Van Life Parking UK // FREE city and wild parking, using Park4Night and Google

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Right lads, let's talk van life parking in the UK! Parking your van overnight for free can be super sketch, unless you know what you're doing. Avoid the dreaded knock by following my simple guide to finding the best FREE city and wild parking spots!
** Always take your rubbish home and be considerate of your surroundings. These wonderful spots are only available to us while we respect them!
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Thank you so much for watching, you're super appreciated ✨
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/ kirstcheen
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Пікірлер: 34

@KirstCheen 3 жыл бұрын

What are your top tips for finding free parking? ⬇️

@Aco747lyte 2 жыл бұрын

1. Park where you're not noticed, essentially park *safe*; 2. Get out early; 3. *Never* park in the same place twice. There are many, many more tips, so google them. In my lingo it's known as Stealth Parking. Take care, both of you! 💕 💕 💕

@George-kv9oq Жыл бұрын

@@Aco747lyte why can not twice at the same place?Can you tell me?

@robertsaville 8 ай бұрын

Nice and simple tips and advice. Ta muchly 😊

@KirstCheen 7 ай бұрын

Super glad it's helpful to you!!

@ElisaLlera 3 жыл бұрын

hehe love the little caterpillar rescue-we have a no smoosh policy in our van too 😘 also, great tips. we follow several of these in Spain too!

@KirstCheen 3 жыл бұрын

Haha gotta look out for the bugs! Awesome, we'd love to explore Spain in our van 😍

@iosvanissuarez 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely video and fun to watch. Thank you for the tips I am doing my first Camper trip in England this helped a lot!

@KirstCheen 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, hope you have a great time!! 😀

@davidsimons5944 2 жыл бұрын

Carrying your own wheel clamp around can sometimes work!

@KirstCheen 2 жыл бұрын

That's a good tip for security! I might need to invest in one 👌

@LostNative 2 жыл бұрын

This was useful, we built our vans at the same time but in my case mine got hit when stationary and written off. 🙄 So I'm re- starting vanlife this spring in the Uk. It's lovely to meet another female vanlifer in the Uk. 👍🏼

@KirstCheen 2 жыл бұрын

Aw no way, I'm so sorry to hear that! Poor van 💔 great that you're getting back at it though 😍

@OTWD_yt 3 жыл бұрын

Great tips thanks 😊

@KirstCheen 3 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome! Glad you enjoyed it 😃

@aberdeendeltaforce 3 жыл бұрын

Are you from Aberdeen? As an aberdonian myself I recognise the accent, been in England for the last 12 years, mainly London, moved into my self build crafter conversion about a year ago, England is a total nightmare for parking, I love coming back to Scotland for the beautiful spots you can park in without any grief. Please do not put any of your spots on P4N as councils monitor this app and quickly put an end to your park up. I never use apps, I use google maps and street view, when I find a great spot I save it and in a year and a half I have quite the database of amazing spots. Also if you see a farmer go and ask him if it’s ok to park up on there land, they are extremely wary of pikeys parking up but if you introduce yourself be polite and respectful 9 time of ten they will accommodate your request free of charge and tell you where to park, I even had a farmer go all the back to his house to get his keys so he could open a gate for me. You can also offer site protection for exchange of a park up, farmers have a lot of expensive machinery, they are more than happy to have you stay as a presence against theft near the machinery. Thanks for the vid. Subbed.

@KirstCheen 3 жыл бұрын

Good ear! I'm from Arbroath 😁 some great tips there, I didn't know councils monitor p4n!

@aberdeendeltaforce 3 жыл бұрын

@@KirstCheen Yeah, Almost everything we do is recorded somewhere, Councils aren’t your pal, Van life allows me to take back a little control over that, For two weeks every three months I leave my phone and digital devices in my storage Lockup, I take enough cash for emergencies. Stock my van with food and water, Put a set of Cloned plates on the van to avoid parking tickets and detection and only drive on B roads. I can disappear completely off grid. Somewhere Completely alone where I can rebuild my sanity and synchronise back into normality. This is mad times where nothing is normal and pressures are immense but after my two weeks I feel reborn.

@davidtanslow3584 2 жыл бұрын

@@aberdeendeltaforce Since the 1970s council's have been encouraged by the Tories to make money by charging for parking, whether its hospitals or train stations or residential streets, they're encouraged to apply money making rackets. Walmart Asda used to allow overnight parking but are in the process of stopping the practice due to the bullying by commercial parking companies who offer free parking supervision in return for control of their car parks for profit. It's a desease which has swept the nation and encouraged by corrupt government. Excellent idea to cover up your number plate though.

@aberdeendeltaforce 2 жыл бұрын

@@davidtanslow3584 I agree 100%, what most people don’t realise though is that they rely almost 100% on cameras to do the dirty work, I mean how often do you see police on B roads randomly stopping cars and checking plates….never, they simply do not have the bodies to police it so covering your plates is a practice almost impossible to get caught doing as long as you only do it in car parks with automatic number plate recognition cameras. You will need cloned plates to fool an actual person but your talking jail time in the unlikely event your caught doing it.

@pamph96 3 жыл бұрын

you didn't even mention that we found hot showers for free that one time with park4night!

@KirstCheen 3 жыл бұрын

Good point! Best app ever 😍

@_D1886 10 ай бұрын

My parents live in Scotland, and their community gets tons of tourists in vans over the summer. Park4Night has become a curse for their town and community. Every night people are plotting up in their vans in lay-bys, car parks, forest spots, even people lanes, driveways and gates. Then each morning, my parents and others in their village are having to go out to clean up discarded trash, fire pits, BBQs, even human waste and used condoms. It's so gross. And then the next day they have to do it all over again. They hate it when spots in their village get published on Park4Night, it's ruining their community. They wish that app never got created.

@George-kv9oq Жыл бұрын

Hi,I will tell the world, here are your beautiful van life

@dorianavian-nb5km Жыл бұрын

You're so cute 😊

@mysurlytrucker7510 2 жыл бұрын

Park 4 night, we have lochs in Scotland not lake's, not locks they are found in doors and canals, come on this is not difficult no one is asking you to perform open heart surgery, I don't go to the lake district calling it the lick district, there's people even spelling it lock in the app it's only four letters .

@bigaldo8187 2 жыл бұрын

Kind of ironic that you're crticising people's spelling, then you spell 'heart' incorrectly...

@mysurlytrucker7510 2 жыл бұрын

@@bigaldo8187 I read it out to my phone, but hardly the point, it's really that people make no effort to even try to say it correctly. But thank you for pointing it out technology a.

@not_ever 2 жыл бұрын

@@mysurlytrucker7510 I see. So you can make mistakes and not proof read correctly but everyone else must be held to a higher standard.

@mysurlytrucker7510 2 жыл бұрын

@@not_ever it's not so difficult really is it something happening constantly is not the same as one mistake anyway.

@joshpan_ Жыл бұрын

I really don't understand why people put things online like this. Are you really that desperate for views that your going to publicise parking spots when we all know technically we shouldn't be parked, your not helping anyone your just temporarily helping people until everywhere on that app is banned and parking fines are in place. What happened to finding places yourself. But no everyone wants things now and easy these days so there's no hidden gems to find yourself just bs online rated places. 5 stars man!!!!!!!!!