RVshare customer Joel Hoellein suggests starting small with your first RVshare trip. (RVshare),
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Hitting the open road for your first RV trip is an exhilarating and all-around memorable experience. For those ready to make the jump into RVing without splurging on their own vehicle, RVshare is a perfect option. As the first and largest peer-to-peer RV rental marketplace, RVshare boasts an expansive inventory of more than 100,000 vehicles. Vehicles range from affordable travel trailers to luxury motorhomes, allowing you to choose the RV that best fits your needs.
We talked with RV enthusiast and RVshare customer Joel Hoellein about what makes the rental marketplace so special. Keep reading for more insights on RVshare’s convenient pickup and delivery options, how to prepare for your first RV trip and more.
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Pick Up And Delivery Options That Best Suit Your Needs
RVshare continues to keep customers first by providing a variety of pickup and delivery options. For Hoellein, RV pickup a day before his trip is his preferred method. But for those who desire another method, RVshare’s search engine provides you with the option to choose.
“I always pick it up,” says Hoellein. “I always go to the owner’s house [or] our owner’s meet location. Go through it with them and then pick it up and drop it off. I always pick up a day before our trip. Just so I have time to go through it and kind of get it prepped and ready for our trip and then the day after to get it disassembled and to the owner.”
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Delivery provides you with the time-saving option of having an RV delivered to a specific campground or your final destination. When an RV is delivered to a campground or another location of your choosing, the RV owner typically sets it up and takes it down at the end of the rental, helping keep your vacation seamless. While RVshare includes an assortment of vehicles, RVs delivered to your destination are usually trailers or fifth-wheeler RVs.
As the weather heats up and summer plans ramp up, consider hunkering down at one of a number of RV campgrounds that are centrally located next to water. Among the beach-y options are Grayland Beach State Park Campground in Grayland, Washington, and Magnolia Beach Camping in Port Lavaca, Texas. Both are a stone’s throw from the water and have amenities such as restrooms and showers. You can also book RV campground spaces through KOA, Sun RV Resorts, Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Parks and Encore RV Resorts and Thousand Trails Campgrounds.
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Not sure where your next RV trip will be? Not to worry: RoverPass, GoCampingAmerica.com and Campspot all allow you to book a campground nearly anywhere in the United States.
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RVshare Helps Keep Your Travel Budget Healthy
The cost of owning and maintaining your own RV is often prohibitive. Thankfully, though, RVshare is a great option for those who would rather rent than own. And with an average cost per night of $150, your wallet will certainly thank you. As Hoellein explains, “It’s a lot cheaper to rent it than own it.”
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“And the other advantage is you can always have the latest model,” he adds. “I mean, people are putting up one- to two-year-old trailers. You can have [older] trailers, but typically most the trailers we rent are only one to two years old. And there are different models and different styles.”
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Less Hassle Means More Memories
In addition to flexible pickup and delivery options, RVshare is brimming with other benefits that mean less hassle and more memories for you. A worry-free rental guarantee paired with 24/7 emergency roadside assistance on every booking keeps you focused on making memories. For Hoellein, who documents his RV travels on YouTube for a living, one of his most memorable RV experiences took place during a trip to Oregon.
“We’ve been all over the place,” he says. “But I think the most memorable was [when] I lived in Oregon for two years. And me and my wife — at the time, she wasn’t my wife — but we were writing letters back and forth. And I would tell her about Oregon … I’ve been wanting to go back. So one year or two years ago, we decided to actually take an RV and go to the Oregon coast and visit places that I lived and show my kids. And it was incredible. It was absolutely incredible.”
Start Small With Your First RV Trip
Ready for your RVshare adventure? According to Hoellein, starting small on your first trip is a great way to familiarize yourself with the RV process.
“I think the biggest tip would be make it a small trip,” he says. “Make it a short distance. But just a trip to get yourself familiarized, but somewhere, somewhat local, and really kind of figure out the RV process … The first time we took an RV, I honestly didn’t think my wife was gonna like it. I thought this is a one-time thing. She’ll never do it again. And she was sold. And that’s the reason we keep going. Because Mom loves it. The kids love it. And I love it.”
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Ready To Hit The Open Road?
From beginning to end, renting an RV through RVshare is a seamless experience. Searching for the perfect RV is kept simple thanks to RVshare’s filtering tool that allows you to choose the RV, amenities and cancellation types that work best for you. And RVshare’s Instant Book allows you to get on the road in no time.
