Caravan

A mattress in the trunk or a fully integrated motorhome? This is a tough choice (or perhaps it depends on how you look at your wallet). While young people in particular like to travel inexpensively, professional RV camping can certainly be described as a luxury experience.

Our tip: start small and move up slowly. You have to find the desired level of comfort yourself - but you should never lose contact with nature, because that's what camping is all about. For your first trip, it's best to rent a vehicle and slowly learn the ropes.

If you have a special destination and would like to make day trips from there, a caravan or trailer is a good choice. You can park it at a campsite and create a temporary home away from home. With the uncoupled car you are then maximally flexible during the day.

If you want to change your overnight stay frequently, a camper van is better suited. These are available in many different sizes and variants – from simple converted buses to the luxurious motorhomes that are popular in the US.

Spending the night anywhere you want - that sounds great in theory. However, not everywhere where you could stay is officially allowed. Please inform yourself in advance about suitable parking spaces for your vehicle.

Often you have to decide between a campsite and a caravan park. A camping site is the all-inclusive variant with electricity and water connection, sanitary facilities, shopping facilities and much more. Caravan sites and parking spaces are much more spartan and offer only the bare essentials - but also at a much lower price or even for free.

These days, wild camping is forbidden by law in many holiday destinations. A major exception is Scandinavia, where the so-called "Right to Roam" allows you to spend the night in the great outdoors. However, it goes without saying that you do not leave any traces at the place where you spend the night.

Which license or license attribution allows you to drive a caravan/motorhome? This will depend from country to country, so please do the due diligence of checking out local laws for the area you are traveling in. Often it will depend on your home country highway code and licensing laws for motorvehicles.