Average Electric bill for month at RV Resorts - RV-Dreams Community Forum

Speedhitch · RV-Dreams Family Member

Average Electric bill for month at RV Resorts

mcw50 · RV-Dreams Family Member

Ours has been running about $70+/month this year....was only $60 last year, but this year we are direct billed from the electric company and last year the park did it...and I suppose the rates went up as well. We have 50amp and do about 6 to 8 loads of laundry a week in our Splendide combo laundry unit.

ahoweth · RV-Dreams Family Member

I think this one is pretty tough. It really depends on so many things. How you use electric appliances, where you are, how the RV park chooses to charge you are just a few.

We have stayed at so few RV parks that charge extra for long enough to have to pay it, we really don't have a feel for it. We just don't camp that way very much. However, $100 a month should cover it just about anywhere and with any usage. We have paid as little as $7 and as much as $50 and we do use our convection oven and our washer/dryer and don't skimp on air conditioning or heating with electric heaters. In short we have seen a huge range of charges. It is interesting to note that in some states, local laws do not allow an RV park to sell electric services. Oklahoma is one. In that state if you pay your electric bill it is paid directly to the electric utility providing the power not to the RV park. That's not to say that they can't charge an extra flat rate per day for AC or for 50 amps service.

-- Edited by ahoweth at 07:16, 2007-04-01

Judy · RV-Dreams Family Member

We have found since going full time this winter in Az. some charge and some do not. River Breeze in Ehrensburg did and so did Mission View in Tucson, however Beaudry's RV resort did not in the winter months but do in the summer months because of AC. Desert Trails also in Tucson did not charge. We do not have washer/dryer and our electric ran between 50 and 60 a month at times we did use the AC but again that was at a place which we didnt have to pay electric. So it can vary. State pks in N.M. during summer months do not charge for electric. Places simply add more to the site for staying and not charge for electric.
southwestjudy & Bob & 2blackdogs

bjoyce · RV-Dreams Family Member

We have seen electric rates run from 8c/kilowatt-hour to 18c/kilowatt-hour. We use between 15 and 40 kilowatt-hours per day depending on how hot it is with our 40' 50AMP motorhome with a Splendide washer-dryer. That gives a monthly range of $36 to $216 for a 30-day month. A Splendide washer/dryer load runs about 2 kilowatt-hours. Every time we have a meter, even if we are not paying for electricity, I write down the starting and ending kilowatt-hours so we know our usage.

-- Edited by bjoyce at 11:02, 2007-04-01