Hi
I had the same trouble, but had three things in my favour.
1. My wife was not in a position to complain about my Dormobile as it arrived on the drive about 12 hours after she gave birth to William and was still in hospital after very toubled delivery.
2. it was such a wreck that she never belived it would ever be finished and therefore would never have to go in her.
3. it was so bad, the previous owner gave it to me. I did have to pay £50 for the seats and cover some of the costs of getting it up here from Norfolk. Two very generous fellow enthusiasts went for her as I for some reason had to stay at home/hospital?
As for a main holiday instead of weekends away. A Dormobile allows you to have lots of weekends away and still have the main family holiday. We do use the Dormobile for our main holiday as well and Louise just loves the freedom she offers. Louise love hotels, but I used to spend 2 or 3 nights a week in hotels and think they are souless places. The have there uses when getting a culure fix in one of the worlds great cities, but when in the countryside, the camper is king.
As for only two weeks away, for the same money the Dormobile will give you a month away. We had 28 nights away on this special beach holiday. Info here
http://carawagon.blogspot.co.uk/
Before that we had 3 weeks in the Swiss alps.Trip report here.
http://www.dormobile.org.uk/phpbb/viewt ... f=34&t=721
Hope these images help.
Cheers Mick