Importance of accessing TC without opening a slide.
I have seen a few comments on TC forums and other RV forums regarding the benefit of entering without having to open a slide. I was just wondering what the thought process is.
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It's actually the first thing we look for when entering a TC, a TT, a 5th wheel, etc at a dealer or at a RV show. What can be used or accessed without moving a slide or slides? If required, we simply leave and go on to another. A deal breaker for ANY RV for us would be the need to open a slide to enter, or use the toilet, or access the fridge or the bed and we have had many with slides and no slides and is why we keep the RV's we presently have.
We are very fussy old farts and not about to change as we like comfort and convenience and a slide that doesn't block our using wanted comfort features anytime anywhere which would totally eliminate "convenience" for us. BTW, we also always take our Siberian Husky with us too and all of us have plenty of room in our 11'4" Lance TC that has zero slides. Our Carriage Carrilite 5th wheel is totally usable with the big slide in or it would be gone!
We use CG's or boondock and have been extensively RV'ing now for 52 years so we have seen about all and know what works and what doesn't or leaves a lot to be desired. You won't find us staying at a Walmart but you might at a Cracker Barrel or the like only for an overnight when traveling from point A to Point B which is our destination. The plus is that after driving for hours, we can get out of the RV and sit down to a good dinner before hitting the sack.
We are not remotely cheap at all nor do we need to be but to pay $30+ to sleep for 8 hours is insane in our thinking. We do NOT need any hookups of any kind and are truly self contained in all our RV's we've owned. That means plenty of onboard water, propane, plenty of gray and black tank capacity, always for the last approx. 30 years have had an inverter and presently have a 1500 watt to 2500 watt inverter and a good sized battery bank, a 2000 watt Honda generator and larger, and or course, furnace heat if necessary.
We much prefer fans and/or a nice quiet power roof fan with fan speed selections and a thermostat in the roof hatch with an outside weather cover like a Max Air rather to listening to any A/C on the roof roaring away and sucking so many amps. If it's too hot to sleep with the fans, we won't even go there! Why go to a place to be uncomfortable? Not very smart! Simple as that and eliminates any of the miserable problems before they can happen!
We are very fussy old farts and not about to change as we like comfort and convenience and a slide that doesn't block our using wanted comfort features anytime anywhere which would totally eliminate "convenience" for us. BTW, we also always take our Siberian Husky with us too and all of us have plenty of room in our 11'4" Lance TC that has zero slides. Our Carriage Carrilite 5th wheel is totally usable with the big slide in or it would be gone!
We use CG's or boondock and have been extensively RV'ing now for 52 years so we have seen about all and know what works and what doesn't or leaves a lot to be desired. You won't find us staying at a Walmart but you might at a Cracker Barrel or the like only for an overnight when traveling from point A to Point B which is our destination. The plus is that after driving for hours, we can get out of the RV and sit down to a good dinner before hitting the sack.
We are not remotely cheap at all nor do we need to be but to pay $30+ to sleep for 8 hours is insane in our thinking. We do NOT need any hookups of any kind and are truly self contained in all our RV's we've owned. That means plenty of onboard water, propane, plenty of gray and black tank capacity, always for the last approx. 30 years have had an inverter and presently have a 1500 watt to 2500 watt inverter and a good sized battery bank, a 2000 watt Honda generator and larger, and or course, furnace heat if necessary.
We much prefer fans and/or a nice quiet power roof fan with fan speed selections and a thermostat in the roof hatch with an outside weather cover like a Max Air rather to listening to any A/C on the roof roaring away and sucking so many amps. If it's too hot to sleep with the fans, we won't even go there! Why go to a place to be uncomfortable? Not very smart! Simple as that and eliminates any of the miserable problems before they can happen!
