rockies adventure

bestboy
bestboy Forum Participant Posts: 302
edited October 2016 in Overseas Campsites & Touring #1

We plan to visit Canada next summer, taking in Vancouver, a cruise to the ice fields of Alaska and a journey through the Rockies. Being die hard campers we thought of a motorhome rather than staying in motel/ hotels but the O.H.s Brother ( resident in Canada
) says the campsites are extremely expensive. Does anyone have experience of camping in Canada?

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  • Unknown
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    edited October 2016 #2
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  • bestboy
    bestboy Forum Participant Posts: 302
    edited October 2016 #3

    Thanks for that W T G . No jaw dropping moments , how does that compare to cc sites?

     

     

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  • reynoray
    reynoray Forum Participant Posts: 106
    edited October 2016 #5

    I'm looking at this too.  Does anyone who has done it have the name of a rental company in Vancour with whom they were happy?

     

  • reynoray
    reynoray Forum Participant Posts: 106
    edited October 2016 #6

    Here is some info concerning motorhome rental from Vancouver.  I have just this minute come off the phone with Camper Travel Canada.  There cheapest MH (loads of room for two) on line to rent from Vancouver for 9 nights is showing as $840 (£525 currently).

    This includes no km.  We are going to Jasper / Banff and back so a suitable km pack will cost $1080.

    We have to pay $170 for a "convenience pack" each (bedding / knives and forks etc)

    There is a mandatory Prep fee of $60

    The insurance excess is $5000 per incident.  If we want to reduce that to $500 it will cost $225.

    Bottom line - our $840 rental will cost us $2457 or £1535 for a nine day rental (if we want the insurance).  Still have to pay for petrol for the V8 petrol engine for 2000 miles or so (petrol only 75p a litre or so currently) as well as campsite fees which
    I have still to research. 

    Hope this is useful.

     

  • lornalou1
    lornalou1 Forum Participant Posts: 2,169
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    edited August 2017 #7

    have a look at CANADIAN AFFAIR website. we used them twice and very good service.

  • Morningstar1
    Morningstar1 Forum Participant Posts: 5
    edited December 2018 #8

    We are preparing for a MH tour in June and a booking error landed up giving us a 9 berth MH when we only wanted a 4berth. The 4 berth is costing us an EXTRA £900 - the smaller MH are more popular so are more expensive - be careful in your booking detail

  • Bakers2
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    edited December 2018 #9

    This thread was started 9 October 2016. The delights of this forum 😂😂

    Hope those of you planning your trips get sorted.

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