My wife and kids and I went camping with her sister and family. They suggested that since they have an RV that can sleep 8 people that we all just stay in it instead of using our big 10 person tent. I thought “hey why not it’s got to be almost like sleeping at home”. Not so much, here is why.
I love camping and I don’t mind roughing it but my back is shot and I have to be comfortable to sleep. I own camping cots and I love them. Since i have had the camping cots, camping is so much more enjoyable. With that in mind I thought that the RV bed would be even better, and it was not. Except for the fact that the RV bed was bigger than the camping cot, the camping cot was comparable in comfort to the bed. The bed had a little more cushion but it had a hard piece of plywood underneath and the camping cot was softer. We still slept in sleeping bags to keep warm because we did not use the heater in the RV. We cooked outside, we sat outside and ate outside so we could have just stayed in a tent and been just as comfortable. Like I have said before, camping cots are very comfortable and very cost effective. So save some money and buy some camping cots and a tent instead of the big RV, and with the price of gas going the way it is you probably won’t be able to drive the RV much longer anyway.
Tags: camping, camping cots, RV, sleeping bags, tent
May 16, 2008 at 3:21 am
I agree about RV beds. We have been traveling in our RV for a year now and the first thing we did is get a new mattress, a tempurpedic, love it! The RV stores are all selling the sleep number beds. The kids don’t seem to notice though.