Shopping for class c, daily cost to operate?
My wife and I have started class c shopping. We're looking in the 24' range. My question is what does it cost daily to operate when traveling? For instance, we just drove from GA to CO, and with gas a...
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I doubt that RV's are cost effective with today's gas prices.
But what I'm paying for is convenience.
I have a competitive shooting event about 140 miles away, or 280 miles round trip.
In my little Mazda 2, which gets 33 MPG, I could make the trip for about $30 at $3.50 per gallon. I'd need a hotel for, say, $50 a night, for 2 nights, for another $100. So about $130 to make the trip and have a place to stay.
My RV gets about 8 MPG. It will cost about $123 to make the trip. Plus it costs $20 a night to stay in the campground, so the total cost is about $160 to make the trip and have a place to stay.
So it's about $30 more expensive to take the RV.
But, shooting usually starts by 7am. If I stay off-site at a hotel, I've got to get up super early to get ready to be on-site by 6:30am. And at the end of a long day of shooting, I've got to back everything up and drive back to a hotel, and then unload everything back into my hotel room (don't want to leave expensive guns and things in the car in the hotel parking lot), and then load it all back into the car again for the next day. With the RV I just get up, have my shower, get dressed, and step out to the event. I'm already there.
Plus, during the day with my RV there I have a place I can retreat to for a break and enjoy sodas and snacks out of my own refrigerator, and use my own toilet. I can fire up the air conditioner if I want a break from the summer heat.
That's worth an extra $30 for me.
Steve
But what I'm paying for is convenience.
I have a competitive shooting event about 140 miles away, or 280 miles round trip.
In my little Mazda 2, which gets 33 MPG, I could make the trip for about $30 at $3.50 per gallon. I'd need a hotel for, say, $50 a night, for 2 nights, for another $100. So about $130 to make the trip and have a place to stay.
My RV gets about 8 MPG. It will cost about $123 to make the trip. Plus it costs $20 a night to stay in the campground, so the total cost is about $160 to make the trip and have a place to stay.
So it's about $30 more expensive to take the RV.
But, shooting usually starts by 7am. If I stay off-site at a hotel, I've got to get up super early to get ready to be on-site by 6:30am. And at the end of a long day of shooting, I've got to back everything up and drive back to a hotel, and then unload everything back into my hotel room (don't want to leave expensive guns and things in the car in the hotel parking lot), and then load it all back into the car again for the next day. With the RV I just get up, have my shower, get dressed, and step out to the event. I'm already there.
Plus, during the day with my RV there I have a place I can retreat to for a break and enjoy sodas and snacks out of my own refrigerator, and use my own toilet. I can fire up the air conditioner if I want a break from the summer heat.
That's worth an extra $30 for me.
Steve
