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Originally Posted by badou24
if your camping in say europe .... wet and cold
if your camping in say morocco .... to hot !
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you have to " lug " all that stuff with you !
cheap hotels for me every time !  |
I'm just back from a four week trip and we used campsites, hostels cheap hotels, (and even the occasional expensive hotel (when my wife was paying!)). Good luck with solely depending on cheap hotels - this was one in northern Spain that we booked on line (and paid for in advance). When we got there it was shut. And it wasn't the only one we came across like that. In Burgos we had a choice of hotel or hostel in the same building. The hotel entrance was on the ground floor (as you'd probably expect). The hostel was on the 7th floor with no lift and a external metal staircase. The difference in price wasn't that great.
On the other hand this was a campsite we stayed in near Le Mans in France. It was in the grounds of an old chateau and had some of the best 'infrastructure' (toilets / showers / restaurant/ bar etc) of the whole trip. It was expensive for a campsite but still only much the same as the seventh floor hostel. Yer pays yer money as they say, and I agree that camping gear can turn a racehorse into a cart horse, but on a 'long' trip I'd prefer the flexibility that being able to camp adds.
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