Hybrid with a big family

oldbird wrote:
I'm planning on getting an RV in the near future, and I'm thinking that a hybrid might be best. I'm hoping the great knowledge and experience here can help me out.

A little intro might help. I live outside of Portland, OR right now, and most of our trips would be fairly local, hopefully growing into longer and farther trips later on. We've got two sets of twins (yes, you read that right) that are 7 and 4. Tow vehicle for the next few years is a 1991 GMC suburban 1500, so weight is a concern.

My wife refuses to camp in a tent on the ground, but will do an RV.

Any thoughts on whether a hybrid will be good for us?

Coast is a concern with kids that eat us out of house and home, and weight. Most of our time would be spent outdoors, but on rainy days we would need enough room for all of us. Any suggestions on which used models to look at?

Thanks in advance!

We have three kids (10,9,5) and were considering a HTT this spring/summer. All the used options around us (Ottawa, ON, Canada) were either really poorly looked after or were serverly overpriced. Our TV is 2010 Chev Traverse LS with factory tow packahge (tow rating 5,200lbs). We started looking into other options - I mean we researched every trailer available in our weight range, HTT and TT! We found Forest River made a solid TT (back in 2004) with quad bunks in back and queen tent fold out on front! Dry weight 3900lbs! It also has a cargo door for back bunk area where the two lower bunks fold away and all 5 bikes fit in for travel. We took a long time finding this trailer but have camped 13 nights so far this summer and love it!! It's a 2004 Surveyor v261T in case you're able to find one in your neck of the woods. I highly recommend it. Gives you the weight your looking for without as much set up, possibility of tent/canvas issues in an "almost completely" hard sided TT.

Good luck with your search!

Monica