Totally Off Topic -- Renting an RV?

Colin W Kingsbury wrote:
I'm heading back to Alaska with my father this summer for two weeks. I
decided to rent a 22' model from these guys:

http://www.greatalaskanholidays.com/

When you add up the price of hotel & rental car, it's in pretty much the
same ballpark. We're not going to travel constantly, so the gas prices
weren't a major factor. They claim to renew their fleet every year (at the
end of the season they sell all their RVs off like rental car companies) and
I just generally liked what I saw with them.

Before anyone says anything, I'm well aware that an RV is not an optimal way
to explore Alaska. We're going to do
Anchorage-Homer-Kenai-Denali-Fairbanks-Anchorage or something like that. I'd
love to take my dad to a 7-day fly-in fishing camp but neither of us have
the money for that right now, so we'll put up with the madding crowds. And I
don't have the time to fly my 172 up there from Boston. In any case, the
scenery and fishing are spectacular enough to make up for the
overpopulation.

-cwk.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:cy8Wd.92615$tl3.17640@attbi_s02...

No, not a Van's RV-6A. I'm talking about a Winnebago!

Anyone ever rented one of these big hogs for a family vacation? I'm
thinking of driving the family to Cape Canaveral for spring break this

year,

and it would be kind of cool to "carry the house with us", as it were...

Who rents these things, anyway? *Does* anyone rent them?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"





I've missed the rest of this thread and so this may be redundent, but
I've rented RV's for several vacations and used them in a slightly
different manner then you propose. I fly to my destination and then
rent it to drive around in the general area I'm going. I've used Cruise
America in San Diego and Seattle. I've driven the units 6 or 7 hundred
miles each time and have greatly enjoyed the setup. San Diego included
going up to LA to visit the Mouse and when the kids were very young it
was nice to go out to the RV after lunch for naps and when they woke up
just walk back into the park. The Seattle trip had us driving around
the Olympic peninsular for 3 days, just stopping where we wanted. We
stopped in a small town to watch the fireworks on July 4 and they don't
go off till quite late there and so we ended up staying in the parking
lot of a dentist office overnight and leaving the next morning. Flying
out to the destination does limit you to how much stuff you can take but
that's offset by having your hotel on wheels when you get there. The
units I rented came complete with bedding and kitchen stuff so all I had
to do was get food and drink supplies and I was set.

John Theune