What do you consider “camping”? If you’re parked at a luxury RV resort with pools and tennis courts and spacious lots between you and your neighbor, is that camping? Or is camping only when you’re at state park campgrounds, among tenters, and just staying for a night so you can fish in the nearby lake? Is that even camping?
Has the definition of “camping” changed so much with our fancy RVs and parks that we’ve forgotten how to define it? Well, you tell us!
After you vote in the poll below, please leave a comment and tell us what “camping” means to you, and if you think, or don’t think, that staying in a luxury resort is camping. We appreciate your time for writing down your thoughts!
You can camp in a tent in your back yard. You can camp in a hammock while hiking part of the A.T. you can camp under a tarp next to a motorcycle. And you can camp in your RV at a nice resort. I’ve done this and more. So what IS camping? Its a mindset. I brought my own shelter. I have my own food, I have enough comforts to enjoy it, and I am protected from the elements. I also have the ability to leave here, go somewhere else, and do it with all my own stuff. I don’t relay on someone else for my shelter tonight. I am camping.
You don’t have to be ‘naked & afraid’, or in the wilderness to be camping. It is a mindset
Who cares how others ‘camp’? Worry about yourself and live your own life.
Not camping. RVing.
No. Somewhere between having A/C, cable/satellite tv, a furnace & a microwave, you’ve crossed the line between camping & RVing. Neither is wrong or not enjoyable, it’s just a change in definition!
Well, I guess you’re basically doing whatever they call it when you stay in a nice hotel/motel. Not camping, is “comfort-docking” a thing?
You’re not camping, but are on a vacation.
it’s certainly not Camping. We prefer to call it Glamping. Happy to hear other suggestions…
As full-time RVers we don’t call it camping. We call it experiencing different parts of the country from the comfort of our home.
Amen!
Not everyone in a RV is “camping.”
“RV Traveling”
I didn’t vote as it seems a form of judging others. When I “RV” (notice no other word used: glamping, camping, wallydocking, boondocking, etc (and I have done them all)) I am doing my thing and you are welcome to do yours. Enjoy yourself and your time however that may be.
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My personal opinion:
Camping = you sleep in a tent/under the stars & you ‘rough’ it.
RVing = you have everything you need (resources) in the RV and you don’t ‘rough’it.
I know there are different levels of doing both. Doesn’t matter how.much the RV cost ( they have walls, bathroom, bed, galley…. Doesn’t matter how much more your toilet cost, it does the same function) or how high end the resort is, you are doing the same thing (within reason)…. ENJOYING THE OUTDOORS…
Safe travels to everyone…..
Does it need a label? If someone enjoys it, so what? In fact, it might just inspire someone to try RVing who wouldn’t do it otherwise.
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I travel, I don’t camp. Camping ended for me once I had indoor plumbing.
Big difference between RVing and Camping.
Our camping is minimalist. Tent, or Mini Van. We don’t stay at Mega Resorts. State Forests are fine for us. It is nice to have a Dunny. We have had a Pop Up, and a 13′ U-HAUL in the past. We made a COVID run from Michigan to Vashon Island, WA in 2020. We Took US-2.
We avoided Humanity. There was always fuel. food, and a camping spot.
Anytime we are away from our home base in our RV, it is camping to us. Camping to us is meeting new and different people from all walks of life and places on this planet. The camaraderie in a campground or “RV resort” is so different than any other travel experience. What is one man’s tent, is another man’s castle!! Everyone has different perspectives, but learn to appreciate and respect all!
I didn’t really know how to answer. Some campgrounds have all the amenities of fancy RV parks. But- don’t really care, let alone think about it.
This is just how we feel, but we are not camping. We are RVing, as we have all the amenities one could think of. We use to go camping with our tent, even tho we had many amenities with us while doing so. We are full timers as well, so we don’t call it camping.
I had just said the same thing to my wife before reading your comment. We couldn’t agree more. “Camping” and “RVing” are two different animals, both to be enjoyed for what they have to offer.
Luxury RV parks won’t let tiny campers like ours in, it’s 6.5’ X 10’ with 6’2” head room. We have traveled around 80,000 miles in the last 6 years and more often than you might think when a huge luxury RV pulls into a camp site with full utilities we seldom see the occupants after the setup. When it’s campgrounds with no hookups or maybe just electric they usually spend a lot of time outside. However if I spent that kind of money on a rig I might not venture out either.
We consider our Class A our “mobile condo.” Our “camping” years are behind us. We get all the comforts of home while we escape the winter cold and snow and can choose a different location each year until we decide where we want something more permanent.
No!
Your on Vacation in a luxury RV resort were your sleeping accommodations are a RV or similar type of place to stay.
Why would anyone do that???
I’ll tell you why.
It’s the RV and resort itself. It’s the people and families you meet when walking the luxury resort. The friendships you can make and everything else that goes along with the RV lifestyle. The wonderful evenings spent outside by the grill or fire enjoying life and friendship.
You git NONE OF THAT when staying in a luxury resort hotel!
No evenings outside, no grill, no nature walks, no way to meet other folks who share the lifestyle with the exception of maybe at the resort pool during the day.
These are just some of the reasons to stay in a Luxury RV or any RV campground for that matter.
Is it really that important for you to call it a Vacation, Camping or just plain old Traveling?
I guess it depends upon how “Hoity Toity” you think you are!
Not my cup of tea but, “to each his own”.
I don’t think of it as camping. I think of it as having a second home that you can move to wherever you want.
You are living at home away from home. They are expensive and offer things that people don’t or can’t use. That is why I will try and find a State Park that offers full hookups. That is all I need to enjoy the outdoors for two weeks.
If you hardly ever just sit or go outside, then NO. If you are enjoying the outdoor space and using it more than your camper’s indoor space, then YES!
I don’t believe it’s “camping” but it can be very enjoyable and a wonderful way to enjoy your RV. After all you bought it so you get to decide where and how to use it
We live and travel full time in a high end 5th wheel and drive a big truck. My husband is camping. I am living and no longer care to go camping. Our mindsets have settled in separate places but get there together. Maybe doing what one does as best as one can, with acceptance and without unnecessary labels, is the best answer to the question.
Last time I “camped” was June 1965 to June 1966, didn’t like it one bit. Now I enjoy taking my mobile “Hotel” suite across the country and seeing what I was defending back then. Yes, I prefer the luxury RV parks the best. Unhook the Toad and see every thing worth seeing within a hundred mile radius, then move on.
Thanks for your service.
We use our 5th wheel to travel to areas where there are biking and hiking trails. Local music and theater as well as history are also of interest. We call it traveling not camping and in fact seldom have a camp fire. This method of travel allows us to sleep in our own bed,cook our own healthy food,and bring our pets.
Since we are Canadian it is nice to head out in late April or early May to a warmer area such as Virginia, where we are headed this year.
My wife and I are in our early 70s and have been doing this for 20 years. We hope to travel this way many more years even if we have to downsize our equipment.
I don’t understand the whole purpose of a camping experience that includes TV, recliners, and spending most of your time inside. To me camping is getting out and enjoying our natural world. I have built four campers, none had TV, air conditioning, or a fireplace, loved them all and all but the recent one have sold for a good price.
Camping is what we did in a tent or just a sleeping bag under the stars at 6 to 50 yrs old. We now RV. Different animal.
Shhh.. yes you are. B.T. Barnum once said……….
You are not camping. You are taking your home with you while sight seeing the country with RV park as a place to put it.
It not Camping its RVing. That is a completely different thing.
Our fifth wheel is our home on wheels that gives us the very best way to travel, meeting new people and seeing the wonders of God’s creation.
If your definition of camping is to sleep on the ground outside or in a tent, then no, sleeping in a RV is not camping. But is eating in McDonald’s dining or is that term reserved for high end restaurants? I think we all define how we use our RVs and that is the beauty of “camping”.
We live in our RV, so when we take it from WA to AZ to a resort, we are just living. However, like today, when we wake up boondocking in the grasslands near Sonoita, I think we are camping.
We camped tents at the lakes and mountains of Wyoming for many years. Now that we “camp” in a very nice fifth wheel, we consder it RVing. More like glamping!
For me camping and RV living are not the same thing. I am in my mid-60s and still enjoy taking off with my tiny tent, a few necessities, and setting up camp in a quiet place where I can see and hear the natural world. That being said, my husband and I also have a Winnebago towable we use for cold weather camping. It’s a small 1700BH, but has more than what we really need. Personally, we avoid resorts, always preferring nature to noise and lights. By definition, however, camp, camping, or setting up camp has many meanings. If going by the definition of “camping” as setting up a place for the purpose of sleeping overnight, then that could mean anything from a tarp to a motorhome. Enjoy it, whatever you choose to call it!
We don’t go camping in our motor home, we go rving with most of the comforts of home. Wouldn’t keep rving other wise.
It’s RVing or living. We live 6 months in the South snowbirding. We don’t camp for 6 months.
What we did 50 years ago in Grandpa’s canvas tent and even in our pop-up was camping. What we do now full-time in our 2019 Renegade Valencia 38RW is RV-ing. Big difference.
I grew up “camping” by putting a tent in a canoe and paddling upriver 30 miles into absolutely nowhere-land. No cell, no power, nothing but a sleeping back on some virgin pine duff. Now, driving an 8000lb pickup dragging a 12,000lb 36′ mobile mansion with (literally!) more amenities than my house doesn’t even compare. The RV has furnace heat, central AC, and easy generator backup which my HOME does not.
But, as for what that “luxury” RV park is, I’d say “gross?” Being packed into sites too tight to let my dogs out (much less off-leash?) isn’t an improvement over camping. I don’t want a pool or tennis courts, just a lake or field respectively. To each their own!
I always say we are RVing, not camping.
Ditto!
But why does it matter? It’s what you want it to be.
To me the key here is RVing. RV is recreational vehicle. I suppose if you consider yourself living in a recreational vehicle then you could be camping.
I consider our Class A a motorhome or motorcoach. So this is our home and we are living full-time in our motorhome not full-time camping in a recreational vehicle. Big difference!!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, same concept for camping, RVing, etc.!
Does it really matter what you call it? Some prefer to leave the sticks and bricks behind for a few days a month or year. They believe they are escaping the doldrums of their life. They are re-establishing connections with loved ones, demonstrating the parenting skills and love they possess. Does it really matter what you think of their experience? It certainly doesn’t matter to me. If you find your bliss in a crowded over-rated environment, God Bless you.
When we take our trailer to an NFS campground, we’re camping. When we stay in an RV park we’re using our trailer like we would use a motel room but with all our own “stuff”.
I call it RVing, a step above camping. I still tell people we are “roughing it” because we do not have an ice maker or dishwasher.
I think there is a difference between camping and RVing. In my mind, camping involves using our trailer as a place to sleep and stay out of the elements. Otherwise we do everything outside with little luxury involved.
Glamping!
RV’ing and/or Glamping. Either is home away from home. Camping is more outdoorsy and even closer to nature than an RV resort.
If no place for a campfire, not camping!!
We do not camp, we travel around in our RV to see the country.
This…exactly.
We are LIVING in our 43′ 5th wheel in our winter home in Mesa AZ. There is no camping involved. There are day to day chores. Drs visits. Road trips. Visiting family and friends. But no camping.
Its not what you drove in and parked it’s your state of mind. If you would rather prepare the meal outside rather than inside, if you would rather eat outside rather than inside, if you would prefer to watch the campfire outside than the TV inside — you’re camping.
I agree with you 100% Jim. Great definition of “Camping.”
We’re glampers and we’re proud!
We take our 5th wheel south in the winter. It is a comfortable place to live. We have many friends and activities at the RV park. We are more active there, than at home, with many outdoor activities. We don’t consider this lifestyle to be camping in the traditional sense.
RVing! Camping is what I do in the boondocks with no amenities such as electronics, power, TV or a microwave.
Not camping. We are traveling. Using an RV is how we travel and live. But since people are not always precise in their language, if someone says camping to describe RVing we don’t correct them. At least not outloud
Whether you are in a Luxury RV or a simple tent. It is camping because and this is a big because, you are not home. You are somewhere where you are relaxing and having fun and meeting new people. It’s not what you are in, it’s what you are doing and enjoying.
Think this out Joseph. If you go on vacation and check into a hotel, you are “not home” and I don’t think folks would call that “camping.” Camping is cooking your meals outside and sitting around a campfire at night with no TV.
And yes, many folks with large motorhomes do indeed go camping. But parked in a Resort Park — ah, I would not call that camping. That is my “big because.”
To each his own. This is like asking what truck is best. Everyone has an opinion. I have tented in the rain and snow. I am now retired and have earned a more comfortable time. Traveling in our RV is camping.
No, we are not camping. We just happen to live in a truly mobile ‘home’. We have all the conveniences that we used to have when we owned a ‘sticks & bricks’ home, but now we can change our location. Although sometimes it can be a challenge when your fifth wheel is almost 47 feet long…..
I (Jef) miss camping, but at my age I really can’t sleep in a tent, getting up and down off an air mattress every two hours to walk to the comfort station…
We love them all depending on location. Glamping, Camping, Boondocking and Moochdocking all in our Class A DP MH!
Traveling/Glamping
camping, no. traveling, yes. and a lot more comfortable than staying in hotels.
We don’t call it camping anymore. We call is RVing. We are retired and have as much time as we want to travel. So, we want to travel in comfort.
I agree, in fact, we never say we’re camping these days. It’s RVing when you are traveling away from home with most of the comforts of home. We love staying at state parks in the northwest, which is different from glamping at a snazzy resort.
Rv’ing, traveling but not camping in what might be consider ‘true camping’ eg, tenting…..whatever floats your boat.. we enjoy the traveling…..
Camping is no washer, dryer, dishwasher or big screen TV. Camping is cooking outside and enjoying the quiet scenery.
If your not home in your comfy bed your camping.
Camping in our Casita at Chiricahua NM with no hookups and barely enough sun to activate our solar panels. Great hiking. Just a tad cool. No cell service, no wifi till we’re out of the park. Excellent.
Glamping is different than camping
My wife and I have a 45 ft. luxury diesel pusher and while we will call it camping occasionally, I tell people that we don’t camp, we RV. I have camped in tents and slept on the ground but those days are long gone. Arthur put an end to that.
I think a person should call it whatever they want. I was infantry in Vietnam and slept on the ground with my rifle and no cover. Later backpacked in the mountains, tent camped with family with and without water / electricity. I am older now and am very happy with my trailer that has water, shower, heat, AC, TV and a real comfy bed. Just being outside, watching little kids playing and laughing, campfires, cooking outside and in general just enjoying my life and the ability to enjoy it. Our trailer gives me and my wife a lot of pleasure and I do not relish returning to sleeping on the ground. If a person doesn’t think I am camping then maybe as you get older your outlook will change. Camping is a state of mind; not what equipment you use or do not use.
Thank you for your service Ace. I totally agree with you. Why try to set groups against each other. Just enjoy your time outdoors however you spend it.
Boondockin.
Definitions give life meaning. I may have gone on numerous cruises (deployments) when I was in the Navy, but that’s a far cry from taking a ‘cruise’ on something from the fleets at Holland American or Celebrity. Staying in a park with full hookups can be called camping, but it really is RV’ing. I have just as much respect for an RV’er in a pop-up tent camper as I do for one in a Newell Super C – but the level of comfort is as starkly different as those between staying on BLM land, a State Park, a KOA or a ‘Resort’ are.
Calling the later ‘camping’, just isn’t accurate.
In ANY RV, we are NOT camping. Rather, we are RVing. If you’re not coming into intimate contact with “nature”, you are NOT camping. I have been in RV parks where someone drives in in their big Class A and hooks up, turns on the A/C and the TV, and they are never seen again until they ‘break camp’. Camping? NOT!!!
I call it “pamping.” A combination of parking and camping. And it sounds a little bit like being pampered.
it is R Ving camping is no full hook ups
I agree with calling it “RVing.” Certainly not ‘camping’. We have a trailer, and I call what we do “glamping”, even when we are truly boondocking (not just “dry camping”). Words have meanings, and being flippant about terms is obfuscating activities.
Used to go camping/RV’ing with a group. I had a 22’ 5th wheel, another couple had a 30’ class C, another a pop up and other friend always had a tent. He would carry on about the rest of us saying that ain’t camping. Used to tell him didn’t say I was going camping, said I was just getting away. Whatever make you happy, all that really counts
When I think of campgrounds, I visualize tents, sleeping bags, outhouses and campfires. Today’s RVs have most of the luxuries and conveniences of home and, in most cases, they don’t park in campgrounds. We sleep inside in comfortable beds, cook on modern gas stoves (and microwaves), watch TV and our campfires are fueled by propane. We now have RV parks to accommodate our massive cowabungas and, in my opinion, we are “RVers”, not campers.
In my opinion staying in a luxury RV in a full hookup RV resort, park, campground, is not camping. It’s RVing!
But let’s not limit it to staying in a luxury RV in a full hookup RV resort, park or campground. Staying in any RV, means you are RVing, whether you have a full hook-up, or are dry camping, or are boon docking. It’s all RVing, just different degrees of RVing.
most Fifth wheels, and Class As are glamping.
There is also a difference between campgrounds and RV Parks.
Glamping
Camping to me, is in a State Park, or somewhere where you can enjoy nature
not where you are paying for many amenities.
Amenities to me man Resort!
Currently traveling in a class A diesel pusher ourselves as “rain-birds” from the PACNW I’ve never considered what we do as camping, we are taking our 2nd home and moving it around. What we did back early in our marriage pulling a pop up trailer and not sleeping on the ground is as close to camping as I want to get. Staying at an RV resort is exactly the same as those who get on an airplane and fly to one. Resort is the key word here!!
No, you are temporarily downsizing.
i wouldn’t know. can’t afford to stay ib that picture…
It’s RVing. Camping is a minimalist experience. If the word luxury appears in the description, it isn’t minimal.
I am living in my moveable home and enjoying the luxury of a resort.
I outgrew camping years ago as I aged. Now I freely travel North America with every convenience of home. No sleeping in strange beds, stopping at gas stations to use filthy bathrooms, or eating lousy food at greasy spoons along the way. It is not camping; it is traveling in style.
I quit camping when I married my present lovely wife as state parks rarely have hot tubs and heated pools, nor the craft rooms, etc.
Pretending
RVing is different from camping. These days, as we have aged, we prefer having our own private bathroom, kitchen and comfy bed. Our dog loves the RV too.
We did “camp” when we were in our 20’s.
I used to be a camper, staying in a tent, sleeping in the ground, etc. Now I am an RVer, and I go RVing.
Me too, Paul. But all our friends call it “camping” so finally, I gave in and now call our RV’ing trips “camping”. Sigh . . . I gave up the fight and just joined them.
Last week, the author of the article about the utility crews taking over their campground, was criticized and called a whiner. I felt sorry for her.
When people spend big bucks on a luxury RV, they want to stay in a nice camp area, not a man camp. Man camps are worker camps, made famous during oil booms and other bursts of worker activity. They are filled with workers, not people retired and relaxing. The atmosphere is different.
We have a few fancier campgrounds in our area. Their camping cabins and campsites have been taken over by workers, and by families who cannot find other housing. Campgrounds have become overflow for the housing shortage.
Recently, while doing a background check for work, as part of my job, there was a link to our local Sex Offender registry. I was alarmed by how many showed their “residence” at that fancy campground. Yes, they have to live somewhere. But your campground should not become a mancamp or homeless camp.
This is like arguing about “How many angels will fit on the head of a pin.”
Who cares…
Your living in a house that happens to have wheels! Are people living in mobile homes camping? NO! Their home has wheels as well.
Next someone will start a service that will come out and hook up your unit so you don’t have to even go outside
It now becomes a mobile home park.
Not camping but condoing!
Staying in a luxury RV in a full hookup RV resort is not camping. It’s traveling in style and we love it! We plan on doing a lot more of it!
Helping to make Marcus, et al. even richer…while they laugh all the way to the bank.
Staying in a resort with your mega sized rv is no different than staying in a condo somewhere. It is NOT camping. Moving about, taking in the sights of this beautiful country, stopping for a few nights in a small town or boondocking in a forest service park w/o hookups is what “camping is all about.
It doesn’t matter what you call it, camping, RV’ing, Glamping, etc… They all have one thing in common, its people enjoying the FREEDOM to move around in the style or manner they choose. The choices they make are often dictated by health, age, monetary cost, geographical location of home base, lack of home base… The thing is we all face the same problem at the end of the day, where are we going to spend the night? Your personal finances and preferences will dictate that. No one is wrong or right over anyone else, individual choice and freedom is what matters. GOD BLESS AMERICA AND HAPPY TRAILS!!
Well said Gordy. You could even call it “parking” if you want. As long as you enjoy what you are doing and are polite and considerate to those around you, call it want you want.
Good answer!
Your glamping
I don’t think that’s camping but that they’re enjoying what they’re doing is what counts.
Camping is whatever one wants it to be, and others’ opinions matter not one bit. You do you.
Absolutely!
Agree!
At 68 years old, I no longer have a desire to sleep anywhere where there is not a thermostat on the wall
I stay in a luxury campground, it’s just that I expect all the luxury stuff you would get with a luxury hotel, nothing less, sorry but I can’t call that camping, I boondock a lot, that is camping along with the campfire and good friends.
We are enjoying our RV in a full service environment. Camping is when there are lots of trees, needles, dirt and smoky fires. We travel in our RV and we usually stay at private parks. Some are closer to camping than others. When we are “home” we are parked on an RV lot with full hookups, friends and neighbors and community activities.
We are not camping even when boondocking. We are traveling around the country 8 months out of the year living in our RV, not staying in a motel or renting a condo.
No, you are RV ing…..usually a world of difference. I love my mattress, bathroom, electricity, running water and comfy furniture.
Per the dictionary: camping is the mooring of a vessel for the apparent purpose of overnight occupancy.
So I must be camping when I moor my 43 ft Class A in a fancy resort.
I think of camping as being in nature, opening my door to beaches, lakes, mountains or trees. Usually National, state or county parks or boondocking. Private parks if necessary. Traveling from place to place, staying a few days or weeks in places like Moab or Sedona, (where hiking is phenomenal) meeting like-minded travelers and outdoor enthusiasts. Living in an RV resort is a different focus. It’s about neighbors , amenities, community, and often long stays. It could be a condo, but it’s an RV instead. 🤔
We don’t stay in resorts, but we do have a 43′ DP with heated floors, dishwasher, washer and dryer, central vac, etc., so I say that we “travel,” not “camp.” Where we stay doesn’t change our “camper,” so we’re “traveling” and “staying” at different places, never “camping.” Similarly, I’d say that regardless of the “camper,” those who stay at a luxury RV resort are “staying,” not “camping.”
According to Wikipedia this is the definition of camping:
Camping is an outdoor activity involving overnight stays away from home, either without shelter or using basic shelter such as a tent or a recreational vehicle.
For me, camping is being outside enjoying nature without the frills, RVing is camping with equipment that makes the experience enjoyable or possible. At my age, I need the comforts afforded by our travel trailer. Those comforts/needs make the experience more enjoyable, but my younger backpacking self would have laughed at it. Circumstances change as do ours needs. I personally have seen sites in upscale RV parks that resemble high end hotels like the one I stayed at in Hawaii. They are not for me as I would feel separated from the wilderness I came to enjoy. All I would say is: Enjoy your travels in whatever way you feel comfortable, call it whatever you want and have fun
Full timer here. I’m rarely camping. My home just has wheels. It’s like job relocation of a different type. Because we work full time still, so I’m at the computer most of the day. But I can still see stuff I never would in stuck-n-bricks in Dallas. Yes. “Stuck-n-bricks” just made that up. ™ heh.
I started tent camping when my family slept in a tent my Mother made in 1950. I tent camped with my 3 children until they were teenagers in 1979. I converted a van for my wife and myself, still called it camping because of the very limited fixtures in the van 1981. First 5th wheel RV 2004. Now we call it RVing because of the conveniences. Cooking outside on a grill not a campfire any longer. Retired now and am able to stay in one location for a longer amount of time, sleeping inside, no longer using sleeping bags on the ground. We loved the tenting lifestyle when we did it. Now we love the RV lifestyle when we do it. Enjoy the outdoors any way you can.
RVing .. Not camping in any sense .. Don’t even enjoy camp fires usually … This describes our friends.
We don’t have a “luxury” RV so when traveling in our cabover camper we “camp”.
While technically you could say that is camping, and the people doing it may tell themselves and their friends they are camping, they most certainly are not. A lot of these folks barely move their RV’s, if they do it’s from one resort to another.
They are missing out on the true sense of camping which involves at least a little bit of roughing it from time to time and enjoying nature, not the inside of their very expensive home on wheels. To each his own!
I have never considered doing anything in a RV as “camping”, we’re RVing. Camping is more about “roughing” it.
Residing with a Luxury RV in a full hookup RV Resort as pictured above as I would define it
as an ESCAPE from REALITY .
I’ve always made a distinction between “RVing” and “camping.” Camping brings to mind tents and sleeping bags; rustic accommodations. “RVing” is traveling with all (or most of) the comforts of home. So “camping” is different than “RVing.” And “campgrounds” are different than “RV parks/resorts.” RVing is like bringing your own motel room with you, I guess!
That is staying in a resort just in your own “hotel room”. Camping is being out in nature.