Class C Sleeping Arrangement Question

Test all the beds yourself and give your guest the best one. Also - depending on their age/weather consider putting your kids in a small tent located just outside the rig - their close enough to keep an eye on and many kids think it's cool to have their own fort.

I think you should be more concerned about the "guests" than your son.

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In mine, with no slidouts, the jackknife couch might make a decent bed for short people BUT.....it blocks the entire isle and would make access to the bathroom for anybody in the cab-over a BIG problem.

In a B or C with no slidouts it makes a VERY intimate sleeping arrangement......maybe too intimate.

When we bought our class C, our kids were 8 and 6. Our C has 2 bunks that the kids used for a few years and loved. It was like their own little "room" since they were still small and could put their stuff on the bed with them. Now that they are 15 and 13, they have outgrown them. They outgrew them a few years ago.

Now our daughter uses the cab over as her "room". Our cab over is pretty large. She can sit up in it, get dressed up there if she needs to and she keeps *all* her stuff up there. She hasn't complained about the mattress; she would if it wasn't good enough. I made our son's bunk wider, so it is the width of a traditional twin bed. It's a few inches short, but can't change that since the bunks are on a slide.

We put sheets on all "permanent" beds, whether they are being used for beds or not. We hope it will help to protect them since we use unused beds for storage. If they are being used for beds, they also get comforters and pillows. We only use sleeping bags when tent camping.

-Michael

On my class C, the cabover area is quite comfortable with the pad that's there. I think it may even have been more comfortable than the "real" bed with the original so-called mattress before I put a foam topper on that mattress. There's nothing that needs to be done for the cabover besides plonking the cutout portion of the mattress/cushion in place and laying out a pillow and a sleeping bag (or two).

My jackknife sofa may or may not be acceptably comfortable, I guess, provided you're short enough to fit. I'm too tall by several inches, so the length makes it very uncomfortable for me. I can't say how comfortable the dinette is in bed mode, as I've never slept there, but at least it's long enough for me; I would take it over the jackknife sofa every time.

In hot weather, the cabover bunk can become rather uncomfortably warm and stuffy, doubly so if you don't have side windows that can open for ventilation. A small fan may help that.

I'd be more concerned about putting guests on a jackknife sofa. Often they're not long or wide enough to sleep two adults comfortably. Generally, they become two different levels of cushions when laid out flat. At the very least, you should plan to add some extra padding or an air mattress to the sofa and hope your guests aren't too tall. It's not fun to not be able to stretch out.

As for your son, if he's young enough, he'll enjoy his own fort with a simple sleeping bag and pillow.

Agree with Cruising Spud. If he's young, don't worry about it. It's part of the adventure. Why don't you ask him what he wants?

there is absolutely nothing you can do to make a jack knife couch into a comfortable bed.
bumpy

How old is your son? We first started rv'ing when my daughter was ten. I threw a pillow and a sleeping bag up into the cab :), and she did the rest. As she got older,she felt like she needed more cushioning, so we got her a foam mattress pad.