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superrayzor
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Apr 29, 2016

Slide-Outs @ Walmart

I see mixed reviews/thoughts on this.

I am considering my first Walmart overnight stay on this trip, will definitely call ahead.

With 6 people at night, the RV is almost unusable without putting out the slideouts. I can't jackknife the sofa, and the bunks are mostly closed off.

I'm not looking to camp, just park, run in for supplies, eat, sleep, and then head out early in the morning.
  • Dick_B wrote:
    I'll bet the local campground would have no trouble letting you put out the slides.


    I don't know about that. I would phone ahead to make sure.
  • with us it is just DW and me. we put out the bed slide since it is the first one to go out. no need to use the living room slide. but in your case I would use the slides I need and just like said above, pull to the most out back place to do it. be sure to ask if you can park over night with management.
  • Go to the side and put it out over the grass area. While close to the lawn you can fertilize it before leaving.
  • I'll bet the local campground would have no trouble letting you put out the slides.
  • Depends a lot on the Walmart also. Some have large areas around the outer fringes of the parking lots where slides would not interfere with anything. Others don't have as large parking lots or at least remote areas in their parking lots.
  • Slides out at Wal-Mart is generally frowned upon but does seem to be the norm as most RV's these days are barely usable without at least some of them out. My RV can be used with the slides in but it means crawling over the master bed to get to the rear bath, so not ideal and I will put out 1 slide if I can find a safe, out of the way place to do it. Most try to do as stated above and park parallel to the outside or a planter that will allow the slide to not protrude into a lane, and others sometimes park side by side and open their slides toward each other to the inside of a row as not to have it protrude into a lane.
  • I put them out but do make sure they're not hanging out into an aisle. I park along the perimeter of the lot perpendicular to the marked spaces, and as far out as I can.

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