Four Advantages of a Towable RV

The first and most basic question facing first time RV buyers is whether to buy a towable or a motorized RV. There are some big differences between the two and these differences will greatly affect the trips that one can take. Here are five advantages to choosing a fifth wheel, travel trailer or other towable RV over a motor home.

• Better Living Space Options

The traditional motor home is necessarily required to commit a sizable amount of the living area to the cabin. Designers of the interior space of towables don't have to concern themselves with the constraints of the driver and passenger seats, the dash, steering wheel, windshield, etc. Consequently the interior of towables feel more like a home and less like a van with a bed.

• Better Mobility Options

A motor home presents a real problem for its users when they reach their destination. Either they will have to drive the ungainly thing here and there for their daytrips, errands, and dinners out or they will have had to arranged to tow another vehicle. Towables, on the other hand, once parked are easily disconnected from the vehicle giving travelers a much simpler way to get away from the campsite.

• No Extra Motor to Maintain

Presuming that the vehicle used to tow the fifth wheel or travel trailer will have other uses while the RV is parked at home, towables do not bring the added burden and expense of another motor to maintain. Motor homes require their owners to keep up with all the hassles of an extra vehicle while providing no practical benefit when not on the road.

• Greater Living Space Flexibility

Towables are simply more luxurious. Without the constraints and requirements of a motorized vehicle the living space can be designed to fit practically any need or want, often in surprising ways. Once parked towables can be expanded in many more ways than motor homes, providing a more comfortable living space.


Motorized RVs have their share of fans and they are useful in many ways. But to the average RV owner who wishes to travel in comfort a few times a year or even throughout a given season it's hard to deny the advantages of travel trailers, fifth wheels and other towables.

This article was written by Ray Eddings on behalf of RVSaveALot.com. For more information about fifth wheels and travel trailers please visit http://rvsavealot.com/.