AF 1150, couple of questions

Hemi Joel wrote:
I looked at the Lance 1172 at RV world in Yuma today. Very nice! Great people to deal with too.
I'm on a road trip with my Arctic Fox 1150, been to Denver, Arches NP, Zion NP, Vegas, LA, Palm springs, San Diego, Yuma, and I'm really loving my 1150. Except when I have to sit at my computer and work, I wish a had a recliner to sit on. I haven't decided yet if I want to blow $40,000+ to upgrade to a comfy chair. One thing that I love about the AF 1150 that the 2 and 3 slide Host, Lance, and Eagle cap don't offer: I can squeeze into a tiny parking space, and still enter the camper without opening the slide and it is fully usable. That was especially useful at some of the popular places in the Los Angeles area like the Griffith Observatory and Runyon Canyon. Very tight parking. So far, all the campers I have looked at that have a recliner chair need to have the slides open to enter.

I have found that it's the length not the width that limits my access to small parking spots. We routinely park in supermarket parking lots to shop and only partially open slides to get in and load groceries but it usually takes 2 spots front to back for the length. Exact same as the AF1150.

The width isn't an issue as opening a slide a foot or so does the job without blocking. We had an Arctic Fox 1150 for 11 years so I am familiar with the layout and parking constraints. To bring in bags of groceries in a parking lot requires opening the super slide or struggling a bunch which we never found necessary since we just opened the slide some.

So far there is no place that I wish I had my old camper for convenience of parking. Or anything else for that matter.

If you like the AF and you want better seating (agree the dinette seating sucks) you might want to pull the dinette out and add a recliner or two. That was my plan before deciding to go with a Host.