Are you happy with the size?

tenhorsun wrote:
Of your travel trailer that is. I'm a new poster here and we're researching buying our first TT. Our main requirement is that we don't want to have to convert our table into a bed every night. So, fixed bed. Other than that, we think we'll be happy with small, with no slides even. We're on a limited budget.
A salesman said having bunks increases the re-sale value. Maybe, but with just 2 of us, we really have no need for bunkbeds.
Then a friend pointed out that even though there's only 2 of us, we have 2 dogs (medium/large) that will take up a lot of room. So she really suggested getting a bigger (longer) TT, and even one with a slide.
But again, budget. And other than sleeping/eating, we intend to be outside doing stuff. So how big do we need?
Have any of you bought a TT... only to later regret the size? Do you wish you had more room/space? Or (I would think this is rarer), do you think you would have been perfectly happy with a smaller TT? (smaller payments, less gas, etc.)

I bought a used Gulfstream Innsbruck, a very well built trailer 30 feet with two slides, one large one for dinette and seating and the other opposite for a two bunk area. This was unusual at the time. I paid all of $8300 for it and it was in near new condition though older.

This gives us (Two people who do not sleep together) and Two Dogs plenty of room. The bunk slide does not have to be deployed to work as a sleeping quarter.

Also the vast majority of National parks can accomodate a 30 footer and this was our reason for limiting the length to that. (althouogh measured the trailer is really 31 feet)

Now we spend a considerable time at a stretch in ours...months not days...and this was a consideration.

Recently while at Monument Valley we met some folks who had a brand new small travel trailer that had a great floorplan It was a Forest River R Pod. It even had a slide. It was one of the better floorplans I have seen in a smaller TT. Take a look at those too.

Good Luck