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xzyHollyxyz
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Mar 29, 2014

RVTripWizard

Has anyone tried the https://www.rvtripwizard.com/ trip planning software?

I played with the 30-minute demo today and liked the program a lot.

However, I thought the price was just a tad high for as little as I travel. That's too bad on the price, because I think the program could be fun to plan with. I can see it being worthwhile for full-timers, though.

I'll just stick with my Streets & Trips and iPad apps for now...

Give it a look-see and see what you think. (I am NOT affiliated with the program in any way. Just thought if people buy the subscription, the price could go down...)

Another issue I thought of was needing to be online for last minute adjustments to your trip.
  • We've been using this for over a year. There is an trip preferences page you can enter the height of your rv and the planner will give you low clearance warnings on your route. It will not warn for propane restrictions, steep grades or curves. You can also input your fuel mpg, anticipated fuel cost per gallon, various other expenses, and routing preferences (road types). One nice feature is you have three inputs for the miles you like to drive, for example 200, 150, 100 miles the map will have three rings around your starting point at those intervals and show all campgrounds within those rings. You also get to pick what type of campgrounds you want to show up. There's other features like fuel locations and fuel prices and a very good selection of points of interest you can turn or off. I've found it to be my favorite planner to use and I've used them all, it doesn't do everything but it comes closer than the rest of them. There has been no advertising or campgrounds feeding us information and they do not charge the campgrounds, I've found campgrounds that were not listed and emailed them about them, they put them into the database very quickly. There is a full list of every type of campground you can imagine in the preferences pages. Including state and national parks. They have been steadily improving and updating the program also.
  • The POI section seemed to be just places to shop, and nothing more. No state and national parks or museums. That would be a deal killer for us. S & T landmarks is not very useful either, for that matter.
  • This is a come on to get campground owners to feed information to RVers. I just looked in the download users manual and you are not entering any RV specific information into this software to have it avoid low overpasses, propane restrictions, steep hills, sharp curves, etc. as RV routing software should have. You are paying for what you can get free for routing from Google and no better. You can do the same thing as this with free software called Tyre. They are charging you yearly and they are also charging the campgrounds for the information they are going to feed to you through this software. So essentially you are subscribing to campground advertising Stick with Streets and Trips or get an RV standalone GPS.
  • You are right, that's stupid expensive! $37/year? Every year you use it? Naw, unless you plan on making only one trip you are better off buy a Garmin style GPS with free updates and using that for you travels.

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