Need advice on motorhome for touring band
Hello, everybody! I know this gets asked a lot, but I'm having a hard time making decisions, and I'd love to get some input from RV-educated people! I'm looking at buying something for a touring ba...
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Great responses here, thank you so much. We would happily do a school bus, but we are not very mechanically minded people, and I worry that the upkeep and conversion needs on an old bus might be more than we bargained for. Currently we own a Nissan NV 3500 passenger van that seats 12, and we have a crappy little 4 x 6 enclosed trailer. These suit our passenger and gear needs, but we're hoping to upgrade to something more comfortable, and to eliminate the need for hotels. We have a short tour coming up next month, and with eight people, we'll need at least 2 hotel rooms a night - and even in sheep hotel rooms, that adds up quickly! Not to mention getting out of gigs at 2:30 or 3 AM, it'll be hard for us to find rooms that will let us stay in them long enough to actually get any sleep.
If we got the motorhome, we would sell the Nissan and just get a little used minivan for our family, since the motorhome would fit the band needs. The savings on the Nissan payments would cover the motorhome payments. Then again, we have also considered keeping the Nissan and just getting a toy hauler trailer, which would satisfy the hotel needs and the gear needs. But the Nissan payments are huge, and if we keep the Nissan, we would just be adding the trailer payments to it - which, ironically, would be harder on our budget than just selling the Nissan and getting a motorhome.
All that said, though, it's starting to sound like the toy hauler might really be our best bet, if we can find a short one with tons of bunks, since the Nissan really does take care of passenger traveling space just fine. Thanks again to everyone for being my sounding board. :-)
If we got the motorhome, we would sell the Nissan and just get a little used minivan for our family, since the motorhome would fit the band needs. The savings on the Nissan payments would cover the motorhome payments. Then again, we have also considered keeping the Nissan and just getting a toy hauler trailer, which would satisfy the hotel needs and the gear needs. But the Nissan payments are huge, and if we keep the Nissan, we would just be adding the trailer payments to it - which, ironically, would be harder on our budget than just selling the Nissan and getting a motorhome.
All that said, though, it's starting to sound like the toy hauler might really be our best bet, if we can find a short one with tons of bunks, since the Nissan really does take care of passenger traveling space just fine. Thanks again to everyone for being my sounding board. :-)
