I think we need to agree to disagree. I'm just trying to point out that we're all different. Yes, you can go sit at the pool or in the lobby. Sorry, but that's my point. I don't want to sit, not by a pool or in a lobby or anywhere else. I want to walk around. Walking around a hotel and walking around a campground are two different experiences and I would rather walk around the worst campground than the best hotel. And I usually find people in campgrounds to be more friendly to strike up conversations with.

Gosh....and I can do the tent AND sleeping bags AND sleeping pads AND pillow in about 10 minutes up/15 minutes down. I've done it dozens of times and I've done dozens of roadtrips using 1-night camping stays as my choice of lodging very successfully. No hassle at all.

I've also done roadtrips when, for various reasons, I've mixed it up and camped some nights and done hotels other nights. This is usually because of the convenience of the location of the hotel vs. the location of the campground. This is especially common in cities. If I'm visiting a bigger city and want to explore the city itself, the campgrounds are usually too far out to be convenient. But I always enjoy my evening in the campground far more than I enjoy the evenings in a hotel. Far more. No contest.

I've also done trips where our entire trip is spent in a hotel (using flying trips where a car isn't needed, in places like WA DC or if we're just doing Disneyland and using the shuttle from airport to hotel, for example) and the only reason for staying in a hotel is convenience for that particular trip. So I'm not anti-hotel. But I don't enjoy staying AT the hotel at all and only use it as a place to sleep and dress. I never spend any time at the hotel itself. (Caveat to this...when the kids were younger we would take an afternoon break from the rides at Disney and go back to the hotel for a swim because the kids needed a break. I, myself, prefer to go-go and not do this because I can swim anywhere so why waste prime vacation time doing it, imho. YMMV.)

Anyway, there's no one right way to travel. Roadtrips and camping may not work for you. That's cool. But it works for me and many other people. So we just need to agree to disagree on this.