ABC Motorhome rentals
Looking for reviews of ABC Motorhome in Anchorage. Has anybody used them? Good, bad? Thanks.
Forum Discussion
As mentioned above, in the last half dozen years I don't remember reading many bad reviews on any of the Alaska RV Rental companies. The two biggies, ABC and GAH are both also new RV dealerships and change out their fleets when they reach the two year old mark. Since the Alaska RV season is short, the units being pulled out and sold probably have only 10 or 11 months of use on them. Some of these units being sold, are sold to smaller mom and pop type rental places, to Alaska consumers, some are barged back to the lower 48 and some are driven back by seasonal summer workers in Alaska when they return home in the fall. Both ABC and GAH send up about 150 new units a year from the factories in the Lower 48 and both have a program where these can be rented at a reduced rate and driven up to Alaska for the rental companies. Many forum members have done this and seem to have a great time. Since there are going into the rental fleet, they can be used on the way up. The new ones being sold through the dealerships are sent up by rail-barge and will be brand new at the dealers.
So it is to all the rental agencies benefit to keep them well maintained as they will all be selling them in the near future and want to get top dollar for them. If I were to buy another Class C rig, I would consider buying one of the units coming out of the rental fleets of ABC or GAH and fly up, then drive it back to south Florida where we currently live. The ones rented out to the returning seasonal workers are also at a reduced rate and they have something like six or seven locations in the lower 48 where they can be turned in where they will be sold on the used RV market. I have seen this return trip advertised in the Anchorage papers only. Twenty per cent of the Alaska work force doesn't live there year around. So there are plenty of these people leaving the state about the same time as the RV rental season is coming to a close. No way the Alaska market can absorb 300+ used RVs being placed on the market each year, plus the ones bought new there or taken up there by people moving to Alaska.
The smaller family run/owned rental agencies tend to be a bit cheaper, rigs a few years older, less units to choose from but shouldn't be over looked, IMHO.
So it is to all the rental agencies benefit to keep them well maintained as they will all be selling them in the near future and want to get top dollar for them. If I were to buy another Class C rig, I would consider buying one of the units coming out of the rental fleets of ABC or GAH and fly up, then drive it back to south Florida where we currently live. The ones rented out to the returning seasonal workers are also at a reduced rate and they have something like six or seven locations in the lower 48 where they can be turned in where they will be sold on the used RV market. I have seen this return trip advertised in the Anchorage papers only. Twenty per cent of the Alaska work force doesn't live there year around. So there are plenty of these people leaving the state about the same time as the RV rental season is coming to a close. No way the Alaska market can absorb 300+ used RVs being placed on the market each year, plus the ones bought new there or taken up there by people moving to Alaska.
The smaller family run/owned rental agencies tend to be a bit cheaper, rigs a few years older, less units to choose from but shouldn't be over looked, IMHO.
