Testimonials
2011 Testimonials
The 2011 Motoscape Rally was (in our opinion) the best one yet! See what the teams thought about it below with our 2011 testimonials below:
Team: Gutbusters
"Amazing fun, a must do for any one. The last week has been mint, a real experience. Not only the driving, meeting new people but I found the challenges made you more cultured. A real good way of getting you off the main roads and seeing some local sights. If I could I would have spent longer on the Stelvio Pass. What an experience!!!
On the whole a great route across Europe. Not to be missed by any one who has the chance to see it. I have no complaints whatsoever and I’m fairly sure you’ll be seeing me on Road Trip 2012. Thanks lads for an amazing week!!!"
Aiden Wilson
"From registering in May and completing tonight, the whole organisation of the rally has been brilliant. Peter, Paul and Mark are doing a very good job. The rally itself was fantastic. The route was excellent and obviously well researched. I will be recommending Motoscape to anyone who asks me how it was. Can’t think of any complaints. I would suggest people bring wives and kids on it, as it is something anybody would enjoy. Good value for money, better than a normal holiday. Thanks lads!"
Ashley Waterfield
Team: Just Married (Raised £1000 for St Clare Hospice)
"Brilliant. It was great to do this for a second year running. The organisation is fantastic, with the organisers taking the time to make everyone happy. I like the amount of effort put into the daily briefings with ideas of places to visit as well as direct routes to the next hotel. ‘Motoscape Rally’ is a great way to meet people and have fun."
Scott Mackenzie
"The rally has been a fabulous honeymoon! The Alps driving has definitely been my favourite – you forget you have so much breathtaking scenery so close to the UK. Great organisation but enough flexibility to turn it into our holiday and get everything we want to done. Everyone on the rally has been brilliant and I haven’t felt at all left out by knowing nothing about cars. Really good fun and a great way to start our life together – not too may arguments either."
Nici MacKenzie
Team: 27 club Trippers
"Great fun! A roller coaster of emotions. Really good experience."
James Carr
"Just wanted to thank you again for the great rally experience. We really enjoyed it, A+ for organising it. My first rally. Best driving experience so far. Will recommend it to other people."
Johnny Rusu
Visit the team's website - http://www.27clubtrippers.co.uk/
Team: Avez-vous un Haynes Manual? (Raised £300 for Prince's Trust)
"A whistle stop tour of some of the finest scenery Europe has to offer with opportunities to take in as much or as little as you like. Great fun and has made me want to return to countries I had never considered before."
Paul Watson
"This was my first rally and I’ve had a cracking week. A one day break or a short commute may have benefitted from a lethargy perspective. All in all I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the experience."
Mark Goddard
"Excellent – real eye opener to how far you can travel around Europe in only a few days. Good group of people from all backgrounds."
Mark Oldroyd
Team: V4B4
"Awesome, especially if like me you’ve hardly travelled Europe before."
Tim Taylor
"How can you improve on perfection?"
Geoff Taylor
Team: The Beer View Mirrors (Raised £1400 for I.F.A.W.)
"Excellent fun. Will come again! Thanks."
Nick Clark
"Very good roads and I will be on another rally with you. Do we get discount and loyalty stamps??"
Steve Clague
Team: 4 Chavs in a Scooby
"Good, stayed in some really nice places. Stelvio pass was really good and Slovenia was a really stunning place."
Matthew Lamb
"Saw some really nice places that otherwise would not have visited. In hindsight would probably just go to Bologna rather than Prague."
Edward Howison
"Awesome, loved it! So many great memories."
Christopher Pearce
Team: Starship Enterprise
"A very enjoyable unique experience. It actually costs a fair amount all things considered but it’s worth it. A good bunch of different but like-minded people."
Jack Finnegan
"We had a wonderful time. The experience met our expectations and I would certainly recommend the experience to friends. I enjoyed the various countries and scenery we passed through. I appreciated the advice from Peter and Paul about the different driving cultures and rules and regulations in the different countries.
This will be useful for family driving in Europe in the future. The Stelvio pass was awesome!! Bled and Slovenia a pleasant surprise, a country that I know nothing about. All in all a wonderful and memorable experience."
Gary Finnegan
"No yobs, all appeared to have good attitude. Would advise others to come."
Peter Anderson
Team: MacMillan Rice Rocket (Raised £1000 for MacmIllan)
"I came on my own knowing I would meet some like-minded people and just to see some of Europe and drive some fantastic roads. I was worried there would be loads of lads just to out race and get legless but everyone had fun and knew where to draw the line. On the whole a wonderful experience, tiring but worth it.
I appreciate all the hard work the boys put in with the organising, the challenges, the support and creating a relaxed friendly environment. I will come again (hopefully with a co driver) as soon as the missis will let me."
Jan Olsson
Team: Failing Mexican Tigers
"Absolutely fantastic. Had a really good time and what a great bunch of people. Thank you for such good organisation. Personally I’m shattered but what a great week. I’m gutted the week is over. I really enjoyed the Stelvio pass but the Vrsic pass in Slovenia was the best road I’ve ever been on. From the moment you leave the motorway and get into the strides, it is amazing.
Would extend the day to Bled so teams can do Venice and the pass, possibly explain both are amazing."
Andrew Holdsworth
Team: Arthur Ant Hill Mob (Raised £3330 for Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice)
"Fantastic. I’ve loved every minute of it, even stood on the side of the motorways. Brilliant fun, a real challenge, especially in a black cab that only does 60 mph. Thanks guys!"
Julia Ockenden
"Fantastic, exhausting, worth every minute. I’ve met some brilliant people and will miss not seeing them. Well organised and loads of fun."
Rachael Bailey
Team: V Team
"Excellent. Best holiday ever! Very well organised. I will be coming on a rally again!"
Tom Wilkinson
"All in all excellent experience. Very well planned down to the finest detail. All the team were very approachable and very easy to talk to. The challenges were a welcome addition to the trip, however it would be nice to somehow get more people involved.
I’m very pleased, this was my first ever banger rally. I have gained priceless experience, gained new friends and all for good value for money. On my part I only wished we raised more for charity, given some extra time that is what I would have liked to do. Thanks Motoscape."
Dan Cushing
Team: When You Wish Upon a Car (Raised £1000 for Cancer Research)
"We’ve had a fantastic week, we’ve laughed lots, got lost, met fantastic people, seen some amazing places and really enjoyed the challenges.
Fancy dress was fun and everything has exceeded our expectations. Thank you so much for all your hard work and organisation. Has been a fantastic Disneytastic week!"
Rachel Peacock
"Amazing. Thoroughly enjoyed it."
Jessica Owen
Team: Me – N – Im
"Really enjoyed my first Motoscape rally. Met some great people, drove on some great roads and generally had a ball. Cheers."
Steve Wood
"The dogs danglys!"
Phil Smith
Team: 3 Idiots Abroad (Raised £750 for Dudley group of hospitals maternity ward)
"Awesome!! Well organised, fantastic experience! P.s it’s a race not a rally!!!"
Andy Smith
"Fantastic experience. Would definitely come on another as soon as I can get permission from the wife, realistically two years at least or I bring the wife!!!! Will definitely recommend… made good friends and gutted its over!!"
Lyndon Mottram
"We all (both teams) had a fantastic time, West Coast Knackers were heavily depressed on their return to the UK knowing that we were all carrying on for a few more days, they experienced what we are all now calling PMB post motoscape blues :-)
We all thought the hotels were great and well situated and with the number of entrants you did well keeping everyone within a decent distance of each other and the morning meetings. We did think that there was quite a bit of motorway driving which could have been put down a bit and maybe a more detailed route suggestion in the pack could assist people in avoiding too much motorway. Apart from that we genuinely have no other areas that we felt needed improvement apart from the obvious microphone and driver training that you've arranged for Pete already!! Really hoping to get booked in for next year too so thanks again for a great rally!!
The best race of my life…. So far?"
Alex Liggett
Team: Team Above and Beyond
"Very efficiently organised. Good route, possibly better if less motorways or slightly shorter routes. Good knowledge of places but more time to see them would be good. More women. Overall I am very pleased. We had a fantastic time and would recommend it."
Chris Moody
"Excellent, as good as I’d hoped. Great route, right amount of driving and well organised. Wouldn’t come back unless it was a different route but would definitely recommend to others."
Steven Hunt
Team: Wrong Gear (Raised £1000 for Prince's Trust)
"Good challenges, brilliant driving roads, well organised with briefings, info packs are very useful. A lot of driving but a lot of fun. Good effort from all the teams."
Simon Lay
"Really fun rally, was like a real live Top Gear challenge, experienced some great driving roads and seen lots of amazing places. Very well organised, many thanks."
Rob Garrett
"Great fun, great roads, well organised and great to be part of it and win, Postman Pat enjoyed himself too!"
Rez Ghodse
"Great week with friends, made a change from a beach holiday! Will be going on another."
David Sprague
Team: West Coast Knackers (Raised £500 for Dudley Hospital Children's Ward)
"Best five days in a car that only passed it’s MOT by chance! There is nothing else like a banger rally."
Andy Jennings
"Simply awesome, if only the wife would let me go again!"
James Newton
Team: Cupid Stunts (Raised £1,900 for St Elizabeth Hospice)
"Tasks good, route good, would do again."
Tim Amass
"Really enjoyed it, good company, well organised."
Mark Scrogie
Team: Three Birds in a Banger (Raised £2000 for Maggies Cancer Centre)
"Brilliant, amazing experience and Paul was a fantastic leader - listened to concerns and took what we said in to consideration, plus hugely helpful with our brake situation in Germany. Thanks guys for a fantastic experience and helping us raise a huge amount for a very worthwhile charity.
Thank you for a brilliant week. I had an absolutely amazing time and that is largely due to the obvious ‘extra mile’ effort you all put in to organising the trip."
Steph Blott
"Had a really good time, very interesting, exciting, challenging. Thrilled to have raised so much money for charity. Very grateful for help from Paul when brake issues arose. Would have liked more info on hotels. Great :)"
Lucy Minshall
Team: Mojito Moto (Raised £5500 for Cancer Research)
"Overall an absolute fantastic experience, good organisation, great route, great bunch of people, good friendly organisers, Thanks!"
Rob Girling
"Well organised, very impressed by effort of contestants on their entries. Felt we wouldn’t experience the constant change of scenery across Europe if left to our own devices. Fantastic and grateful to you all for opening my eyes to parts of Europe I probably would never see. My thanks and best wishes."
Nigel Parker
Team: More Than Just a Hard Shell (Raised £1200 for Cancer Research)
"Overall we had a really good time and a real laugh. "
Dean Spindler
"Great experience, met some fantastic people, everyone really friendly, a meet up for a piss up every night would be a good idea – just to have the option. Many thanks."
James Clarkson
"Was a good laugh, something different, tiring but worth it!"
Rob Clarkson
Teams: West Lothian College & Cumbernauld College
"Very good, hope to come back next year to see the changes and another car."
Robert Drummond
"Fab, really enjoyed it. Enjoyed the experience and all the different cultures and the experience of driving over the Stelvio Pass."
Ewan McAdam
"Good value for money and a great experience for our team."
Billy MacDougall
Team: Tribu Dei Chihuahua
"Excellent fun, fast and furious against the clock, need some sleep!"
Steve Kelsey
"Fast and furious!! I need sleep, food and less booze!"
Oliver Allwood
"Fast and furious and great fun, in need of some sleep but thanks for a great week."
Paul Harrington
Team: Team Paddy
"Excellent team who provides our needs throughout the trials, thanks for everything. The Paddy's."
Trevor Faulkner
"Great route, reasonable hotels, better than a banger rally we did with another company."
Ralph Ewing
Team: Diplomatic Immunity (Raised £200 for Acorns Children's Hospice)
"It has been a great experience, not all plain sailing but that’s all part of the fun. "
Lee Ford
"I’ve got to see some amazing places and meet some real people, better still the tatty Volvo hasn’t let us down."
Mike Doe
Team: Team Webb (Raised £1000 for The Shooting Star Chase)
"Was very good, would recommend it to anyone, definitely worth doing and will try and come back next year!!"
Sam Webb
"We had a brilliant time, next time Prague!"
Ben Webb
Team: Baz to Bologna (Raised £3330 for Cancer Research and Severn Hospice)
"Brilliant!"
Matt Peate
"Lots of fun, something I thought I wouldn’t do but will definitely do again."
Toni Kilvert
"Brilliant! We didn’t quite stick to the plan but had a great time. Thank you for arranging everything and making it happen."
Gareth Peate
Team: Bottom Gear
"The organisation of the rally was better than I thought it would be. I would recommend Motoscape to anyone thinking of doing a banger rally."
Liam O’Loughlin
"Great fun, good route, good experience and will book our hotels with Motoscape next time."
Mark Slatcher
"Enjoyable, good fun and well organised rally."
Stephen Connell
Team: Britney and the Three Musketeers (Raised £4000 for Christies Hospice)
"Excellent, good experience, a taster of different cultures."
Owen Hussey
"Great laugh, much better second part of the week when we had worked out how to get in early."
Ian Moston
Teams: The Boners & Oughterside Road Wreckers (Raised for £600 Oughterside School)
"Venice! Wow! Paul, Pete and Mark can’t be more helpful. Better than last year, apart from Prague which has put a damper on things. Wine festival was brill! Awesome experience, great adventure holiday."
Hannah Powell (The Boners)
"As first timers we loved it! I haven’t really felt involved with other teams even though I have talked to some others and made friends and met fantastic people.
We have however had a brill time and seen and done things that we have always wanted to! Thank you for the experience."
Mark and Lynn Harrison (Oughterside Road Wreckers)
Team: Barking Mad (Raised £4300 Bobby Moore bowel cancer)
"Fantastic too good to be true! JUST DO IT! Fun in bucket loads. Make sure the passenger seat is comfy for a sleep!! BRILL!"
Nick Payne & Malcom Barratt
Team: Crashtest Dummies (Raised £1000 for MacMillan)
"I have had a superb time, thank you! I think the people you have encouraged to attend through the website has been excellent. I have met a wide variety of people, all of whom have been great fun.
The routes were generally excellent and the sights were amazing. The wine festival was a great day out."
Richard Webb
Team: Where's the Wallys
"Had a fantastic week with the Motoscapers :-) Such an adventure! Thanks for an absolutely amazing trip, even if we were a bit slow, lol! Thank you all so much. Hope everyone had safe journeys home.. .congratulations everyone. Hopefully we all raised lots for good charities :-)"
Sarah Olma
Team: The Motoring Neurons (Rasied £3000 Motor Neuron disease association)
"I thought it was an amazing holiday combined with the ability to raise money for charity. The Motoscape Team were always friendly and enthusiastic, suggesting alternative routes to accommodate everyone."
Emma Burford
2010 Testimonials
Below are a selection of testimonials from some team members who took part in the 2010 Motoscape Rallies:
"Just a quick note to say thanks for an awesome time on the Rally this year, it was great fun and can't wait for next years now, in fact I'm already looking for a car, and myself and Nicci may even do the rally as the first week of our honeymoon if we can make the dates work.....which reminds me, I should have told the parents I proposed before they found out via the blog...oops!"
Scott Mackenzie (Team Aerodynamicsmith)
"Motoscape rally is easily the best holiday EVER! Everyone have got to do it, having the time of my life :-)"
Peter Much (Team Aerodynamicsmith)
"Just want to say i big thank you for organising the event. I know we both had an excellent time!
The Motoscape rally was one of the most fun weeks that I've had. It was challenging but at the same time enjoyable. Its not very often that you get to see so many stunning views in so little time. I think the route picked was very good and visited all the kinda of places you would expect to see on a rally. The highlight was probably the Stelvio Pass for most of us on the rally because i think its what a lot of us joined to do.
The organisation of the rally was amazing, we never had any issues with the hotels when we got there (and they were all very nice). You were all very well prepared when we arrived and it just made life a lot easier after driving all day. You managed to get a great group of people on the rally this year and i think thats one of the best things about it. We managed to have a laugh with all the other teams and you meet people definitely worth staying in touch with.
See you next year Motoscape!!"
Tom and Alex (Team Magnum PA)
"We have come away from our Motoscape week with smiles on our faces and lifelong memories.
Just want to say thanks to the organisers for planning the most interesting route through Europe and some great nights out.
The mixture of people made the week for us, keep in touch and we will see you next year."
Love Greta and Charlotte (Little Miss Sparkles)
"Firstly id like to thank you all for a great week away, we had a great time, The planning and organisation was superb, we are already thinking about next year.
We did stay the extra night problem free and the only charge was the car parking which was not a problem.
We left at 9am on sunday morning to catch the 21.25 ferry from calais, we arrived back in Blackpool at 03.00- record timing for nearly 1000 miles!!”
Andy Doolan (Scooby Technix)
"A big thank you to Paul, Peter and Mark for organising a brilliant event.
Check our facebook group page for photos.
Cheers to all."
Steve and Pete (Super Mario Brothers Gti)
"The Dukes have just arrived back in England! Just wanna say a big thanks to the organisers, and also all the fellow Motoscapers, your all legends!!
Best holiday ever, see you all next year!!!!"
Danny Blackmore (The Dukes of Biohazzard)
"After a very depressing day of work back in reality, I thought I would pop on and say thanks to everyone for putting up with us :) We will definatlely be going next year, can't recommend it enough!
Everyone back home still doesn't believe the Cinq made it! hahahaha!
Love you all x x x"
Hannah Powell(Team Sticky Bun Motorsport)
"Made it back 2.00am slept in the car and and sleeping in there again, I just love my smashed orange Mondeo!
Hope every one got back OK and can I just add what a f*****g brilliant time I had!
Cheers Motoscape!"
Paul Martin – (Team Transformations Too)
"I'll just echo everyone else's sentiments that an awesome time was had by all - thanks to the organisers for their hard work!
Now back to reality - I must stop driving into the back of people at traffic lights and opening my door onto people's cars in the car park...."
Nathan Metcalfe (Coulthards Chin)
If those testimonials aren't enough for you, we've got even more from our previous Motoscape Rallies, take a look below:
"I enjoyed the rally immensly. Loved meeting the very different types of people that took part, and my liver has almost recovered by now... Was a bit hard with the additional work we had to do for the paper, but the response was awesome, and I can definantly recommend other media-companies to participate and report from the event!"
Henrik & Mathias, Project DRENGEROEV
"Just a wanted to send a big thank you from all of the External Hard Drivers. We all had a great time on the rally and all felt the organization behind it was fantastic."
Steve, Rob and Carl
"Just quick email to say thank you once again for putting on a well organised rally. Mark and I had the time of our lives and a special thank you to pete for reccomending wraclov we had a good night out there too!!"
Andy & Mark
"It was definatley the best week of my life, will definately be going next year" Jamie
"First class organisation from the event organisers, good choice of hotels too!"
Peter
"What an enjoyble adventure, one of the best things I've ever done, it was such a great laugh. Really glad we took part, think we'll try the Motoscape Rally next year!"
Robert & Tony
"Pete and Paul,
Truly the best think I've ever done - I had the time of my life, made some friends for life and have advised pretty much everyone I know to get on the Motoscape Rally with 3 or 4 positive responses, I haven't finished uploading my pics form my camera but as soon as I have I'll forward you the pick of the bunch - until then here are some i thought you might like....
Thanks for having the organisation down to a 'T' you certainly would struggle to add anything there, all we could suggest are things I think we've already talked about...
• More GIRLS - I'm only human haha
• A stretch where we could have everyone in convoy - obviously not near a border but the photos from 4 cars together were great - imagine 10 or more!
• Perhaps a website updated with each day's events/mishaps/quotes/funnies - the External Hard Drivers and Danish lads did this and on getting back it looks excellent. I wish we could have kept our supporters up to date.....
Paddy has vowed to learn to drive, Dale wants to do more travelling and my project is to get into motorsport - I hope we can keep in touch and join you for at least part of next years rally.
It's been emotional"
Drew
'Just to say Thanks for a well organised rally it was a great experience & a great bunch of people cant wait till next one we will be there for the next one and the ROTHWELL ROUND HEADS DID CONQUOR EUROPE!'
Geoff and Andy
'Thanks again for organising the rally last week, you did an exceptional job and Ben and I had a great time. Many thanks'
Rob
' I fully echo what Rob has said. I would also like to thank Peter and yourself for making it such a great trip for us and with a bit of luck we will see you again somewhere down the line.'
Ben
'Thanks for organising a fantastic rally. We're home now, tired but grateful
for the experience. Thanks again.'
Mike, Steven and Andrew
'Just a quick e-mail to say thank you for a fantastic week. We both felt
that the rally was well planned and took in some of the most amaxing roads and scenery along the way.
We managed to give our car to the owner of the hotel in Krakow, who was
very pleased and even gave us a free lift to the airport.
We are really looking forward to the next race, I mean rally, so please
keep us updated with plans and dates, so we can fit it in around other less important things like work and weddings etc...
Best wishes to you both, and thanks again.'
Alex & Dan 'It's not a rally it's a race'