Traveling For The Holidays? Take Your Home With You

Potential travelers wary about stepping into airports, planes, trains and hotels during the century’s first pandemic holiday season could try taking their home on the road by renting an RV for their trip. That is something plenty of vacationers have done over the summer, fueling a trend that portends strong growth for the RV rental industry in the months and years ahead.

“Everyone is adjusting their holiday plans and looking for a more socially distant travel alternative due to the pandemic,” says a spokesperson for Outdoorsy, an RV rental firm, adding that the company is currently “on pace to exceed last year’s November bookings – before the month even starts. Bookings for Thanksgiving are already 106 percent ahead of last year at this point.”

The company recorded a 400 percent year-over-year increase in Labor Day rentals, the spokesperson added, and found that 90 percent of its customers who booked an RV during September were doing so for the first time. All that demand is pushing up prices, though. See below for the cost breakdown to rent a typical motor home during Thanksgiving week.

What's best about RV travel for the holidays is that you and those in your household or "COVID-19 safety bubbles" won't face the risk of contagion at the airport, on the plane, bus or train, or on the ride to or from the airport or station. You can park the RV in the driveway or on the street and sleep there while maintaining social distance from the family you are visiting. (Check local restrictions first — some places don't allow RV parking, even for a few days.)

Check out the full article from SFGate here.

Photo credit: Hero Campers