Rear Corner Bed- bothersome?

We saw a couple different floor plans that the bed was folded when the slide was in. We travel a lot and stay in rest areas overnight. My wife sometimes sleeps when we are on the highway. A mattress that is folded when the slide is in would not work for us.

Climbing over somebody in the overhead bed is a PITA in the middle of the night and using a ladder is a problem especially if you have knee etc., problems and frequency of wee-wee issues. Climbing over somebody in an RV queen bed with access on one side isn't much easier, but no ladder hazard in the dark. Knee injuries or onset of joint problems can alter your RV sleeping accommodation needs. These things are important when deciding on the length and floor plan you want when buy a rig. The twin bed option looks good vs a longer rig with "island" bed.

I scraped plenty of skin off my fingers tucking in sheets against the wall sides of the beds when we had fixed twins in the two back corners of our class B. Regular sheets didn't fit. Figured the corner bed would be the same.

So I'm much happier now in a small C with a rear slide that allows a "walk around" queen. The top third of the mattress folds in when you retract the slide (sheets stay on.) So much easier to put on clean sheets and to make the bed daily. I already had a good set of standard Queen sheets unused at home which fit perfectly and the memory foam mattress gives a good night's sleep.

"Walk around" is a marketing term because there isn't a whole bunch of room on the sides. But it's enough space to get in and out. (When my 72 lb dog decides to sleep on the floor by my side, however, I end up having to slide myself toward the end to get out without stepping on her during the night. Nothing's perfect.)

We did not consider any with a corner bed. Did not want to have to climb over each other and didn't want to sleep with a wall in our face on both sides. Had enough of that with our first B. Okay for one of us but not so good for two as we seldom go to bed or get up at the same time. Add two or three feet to the length of the RV and you can find a better bedroom floor plan with more storage space.

The only bed in the Colby T is the one in the front of the trailer when the dinette is down. When traveling with either my son or wife, one of us has to take the inside spot. Fortunately, neither of them tend to get up during the night like I do, so they are the winners of that spot. My son uses a sleeping bag on top of the sheets, so at least when he is with me, I am not getting uncovered in the freezing cold if he has to get up in the night. My wife, is under the covers with me on the rare trips she goes on. If she has to get up, I will get out of bed to make it easier for her. Since most of the time I am by myself, it is not a big ordeal.

I leave the dinette set up in bed mode all the time and use a small Walmart folding table that I pull from under the bed when I need a "surface". HOWEVER, I absolutely abhor the task of changing the sheets on that bed. It is like having a wrestling match in a box. By the time I finish, I am hot, sweaty, and worn out. Since it is just me, my sheets tend to stay on longer than they probably should. I am a night showerer, though, so that helps.

When my friends ask me what to look for in a trailer, I give them this advice:

1) Look for a walk around bed.
2) Look for a shower you can stand up in AND turn around in.
3) Sit on the toilet and make sure you can close the door. (I can't in the Colby T.)
4) Make sure that the trailer rides high off the ground. (The Colby T is so low that I actually have to avoid some gas stations. If you see ruts in the concrete, I can't go there!)
5) Make sure your black tank is big enough for your needs. (Mine is tiny. But with just me using it conservatively can last about 6 nights.)

If I could change those elements, I would consider my little camper almost perfect.

We also wanted a permanent bed "downstairs" in our C, so that meant a corner unless we got a much longer unit. I sleep on the outside and rarely get up so it works for me. Only thing I don't like is the wall is COLD in the winter but that is not the beds fault.

Everything in an RV is a compromise. If you want a shorter RV you are pretty much limited to a corner bed. We made ours work even though we are in our 60's and I am handicapped. Yeah it is kind of a pain to have to struggle over each other when one has "The Call" in the night but we made it work.

Now my DW has a serious health issue that has made us unable to use the RV this summer because there is no place for her to get comfortable in it. We are hoping her surgery in October will cure this issue and we can get back to enjoying the RV life. I'd hate to have to sell our cabin on wheels, corner bed and all.

Not really big enough, too hard to make up so we opted for the Twin Beds.

Our corner bed is a full 60x80 queen. More than half of the 60 inch foot is open. The person on the outside has to clamber over the foot of the bed, more so than over the other person. It's not a big deal for us, but I'm sure it depends a lot of the person's physical fitness.

It lets us have a nice big permanent bed in a small RV. In our list of must haves for the next RV, a walkaround bed is not a high priority at all. In a perfect world, we would have two twins that double as lounging areas.

Our first rv had one, we were so excited to get that trailer never gave a thought to the corner bed. After the first night we knew we made a mistake. Kept that trailer about 2 months and sold it for a unit with a walk around bed. Never ever going back to that kind of bed. Someone was made to wake up during the night when one or the other got up. Very difficut to make and sheets were custom fit to contour the way the bed was made.