Re-Inventing Vacations

Is there a reason to actually buy an RV in the days of sky-high gas prices? One author compared an RV trip to flying a family to Montreal and putting them up in hotels. The RV won. Of course, this trip doesn't include the cost of buying/renting an RV. So I think RVs have a ways to go yet.

An excerpt from the story ...

So why travel in a fuel-thirsty RV when gas is at record prices? Because it’s still cheaper than flying and staying in hotels. Our family of five stayed one night in a New York state park for $20 and four nights in the Kampgrounds of America Montreal South campground for $50 on each of four nights.

Online travel agency Travelocity.com says that it can send me to Montreal in the air and put me in a Knights Inn for the $550 we spent on gas, but that’s per person. And you have stay in a Knights Inn. Nicer hotels brought the travel tab to around $800 — again, per person.

Unlike most hotels, our RV had a refrigerator, a freezer, a stove and microwave/convection oven, so we were able to prepare most of our meals ourselves, making for huge savings. Considering the $125 tab at a creperie in Old Montreal, I didn’t want to eat out very much.

Update: How about an electric RV? Maybe this is what we need.