"Get off the road..." [Driver passes by] All right!
Hi I'm Mike of Mike's Road Trip and on this episode I'm going to share with you what it's
like to rent an rv using RVezy, the newest way to rent an rv in the united states. Now,
if you're not familiar RVezy, it's a peer-to-peer platform just like Airbnb, but for RVs.
Now I actually just used RVezy for the very first time on a road trip from Phoenix to Show Low
and given how popular RVing is right now, I thought it might be helpful to share with you
what it's like to rent through a peer-to-peer network
versus one of the big boys like Cruise America, so come along with me and let me show you around.
With Cruise America you have essentially one option, in three different sizes. With RVezy,
you can log on to their website and choose from hundreds of options depending on where you live
and your needs. From Class A, Class C, Fifth wheels, to travel trailers.
On the RVezy website you can narrow your search down to the type of RV you're looking for and even
the price you want to stay within, once you've selected the unit that you'd like to reserve, just
send the owner a quick message, just like Airbnb and they'll get back with you with a confirmation.
One of the nice things about RVezy is that many of the RV owners go above and beyond, often
leaving goodies in the fridge or offering to pick you up at the airport if needed.
After you have your RV sorted the next thing you might want to do is reserve a
campsite Campspot.com is a great site for seeing what's out there you can search by location and
then filter down based on price and or other amenities you might need Campspot is nice for
those newer to RVing since you can browse and book instantly and they have a lowest price guarantee
then on your reservation date pick up the RV at your agreed-upon location.
"Howdy, are you Chris?" "Yes sir." "I''m Mike!" "Hey Mike, nice to meet you."
"So this is it, huh?" Yes sir, it's a 2019 Winnebago it's a 25 j model about 27 foot long
just a good old dependable straightforward RV." "Awesome."
All right so basically you have some underneath storage here little small compartments they have
a little mat that you can put in front of the door to cut down on some of the dust okay uh this is
a little level leveler that i'll show you in a minute okay it's kind of cool kids like it uh
very small storage here basically these are all open available for you to put a couple
little things odds and ends in okay uh this one has the water hose so this is for hooking
up your fresh water on the other side has filter and a pressure regulator built in
let's see on the back have a four bike bike rack oh cool wanna take a bike with you okay this is
something that we just let people use if they want to if not protects the back bumper okay so
on this side we have a much larger storage area oh yeah yeah you can basically have some
uh camp chairs uh propane grill uh there's some firewood but i believe there's still a
fire ban in all of arizona you can't do that okay uh get the leveling pads and then the uh
basically the cradle a little slunky for the for the black water oh okay when you go to clean out
right here we have our electrical hookup so if you look in on this side you'll see it's plugged
in to the generator port so basically you want it either plugged in there or plugged into a campsite
gotcha so if you're boondocking you'll just leave it plugged in and use a generator but the reason
being you want it plugged in here or there is if you turn the generator on and it's not plugged in
nothing will happen yeah so if that happens the first thought is did i plug it back in
yeah yeah so I'm familiar that's happened to you before it's happened to me before
regular unleaded um it's basically 87 octane i tell people just use your rear tire as your
reference point when you pull up to the pump oh okay stop it at the pump and you'll be good
to go uh if you prefer cable when you're there you have cable right here that you can hook up
and it'll play on the TV I personally like to unplug so yeah and then city water fill
so basically when you get to a campsite the white water hose plugs into the rv
campsite the other end plugs into here okay when you turn on the water you have water for the whole
RV so if you if you're not using the holding tank you definitely want to be plugged in here and then
if you're going to be boondocking with fill up. I think it's got about two-thirds of a tank right
now i don't fill it up because i don't add a whole lot of weight for you as you're traveling just
cuts on your gas mileage but uh so those are your two options okay here's the fun part this is your
black water hose you have the end that will fit in to the ground and then basically the other end
just twist on just like so pop that in the ground the other end attaches to a port right underneath
here i see yeah yep so basically you have your black water and your gray water so what you do
this is a master valve okay this is for the black water so basically when you pull this it's coming
yeah so make sure that your hose is hooked up and it is properly affixed in the ground right right
you will not like the way that turns right so basically you twist the hose on you pull the valve
once you hear that it's pretty much stopped yep the gray valve is right here behind it
gotcha pull that that will use the gray wire to flush sure the hose out yup and it just minimizes
the amount of extra cleaning you have to do to kind of rinse it out because you really want to
make sure it's rinsed out yeah otherwise it will smell funny um and then just shut the gray valve
shut the black valve you're good to go yeah okay so it's pretty pretty straightforward so
that's your uh that's the fun part this right here is just access to the propane you won't have to
do anything here propane is a consumable that you're allowed to use on this basically you're
not required to fill it back up before you bring it back so it's 14 gallon tank it's got about
5 8 of a tank which I've had this for about four months now and I've only filled the tank up once
so it's a very efficient rig i think you're going to be fine and that runs the refrigerator and the
water conditioning no just a refrigerator the water heater and then the furnace if you decide
to run the furnace now granted it's been summer so that's one reason why it's been very efficient
I've had people take it out for a weekend and use maybe a quarter of a tank you know
when you're going up to the cold weather areas so yeah i've had a unit a little smaller than
this that went over two weeks without filling the propane and we used a lot because it was
the winter so we had heat going hot water going yep the stove the refrigerator yeah this thing
the refrigerator on this doesn't run on propane it runs on the inverter so that takes some of the
load off but like my sun seeker there the refrigerator the water heater the furnace
a lot run runs on it and we took a 10 day road trip with it with a full tank and came back with
about a fourth of a tank so they've made these rigs very efficient with the way that they run
and then here's your generator which this starts from inside the rig so you don't have to
do anything but if for some reason something trips or whatnot this is where
you would come and there's a little circuit breaker reset if something like that would
happen just call me i can walk you through it but so this is the inside of the RV
it's very straightforward my wife loves it because everything is functional it's got plenty of room
in here you're stocked with plates cups basically everything that you need even some paper plates
left over it it's kind of nice kind of like Airbnb how sometimes when you go there you leave some of
the paper plates that you don't need yeah yeah that's what people do so i tell people hey use
up the paper plates before you buy your own it's got basically a three burner stove works just
like a residential basically turn it on hit the spark lights up okay microwave just a small little
i call it a college style microwave to use a microwave and to use air conditioner you will need
to have the generator on or be plugged to electric so if you're not staying you know out in the
wilderness on your own you'll definitely want to run the generator in order to do that so just keep
that in mind uh right here's your controls for everything uh the inverter so basically the way
this works is this has 12 volt batteries that run everything through an inverter which allows the
the plugs to work and whatnot you want this green light to be on okay so basically if the green
light goes off then either your batteries have run out or it can just trip off for whatever reason so
i tell people just every once a while make sure the green light's on and you can charge it by
turning the engine on or well turn the engine on and then run the generator oh okay but while
you're driving it's also charging too so usually it only comes into play when people are really
off the beaten path for a while exactly exactly and the refrigerator basically runs off the uh the
inverter so have these little Velcro things but what will happen is your refrigerator won't
stay cool so nobody wants to have hot gear no that's not sure yeah this has a really good size
refrigerator on this for being a smaller unit uh my wife loves this our bigger unit our bigger RV
has a smaller fridge doesn't make any sense wow well Chris thank you so much i really appreciate
it and uh looking forward to it mike i hope you have a great time all right thank you so much
some people may be intimidated by driving an rv for the first time and i can appreciate that
but trust me it's not as difficult as it might seem yes you're driving a giant box on wheels
but the engine and brakes aptly provide the power and stopping you need to feel safe
one of the biggest benefits off the bat renting through a peer-to-peer platform like rvz is that
the rv comes complete with everything you need to have a good time uh just like Airbnb where
you would expect there to be sheets and pillows and pots and pans same thing with an RV from
RVezy or perhaps any peer-to-peer platform now the uh that's completely in contrast to what
you would expect from say cruise America where the units come stripped with everything you have
to remember and you have to have a checklist of everything you need to bring and so that takes
a lot of work so that's one of the things that you need to weigh when you go out and rent an rv
something else people may appreciate is that when you rent through rvz or some other peer-to-peer
network is that when you rent your rv there's no corporate branding so you can kind of travel
incognito if you will another consideration is that those big rv rental companies they're buying
in bulk and they're trying to get the best price possible so they don't have a lot of upgrades
in contrast when you rent through a peer-to-peer platform they these are individually owned so they
will typically have a number of upgrades that you wouldn't expect from an rv rental company so a lot
of people may or may not know what boondocking is and that means that you're able to just
camp where you can find a good spot like on public lands such as the national forest or BLM
land and it's one of my favorite ways of camping you get in the middle of nowhere and it's often
quiet and you don't have anyone to contend with and it's it's kind of fun to be off the grid
not to mention it's a lot less expensive to boondock than it is to go to a
full hookup campsite rving is such a great way to travel especially these days it's relaxing
easy to social distance and can be more affordable than a traditional travel
experience rving wraps up your hotel kitchen and transportation into one neat little package
well that's it i hope you found this video helpful and if you have any questions about renting an RV
or RVezy in general leave a comment below i'm absolutely happy to help and if you find yourself
in the phoenix area interested in renting this unit behind me the one featured in this video
I'll leave a link in the description box and if you click that link regardless if you rent this
this rv or another one you'll get a discount from RVezy on your very first
rental so thank you so much for watching and until next time we'll see on the road