Just it back from Charleston, SC and thought I'd share my experience. To start, I pull my QS10 with a Subaru Outback. After 4 long trips, I'm still kinda amazed how easily it pulls and brakes. I averaged 21.5 mpg running 70 most of the way over 5 hours each way.
My wife and friends were swimming in a race from the port to Patriots Point, and we stayed on the SW side of town at Oak Plantation Campground. Let face it - it's an RV park, albeit a fairly nice one. There were a few trees down each row, and the bathrooms were fairly new and clean. But out of the 100 or so campers, I saw 4 pop ups. There were mostly class As, 5th wheels, and some large travel trailers. But folks were nice, and I didn't see any nasty looks as we did our cooking and cleaning outside. We enjoyed the shade in the evening and the swimming pool was a nice luxury. But I wish we had booked a campground earlier and gotten James Island Park or the forest service campground north of town. Oak Plantation was nice, bit it just isn't our style.
There were 2 tough parts. First, there wasn't a dish wash station, so did dishes in the site. But where to put the rinse water? Not a big deal. Second, for May it was nice weather, but it was still too hot at bed time to sleep. I have the AC option, but we have never even thought about using it. I wish we had. I think we feel like once we use the AC that we are no longer camping. So we didn't use it, and we slept too little, and so it was a looooong drive back. Next time I will swallow my camping pride. Or just not try to camp during the summer below 3000 ft.