Rubiranch
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Stumps wrote: I know who slept in that bed
Butch Cassidy and Zane Grey have slept in these beds. 
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younchem
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Stumps wrote:Asking about hotels on this forum will be onesided, but I have to say, hotels in general have gotten really expensive, but that is not what kills our trip.
I have 4 kids, two of them order adult meals and eat more than me. It's the FOOD that kills our trip. Lunch out at a fast food place = $35. Lunch in the camper is less than $10. Dinner out is $70, dinner is in less than $20. Multiply that by 14 days, and it makes the difference in what you can afford to do and how long you can afford to be away.
My old popup we had for 4.5 years. By my math, it paid for itself at the beginning of year 3. For this reason, I will not complain about camping fees, I'm happy to be able to go.
besides, as someone already said... in the camper I know who slept in that bed the night before, and I know what they did in it.
And for us its not at all about money. It is more about the lifestyle. But you are right about the food. I had a recent experience staying in downtown Calgary at the Mariott where dinner came in at about $100.00 per meal just for myself. If I had the entire family along it would have added up after a couple of weeks. In fact, it might have added up to new solar panels for the RV!
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WTTCS
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But,,,,,but,,,,,but,,,,,,If you use motels, you keep the wheel spinniing on someone else getting part of your paydays. If you just use your own stuff, you dont turn money over. When money turns over, taxes are paid. By paying taxes, we support all those non rvers, non workers, pregnant teenagers without fathers, daycare, before school care, after school care, wic programs, food stamps, welfare, workers comp, and the other fine opportunites for others. And if you dont eat out, you cannot support those minimun wage entry levels jobs that senior citizens now hold to pay their bills
Geesh, wheres you patrotism?
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younchem
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You are wasting your time here. You may as well go pick on someone else who is not as patriotic as me. I'm doing my patriotic duty by supporting the exuberant lifestyles of oil company CEOs. Take that.
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WTTCS
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LOL is all I can say younchem. That was a good un.
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Alberta-NewMexico
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rather be travlin' wrote:Alberta-New Mexico, if you're talking about only a couple of weeks a year, then I will agree with you that RVing is more expensive. However, there are a great number of folks who spend much more time in their RV who wouldn't even be considered full timers. I know a lot of them who travel to a more suitable climate for the summer, and I'm sure you know a lot of "snowbirds". If you spend several months a year in the RV, then the numbers quickly reverse.
Don't disagree at all, the economics for snow/sun birds and fulltimers will be vastly different from your typical family who has 2 or 3 weeks of vacation and perhaps a few long weekends to spend camping. Of course I would also argue that your typical snow/sun bird or fulltimer "invests" considerably more into their RV set up than your typical vacationer.
Don't get me wrong there are plenty of great reasons to pick the RV over a motel, I just don't believe that "saving money" is one of them for your typical vacationer. At the same time there vacations where a motel/hotel/ B&B makes a heck of a lot more sense than taking the RV.
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Rubiranch
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I thought this was a camping vs motel thread?
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jambo101
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I have been using motels for some time when on vacation with the family as it seems i'm the only one who sees the benefits of camping but on a recent trip with hotels and motels averaging $120 to $150 a night the wife finally saw the light when we visited many provincial parks across Canada and saw how comfortable camping can be so now she wants me to start looking into a class C for next summer
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John S.
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Jarlaxle wrote:Quote:I'm betting that on my long haul days, there's very few car drivers that can out run an RVer.
If I'm really in a hurry, I can clear 1000 miles in a day in my car--probably more out west (where I can set the CC at 85+).
I can go much further in the coach than I can in the truck, I have never pushed 1100 miles in the car but have done so in the coach. I will say that I can average 65 mph in the coach if I am pushing. Not speeding but running the speed limit and using the 200 gallons to only stop for one fill up that day and to take very short breaks every 4 hours otherwise. I know that I can drive faster in the truck but not further in a day or in two days for I will have to crash and rest. If you hit traffic you pull into a rest stop and sleep for a bit then hit the road again.
Now I would rather stay in the RV than the hotel. I have done both and have to do both still but the RV wins when I get to choose.
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Cloud Dancer
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We're preaching to the choir. We're tooting our own horn. I too can come up with a long list of reasons why we prefer to travel, and to stay, in our own RV (and not a motel room).
It starts with a king bed Pillow Top mattress that only my wife and I have slept in, and ends with being on your own schedule.....
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