Enjoy truly unique stay experiences often without any sacrifice to comfort as a fair percentage of AMA Home Camps hosts offer power and or water hookups. Escape the crowded caravan park in favour of a spot on private property and a meaningful connection with a friendly host.

Chances are if you have ever travelled by self-contained RV, you’ve had friends and relatives generously offer you a night or two in their driveway, yard or paddock. Whatever you call it, courtesy camping, driveway camping or driveway surfing, being offered free overnight self-contained RV accommodations is a beautiful thing.

The AMA Home Camps program is a Secret Squirrel (SS) initiative.

The Home Camps Program is based on the generosity of those AMA Home Camps Members who can host fellow members on their property, so if you can, please Affiliate as a Home Camps Host for free, but first, you’ll need to become an AMA Home Camps Guest member. You don’t need to be able to accommodate every possible RV size or be available 12 months a year – even if you can only host smaller Class B campervans, we’d love to have you as a host. Hosts get all the amazing benefits of meeting fellow travellers, plus hosts can also earn amazing rewards based on the number of stays and their tenure.

Insurance to cover hosts is just one of the ways the AMA protects hosts by permitting AMA Home Camps Members to camp overnight and participate in associated activities on their land. To further remove any liability from hosts, the AMA enters into a lease/ licence type agreement with the landowner to ensure any and all liability is placed with the AMA during the camping activity.

Essential public liability backed by Allianz for holding camping and associated activities protects the host in the event of a claim for up to $20mill. Liability insurance helps to ensure that hosts and any volunteers are covered against claims from third parties if an incident happens during a camping activity on their land. All volunteer hosts are also covered with voluntary workers insurance, which provides capital and weekly accident benefits.

For the protection of camping guests and all those hosts involved in the management of registered and insured camping activities on their property, the Automobile and Motorcycle Association (AMA) provides through its public liability insurance policy, an indemnity, limited to $20,000,000 for legal liabilities arising from claims made against a host* (activity organiser), other official or guest* that involves either bodily injury or property damage to a third party.

All camping activities promoted under the auspices of the AMA are provided with this cover upon receipt of a properly completed online stay booking form by members.

In the unlikely event that a claim is directed at a host ‘as an individual’, rather than as a representative of an AMA camping activity, the AMA also provides to that individual the benefit of ‘Directors & Officers Liability’ insurance which provides indemnity against ‘wrongful acts’** committed by ‘individuals’ acting on behalf of an AMA camping activity held under the auspices of the AMA.

Notes:

* Individual cover of $5k death and $25k disablement is provided to persons whilst participating in AMA sanctioned camping activities.

** ‘Wrongful act’ shall mean any actual or alleged breach of trust, breach of duty, neglect, error, misstatement, misleading statement, omission, breach of warranty of authority or other act wrongfully committed or attempted by the Host (Official) in the course of performing his duties as an Official.