Vacationing by Motor-Home!

I recently spent 10 days in a motor-home vacationing in Croatia and I'm here to tell you that a person can learn a whole lot about themselves when they travel by motor-home -- especially when the motor-home or RV is full of other people and those other people don't comprise your immediate family. But assuming everyone present is on reasonably good terms with one another and you're prepared to do some a little bit of give and take, then there's no reason not to enjoy yourself!

Our friends convinced us that when traveling by motor-home you reap the benefits of flexible traveling and substantial savings. So sit back while I try and map out the good, the bad and the ugly of vacationing via motor-home.

The Good:

From a strictly economic viewpoint, camp-grounds usually cost less-than-half of what a hotel room costs and generally the more people you have the more money you save. With 6 people we easily cut our expenses in half which gave me more money to devote to frivolous shopping (t-shirt anyone?). The most popular campsite on the outskirts of Dubrovnik was the Solitudo Campground which charged about 30 euro ($45.00) a night including utilities and was situated within walking distance of the beach.

Eating: In 10 days we ate out maybe 4-5 times. The rest of the time we prepared our meals in the camper. Again -- significant savings here. There was a market in most every town we stopped at and we ate well and cheap. Come to think of it - we ate well and cheap no matter where we ate. I think we ate best and cheapest in the old pirate town of Omis.

Traveling made easy: Without the RV we would have had to rent a car and the cost of a rental far outweighed the cost of filling up the gas tank. And come to think of it, with 6 people and luggage we wouldn't have rented a car, we'd have rented a small bus so we might has well have been in a motor-home anyway! We also wouldn't have seen even half the locations we did see. If we arrived somewhere that didn't live up to our expectations we were outta there. No such luck if you're on foot or stuck in a hotel.

Here are a few comparisons for our 10 day trip (not including the ferryboat fees):