what is "glamping'?

DutchmenSport wrote:

Janss wrote:
I'd like to know why one needs to know the difference between camping and glamping in order to buy a Class C???

Probably because someone tried to guilt them into thinking that owning a CLASS C was not "real" camping, and called it "glamping."

Actually, from reading all the posts and all the various web sites, if you own your own RV and use it anywhere, you are REALLY NOT glamping! Because true "glamping" involves doing NOTHING but arriving and being catered to by "servants" of some sort or another, so the customer can pretend they are are King and Queen for a day or two.

If you camp, or RV with your OWN RV, Tent, or whatever, YOU are NOT glamping, because YOU have to set up your camp, tear down your camp, dump your own tank, fix your own meals, and make your own bed.

Glamping is a combination of a 5 Star full service Hotel will all the bells and whistles, where you snap your fingers or make a phone call and you have immediate room service, food, the local news paper, a fresh towel or whatever.

When you own your OWN RV, YOU do all this yourself. So... REALLY, owning your OWN RV and using it is NOT glamping, unless you bring along your own servants and they have their their own quarters on the next campsite over so they are at your beckoning call! Then, you would be "glamping."

Your definition of glamping is what the "five star" glamping resorts want you to believe from a marketing POV:).

Glamping re-started in Europe probably the UK during various 1990's music festivals and evolved from there. It was certainly DIY in the beginning with Victorian era camping as it's guide. For this continent think of Teddy Roosevelt's or the Edison, Ford and Firestone, Burroughs's AKA "The Vagabonds" campsites.