First travel trailer, what should I buy?
We are a family of four, two adults, two small kids. We need a trailer that can sleep us all comfortably. I do not have a tow vehicle yet, that would come after we find a TT. I am in search of ...
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I will weigh in again since you have said that you have camped before but don't like the cab-over.
When our girls were 2 and 5, we had a hybrid. Having our own potty was perfect for the potty-training time, along with an honest to goodness kitchen were things that sold us on it. The girls slept on the dinette, so we had to crawl over then to get in/out of bed. That was not a good thing. It was still great, but during a rainy weeklong trip, it got really small! Also, my parents, who were babysitters during the day, decided that they couldn't be without the kids for a week, so they wanted to go along with us.
We then went with a bunkhouse TT when the kids were 3 and 6, that had quad bunks in the back, queen in master and the availability of a bed with the dinette and couch that made a bed. We slept 13 in it one night, or at least we tried with all the turning and moving around that was going on, it was about impossible. There were people in the floor, doubled up in the bunks and an additional kid in our bed.
That lasted us until we started camphosting during the summers and spending in excess of 100+ nights in it each year. We now have a front bunkhouse fifth wheel and will probably keep it until we can afford a large Class A with bunks (probably won't happen).
When our girls were 2 and 5, we had a hybrid. Having our own potty was perfect for the potty-training time, along with an honest to goodness kitchen were things that sold us on it. The girls slept on the dinette, so we had to crawl over then to get in/out of bed. That was not a good thing. It was still great, but during a rainy weeklong trip, it got really small! Also, my parents, who were babysitters during the day, decided that they couldn't be without the kids for a week, so they wanted to go along with us.
We then went with a bunkhouse TT when the kids were 3 and 6, that had quad bunks in the back, queen in master and the availability of a bed with the dinette and couch that made a bed. We slept 13 in it one night, or at least we tried with all the turning and moving around that was going on, it was about impossible. There were people in the floor, doubled up in the bunks and an additional kid in our bed.
That lasted us until we started camphosting during the summers and spending in excess of 100+ nights in it each year. We now have a front bunkhouse fifth wheel and will probably keep it until we can afford a large Class A with bunks (probably won't happen).
