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Reason I prefer Mh over motel/hotels is that two years a go we stayed at a motel. I got bit during the night a few times, and didn't feel it until morning. Subsequent all the motels seemed to be renovating with new furnishings etc.
We spent a couple of nights last spring at a motel on the Gulf. The air/heat unit was dirty and the whole room showed a lot of occupancy despite the high room cost. We both got deathly sick with Bronchitis, respiratory infections and ear infections etc that took my wife a few weeks to get over and me most of the year. I lost a little more hearing because of it.
Lots of antidotes but this is what happened to us. I want to go back to the Gulf and other areas to do some fishing and the sun and beach but the MH for just a weekend is too much. So we won't go most likely.
Certainly not going to stay in that beach side motel again.
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Lilliputian
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I imagine it has a lot to do with what kind of motels you stay in. We have a lot of kids and food allergies, so a two bedroom suite with a full kitchen is a necessity when we stay in hotels. We never find that for under $150/night, and then with the taxes they charge on hotel rooms, it's almost always on the plus side of $200/night. Camping is much cheaper for us, as long as you don't factor in the cost of the trailer. I don't know if we'll ever break even on the trailer, but we enjoy it, so it's worth it to us. I especially like being able to do a lot of the cooking before we go and have the food in the fridge/freezer while we drive. When we do stay in hotels, doing that with ice chests is much harder, and we end up spending more on convenience foods and restaurants.
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FunnyCamper
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RVing is about what lifestyle you choose to handle when vacationing.
I want my camper 
but strange also on your calculations because we stay at a state park ON THE beach. $26 per night. The nearest hotels on beachfront are at least $289 per night. I still think I WIN
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fchammer1
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FunnyCamper wrote:The nearest hotels on beachfront are at least $289 per night. I still think I WIN
Of course, you do! IF you are considering lifestyle. IF, however, you are figuring ONLY the cost, it depends a lot on your RV. For example, our last ten years of RVing cost us well over $100K and I doubt that I will ever spend that much in the course of the next ten years as we travel back and forth between PA and FL.
(Nor will I ever regret those years in the diesel pusher!)
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PackerBacker
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Dutch_12078 wrote:If RV'ing was just about the money, a lot fewer of us would be doing it.
That's exactly it.
Asking RV'ers if they would like to use hotels instead of their rv's when traveling is like asking the oil companies if they think electric cars are better than gas ones. 
It's a lifestyle. 
Eric
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FunnyCamper
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fchammer1 wrote:FunnyCamper wrote:The nearest hotels on beachfront are at least $289 per night. I still think I WIN
Of course, you do! IF you are considering lifestyle. IF, however, you are figuring ONLY the cost, it depends a lot on your RV. For example, our last ten years of RVing cost us well over $100K and I doubt that I will ever spend that much in the course of the next ten years as we travel back and forth between PA and FL.
(Nor will I ever regret those years in the diesel pusher!)
I hear you. it is always about lifestyle to me.
figures on paper in true comparison mean nothing to an camper
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I prefer hotels, a LOT easier, much cheaper, and I travel so much for work, I can stay free at any Hilton or Holiday Inn brand hotel anywhere. The only reason we have a camper, is where it goes-no hotel riverside on most great kayaking rivers!
2011 Dodge Ram 1500 Quad Cab, 5.7L Hemi 4x4. 2010 KZ Coyote CL232SS. Perfect for our Mountain Bike and Kayak adventures!
My work tow vehicle is a group of 16 cylinder General Motors diesels rated to tow around 14,000 TONS. I don't need no weight police!
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bigdogger
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There is always a way to travel cheaper or more expensively than what you are planning. Sleeping in the back seat of your Gremlin would be cheaper than the cheapest Motel 6. For the adventurous, you could try hopping a freight train. If I was planning on traveling first class to Hawaii and staying at the 4 Seasons, I could spend a lot more by just wheeling out the G-5, ordering up a few pounds of Beluga Caviar and renting an oceanfront villa. RV travel is a lifestyle choice, much more than a budgetary choice for most of us.
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StanleyandIris
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If we were looking for the CHEAPEST means of travel we would all pack a napsack,take the Greyhound bus and stay in hostels.
We travel for 3 months at a time. The least expensive hotels that are suitable are at least $125 per night with taxes a fees so just our hotel bill would be over $11K. Then there is the food issue and eating in restaurants for every meal. Ick! Our car gets 20MPG, the MH 8mpg. We travel roughly 10K miles. 1,250 gallons of fuel versus 500 - roughly $3K more in fuel costs to travel by MH. So, I think we are ahead on each trip by $8K. We have made 10 such trips, so the MH has pretty much paid for itself already and in a few more trips we will be ahead.
Yes, I can justify anything. LOL What? Add maintenance costs? Never!
There is inherent value in having one's own home while on the road and cookies with milk at midnight.
Now if they would just build a dang bridge to Europe!
Iris
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JaBob
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There are many variables when making such a comparison. For example fuel cost, for example my class A would require 312 gallons for your trip compared to 102 gallons for my car. I've noticed a very significant increase in site costs when motel rates ( depending on area) have stabilized. Main advantage we feel is using your own bed, bringing our dog and not requiring a hard schedule.
Bob
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