10 Reasons RV Vacations are Better
My wife and I put together a fun list for the Jayco Journal about "10 Reasons Why RV Vacations are Better." I thought some of you might enjoy it. What other reasons can you think of? I'd like to pu...
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I think your post regarding "costs" is way off. We always pay cash for our trucks, boats, and RV's. Nearly 4 decades beyond making any payments and not going to start now! With our RV's we both boondock if it's where we want to spend a day or even a week and we also stay at decent and nice CG's. I know the costs as we have had 51 years this year of RV'ing and they are a small fraction of the costs of other types of vacations where flying and decent motel/hotel staying along with eating in restaurants etc.
I had flown so often for many years when owning the engineering business for decades and WE have taken the aluminum thingy to go to Hawaii, across the salt water pond called the Atlantic, to the Caribbean, South America etc many times and to add creedence to my words is this: My wife was a world travel agent, trainer, investigator of new venues, and arranging vacations for individuals, couples, families, group vacations etc for AAA and Cruise Holidays for a couple decades before retiring. We've personally been on 16 cruises, many resort venues, and have taken groups as large as 35 to Alaska for as many as 12 days. Fly, rent vans and/or cars for several day tours arounf Alaska, motels/hotels, meals, take a cruise ship back to Vancouver etc, often then take the bus down to Seattle and spend a day or so there, and fly back to Grand Rapids. Some have been the reverse itinerary.
You think I/we don't really know exactly what fly, cruise, resort, motel/hotel etc vacations cost singles, couples, groups, etc???
RV'ing done smartly is so much cheaper unless you over buy or are constantly buying new every couple years, stay in deep debt with the RV/tow vehicle and will only stay in expensive type CG's/resorts. Then it could be closer to a nice resort vacation cost for a couple but still less with the RV with a family of 4. With an RV, it's you who decides where, when, what route, how long anywhere, and what an RV vacation/travel will cost in total including the RV's portion of the true cost. However, with a fly to, stay, meals, fly back, and may even rent a vehicle when staying, the cost is determined by someone else and pay it or leave it. Parking, transfers, options at added costs, you go when and on what they decide upon, etc. When the flight comes back, your butts better be on it!
I think your post regarding "costs" is way off. We always pay cash for our trucks, boats, and RV's. Nearly 4 decades beyond making any payments and not going to start now! With our RV's we both boondock if it's where we want to spend a day or even a week and we also stay at decent and nice CG's. I know the costs as we have had 51 years this year of RV'ing and they are a small fraction of the costs of other types of vacations where flying and decent motel/hotel staying along with eating in restaurants etc.
I had flown so often for many years when owning the engineering business for decades and WE have taken the aluminum thingy to go to Hawaii, across the salt water pond called the Atlantic, to the Caribbean, South America etc many times and to add creedence to my words is this: My wife was a world travel agent, trainer, investigator of new venues, and arranging vacations for individuals, couples, families, group vacations etc for AAA and Cruise Holidays for a couple decades before retiring. We've personally been on 16 cruises, many resort venues, and have taken groups as large as 35 to Alaska for as many as 12 days. Fly, rent vans and/or cars for several day tours arounf Alaska, motels/hotels, meals, take a cruise ship back to Vancouver etc, often then take the bus down to Seattle and spend a day or so there, and fly back to Grand Rapids. Some have been the reverse itinerary.
You think I/we don't really know exactly what fly, cruise, resort, motel/hotel etc vacations cost singles, couples, groups, etc???
RV'ing done smartly is so much cheaper unless you over buy or are constantly buying new every couple years, stay in deep debt with the RV/tow vehicle and will only stay in expensive type CG's/resorts. Then it could be closer to a nice resort vacation cost for a couple but still less with the RV with a family of 4. With an RV, it's you who decides where, when, what route, how long anywhere, and what an RV vacation/travel will cost in total including the RV's portion of the true cost. However, with a fly to, stay, meals, fly back, and may even rent a vehicle when staying, the cost is determined by someone else and pay it or leave it. Parking, transfers, options at added costs, you go when and on what they decide upon, etc. When the flight comes back, your butts better be on it!
