Hey everyone!

Well summer's on its way out in Sydney but we're still cranking as people head up to the tropical north!  Here's a few stories/updates from around the country!

Girl Power! On Monday  the Spaceship 'Space Balls' was rented by a group of women from 3 generations of the same family.  Grandma, mum & 2 daughters!

Whale Watching cruises start 14^th May at Port Stephens. Visit our Port Stephens Space station at Melaleuca Backpackers for more info.

Classic Customer Comment; one of our customers was surprised to see that 2 record players come with all Spaceships.  These were actually our portable cookers.

Have fun out there in outer space!

Cheers,

The Space Cadets.

 - 21st April 2010

Spaceships Australia Update

Well it's been a busy few months for Spaceships Campervans Australia. The Christmas and New Year periods saw the most number of Spaceships on the road ever. We also welcomed quite a few new vehicles to our growing fleet (so we should be able to fill more of our agent requests...sorry guys if we've been full lately). The best names of the new vans - Philmaximus, Gus The Snail and Laika Virgin. The Spaceships name must be growing worldwide as we welcomed customers from Colombia, Thailand, Malta and Russia recently.

Speaking of Russia, I had an interesting conversation with a Russian traveller a few weeks back. He was checking out his vehicle with our friendly Sydney staff when he turned to me wanting to know about Kangaroos.

He asked me numerous times about being scared of Kangaroos and he didn’t want to hit one and damage the van. "How much we pay if we hit one Kangaroo" - I explained about insurance options etc and then I convinced him that it's a very rare occurrence and to not drive at night and so on to limit the possibility.

The guy then said - "If we hit a Kangaroo, can we eat it?" "Will this Kangaroo be poison? Because I like to eat Kangaroo!"

It's worth noting that our traveller is still on the road and so far (as far as we know) haven't had any close encounters of the Roo kind.

Anyone looking to be cool and hire a Spaceship in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane or Cairns please give us a call on 1300 132 469

Cheers,
Shrek

Space Update

Spaceships Australian campervans is in the middle of a long hot busy summer!.  We have been busy busy busy, building our fleet and renting them out to Space loving customers.  It's been all hands on deck across our depots which now include Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns, Melbourne and Adelaide.

We have added some new vans to our fleet with favourites being McFly, Shatner, DeLorean and Time Warp.  We did have a funny moment the other

day:-
2 frenchies (with limited English) came in looking for a van.  They asked us "Is this the only type of van that you have" while pointing to our display vehicle in the Sydney shop.  I explained that all our vehicles were pretty much identical to that one.  I ran through all the benefits of a Spaceship - Only van of it's size to carry 4, have 2 sleeping options, having the best fridge on the market etc etc.  Finally they stood there making hand gestures towards the van and the front door.  I was a little perplexed and asked if there was a problem.  The girl replied...we really like the van and the price but we are not sure if we can drive it out the front door!!......  I had to explain that this would not actually be the van that they took just a very similar one

We would also like to send out our love & thoughts to all those affected by the horrific fires throughout Victoria

Shrek

- 13th Feb 2009

Gin Wigmore

Last night I went and saw New Zealand’s new singing sensation ‘Gin Wigmore’ – not only does she have a hit single and a big record deal – she is an ‘Astronaut’ as she travelled in a Spaceship on her last Australian tour. I met her and our conversation went something like this:
‘Hi I’m Neil from Spaceships’.
‘Oh hi – wow I can’t believe how fast those things can go…’
Check out her tour diary listed under ‘Space Sponsorship’.

Our hybrid Spaceships in New Zealand are creating a bit of a stir – here’s a pic of it being filmed by TV3 this week. It was also great to hear from all the Straylians that saw Spaceships (just a normal one) on Getaway last Friday. It’s been a big week all round! Lots of cheers, Neil