Keyne
Senior Member
It's great to hear you are renting before buying. That's a great move. We did that before we bought and it really helped us decide on overall size, layout and options.
In addition to the above recommendations I found it helpful to download the manual of the van we rented. It helped me familiarize myself with the systems and appliances and know what questions to ask when we picked up the rental. Not sure if your situation but I was trying to convince my wife so I really thought about the systems and scenarios and advance so it was a smoooooth trip.
One thing to think about with a rental. We selected a campground close (within 2 hours) of the rental location for the last night because we had to drop it off by 11:00AM with empty tanks, vacuumed and exterior washed... (also had to search and find a suitable place to wash a 10 foot high van). If we had a long drive it would have been really hard to do that. The fine print mentioned that you drop it off 2 hours before the time you picked it up (we picked it up at 1:00 so had to drop it off at 11:00).
One last comment would be to join the Travato Facebook group. They are nice group of people. Our Roadtrek FB group helped me a lot when we first got the van. They are complicated machines so it was nice to talk to people that had learned how to use it.
In addition to the above recommendations I found it helpful to download the manual of the van we rented. It helped me familiarize myself with the systems and appliances and know what questions to ask when we picked up the rental. Not sure if your situation but I was trying to convince my wife so I really thought about the systems and scenarios and advance so it was a smoooooth trip.
One thing to think about with a rental. We selected a campground close (within 2 hours) of the rental location for the last night because we had to drop it off by 11:00AM with empty tanks, vacuumed and exterior washed... (also had to search and find a suitable place to wash a 10 foot high van). If we had a long drive it would have been really hard to do that. The fine print mentioned that you drop it off 2 hours before the time you picked it up (we picked it up at 1:00 so had to drop it off at 11:00).
One last comment would be to join the Travato Facebook group. They are nice group of people. Our Roadtrek FB group helped me a lot when we first got the van. They are complicated machines so it was nice to talk to people that had learned how to use it.