I have to say, where I do most of my camping, there is no other campers around as I camp on my own wooded property 3 hours north and west of where we live so, I could use any generator I wanted to, noisy or not because there is no one around excepting maybe a bear or a few deer to 'disturb'. Having said that I prefer a quiet Inverter genny because neither myself nor my wife wants to listen to a lawnmower engine running full tilt to power a generator. I like quiet even when it's just the 2 of us. We run it a couple hours in the afternoon before dinner to top of the batteries and thats it. Less than a gallon of regular lasts 4 days.