Man maths

[Mansfieldman750]

OK OK… it was €100 from Barcelona to Palma + €120 from Palma to Valencia = pretty good value

That’s a bargain, I expected something like €400 return.

 

[Louis II]

I showed your post to our son who is an accountant and to my surprise he agrees with you.
You would be replacing a car with a California. Both vehicles would have costs for road tax, insurance, maintenance, fuel. Different but broadly similar so leave that aside.
Then it becomes a simple buy vs rent comparison and he added the depreciation per camping night to the camping fee.
He was only dropping his dog off and sort of grabbed my iPad and jotted this down but you’ll get the gist.
Only works if you do in fact go camping for 700 nights and stay away from hotels and Airbnbs so don’t go sneaking off to Tenerife for 2 weeks for some winter sun.

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Close but sadly wrong, assuming you also use the Cali as a daily drive you need to bring in cost of the car you would have bought if you didn’t have the Cali as a saving. For ease let’s say that would have been about £40k and, with it not being a Cali, after 10 years it’s going to be pretty much worthless. I think that makes the camping bit of the Cali pretty much free, resulting in a saving of around £50k over 10 years. That’s man maths.

 

[Mansfieldman750]

Close but sadly wrong, assuming you also use the Cali as a daily drive you need to bring in cost of the car you would have bought if you didn’t have the Cali as a saving. For ease let’s say that would have been about £40k and, with it not being a Cali, after 10 years it’s going to be pretty much worthless. I think that makes the camping bit of the Cali pretty much free, resulting in a saving of around £50k over 10 years. That’s man maths.

Nice one ! Yes I get that. The OP would be using his car to get to the £100 hotels and it would be worthless after 10 years so that depreciation needs to be added to the cost of the hotels.
I’ll put the accountant right.
That’s the key to this. Use your Cali as a daily driver.

 

[Kayleigh]

That’s a bargain, I expected something like €400 return.

Yes, I was surprised too. I spoke someone who paid even less with a different company. I used Baleària. Makes it quite a doable trip really and there are loads of routes. Would avoid Ibiza though.