About Us

Why Choose Motorvana?

Best Quality, Best Price
You will receive the same high quality of product via Motorvana that you would receive if you book directly with one of our carefully vetted suppliers (i.e. rental companies) — yet our price is significantly cheaper. Our low overhead and laser focus allow us to offer industry leading discounts. Moreover, our suppliers naturally consider us a super-customer because we send them so many customers each year. Therefore our suppliers give us great rates and treat our clients too as super-customers. By booking with us, not only do you save money, time and hassle, you also gain our leverage — ensuring our already vetted supplier will treat you superbly.
Transparency, No Hidden Costs
The total prices we present are true totals, including all mandatory items, any taxes and fees, and the optional items you select. We do not charge a booking fee. And we do not charge a credit card transaction fee. Most of our competitors charge a credit/debit card transaction fee of 2%!
Optimal Specials
The specials offered by our RV rental suppliers and by our European car lease supplier can be quite confusing. So, our software does the thinking for you (and us) in this important respect, determining the optimal special or set of specials for you (inasmuch as any special does indeed apply).
Personal Service, 7 Days a Week
We really listen. We respond quickly, thoughtfully, fully and expertly. We aim to exceed your expectations.
Where & Who
It's nearly impossible to learn where some of our competitors are actually located, much less who they are. Motorvana is based in Portland, Oregon, USA. We welcome international clients (in fact they are our bread and butter). And we personally introduce ourselves on our About Us page.
Great Reviews
Don't just take our word for it. Please peruse (and eventually add to) our multitude of RV rental customer reviews and European car leasing customer reviews. Our customers post their reviews directly to our website. With Motorvana you get the real story. That's how much confidence we have in what we represent and how we represent it.
Established, Proven
Since 1996 Motorvana has helped savvy, independent people worldwide realize their motor travel dreams. Expertly and with a personal touch, we represent motorhome rental and car lease options most booking agencies do not command.
Free Amendments
Free amendments on most RV rentals and auto leases.
Security
We are dedicated to protecting your personal information and keeping it confidential. We do not sell, rent or otherwise disclose your personal information to any unauthorized third party. We use a 256-bit digital SSL connection (Secure Socket Layer) to secure all online orders. That encryption technology ensures that your information cannot be viewed or intercepted by third parties during the order transfer process. Moreover, we encrypt your payment data when we receive it.
Savings, Service, Peace of Mind

It all adds up to savings, service and peace of mind.

IdeaMerge Is Now Motorvana

IdeaMerge

Since 1996 we've been doing business as "IdeaMerge", booking thousands upon thousands of motorhome rentals and French tax-free short-term car leases while developing our reputation for excellence and value.

Yet the name IdeaMerge never really matched what we do. People have always been confused by it.

So, in 2020, we finally changed the brand name.

We are now "Motorvana".

As a business entity we remain Ideamerge LLC.

We haven't changed our business model. Haven't been bought out. Haven't changed ownership.

Same business, same people, better name.

Motorvana

Our new brand name "Motorvana" conveys the unique dynamism and self-sufficiency of the travel products we represent and the clarity with which we represent them. The name also connotes the value you recognize and the peace of mind you realize by booking these products with us and enjoying them with our outstanding support.

Our Motorvana logo symbolizes this complex and vital peacefulness. The logo is inspired by the Renaissance maxim Festina lente, meaning "Make haste slowly" or "Go fast slowly." In antiquity that maxim was typically symbolized with a dolphin wrapped around an anchor, or with a turtle bearing a sail; and sometimes, yes, it was symbolized with a hare emerging from a snail shell.

Our hare also betokens power, luck and elegance. And our snail shell represents the road, a wheel, a springboard, harmony, and the rabbit hole you avoid or ascend from by using our website and benefitting from our other forms of customer support.

Altogether the logo can likewise be viewed as a dragon — symbol of magic, mystery and sacred knowledge and thus the eternal, auspicious but also challenging concomitant of the cyclical, heroic path.

Our customers want to go fast slowly, be self-sufficient, passionately peaceful.

That's precisely what our RV rentals and our short-term car leases — along with our experience and outstanding service — empower our customers to do.

Motorvana: Free Your Travel

 

Our Management

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Managing Director Eric Bredesen holds a biomedical engineering degree (B.S., University of Iowa, 1990). After university Eric worked in the IT industry: for Accenture (in Chicago) and Deutsche Bank (in Frankfurt, Germany). He founded Motorvana in 1996. Eric understands business springs from trust, goodwill, integrity, ethics, empathy and hard work.
 

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Reservations Manager Frederik Beij (nickname "Freik", pronounced Frake) hails from Holland but has lived in the US for over 30 years since originally arriving to play college basketball. Longtime RVer and now owner of a Class A motorhome, Freik plans to retire eventually in his RV. In addition to his extensive knowledge of RVing, Freik brings to Motorvana his many years of experience with Budget Rent a Car and with Alaska Airlines.