I'm going to break ranks here and, well, disagree slightly.
I went on Sunday on day ticket, Sunday is cheaper, think it was £9 each.
I wasn't surprised about paucity of dealers - I think this was because this was advertised as a smaller scale show with only limited tickets on offer - that isnt going to encourage traders, hopefully September show will have more stalls.
What came as a surprise though - the amount of people there........as we came over the hill and looked down over the site we actually thought there was something else occurring over the same weekend as well.
What was a bit peculiar was that there were little clusters of stalls in the middle of club areas, not in the central section.
Not sure what the 'motorhome show' element was though, didnt see any stalls or traders for them at all?
The map room and guest speakers were missing but we knew about that beforehand.
So, went expecting a small show and limited gathering, got a small show and a huge gathering, so got to look at way more setups than expected.
More traders would be great, and after this event it def shows its value to them, I reckon some missed an opportunity, but in all honesty I have yet to buy something at a show that I cant get elsewhere cheaper.
There was so much to see that I completely missed the trucks!
What was interesting was the way that the overland scene is changing again. Last time I went, 2019, lots of roof tents for sale, since then, everyone driving to Tesco's has a rooftent and calls themselves an Overlander, but this year the amount of large vehicles (unimogs/daf/etc) on show was far larger than previous years, what was a niche is becoming more popular - I do wonder how many see the NC500 as a challenge though.......
Calling it a Gathering sums it up exactly, I thought it a great day out and good value compared to previous years.