The 5 best places to rent a motorhome or van between people

You are looking for a campsite-car for the holidays ? Discover the platforms that share ownership of vehicles and tenants.

Are you planning a camper getaway? Two solutions are available to you if you do not own this kind of vehicle. Traditional renters on the one hand. The advantage, among other things, is that recent and regularly maintained vehicles are found. But in recent years, web platforms have emerged to rent a camper between people. The prices are much more attractive, the abundant offer and therefore adapted to your choice of stays, the configuration of your family. The platform manages insurance and assists you when completing the rental contract.

In order to help you make the right choice, here are the 5 best places to rent a camper between people.

1. Yescapa

Yescapa already claims 125,000 users and more than 10,000 vehicles available in 25 countries in Europe, including France.

As with other motorhome rental sites among individuals listed below, the deposit of ads is free for the owners. The site and the mobile app are very well thought out. He is also one of those who steal the commission by trip.

Advantage: a large number of vehicles available.

2. Wikicampers

The platform based in the Basque Country has 3,000 vehicles available. As on Yescapa, you will also find Wikicampers many practical articles on leisure vehicle trips. Navigation on the website and its mobile application are easy.

Advantage: the large number of vehicles available.

3. Hapee

Hapee the third most recent actor is not only a platform on the web. It offers additional assistance to accompany tenants in the use of their vehicle. However, Hapee does not have a mobile application.

Advantage: Brand advisors are physically present in the partner concessions of CLC Loisir, Loisireo and CLC networks. An asset for those that the whole internet stops.

4. Campanda

Partner of the Michelin group, Campanda is a website created in 2013 in Berlin. He also connects people wishing to rent a motorhome between people. But not only, since it also connects leasing potentials with rental agencies.

Advantage: it claims over 26,000 vehicles available in 42 countries around the world.

5. Outdoorsy

Not known in France, Outdoorsy is yet a giant of renting recreational vehicles among individuals. Born in San Francisco in 2015, he offers motorhomes, including some XXL format, vans, vans, caravans...

The few vehicles available in France on the site, to date, are offered by professionals.

Advantage: it’s a useful resource if you’re planning a trip to United States , in Canada or Australia in particular.

Why rent a motorhome for individuals?

There are several platforms for renting a camper or van between individuals (see above).

The former sees it as a way to depreciate their investment during periods when they do not use their vehicle. The latter find, near them, very many vehicles at prices lower than those practised by traditional renters: from 40€ per day for smaller and/or older models.

Conversely, a professional renter can offer globally newer and regularly revised vehicles.

How does it work?

You visit the website of the platform, you choose the vehicle according to two first criteria:

• The place where you want to get the motorhome,
• dates of the stay.

The available vehicles are then displayed. Then, in a second time, you can refine the search depending on:

• Your budget,
• desired configuration of the vehicle,
• ♪ options (climatization, television, authorized animals, travel abroad, number of beds...), etc.

Also carefully look at the number and content of notices that may be filed by previous tenants. You can then send a booking request to the owner. Free to accept or not. If he says yes, you have to make the payment, secure.

Owner and tenant sign a rental contract on D-Day, prepared by the platform. The latter contracted a clean insurance . No need, for the owner, to take a step with his own insurer. Assistance is provided to the tenant. The platform is about 15% to 30% from the daily rental rate.

Rental camping-car : les autres alternatives

If the rental of camping-car between people is a waste, note that there are a multitude of professional camping-car hires in France and around the world. Below you will find a non-exhaustive list. Also know that motorhome dealers often offer car rental.

Among them: Reviews Car Away and Hertz Trois Soleils (the variant of these rental brands), Blacksheep Camper (vans), Camping Car Online or Motorhome Republic, (for overseas rentals), Evasia, Indie Camper, Vanloc, Wevan...

So, ready to rent a camper between people?