10 Reasons RV Vacations are Better

travelnutz wrote:
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"Otherwise when you include unit payments (if you have them), gas, insurance, site fees, maintenance, etc., it might not be as inexpensive as you think."



Simple answer to your words is that if you have large payments for the RV, you may have bought too much RV which takes too high a % of your income and usaully have a long in years loan. Buy sensible and pay over a short period and when paid off, it's your lock stock and barrel!

Gas engines get less mpg than a diesel and a larger/heavier RV uses more fuel. Buying what is really needed not what tickles your fancy or keeps up with the Jone's keeps fuel costs sensible. So that's now 2 issues solved.

Insurance? Yes if it's a MH which is a one purpose motorized expensive to operate and sits about 90+% of it's owed years vehicle with the added very high insurance cost/registration/maitenance/high dollar depreciation/etc. Insurance costs vary greatly in different states and regions of the country. It's you who chooses to live where and in which state and must then be saddled with the costs incurred by your choice. Using a double purpose tow vehicle is much wiser and cheaper to buy/insure/maintain/etc and is usable when RV'ing or not. The tow behind will be so much cheaper to buy, insure, and maintain also. Number 3 solved!

Site fees are totally your choice as they can be from zero to as much as you want to pay and it's you whoo makes that choice. Regardless, site fees are a mere fraction of motels or hotels and owning any land with a cabin or cottage is so far from cheap in yearly costs and the constant issues with B&E and being away mechanical and weather issues. Number 4 is blasted and is totally under your control!

RV'ing can be as cheap as you want or as expensive as you want or are willing to pay for and you control who occupies it, sleeps in the bed, uses the toilet and bath, and where it even goes which can be about anywhere you desire.

I think they were trying to compare costs to vacations without a RV. Even if you paid cash for whatever you own, it could be over a $1,000,000 if you can afford it. Most people driving a car or flying in comparison will never spend anything close to what we pay RVing, whether or not it's financed.

We had a dually fiver combo. Our $55,000 truck sat in the drive as my wife stopped driving it. We ended up buying a car for her. So the truck was the fiver puller, that was it. I have a company car. That is why we purchased a motorhome. Between what we had invested in our truck & fiver the MH to us was a logical choice. Sure it sits 90% of the time! but so did the other setup. Now we have more room in the drive and the toad serves dual purpose and gets driven all the time.

Even if we boondock (we don't ) we would never beat the cost of a nice hotel room. All that being said, I have zero complaints about this lifestyle or the cost. Some people can spend as much on booze & smokes as some here do on there rigs every month. But that's what keeps them happy .... this is what keeps us happy ... To me that is priceless.