[clg]

If you had a significant amount of space available in a container coming from Europe what sorts of things would you fill it with? Also, does anyone know what caravan prices are like in Holland and where you might be able to pick up a cheap one that you could stuff in a container?

[YouMeAndThree]

If you had a significant amount of space available in a container coming from Europe what sorts of things would you fill it with? Also, does anyone know what caravan prices are like in Holland and where you might be able to pick up a cheap one that you could stuff in a container?


It depends on whether or not money is no problem and whether you have children or not.

Shoes - children's in all range of sizes.
Books
Ikea furniture :D
Bisto powder - the powder here is not the same :no
Children's colouring books - I've struggled to find decent ones for a decent price.
Curtains
Paint - but that comes with a risk of spillage!!!!! (think you can only bring emulsion based paint though) Paint is expensive here.

As for a caravan - anything newer than 1970's is going to be a bonus. I can't believe the prices of caravans here. We saw a '77 van with no wash facilities and only foot pumped water, cost was $12K :eek: - you wouldn't have been able to give it away as a chicken coop in the UK. We are actually in the process of shipping our caravan over from the UK. Fingers crossed it's going on a ship this weekend - it's been waiting all wrapped up on the dock for a week now.

[victoria24]

duty free fags :D

[James 1077]

Pampers nappies!

[victoria24]

dream topping!

[YouMeAndThree]

OH has just informed me that there was a massive caravan sales place in Winterswijk. He says you couldn't miss the showroom as it's so big in such a little town. Prices of vans use to be much cheaper than in the UK, but he doesn't know how the change over to the Euro affected the sales prices.

HTH

[Moorf]

Italy

[clg]

We brought over a kids supply of pampers when we moved here. We had extras and sold them on trademe. Did rather well!

My mother is the one moving (probably) and will have some extra space so...

youmeandthree, are they shipping your caravan inside of a container or is it coming over separately? Was there much difficulty in getting it over? I was hoping it would not involve much more than shoving it in the container and getting the WOF and electrical work sorted out once it arrives here.

[bobo]

A large woman with big thighs

[Arwen]

:laugh:laugh

Seen quite a few women like that here Bobo:exit, why import one????:D

[YouMeAndThree]

A large woman with big thighs

Oh, Oh, That's Me, That's Me!!!! :D:laugh

[YouMeAndThree]

youmeandthree, are they shipping your caravan inside of a container or is it coming over separately? Was there much difficulty in getting it over? I was hoping it would not involve much more than shoving it in the container and getting the WOF and electrical work sorted out once it arrives here.

Our household container arrived with us quite a few months ago now, so the caravan is coming over as a separate shipment. We have chosen to go with a company who ships a huge number of caravans and it's their speciality so to speak. We spoke with Bailey caravans in the UK (makers of our van) and they said they used this company, and so does Barrons here in NZ :nice1. It will be coming in a container rather than ro-ro. I believe it's actually packed up with a Merc. We have arranged for some personal items to be shipped inside (colouring books, ikea furniture and a few bottle of Ringwood Old Thumper beer!!!! :D) along with the caravan personal effects. All items have to be itemised.

I have no idea yet if there will be any difficulties - as I've said, it's still dockside in the UK. Despite coming from near Southamton we had the caravan taken to Basildon for 'boxing' up as we were told they take far more care - then it was taken back to Southampton docks in it's container. My parents were a little miffed at the apparent waste of their round trip to Basildon ;)

BTW our caravan is around 8 metres long :exit

[Gnomon]

I just loaded my container 4 days ago and I bought a eurocave wine cellar unit (230 bottles) as I could not find anything similar on the web in NZ. That was the only thing I specifically bought to bring with me.

Dave

[clg]

Our household container arrived with us quite a few months ago now, so the caravan is coming over as a separate shipment. We have chosen to go with a company who ships a huge number of caravans and it's their speciality so to speak. We spoke with Bailey caravans in the UK (makers of our van) and they said they used this company, and so does Barrons here in NZ :nice1. It will be coming in a container rather than ro-ro.


I have been looking at prices and they cost about 1/3 the price they go for in NZ. I'll have to check with the shippers if things progress further to see if they can just stick it in the container or there is more work involved then that.

There is not much else that really jumps out at me to bring over really but we are fairly well set up. When we first got married we bought some things from Ikea and have never had good luck with them so I can quite happily say we don't miss them! You can get some fairly good deals on furniture here if you do some looking. Prices on most things here don't bother me too much anymore but boy are caravans cheaper overseas!

[miep]

I have no idea what caravan prices are like in Holland as I'm not nor ever will be a caravanner:D but if you have a look at www.marktplaats.nl (Dutch version of TradeMe) that should give you a good indication.
It's in Dutch of course but just choose "Caravans en kamperen" in the left sidebar and you get thousands listed by brand, 760 Knaus ones when I looked just now.

Once you've succeeded in stuffing Italy into your container could you also add an entire French or Italian Supermarket please? And water based paint and Ikea furniture, just sell it here if you don't want it!
And then some real european bread, cheese and wine with some Dutch liquorice to finish off:cheers

[Ngeru]

Depends if you are meaning things for yourself for the future or things you could bring as an 'alternative' income for selling on Trademe. If I had my time again I would fill a container with items from the sales and flog them over here. :laugh. M&S underwear, kids and women's clothes, second hand books, absolutely anything from Ikea all sell well.

Stock up on all your favourite clothing brands, shoes, soft furnishing, bakeware, decent 'lifetime guaranteed' pots and pans and cookbooks (cost a packet here and you'll need them) along with anything that will keep you warm.

Whatever you bring won't be wasted, if you don't end up using it yourself you can always sell it - or better still, sell it when you have no further need of the item.

[petri]

I just loaded my container 4 days ago and I bought a eurocave wine cellar unit (230 bottles) as I could not find anything similar on the web in NZ. That was the only thing I specifically bought to bring with me.

We are hoping to make a move in a year or two and we have two full-size wine cabinets, one in the basement for storage and another multi-temperature one for daily use.

Do people bring their wine in the container? a few hundred bottles.. we like the NZ&AUS wine so we wouldn't stop drinking but it would be nice to bring at least something we've bought over the years to our enjoyment.

[sophiedb]

a few bottle of Ringwood Old Thumper beer!!!! :D

Like that style :) *nomnomnom*

[Gnomon]

We are hoping to make a move in a year or two and we have two full-size wine cabinets, one in the basement for storage and another multi-temperature one for daily use.

Do people bring their wine in the container? a few hundred bottles.. we like the NZ&AUS wine so we wouldn't stop drinking but it would be nice to bring at least something we've bought over the years to our enjoyment.

I'm sure you will have to pay duty on your wine importing which might amount to some chunk of change. On my last NZ trip I took back with me 8 cases and had to pay Irish duty, €2.50 on each bottle, mind you it still work out quite competitive. I knew I was moving for some time and stopped buying and just concentrated on consumption. My plan is that we will rent for a while then when when get our own house, to have a walk in cellar with conditioning unit, a Eurocave 50qm conditioning unit costs similar to a single stand up unit. My house here has a built in cellar in the basement of a 200 year old Georgian house so conditions have been a little damp but I'm really looking forward to building up modern cellar again!

Answer to your question, yes you sure can bring your cellar with you at a cost and having to wait a while for the wine to settle after the journey.

Dave

[IanW99]

I'm sure you will have to pay duty on your wine importing which might amount to some chunk of change.
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If you are bringing in a wine collection as part of your household effects into NZ then you do not have to pay duty on it.

It should be a mixed range of wines collected over time with proof of when they were purchased, otherwise they may think that you are importing them for sale - in which case there will be duty to pay.

Best suggestion is to contact customs to check what requirements they have.

Ian

[bobo]

I'm sure you will have to pay duty on your wine importing which might amount to some chunk of change. On my last NZ trip I took back with me 8 cases and had to pay Irish duty, €2.50 on each bottle,

Not so sure about that, others who have do it will answer for sure. Bringing stuff into the country as part of your immigration is treated differently than normal imports. The large quantities may well raise issues, but I brought a few bottles of whisky in with no customs issues at all.

[wes0074q]

Hi, we arrived in Christchurch around 2 years ago. With hindsight the things I would have brought out are - a spare front loading washing machine - much cheaper in the UK; and believe it or not some ice scrapers for the car. So far I've been unable to get anything like the ones that Halfords sell for a couple of pounds each. The Kiwis seem to just pour hot water over their windscreens (asking for trouble!). I went back to the UK a couple of weeks ago and picked up a handful from Halfords (which raised a smile as it was during their freak heat wave)- a real God send this morning!