caravan in mind that you’d like to buy, let us know as chances are we’ll be able to get one for you.
In theory, yes you can. However, generally, to operate as a business, caravan parks in Scotland need to make money on a vacant pitch. That being the case, it would cost a considerable sum of money (more than £18,000) to bring your own caravan onto the site. It is occasionally an option though so please contact us on this if you’d like more information. There may also be an option of trading your caravan in if you decide you want to buy one of ours.
Yes, the caravan park provides wi-fi to all our customers. We recently made a significant investment in a new wi-fi system which gives a reasonably consistent and reliable service to all of our caravans. There is a charge for this service available on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly tariff. (£70 annual for browsing, £99 for streaming.)
Yes, many of our customers have their own satellite dishes or Freeview. The caravan park has a local helpful TV man who sorts out most of our caravans with aerials etc.
The cost of buying a caravan at Tayport Links Caravan Park includes VAT, siting, connection to electric, gas, water and waste and timber boxing around it. This boxing in helps both the look of the caravan and also makes it considerably warmer as the wind can’t blow underneath it.
The Annual Outlays for 2023 are as follows:
It is a legal requirement that all caravans at Tayport Links Caravan Park are insured. We act as Appointed Representatives for Leisuredays and have a group discount scheme with them. A £50,000 caravan with balcony would cost £240 to fully insure.
No, the way to look at it is that buying a caravan is more like buying a car than buying a house and it will only decrease in value.
Unfortunately as Tayport Links Caravan Park is a small independent business, the caravan park does not offer finance packages to assist with purchasing a caravan. What we can do is accept a significant non-refundable deposit of a few thousand pounds. This ‘holds’ the caravan for a purchaser for up to a couple of months until they are able to arrange their finances.
Tayport Links Caravan Park does not currently have a scheme allowing people to pay in this way. We ask that the management fees be paid in full by March 1st when the caravan site opens. Rates are due by 1st May.
Every Scottish caravan park has the operational expenses attributed to ‘rates’ such as business rates, water charges, sewage costs, bin collections etc. Many caravan parks in Scotland choose to claim back these costs by incorporating the amount in the management fees. Tayport Links Caravan Park prefers to separate them out so people have an idea of where their money is going and it also enables people to spread the payment of their annual costs.
Tayport Links Caravan Park has a large LPG gas tank on site with piped gas directly to every caravan. This is cheaper, less unsightly and more convenient than bottles. Each caravan has it’s own individual gas meter which is read and billed for 3 times a year by the holiday park. As of June 2023 the price per cubic metre(unit) is £4.37 (ex VAT at 5%).
Tayport Links Caravan Park electricity comes off the national grid with one of the main providers and the caravan park then passes this on to you at the same price. Each caravan has it’s own individual electricity meter which is read and billed for 3 times a year by the caravan site. As of June 2023 the price is £0.563 (ex VAT at 5%) per unit.
This is a very difficult question to answer accurately as there are so many variables including the amount of time people spend in their caravan and what their attitude to gas and electric is.This has been made more difficult to estimate following recent rises in the price of these utilities.
A few years ago our governing body, the BH & HPA (the British Home and Holiday Parks Association) sat down with the OFT (Office of Fair Trading) and produced a standard agreement to be used by caravan parks relating to the sale of caravans. This agreement, which we use, is specifically designed to protect the customer and ensure transparency in the transaction offering any purchaser peace of mind. This has been updated by the BH&HPA in 2020.
We call this the length of TENURE you have at Tayport Links Caravan Park. Generally if you buy a new caravan from us, you are entitled to keep it here for 15 years. For a pre-owned caravan, the tenure is 10 years. Longer tenures may be possible, please ask for further details. The documentation provided on the purchase of a caravan details these dates quite clearly.
Essentially you have 3 options:
Depending on a number of factors including the condition of your caravan and what else we have for sale at the time, we may make you an offer for your caravan. If we do not think we can resell it at Tayport Links Caravan Park we will try and find an ‘offsite’ buyer for it. Alternatively you may be able to look at a private sale.
If you accept an offer from Tayport Links Caravan Park to buy your caravan, you are then free of any obligation relating to the caravan and can cancel the insurance. In effect this is a ‘clean break’.
A caravan owner who no longer wishes to keep their caravan on at Tayport Links Caravan Park is entitled to try and sell it privately. The benefits of this to the owner are that they can still use their caravan in the meantime and usually achieve a higher price for the caravan. Tayport Links Caravan Park adhere to the industry standard rules in this regard which are:
With a wide-ranging variety of activities and attractions nearby,from golf to shopping, Tayport Links Caravan Park has it all.
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