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Piaggio2
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Jan 25, 2025

First ever RV trip

We are family of 5 and looking in to renting class C RV in PHX airport area and planning to explore northern AZ around second week of March.

We have never done camping or RVing before. And I will get to know about days off from work in mid February. So, can not plan anything in advance. We would be flying from TX to PHX.

Will have about 7 days and would like to cover Sedona, Flagstaff, South Rim, and drive north towards Page and check out the whatever comes on the way.

Any suggestions and advice will be greatly appreciated about parking, overnight parking or anything else.

 Thanks,

 

 

  • The campgrounds is a biggy. The may be hard to find (already booked up) that time of year. You should try to line them up now cause you may have to call around to several to find one with availability. And to do that, you’ll have to finalize your stops and how long you’re staying so you know what days to book where.

  • So I’m a little fuzzy on your plans. You’re going to drive to one of the stops, do some sighting seeing, and eventually stop for the night where? At a campground? Big box store parking lot? Other? Do you plan on having electricity when you stop? Plug into an outlet? Generator? Other? Planning on having water for showers? etc? Need a dump station to empty tanks? 
    Are you going to need heat. Air conditioning? A microwave? Are you cooking meals or eating out? Do you know how big a RV stove is? Does it have an oven?

    How many suitcases you planning on taking per person? Is there enough storage? 

    Five in a Class C is going to be pretty cozy, but doable for a week. You’ll have about 1 to 1-1/2 days at each stop for sightseeing, eating, showering, etc. Is that enough time for you?

    Offhand, I think the learning curve on Rving in a class C has the potential to bite you in the butt big time. You don’t know what you don’t know. You may need to get some experienced person that knows about travel in a Class C to sit down with you for a few hours and put a real plan together. There are some really big potential pot holes in your road.

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      Piaggio2
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      I agree, there are big pot holes.....

      First of all, thank you for your time and response.

      I would like to do sight seeing and end up at proper campground and have electricity, water and dump.

      I don't think I will need AC but I might need heat in early March.

      We will be cooking light meals and or picking up food to go occasionally.

      Yes, 5 people are going to be tight, but the kids are 9, 11 and 13 and we all add up to max 600 lbs.

      we travel light. It will be 5 carry on bags or 2 big one.

      our other plan fell a part so, I have to scramble in to a new trip. I have not book any RV yet but will be looking in to around 30ft ish.

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