Motor home vs 5th wheel

Bird Freak wrote:

John S. wrote:
Simply put if you are going to travel more than sit for the winter then a motorhome is the best. IF you just go and sit for months at a time or go and sit a month and move and sit a month a with wheel shows it value there. If you love to travel there is no better way to travel than a motorhome. THe singers use busses for that reason too but they put on up to 20K miles or more a month. I put on 30K plus miles a year and would not have anything but a motor home. In fact I am thinking of getting a Class B for short trips. I am getting spoiled and love the benefits of a motorhome. WIll have to sell the born free though.

I used to believe this when I had the MH but its just not true anymore. With the new 5ers having about all the same features as MH's now I can set up and break camp as fast as I did with the mh. Other than set up and break down there is no difference whether you sit over night or months at a time other than your mh running gear just sitting there. I loved my mh but I love the 5er as well. Both have advantages and disadvantages. Most high end mh's depreciate about what a 5er cost in the first 2 years if that's a factor for you. Almost everyone here likes the MH but you are in the A class section. Now try the 5er section and see what the outcome is. I'm just saying everybody loves what they have now and a lot will make comments on something they have never owned.

True somewhat. I'd bet many here were once a fiver & travel trailer & pop up and tenters at one time. So a lot of the comments come from many years of enjoying the camping lifestyle one way or another. This would be our experience.

Now that we own a DP motorhome I can say to tear down and set up the MH has a very slight advantage being all the controls are inside the coach. All others have to exit the vehicle and unhook from the truck to use the auto levelers if you had them. MH's would be a lot faster than any fiver or trailer that did not have automatic leveling, which mostly are found on high end fivers. But, I have seen many fivers and travel trailers not leveled or chocked while setting up so that could reduce some time for them.

But for me it wasn't the time. It was the climbing over the dually fender and parking and the fact the truck just sat in the drive otherwise. The gas mileage in our MH is every bit as good as my dually was if not slightly better. The view is better and it's way more comfortable on the rear end. As I commented in a earlier post, our MH has tons more storage than any of our fivers did and its way more roomier inside with the floor plan we have.

No one is bashing fivers, we owned 4 of them and enjoyed everyone of them. Our last one was equipped with auto leveling. I think most people as they move through their RVing lifestyle and continue in there old age end up getting a motorhome just for the simplicity of it.