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How will your family spend the weekend? Catching up with home chores,
rushing between team practices, waiting
in line at the mall? Or taking time to
enjoy new experiences together?
Regular short breaks from overscheduled
lives benefit both adults and children,
health and wellness experts agree.
Many recommend weekend mini-vacations as a great way to relax and
recharge. But how can you get away
more often without runaway travel costs
becoming yet another source of stress?
Spend a weekend, not a fortune – go
RVing!
Vacation Cost Comparison
A recent study for the Recreation Vehicle
Industry Association (RVIA) by tourism
research firm PKF Consulting USA points
the way to family vacation savings. The
study found that on average, a family of
four traveling in their RV spends 27 to
62 percent less per day than a family
taking another kind of vacation – even
including the cost of RV ownership.
From folding camping trailers to motorhomes, every type of RV offers an
economic advantage over driving a car
or flying, staying in hotels and dining in
restaurants.
Owners agree that going by RV saves
them money. In a summer 2015 RVIA/
Cvent poll, 82 percent said they
planned to use their RV more because
they could vacation for less. More than
half (57 percent) said they save 35
percent or more when they go by RV.
The numbers show what RVers know:
buying a recreation vehicle is a longterm investment that pays big travel

dividends for years to come.

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filled with family fun are less
than a day’s drive away in any
direction! One such minivacation
might start in Pittsburgh at the city’s 77and eating in restaurants, a family of
acre Zoo and PPG Aquarium (www.
four could expect to spend approximatepittsburghzoo.org), home to thousands
ly $1,240 on travel costs associated
of amazing animals. Then on to Lanwith this three-day trip, according to
caster, for a day of learning and fun at
PKF’s research. For an RVing family,
kid-friendly destinations including the
the bottom line would be hundreds of
Science Factory (www.lancastersciencedollars less, depending on the type of
factory.org) , Hands-on House (www.
RV they own. Multiply these savings on
handsonhouse.org) and Dutch Wonderlonger vacations and trips by air, and
land (www.dutchwonderland.com).
it’s clear: an RV is a real value! For more
information, visit www.GoRVing.com/
Driving the family car, staying in motels
affor