Complaints about Cost of Mhs vs Motels

down home wrote:
We hear it all the time from Folks with MHs and without, that it is cheaper to stay n Motels!
Taint true McGheee!
Friend from Church just back from Colorado hunting Elk.
Nearly $3,000.00 for a week at one motel..plus tow staye each way at other motels.
Roundcher Motels are well I don't know but I say 120,00 a night or less.
"Outwest" "Upnorth", Canada and Alaska a heck of a lot more, maybe 300.00 a night? or in the case of his stay to hunt Elk near $3,000.00 for 7 days.
Or coach at 6mpg-7 mpg 3600 miles at least would be only $1200.00in fuel. RV parks $35.00-$50.00 a night? a total of 7 or probably 8 days there and back $1,600.00 possibly heck we can spend another $400.00 o on the trip and still have a $1,000.00 left for something. Staying longer and other variables.You can pay for the coach and sleep in your own bed eat your good food and not wear a mask, use your clean restroom and get better tv, meet other RVers have a heck of a lot more fun on the same dime. I expect. I am too something to crunch more realistic numbers but I think RVers can tell the Motel lobby to get a new calculator.

Obviously, it depends greatly on how much you use your RV and what type of RV you have (and it's usually a more general RV as opposed to MH specific).

If your buddy was spending $425/n at a motel, he either got taken or it's not what would normally be considered a Motel.

$120/n will usually move you up to more of a midrange hotel. Right now, you can find stuff in the $60-70/n and "outwest" seemed to still be as cheap when we passed thru a month ago. Can't get "upnorth" to check but I have been looking at options if we take the Demster in a year and considering leaving the trailer back in Dawson, so we can move faster with just the truck...I was finding pricing in the $200/n in the remote artic. Not expecting the 4 Seasons by any stretch but your $300/n is upper end unless you hit a festival or other high demand event.

I'm assuming anyone staying at $425/n motels is likely buying high end diesel pushers...so how many nights to amortize that $500,000 initial outlay? How about maintenance? Insurance?

Full timing, you might get close to break even and there are other reasons to travel by RV but cost savings really isn't one of them.