No more checkout surprises. Kampi caravan and camper prices now include insurance and fees upfront, so the budget you plan around is the one you pay.
You have been scrolling for twenty minutes, and there it is: a caravan that sleeps four, awning included, R700 a day. Three days in the Waterberg over the long weekend, and the maths is easy enough to do in your head. R2,100 for the van. Add diesel, add groceries, add a bag of wors for the fire, and you have a number. You tell your partner the number. You start planning around the number.
Then you get to checkout, and the number is not the number anymore. Insurance gets added. A booking fee gets added. Suddenly the trip that fit your budget by R200 is now short by R400, and you are either dipping into money set aside for something else or explaining to the kids why the plan changed. Nobody did anything wrong. The site was not lying to you. It just was not telling you everything up front, and that gap between what you budgeted for and what you actually paid is the kind of thing that sours a trip before it has even started.
We fixed that. Every caravan and camper you look at on Kampi now shows one price, and that price is what you pay. Insurance is in there. Our booking fee is in there. What you see on the search page is the same number you see at checkout, down to the rand.
"We built Kampi so more families could afford a proper trip away, not just the ones who already know to pad their budget for surprises at checkout," says Kampi founder JP Voogt. "A rental price should work like a parking meter. What is on the display is what leaves your pocket."
This was not a small tweak. It touched search results, the listing page, the booking summary, and the final payment screen, so that the same total follows you through the whole journey from browsing to boarding. No asterisk, no fine print, no second number waiting at the end.
We watched people build entire trips around a price that was never going to be the real one. Fuel budgeted, campsite fees budgeted, and then a number at checkout that did not match what they had mentally set aside days before. Some people just absorbed the difference. Others abandoned the booking altogether, not because the van was wrong for them, but because the number moved on them at the worst possible moment.
"You should not need a calculator to book a holiday," JP says. "If I tell you the price is R700, I mean R700. Everything else is our problem to sort out on our side of the screen, not yours."
Insurance was never optional, and it should not have felt like a hidden extra. Every trip on Kampi has always carried cover for the vehicle and its contents. The only thing that changed is where you see the cost of that cover: baked into the number you budget around from the first click, instead of tacked on after you have already committed to a plan in your head.
Open a search on Kampi today and every price tile is the final per-day rate. Tap into a listing and the big number at the top is still the final rate. Reach the booking summary and the total just multiplies that same daily rate by your days away. If you want to see exactly what makes up the number, a small breakdown is one tap away, but you will never need it just to know what you are going to pay. The honest number is the only number you have to look at.
Kampi renters have completed more than 6,000 trips, across 408 published listings in 98 towns and cities from the Cederberg to the Kalahari. Every one of those bookings used to carry that same small, frustrating gap between the browsing price and the checkout price. Not anymore.
"Somewhere in the Kgalagadi right now there is a family towing a caravan they budgeted for properly, because the number they planned around on a Tuesday night was the number that actually left their account," JP says. "That is the whole point. Plan your trip on the number you see. Book it on the number you see. Go."
It is a small thing to say out loud and a genuinely satisfying thing to build. Getting the checkout screen to agree with the search screen took real engineering work across pricing, payments, and every place a rand sign appears on the site. Getting the whole household to agree on which caravan to book, on the other hand, remains entirely beyond our control.
If a caravan on Kampi shows R700 a day, budget R700 a day. Take the kids to the Kruger, chase the sunset in the Drakensberg, or find a quiet spot along the Garden Route. The number that got you excited about the trip is the number that gets you there. That is the whole idea, and it is one small reason to feel a bit more optimistic about the next long weekend.
Still weighing up whether renting makes more sense than buying for your family? Have a look at renting versus buying a caravan in South Africa, or if you are trying to time a trip around school holidays and peak season rates, our high season pricing guide is worth a read before you book.
Start your search on Kampi and see for yourself. The price on the screen is the price at the till. Finally.