For the past several years, my husband and I have spent part of our winters in Florida. On our most recent trip we had to dodge bad weather, so our overnight stops have by necessity been short and quick.
Electric only
When we stop driving for the day, we park, level, and hook up. That is, we only hook up to the campground electricity. This saves time with set up and also allows us to be ready to go in the morning with only one disconnect. The electricity will enable the heat pump to work, if temperatures dip.
What about water?
We pack fresh water from home in gallon containers so that we’ll have drinking water and water for flushing the RV toilet. The water containers travel safely inside our RV shower.
If we want to shower we use the campground shower house.
How about you?
Explain your answer in the comments below, please.
always electric and water.. never hook up dump hose only two of us so we can usually go 3/4 days before need to dump. Only hook up when getting ready to depart.
For a one nite stop I normally do not use a campground.
For a one night stop, we always connect to electric and water. We don’t usually to connect sewer, but dump whenever needed using the macerator pumping system.
I always connect electricity and water when stopping overnight. Easy to do and I need power for CPAP.
For a one-night stay, I probably wouldn’t rent a full service site.
We just returned from a trip to Florida. Water and electric only hooked up for the overnight stays. Both campgrounds had overnight pull through sites right near the office/showers. Used the same campgrounds on the return trip. We never even unhitched. The sites were very level.
Electric only just for 1 night.
Overnight stays are almost 100% Harvest Hosts stops. Good battery bank and an inverter powers everything for a night. We don’t even unhook the truck, just find a good spot and put down the jacks to level and for stability.
We typically hook up electricity only.
Fully hooking up means water, electric and sewer to me. I only hook up water and electric.
I hook up because I do not want to travel with the added weight of fluid in my grey or fresh water tanks; however, I do not drain my black on a daily basis.
With 90 gal of fresh water and 50 gal for black and 60 for grey I have no need to hookup water and sewer if we are planning on moving on in the next day or two. If we are spendthrift with water and sewer it is a matter of minutes in the AM to restore our normal travel balance.
Many times, an overnight stop is between dry camping sessions, so we take the opportunity to service our tanks. We almost always plug in to electricity. We’ll refill our fresh tank, and may use that instead of hooking up to city water, but often use city water for the night. (We don’t use our shower, anyway.)
e.g., on our first trip this year, first overnight was a stop from home, but we’d de-winterized, so needed to do a good dump on gray and black tanks. We only used the water hook-up for rinsing (we do have backflow preventers – plural). We used the fresh tank for use in the camper because it was still apt to freeze at night.
If only for one night and we don’t need to dump, then just electric, and only if it’s hot. We wouldn’t usually overnight at a FHU campground though unless we need it to dump, replenish fresh water and maybe shower.
We never hook up to water except to fill our tank. Too many horror stories about leaks in the walls to take a chance. Even a slow drip will destroy an RV in no time. At least when we use the onboard pump and tank, we’l know if there’s a leak because the pump will cycle on and off.
For overnights we only hook up power.
Since our Class-B motorhome is also our driving-around vehicle, setup only consists of plugging in electricity and turning on the propane. Quick and easy.
I would have answered “Yes, partially” if that had been a choice.
My wife has U/C and the 26 gal capacity of our black tank necessitates hooking up. When traveling solo from our home in Fl to the one in PA, no hook up was used.
The requirements for one to hook up for us are health related.
It just takes a moment to attach to water and electric (we need to extend the slide). We rarely unhook from the hitch for overnight stops if the site is level.
We don’t do single night stays. If we rent an FHU site, it’s for at least two days and will include laundry so we use FHU. If we don’t need hookups, we don’t stay where they’re offered.
Carrying jugs of water in the shower instead of using the fresh tank seems silly to me. Why purchase, insure and carry tanks, fixtures and plumbing around if you’re not going to use it? That’s like towing your Class A everywhere to keep from using its engine…..
Thank you, Gail! 🙂 We typically plan our trips to the point that I make sure we have enough water for as many times as we will overnight en-route to our destination (presuming full hookups there). We then run the water pump for our water needs. That allows me to only hook to electric service during each overnight. With only a power cord to detach and store our departure the next day is a bit easier and faster. Thus travel days begin more leisurely. Thanks again, have a great weekend, and SAFE travels! 🙂
Always hook up the electric and sometimes the water.
I will hookup just electric and water, but not sewer (unless it’s shower day), then I’ll also hookup grey water dump. I don’t like carrying a full tank of grey water all day.
It all depends on our needs at the time of travel, if it’s only been one travel day then only electrical power is needed. If it’s been two days on the road, water and sewage for showers then usually pack up only those items prior to night fall. Only electricity during the night. If we are at a campground for three days or more full hookup. If we are set up for a long time, all the bells and whistles.
Have never hooked up to water, just fill the tank when needed. Usually electricity for a/c and microwave.
D. I hook up what I need for the night.
We always do FHU. We generally stop early. Make a nice meal and explore the campground or area. Plus, we don’t like the added weight from the tanks. We’re generally in no rush to get to our destination.
Electric only, we both use CPap machines and run the bedroom A/C for the White Noise. We will leave home with the Fresh Water Tank full of soft water and can make it last two+ weeks using the public rest room showers and toilets.
With us there are times we do and times we don’t. If we were going to be boondocking or coming back from a boondocking area, then I would dump and refill the fresh water. Otherwise we just plug in the electric to make the setup and departure quicker.
We are fully self- contained and we boondock mostly. Driving a class C we don’t bother pulling a car, we just drive it to visit around and back to campsite