Real world cost of owning a class c - ouch!
I just sold my class c after 7 years of ownership. Since I have all records and an accurate depreciation cost (buy-sell) I thought I would calculate the real world cost of use. The costs outline...
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Mike NW wrote:My numbers ARE the true cost of owning an RV. I wouldn't bother with comparing to air/hotels as we would not have been able to do what we did with planes and hotels, we are alike in that we enjoy RV travel.
Numbers can be slanted to show just about anything you want. Interesting cost analysis. One thing that sticks out to me is that your average mileage per night out is about 150 miles. That seems like a lot of miles per night. But to get the true 'cost' of the RV you would need to deduct the cost you would have spent traveling in your car or flying and then also deduct the hotel cost. This would then give you the true cost of owning the RV.
I suspect you are like us in that we enjoy the conveniences of traveling in the RV (i.e. we have our bed, food etc with us).
Interesting analysis thou.
The reason I shared the annual number is it would be comparable to say an annual vacation. Oddly enough we took our first cruise on the NCL Epic to the Caribbean last February in a suite and the total cost with air was $12,500 for 8 days which is almost exactly the annual cost of RV ownership.
BTW: we're a family of 5.
