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Campervan and motorhome hire in Australia

Campers, camper vans, RV, motorhomes, mobile homes, whatever you call them in your country, these vehicles are the perfect way to explore Australia !
Wide open roads, endless beautiful spots to pull over and park your campervan, the freedom to travel and stop where and when you want, it is no wonder so many Aussies on retirement buy themselves a mobile home and spend years going around the country.
Nothing beats finding your own camping spot in the wild, parking your campervan, having a cold beer admiring a wildly coloured outback sunset and a dinner cooked on the campfire under the magnificent starry skies.
And it makes economic sense too, when you compare the cost of hiring a car and finding accommodation in a room every night then you may well find it is cheaper to hire a budget campervan than to pay for a car and a room, and ofcourse it is much more of an adventure!

Apollo Motorhome Holidays is a proudly Australian family owned company, and strives to exceed your expectations with their award winning service.

Enjoy superb rates on the most modern fleet of campervans throughout Australia, New Zealand and the USA. They offer a wide range of top quality motorhomes, campervans and cars for hire.

As the largest privately owned recreational vehicle operator in the Southern Hemisphere, you can rest assured that you are travelling with the best when you choose Apollo for your RV holiday.

Their rental motorhomes and campervans are designed by engineers and built by their own leading motorhome manufacturer Talvor Motorhomes, or by manufacturers such as Winnebago.

Cheapa Campa makes exploring Australia a breeze. With a full range of rental campers & motorhomes at fantastic prices Cheapa Campa allows you to travel in comfort on any budget.

Hippie Camper is an Australian family owned and run company specialising in budget backpacker campervan & motorhome rentals for the budget conscious traveller. They started in 2006 and currently have four branches on the east coast of Australia from Cairns to Melbourne.

Discovery Campervans is an Australian owned and operated company that specialises in organising campervan rentals in Australia but also in New Zealand.

Their fully qualified team handle your reservation queries and overlook all rentals placed. The benefit to you of having a dedicated team is that it provides a level of professionalism, product knowledge and experience to ensure that your rental goes smoothly, and you can enjoy your trip without any hassles. Yes, REAL People work here!

Discovery Campervans has been built and developed with the support and continuing assistance of the largest campervan rental companies in both Australia and New Zealand....Britz, Backpacker, Apollo, Kea and Maui, but also Camperman, Cheapa, Hippie, AutoRent, Hertz and Jucy.

Grey nomads

When you start exploring Australia in your campervan you will come across an Australian phenomena; the grey nomads.

These are retired Aussies that either cruise around Australia or move up and down with the seasons to follow the good weather, with their motorhomes and caravans. Have a chat to them when you meet them, you will brush up your knowledge of Aussie language, and they are always full on good info on where the good free camping spots are.

Re-location deals

If you need to get across Australia in a relatively short time then you may be lucky and find a deal which campervan rental places do not advertise too much, but the seasoned travellers know about it; the re-location deal.

Campervan hire companies offer one way rentals, where for instance you pick up your campervan in Melbourne, cruise up through Sydney and Brisbane up the east coast, and then leave your camper in Cairns.

Ideally (for the camper hire company) then another traveller would fly in to Cairns who rents the camper to drive back to Melbourne, but at times things don't work out that well for the campervan hire people and they end up with a lot of campervans on one side of the country and not enough campers on the other side.
This is when the offer the "re-location deal".
The terms can vary but in general it works out to you getting the campervan without paying the normal hire charges and you get a certain number of days to drive the camper van back to where they want it, usually you pay for the fuel, and possibly also the insurance. This sounds like a good deal, but be realistic about it, Australia is a bloody big country, and to drive from Cairns to Melbourne via Ayers Rock in five days is not a relaxing holiday, and probably also quite dangerous. You need to rest from time to time and there are quite a few regions in Australia (most of the interior) where it is not advisable to drive at night because cows, kangaroos and other wildlife will be on the road at night, and at normal highway speed you will not be able to avoid them if they suddenly appear. Relocation deals can be a good thing but be realistic about your itinerary. See our survival tips page for more info about outback driving.

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This website is no longer associated with Wicked Campervans, we had already removed links to Wicked in early 2009 for our own operational reasons, but towards the end of that year the Brisbane Courier Mail reported that almost the entire Queensland Wicked fleet had been ordered off the road in a Government crackdown on unsafe vehicles. According to the news reports Wicked was asked to have its fleet checked but then decommissioned 77 of its 86 vehicles in Queensland and submitted only nine remaining vans for road safety tests, five failed and only four passed! One disgruntled backpacker who had an accident even set up a Facebook group to warn others of his experience.