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...Rotel catalog offers 92 different itineraries, ranging from one-weel dashes from Germany to Italy, France Spain or England to month-long trek across the Middle East, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, Thailand and Malaysia, Australia, South America and the U.S When Peking permits, Rotel will probably offer 30-day tours of mainland China for around $2,000. At prices ranging from about $100 a day for a seven day trip to Rome and Assisi to $2,00( for a 40-day Australian marathon, Rotels are probably the cheapest way available anywhere to see the world...
...easiest. Each Rotel accommodates 39 passengers, a driver-mechanic-cook and a tour guide. By day the group rides conventionally in the bus, with the usual hurried stops for sightseeing and picture taking. In the evening the juggernaut pulls into a camping ground or stops at a village fountain, and the action shifts to the 40-ft. trailer hitched to the rear. It becomes an outdoor kitchen, dining area, dressing room and dormitory. After supper the tourists repair to the sleeping quarters: a morguelike arrangement of 3-ft-wide bunks stacked three high and 13 across, each with a single...
...appeal of rugged Rotel travel lies chiefly in its remarkably low cost. A month-long southern Africa tour costs only $1,500, for example, including the charter flight, and takes passengers 6,000 miles from Rhodesia through Mozambique to Capetown and up the west coast to Angola. A 30-day tour of the U.S. and Canada costs $1,600, also including air fare from Germany (it is not available to Americans because, say Rotel officials, they do not want to compete with U.S. travel operators). A highlight, according to company brochures, is Las Vegas, with "the world's most...
...Rotel's Bavarian inventor, Georg Höltl, points out that his rigs enable vacationers to get to places that do not have hotels or even campsites. His Sahara trip from Tunisia to Nigeria, billed as "the most daring tourist program ever offered," is almost impossible to duplicate by private car. Conventional accommodations are expensive or nonexistent at most stopovers on Höltl's 7,000-mile Indian expedition or his 8,000-mile Peru-to-Patagonia haul. "We go to the interior, where the ordinary people live," says Jan Buchta, a veteran Rotel guide, who likes...
...Though Rotel never advertises, its tours are booked up months in advance. A typical group of Rotelmates includes not only cash-strapped young and elderly travelers but also well-to-do tourists with a taste for the offbeat. "We cater to a special sort of clientele," Höltl admits. "Most of those who sign up come back." From his tour profits, Rotelier Höltl has built a deluxe, 200-room Bavarian-style inn in his native Tittling. There, at prices ranging up to $40 a day, Rotel veterans who have seen the world from the windows of Holtl...