B.O. Plenty wrote:
Last time I had a dinette it only lasted about a month and I took it out. No legroom and almost sitting on the floor doesn't work for me. If you need those puny hard to access benches for storage, you're dragging around too much junk.
B.O.
The "junk" that we carry under our outstanding dinette underseat storage areas consists of such things as:
- rocks that we pickup when rockhounding
- extra drinking water
- rain gear
- down cold weather jackets
- all the RV manuals and info that Winnebago supplies with their units
- electric heater for when/if we're on hookups
- life jackets if we tow/bring our boat along
- deep fat fryer and beer for the batter if we catch fish for fish-and-chips
We didn't buy a self contained RV to get way out in the middle of nowhere and not have the right stuff along. I guess whether or not one needs under-dinette-seat storage depends upon how well they want to be prepared for anything, anytime regardless of any "destination planning" that they may have done beforehand for any particular trip. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best applies for RV'ing and backpacking.