Alberto Ferreras |
Zamora (EFE).- Motorhome tourism is experiencing a second boom as a result of the covid-19 pandemic, as confirmed by motorhome drivers and companies in the sector, who reveal to EFE how much it costs and what it is like to live with the house on your back with reason for the Autokaravania concentration and the Mobilizas outdoor leisure fair, which are held in Zamora this weekend.
Both of them point to the freedom of not having to depend on accommodation reservations or a pre-established plan to opt for this type of tourism in which there are authentic mobile homes that include all the comforts that can be enjoyed in an apartment. , but with the advantage of having it in the middle of the countryside, next to the beach or in the city, depending on where you park.
Motorhomes, widespread in many European countries for the last 15 or 20 years, experienced a first moment of boom in Spain some two or three years before the pandemic and the covid-19 favored a second moment of expansion.
“People who were loyal to the hotel tried this and no longer want a hotel, it is a sector that has come to stay,” Carlos Calleja assured EFE, who together with Joana Quiñones shows some of the motorhomes and campervans that They are for sale and for rent in Cavaranea, one of the companies in the sector with offices in Zamora and Valladolid.
Motorhome prices and options
Three beds, one of them double and another that is lowered from the ceiling by means of an electrical mechanism, shower, bathroom, living room-kitchen, refrigerator, air conditioning… One of the motorhomes that they have taken to the fair does not lack anything or It has a lot to envy a house, despite the fact that its price, 80,000 euros, is much cheaper than what an apartment costs in most cities.
Regarding the cost, companies and fans present at the Zamora fair have agreed that a new motorhome can be purchased from 50,000 euros with a ceiling that can reach 150,000 or 200,000 euros for the most luxurious home-vehicles, while second-hand motorhomes can be found from 20,000 or 25,000 euros.
For those who want to try this type of tourism there is also the rental option, from 85 euros per day in low season to 150, the cheapest in July and August.
In a motorhome at 80 years old
In some cases, motorhomes start renting and end up buying and in others the love for nature tourism leads them first to the option of the tent, then to the tent-trailer, later they opt for the caravan that they move with a hitch. to the car and finally they decide on the motorhome.
That is the evolution followed by the octogenarian couple formed by Imke Schmah from Berlin and her husband Fernando García de Dios.
Arriving from Madrid at the Ifeza de Zamora fairgrounds by motorhome, they have stated that they have traveled more than thirty countries and there is practically no corner of Europe that they have not done in a motorhome since they bought it in 2004.
Imke Schmah explained that she likes the freedom that this type of tourism gives, in which they have also introduced their children, who now have their own motorhome.
Camper vans, the latest trend
For his part, Luis Ángel Martínez from Valladolid, who gave a presentation on this way of traveling at the Mobilizas fair, told EFE that camper vans are added to the three existing types of motorhomes, capuchin, profiled and integral.
Campervans, which are increasingly in demand, have both advantages and disadvantages because they are smaller and that makes them more accessible in the city and easier to park, although with fewer benefits and amenities inside.
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