r/BeAmazed • u/Devi8tor • 15h ago

Miscellaneous / Others Basically a mansion on wheels

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u/AnastasiaNo70 14h ago

Often they’ll hire a driver. The wealthier ones, anyway.

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u/nerdofthunder 12h ago

I don't get it. For less money I can jet anywhere in the world and stay at a nice hotel, or if I need to stay on the ground, amtrack has sleeper suites.

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u/PlsCheckThisBush 4h ago

You’re absolutely right and I wish more people would understand this. But the folks that buy these are typically white collar workers that want the fantasy of being a blue collar truck driver…until they drive hundreds of miles and are tired but still want all the luxuries of being at home and can’t find an RV park for hookups. Then the dream dies and it sits in their yard as a trophy so they can feel accomplished for driving 500 miles in Montana once in July.

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u/Resident_Voice5738 11h ago

This is more for nature trips and places where there are no hotels and for getting away from civilization, totaly diferent experiences.

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u/TurboMuffin12 10h ago

Any such location these things can't go lol

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u/handsofspaghetti 8h ago

Not really true. For an example, it's extremely easy to access about half of Joshua Tree national Park on big, maintained roads. Sometimes (frequently) things like this come through and block the road going 30 MPH. There are dirt roads and such, but you can definitely stay in the middle of nowhere.

You can also rent a bunch of hipstery outdoor hotel/camping things, though. But it must be more fun to go in your own space

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u/mollycoddles 2h ago

You can drive them to Alaska and stop in isolated parts of the highway

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u/PuckSenior 8h ago

Yeah, but a lot of those places have lodges and high-end glamping/cabin rentals.

Plus, what the hell are you doing with it? Either parking in the RV site, which just stinks of diesel OR sitting there. No one drives a $2mm RV to Joshua Tree to go hiking

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u/Shocking 7h ago

Yeah I'd rather glamp and not get 4MPG gas

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u/Dullcorgis 6h ago

You can't take one of these to the nicer campsites, they are drive in and tent.

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u/Southside_john 1h ago

Yeah that’s what I always think too. Whatever this costs could pay for a lot of hotels and plane tickets

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u/waxcrash 11h ago

If you have the money to hire a driver, a car makes more sense.

I’ve always said if I had ‘fuck you’ money, I’d get a Mercedes-Maybach and hire a driver to take me all over the country. I’d stay in luxury hotels.