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This is why we organise our own trips. I plan our route well in advance, detailing what we want to see en route and where we want to stay. Then I book everything ourselves. I avoid commercial sites like the plague, as I said before sticking to National, and State parks and forest sites. Most of these can be booked in advance, but in quiet times and more out of the way areas it is not necessary. In my planning, I make a note of all the campground co-ordinates for the sat nav. Our Canadream motorhome had a built in sat nav.
I've done a couple of organised tours, and since then we do our own thing. OK we miss out on the group activities, but we get a tour better suited to us, we avoid commercial sites, we can go for as long as we like and the cost is about half of an organised tour.
This summer it cost us about £3500 for both of us for the van hire, mileage charges, extra bedding (we always order extra), hotel accommodation and flights from our local airport via Amsterdam. That was for 5 weeks and nearly 4000 miles.
On top of that was fuel (about £400) and campground fees which came in at just over £300. If you stay on park sites, you tend to use your own facilities, and often eating out is not really an option. This really keeps cost down as eating out in the USA is no longer cheap.
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Topic: RV hire in USA
