How Much Does it Really Cost to Stay in an RV for Winter in Florida?

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$$ "How Much Does it Really Cost to Stay in an RV for Winter in Florida?
If you're considering spending the winter in an RV in Florida, you'll want to watch this video. From the cost of fuel, campgrounds, and down to the price of groceries, we'll give you a comprehensive look at just how much it really costs to live the RV lifestyle in Florida. We also share some budget-friendly tips for saving money while still enjoying the best of what the Sunshine State has to offer.
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@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

We hope us sharing our budget helps you in your planning if you are heading to Florida! Good luck with the giveaway! Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@BrokenDreamsReborn Жыл бұрын

We are glad to be a part of the Sunshine Squad! ~ Shion and Matthew

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

We are glad you are our friends! Save Travels & see you at the pot luck! 😂 Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@LivingtheSilverLife Жыл бұрын

Honestly, you guys didn’t do too bad until the end when you add it all together. 😂😂. That makes it sound crazy expensive. Maya did the best sticking to her budget. Happy to be a Sunshine Squad Member. 😂❤❤

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

We know right 😆🤣😂 Maya always does so good 👍 - and good luck with the drawing! Thanks- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@DianeGaulin 2 ай бұрын

@@ChasingOurSunshine SHE CLARENCE SHOPPING @NEPO REST IN PEACE LOVE YA MAN MY BUDDIE AT THE SHRINE AND BEST FRIENDS DADDY SHELLY HAMILTON HOWS KELSEYS HEAD LOL SNOW SLEEDING FUN FUN FUN SHE LIVED GOT A BLACK BELT NOW HAMILTON FAMILY TERRI MY FAV SIS LEMON DROPS HOWS YA PILLOW AHDA

@JarheadAndGingersJourney Жыл бұрын

We are doing a little better with our budget since we have been dining out way less. Proud member of the Sunshine Squad! ❤

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

You guys are looking so good! Keep it up!! Thanks & good luck- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@DianeGaulin 2 ай бұрын

@@ChasingOurSunshine i like to cook at the rv fire pit over the fire @SAT NIGHT GATHERING

@coachsean9982 Жыл бұрын

We put a deposit down on a 5th wheel saturday. House goes on the market this week. We are getting close! Sunshine squad!

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

That is awesome! So excited for you guys! Good Luck & thanks- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@acacia5809 Жыл бұрын

Nice work on the video. Happy to be part of the Sumshine Squad.

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

We are glad to have you in our Sunshine Squad! Thanks- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@Wandering_Kerrs Жыл бұрын

Sunshine Squad. Thanks for breaking down all your costs. You got a lot of fun for your money, and that is important!

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome! We did have a lot of fun & enjoyed our stay in Florida. It was more expensive compared to prices we are use to in Wisconsin. Thanks & good luck! Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@SuperSushidog Жыл бұрын

Great Job guys. We've never wintered over in Florida as we know the RV parks can be very expensive. We've been FTing for 4 years now. Three of those we wintered over in a RV park near Brownsville TX. It's only $170/mo + electricity (which usually runs us in the $65-$85 a month range depending on how hot it gets). Water is free and we avail ourselves of free, private hot showers too. We fill our propane tank 2-3 times during the 6 month season for $50-$60 a pop, as our fridge only runs on propane. We'll love to boondock so will be returning to the Quartzsite, AZ/Imperial Dam, CA area this year. This is the bargain of the century at only $180 for the entire 7-month season (86 cents/day). For that you not only get a place to stay but unlimited water, dump and trash disposal. There's no electricity, so you must be able to provide your own. The first time we were there we only had 2 golf cart batteries for energy storage. And though we got by fine, we had to run the generator in our motorhome more than we liked. Our 620 watts of solar was sufficient, but our battery storage was marginal at best. So last winter we pulled our 2 aging GC-2s out and replaced them with 560ah of LiFePo-4 prismatic cells (8 -280ah cells). The reason we chose these cells was that they provided the highest capacity we could fit under the steps in our MH, where our old golf cart batteries used to live. We've been boondocking with them for the last 4 months. They cost us just under $1,500 along with a 350a BMS and a 5a active balancer. These cells have a 6,000-cycle projected life at 100% DOD. This means that if we cycled them 100% every single day, 365 days a year, they would last over 16 years! So, they're obviously going to wear out from age before they wear out from cycling as we only use 15-20% of their capacity daily giving us enough reserve capacity for several days of bad weather before we have to run our generator for charging. They even saved us 35 lbs compared to our old FLA batteries and have over 5 times their capacity. We replaced our converter/charger with an 80a lithium compatible Progressive Dynamics model and added a battery-to-battery charger to allow our alternator to charge them while driving down the road without frying the alternator. My entire solar/battery system with a 1,000w inverter, a liftable array mounted on the side of our MH, battery monitor and all wiring, breakers, etc. cost about $3,600. But we saved more than this in the last 4 months alone in RV park fees. It should last us a very long time indeed.

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

WOW! You guys are doing amazing! We did have a full hook up site in Port Mansfield TX that was $275 plus electric we stayed at in January 2022! We liked the prices of campgrounds in Texas much better!! Florida is expensive!! We are heading to Quartzsite ourselves this winter & going to take a stab at boondocking there! We have two 270Ah 12V Battle Born Game Changer Lithium Batteries and our on board generator. We are not sure how much boondocking we will be doing so not sure if adding solar will be worth doing, but we are open to the possibility of having it added on. We hope we run into you guys out there so we can see your set up in person! Thanks- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@jessepitre7095 Жыл бұрын

Sunshine Squad! Thank both of you so much for your service! Really enjoy your videos

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

We are so glad to hear you enjoy our videos and coming along with us! Thank you & good luck! Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@heilwoodworkingandmore1892 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for another great budget video. Helps those of us in the planning stage. We enjoyed the meet up with the rest of the Sunshine Squad!

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it and we learned a lot from others budget videos ourselves! We wanted to be fair and honest to help others plan now too! Hope to meet you out on the road! Thanks- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@rayedwards6022 Жыл бұрын

Very informative video....keep em coming, SUNSHINE SQUAD !!!

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Joel, Deb & 🐕 Mayav

@barryholiday8998 Жыл бұрын

Sunshine squad 👏 Thank you for the breakdown of your rv costs. It is helpful.

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome and good luck on the drawing! Thanks- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@RVAmerica Жыл бұрын

Sunshine squad. RVING is definitely not cheap. The campgrounds will definitely drive the cost up. I'm afraid we were involved in some of the eating out cost. 😊 Lynn and Danny

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

Haha! You were with us at some of the restaurants & a winery! Cheers 🤣 & thanks - Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@mollyjackson5731 Жыл бұрын

What great information! Thank you for sharing all your cost and being so honest with it all!

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! You are so welcome! Thanks- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@marjoriem9227 Жыл бұрын

SUNSHINE SQUAD P.S we love all your videos

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

Oh- thanks so much!!! Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@robertdoyen5434 Жыл бұрын

Great video. The camping costs not bad we have 3 of our 6 trips in and we are at $360 and all are 4 day trips. Thanks From Wisconsin

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

That is awesome! You are doing great! Safe travels & Thanks- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@BoukenisAdventure Жыл бұрын

Sunshine Squad. We enjoyed this video. For myself, I was born and raised in FL and it was great seeing so many places I have visited may times.

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it and Florida is a good place to winter in! What part of Florida did you grow up in? Deb's parents lived in Sebring for ten years. Thanks & good luck- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@BoukenisAdventure Жыл бұрын

@@ChasingOurSunshine I was born at MacDill AFB, however our home was in Lehigh Acres outside of Ft. Myers. I grew up in SW Florida and spent most of my time on Sanibel. I went to college in Lakeland and Gainsville. As to where I lived in Florida post college, I lived in South Florida (Sunrise and Kendall Lakes), Altamonte Springs and Kissimmee. Since I have a minor in Marine Biology I spent every available weekend in the Florida Keys. I am very familiar with Sebring (race at the track and fished all those lakes in the area). Of course, with my parents in Lehigh Acres and while living in the Orlando area I traveled up and down US 27 weekly. Sebring was the place to stop for a break or food. Continue chasing your Sunshine. We just started our KZfaq channel with the goal to also full-time after the kids get out of college. We love watching your content.

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

We really liked the Ft Myers area and the come back there is incredible but don't blame you for heading to the Keys when you could! But driving on US 27 is the worst! 😂 especially between Spring and Orlando!! Stop light to stop light to stop light and crazy drivers! We are so glad you have found our channel and hope we can help with you going Full-Time with our videos! We are excited for you!

@joannedavis7346 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info! Sunshine Squad!

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

Thank you & good luck! Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@Colleen1978 Жыл бұрын

Sunshine Squad! Great video! We sure thought of you during the meetup. We wanted to drive up but just couldn't fit it in this time. 82 days...

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

We are sorry you couldn't make it, but understand and next time then! We are so excited you are down to 82 days!!! It will go by fast!! Thanks & good luck! Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@ledetsrvingwithanimalsbamb815 Жыл бұрын

Sunshine Squad, we hope to joining on the road soon

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

We hope you get out here too! RV Life is amazing! Good luck & Thanks- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@scottmcclain6376 Жыл бұрын

Sunshine Squad Thanks for the info. Very interesting.

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

You are so welcome! Thanks & good luck- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@donwest5067 Жыл бұрын

Sunshine squad!! Thanks for sharing!

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

You are welcome and thanks! Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

Hi - could you please email us at info@chasingoursunshine.net We need to tell you something! Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@Britten-or9vh Жыл бұрын

Great job this is a great video

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Appreciate you letting us know! Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@pattystango8998 3 ай бұрын

Sunshine squad

@ChasingOurSunshine 3 ай бұрын

Yes! Thank you!

@garykrissteiner1004 Жыл бұрын

Sunshine Squad. Thanks for the video! I wish our pet expenses were as low as yours! 😄 @BigDogRV

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

We would not want your dog food bill either! We are sure it is Audrey Cricket that pushes it over the top with all she eats! 😆 Thanks & good luck- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@philstucker1312 Жыл бұрын

Sunshine Squad.

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@journeysendrv Жыл бұрын

Sunshine squad!!! 🤞🏼

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

Yes!! Thanks & good luck- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@tomtanous8608 Жыл бұрын

Sunshine Squad

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

Thanks & good luck- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

Hi- could you email us at info@chasingoursunshine.net You are the winner of the RV Life Pro Membership. A new drawing was held as the original winner did not contact us.

@nicoleyoung3790 Жыл бұрын

Great info! I was shocked to find fuel costs so low but was really wanting to know. Also we found Publix to be a bit much for basic items, compared to our NY stores...we stayed last winter 5 months Jensen beach, ty for all the info.

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

We found groceries and basically everything- more expensive in general in all of Florida than what we are used to in Wisconsin. Thanks- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@stuwardw Жыл бұрын

Great video as always! You guys will save a lot in Arizona next winter compared to Florida. Sunshine squad

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

We hope Arizona is cheaper, as we found Florida to be expensive compared to Wisconsin and last year in Texas. Grocery, restaurant and basically everything had a higher prices. Thanks & good luck! Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@stuwardw Жыл бұрын

@ChasingOurSunshine Much cheaper, but a lot less to do also. But we had an amazing time from Tombstone to lake havasu and many places in between. Oatman, the desert bar, Scottsdale, picacho peak, saguaro national park, the desert museum. And everything south of Tucson are some of our recommendations.

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

@@stuwardw Thanks and just added all of it to our list! We will be doing six New Mexico state parks in a row in October & November too! So looking forward to this trip!

@stuwardw Жыл бұрын

@ChasingOurSunshine that's awesome, we stayed near white sands national park in NM, it was great

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

@@stuwardw We will be right near there and we can't wait to see National Sand Dunes!

@AWOLlcdrpeterson Жыл бұрын

Love the video! You guys definitely have some interesting spending habits! Lol Was surprised to hear that you stayed in Zachary Taylor RV Resort (resort??). Peggy and I had to bug out to Zachary Taylor RV Resort on 9/27/22 to escape the path of Hurricane Ian. We actually moved from Orlando, driving closer to the storm, but avoided the worst winds in a safer campsite. We had a fun and rocking night living through the storm, but the resort and RV made it out without any significant damage. That Campground looked like an interesting place to winter over, but not really all that exciting.

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

Our spending habits are ours! Cheers! 😂 But Zachary Taylor RV Resort was nice to stay at for a week & they had an amazing free dog washing station in the dog park! Crazy you two stayed there to ride out Ian- Thanks- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@AWOLlcdrpeterson Жыл бұрын

@@ChasingOurSunshine We could use a dog washing station at this point! Wish we were closer!

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

I wish there was a dog wash station here too! Maya needs a bath!

@katrinabellofatto1246 Жыл бұрын

After watching your video I'm afraid to look at our numbers for the winter in Florida. Yikes how did Joel spend all that money! 🤣🤣

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

Haha! Joel is so expensive!! Can't take him anywhere 🤣 Miss you guys! Thanks- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@AWOLlcdrpeterson Жыл бұрын

We are waiting for your video....what's OEDG's budget for Alcohol? Lol

@katrinabellofatto1246 Жыл бұрын

@@AWOLlcdrpeterson you don’t want to know. LOL

@WBJAdventures Жыл бұрын

cool

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@TimeoffwithCuzinEddie Жыл бұрын

Wow! I wonder if that thousand trails membership would have brought that down. It is a time when the cost of things is up especially food.

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

It did help a little as we had February without any camping fees as we were at Peace River and Thousand Trails Orlando. But the Encore Park- Fort Myers Beach was $20 a Night and not worth the extra cost to stay there! We hope next time we go back we can use TT membership more. We did find the cost of everything- food, restaurants, breweries - higher than what we are used to, and then add on inflation! Thanks- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@josephharrell5724 Жыл бұрын

Nice video! We hope to spend winter 2024 in Florida using Thousand Trails/Encore exclusively. It will cost us $20 per night / $400 for 20 nights in the keys if we are successful in booking it. Other than that it should be free but keep in mind that Peace River- TTO - Three Flags are in high use season limiting us to 14 day stays and only 2 reservations so encore has to fill the rest. Encore only has 90 day booking window for Adventure members so there will be changes due to booking issues. Hope it all goes well. P.S. those schwintec slides have to be maintained meticulously cleaning and lubing them before every retraction. (Only use spray on dry lube)

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

@@josephharrell5724 Good luck with the Thousand Trails shuffling!! The Encore parks in Florida are not the nicest - doable & just know not to expect an “RV resort” & are hard to make reservations in!! We talked to a Lippert Tec and he showed us how to clean the tracks and said not to use anything on them. - Thanks- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@markreynolds9570 Жыл бұрын

How do we know the actual cost if you stayed at TT parks? It doesnt help at all.

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

We had no camping fees at the 3 of the Thousand Trails park and paid $20 a night at Fort Myers Beach RV resort for 2 weeks. We do go over the cost of our Thousand Trails Membership in our other video. We have an Elite basic membership and paid $7495.00 for it. We have figured out how many times we need to stay in a Thousand Trials over the next four years to offset the cost of the membership too- you have to make it all work for you! Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@dandej5317 Жыл бұрын

How did Florida compare to Texas?

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

Good question!! Both were so much FUN! The weather in Florida was better than in Texas! Texas had way better hiking! But Florida was way more expensive!!!! We really enjoyed both! Thanks- Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@RickandDarcirvadventures Жыл бұрын

We thought this was suppose to be a Live

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

Oh- sorry not a live- just a video with an giveaway!

@moxymaxx5350 Жыл бұрын

Sounds comparable to sticks and bricks cost. You only live once.

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

We have found our budget is just about the same as what it was when we lived in our house! But with RVing we are traveling to other areas and having a lot of fun! But man Florida was expensive for groceries, restaurants and everything compared to Wisconsin! Thanks Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya

@RickandDarcirvadventures Жыл бұрын

To bad we already have rv life pro 😩

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

You can still win a free year!!

@RickandDarcirvadventures Жыл бұрын

@@ChasingOurSunshine ok. Sunshine Squad 😀

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

@@RickandDarcirvadventures Good Luck!! 🙌

@RickandDarcirvadventures Жыл бұрын

@@ChasingOurSunshine thank you. Be safe

@ChasingOurSunshine Жыл бұрын

@@RickandDarcirvadventures You too and Happy Birthday Month to Darci!! 🎉