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Terryallan
Explorer II
Dec 21, 2016

cost of camping

Yes it has been debated over, and over. However. I have new info for me.

After the trip from hell last summer with 3, yes 3 blow outs. We decided to stay in a condo at the OBX, and share the cost 3, yes 3 ways. So we got the bill for our share of the deposit. :E:E:E. it is as much for the deposit as 5 nights on the ocean front at Pirateland. :( AND we still have the balance to pay.

This trip for one week is going to cost more than DOUBLE what a camping trip to Myrtle Beach would cost, and that is just MY part. All together, it will be more than 4 times the cost of camping. At this rate. 5 trips to the beach will more than pay for my camper.

So y'all can say what you want. It is WAAAAY less expensive to stay in a TT in a CG than it is to get a motel room, or Condo.

And for those that say. "You have to have truck". We don't count the truck toward the cost of camping. because I had truck before I bought a TT, and I'll have one after it is gone. Also. I will need the truck to take all our stuff to the condo as well. So the cost of the truck is a wash. If a man has a house. A man just needs a truck.
  • I must have one of the longest & most expensive 'commutes' to get myself into the RV then get myself home after the trip.

    Door to door the commute is over 12 hours, sometimes 24 hours when a hotel stay is required. If only there was a flight from Bermuda to Baltimore at a convenient time making it possible to connect with a ground shuttle that 12 hours could be reduced 6 hours.

    By the time the airline has nickled & dimed us for this charge & that plus the ground shuttle, our commute is about $1000.00. The offset of that is every trip we do is a minimum of 60 days so the per day commute cost to add to the overall per day cost is about $16. It all adds up.

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