I'm not so sure how cost effective renting a campervan is compared to just staying in accommodation and travelling in a standard car. Some of the motorhomes here are just humungous and a mission to drive. Personally I don't really travel cause it just feels like you are bleeding money the whole time. Here you can sometimes get a relocation deal where you get to rent the campervan cheap because they need the van relocated to a different city. What other options you got. I believe there is some sorta train you could also travel on.
Hello, hope you are doing well. There are a few options in Australia. There is the bus network which is very good and cost effective but I felt the regularity meant I would have to go much slower. The hiring of the camper truck was by far the most expensive part of the trip. I did a comparison of hiring the camper and paying camp fees vs hiring a car and paying hotel fees and it came out the same. With the camper of course, there was a lot more freedom to stay in the parks and that was why I went that route. If I was to do it again, and I mean the whole half lap or another long 17,000+km, I would do it much slower and I would probably buy the van and sell it at the end of the trip. Apparently that's a big thing in New Zealand and is catching on in Australia according to some fellow campers that I met along the way. The fuel and food and entertainment costs are a lot cheaper in Australia than the UK so it really was just the vehicle hire that made it an expensive trip. But for a short trip, hiring is the better option. You also asked me to show you the camper in a previous video. I have recorded a full walk through and will try and publish that for you in the next week or so. x
@@RetireandTraveltheWorld You can't just go out and buy any old used van and hope for the best. The best cars are the ones that you find when you are not searching for them, so I say it helps if you are actually living in a place rather than you are going to find a good deal in like the week you have to search for one. Certainly across the ditch where I am you can get a very good used vehicle but its gonna be 1 out of 10 that you look at or less, unless you go to a price point where you will lose too much money on resale.
Yeah that’s a good point. You either need someone you know to look for you ahead of time or spend a few weeks looking. But if your spending 6-12 months then probably you could do it. All things to consider for the future. Or just take the bus lol
@@RetireandTraveltheWorld its certainly doable. My last toyota I owned for 3 years and I think put 16k ks on and only lost 200 dollars or about 93 pounds in the difference what I paid and sold it for. I did have to put on a new tyre at some point but that's about it. But had to walk away from a lot of very shite cars in the same price bracket.
I don't think you have much of an understanding how vast the area they covered was. Western Australia has no trains that go north, so impossible to travel from Perth to Broome by train. The area is sparsely populated with long distances between towns, most Australians who travel to these places are either fly in, fly out workers (so travel by plane) or the 'grey nomads' who have retired, bought camper vans, RVs or caravans and are doing the 'Big Lap' which is a road trip around Australia. And then there's the foreign tourists who also come for the adventure of seeing these remote places, camping out and experiencing the outback. Relocation deals don't really work either because the towns are too small, so no rental place also it's not worth dropping a van at one town when the next one is hours away. It's horribly expensive to fly out, cheaper to drive out. I live in Australia and would love to visit Broome, but it's so expensive to fly there, from where I live (not Perth!) I can get a cheaper airfare to travel to Asia, and off season to Europe!
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I'm not so sure how cost effective renting a campervan is compared to just staying in accommodation and travelling in a standard car. Some of the motorhomes here are just humungous and a mission to drive.
Personally I don't really travel cause it just feels like you are bleeding money the whole time.
Here you can sometimes get a relocation deal where you get to rent the campervan cheap because they need the van relocated to a different city.
What other options you got. I believe there is some sorta train you could also travel on.
Hello, hope you are doing well.
There are a few options in Australia. There is the bus network which is very good and cost effective but I felt the regularity meant I would have to go much slower.
The hiring of the camper truck was by far the most expensive part of the trip. I did a comparison of hiring the camper and paying camp fees vs hiring a car and paying hotel fees and it came out the same. With the camper of course, there was a lot more freedom to stay in the parks and that was why I went that route.
If I was to do it again, and I mean the whole half lap or another long 17,000+km, I would do it much slower and I would probably buy the van and sell it at the end of the trip. Apparently that's a big thing in New Zealand and is catching on in Australia according to some fellow campers that I met along the way. The fuel and food and entertainment costs are a lot cheaper in Australia than the UK so it really was just the vehicle hire that made it an expensive trip. But for a short trip, hiring is the better option.
You also asked me to show you the camper in a previous video. I have recorded a full walk through and will try and publish that for you in the next week or so. x
@@RetireandTraveltheWorld You can't just go out and buy any old used van and hope for the best. The best cars are the ones that you find when you are not searching for them, so I say it helps if you are actually living in a place rather than you are going to find a good deal in like the week you have to search for one. Certainly across the ditch where I am you can get a very good used vehicle but its gonna be 1 out of 10 that you look at or less, unless you go to a price point where you will lose too much money on resale.
Yeah that’s a good point. You either need someone you know to look for you ahead of time or spend a few weeks looking. But if your spending 6-12 months then probably you could do it. All things to consider for the future. Or just take the bus lol
@@RetireandTraveltheWorld its certainly doable. My last toyota I owned for 3 years and I think put 16k ks on and only lost 200 dollars or about 93 pounds in the difference what I paid and sold it for. I did have to put on a new tyre at some point but that's about it. But had to walk away from a lot of very shite cars in the same price bracket.
I don't think you have much of an understanding how vast the area they covered was. Western Australia has no trains that go north, so impossible to travel from Perth to Broome by train. The area is sparsely populated with long distances between towns, most Australians who travel to these places are either fly in, fly out workers (so travel by plane) or the 'grey nomads' who have retired, bought camper vans, RVs or caravans and are doing the 'Big Lap' which is a road trip around Australia. And then there's the foreign tourists who also come for the adventure of seeing these remote places, camping out and experiencing the outback. Relocation deals don't really work either because the towns are too small, so no rental place also it's not worth dropping a van at one town when the next one is hours away. It's horribly expensive to fly out, cheaper to drive out. I live in Australia and would love to visit Broome, but it's so expensive to fly there, from where I live (not Perth!) I can get a cheaper airfare to travel to Asia, and off season to Europe!