Financial & Travel Musings

As the motorhome owners amongst you will know, it’s not so simple to get appropriate insurance for a motorhome.

That’s down to the sheer complexities of motorhome insurance or rather of motorhome usage. Whilst nobody really likes insurance companies at least in the case of insuring a motorhome most people can appreciate the problems that they have with these policies. After all, car insurance is complicated enough but add in the fact that you’re carting your home and valuables around with you in a big lump of a vehicle and probably travelling abroad with it too and you start to appreciate the fact that complications can easily arise. Even at the simplest level you’ve vehicle insurance plus property insurance plus contents insurance all rolled into one and then with the overseas element added into the mix.

Something of a nightmare to sort out adequately but obvious quite important given the sheer number of things that could go wrong along the way.

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Las Vegas is very much the land of niche hotels. Whereas in other places, it’s the location of the hotel that’s the most important factor in deciding upon a particular hotel, in Las Vegas it’s the attractions of the hotel itself that generally make the decision as to where to stay.

Thus you have a very wide range of differing entertainment mixes open to you depending on which hotel you go for. The most famous is probably Caesar’s Palace is probably the most famous but that’s only because it’s been around so long and more modern s like the resorts like the Stratosphere hotel are always fighting hard to attract your business so the entertainment options on offer can often be stronger than in the more established hotels.

The choice is truly massive with many aiming to attract the family market these days and thus having all kinds of things specifically for the kids whilst others aim at couples or golfing or whatever. That’s not to say that you can’t stay at one place and take in the entertainment at another because that’s exactly what many people do.

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I’ve been on quite a lot of rv holidays over the years and one thing that’s always quite striking is just how different they are considered in different countries and in different seasons.

For example, typically you’ll see the RV photos featuring the wide-open roads of the western half of America with not another soul in sight. Certainly, that’s a common use for motorhomes as any of us who’ve travelled around the “wild west” during summer would attest but it’s far from the only place you’ll spot them.

Very common apparently on the east coast are the older generation of RV travellers who can often be seen in mobile villages as they move around various campsites in large groups. Many’s a campsite can appear to be a retirement home in the New England fall.

And then you get the more intrepid RVers who venture out into the real wilderness that makes up the centre of Australia. You quickly find that the warnings to carry enough fuel and water aren’t just for show. Even on the main highway you can find several hundred miles go by before you can refuel and for those that set off on the tracks with the beefier RV rigs you need to take extra fuel and water to see you through to the next bit of civilisation.

Finally, let’s not forget the complete nutcases who take 40 foot rigs into the centre of cities! Whilst we found it hard enough navigating Chicago with a 25 footer (medium size in America, large in Australia), we saw one crazy person parking (rather better than I do my car!) a 40 footer right beside the water tower in the centre of the city.

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