The entire Le Monde du Camping-Car team wishes its readers a very happy new year 2025. And what can we wish motorhome owners for this year? Well, after the health, happiness and peace of families… we have a wish for these next 12 months of campervan ownership: more welcome and fewer constraints!
But what are these constraints that weigh on motorhome owners, and which we would like to see eased this year? The prices, the welcome, and a few other little things too!
Prices that no longer rise
When you buy a motorhome, you obviously look at the price of the vehicle at the dealership. It's clear, it's mathematical, it's a number, an investment that you make once. But of course you also have to think about the costs: equipment, maintenance, insurance or even… diesel of course. The question of purchasing power is more general than what concerns the motorhome. It also concerns our everyday expenses. So what would it take to reduce this price constraint? Economic recovery, international appeasement, a political miracle? It's not a given, but we can always hope for it.
Read our article
Motorhome prices in 2025: our survey
1000 ways to stop
We are arriving in 2025. Between 2000 and 2019, the number of areas was multiplied by 4 (from 1000 in our first guide to service areas to 4000 just before Covid). Since then, the figure has remained around 3,800. We note that areas have been removed (those which were in poor condition) and that others have been renovated, to become real small “campsites for motorhomes” with payment per night, automatic barrier, etc. At the same time, apps allowed us to communicate the addresses of car parks where we could park for a night, or more. And the number of motorhomes has exploded. Result: many municipalities charge a high price to motorhome owners who stay in their new fully equipped area… and prohibit parking everywhere else. So fewer constraints, that means stages of all types (plush areas, simple parking lots, patches of grass in private homes and nice little campsites), and that also means towns that welcome us for what we are: visitors curious to discover its riches!
Also read our article
Where are you allowed to sleep in a motorhome?
And lots of little things more
What could still make our travels easier? Lots of things that would be good news for everyone (beyond the practice of motorhomes): vehicles that consume less and pollute less, mild weather (without the climatic disasters that are happening more and more even more terrible), a geopolitical appeasement (again!) which allows us to travel further… This is all we wish you for 2025. And it is not certain that 12 months will be enough!
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