Need a trailer recommendation
Hello all, First off I have a family of 5. Myself, my wife and 3 kids, ages 9,11 and 12. I need to be able to sleep all of us comfortably but at the same time I don't want to base my purchase decis...
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AirBiscuit wrote:
I currently have a 2011 Jayco Eagle Superlight 28BHS but darn kids have never slept in the bunks. Go figure! They end up on the couch and dinette converted to a double bed. I'm just done with the bunks. I suppose they like falling asleep within eyeshot of the TV.
Seems to me it would be a LOT cheaper to just put a television in that bunk bed area and insist your kids use it instead of cluttering up the rest of the trailer. ;)
We've been down your path ... when our boys were about 12 & 14 I wanted to upgrade from a hybrid to a 24' couple's model travel trailer and have the boys use the sofa and dinette for sleeping. My wife maintained we still needed bunk beds so we ended up with a 24' KZ Spree triple bunk bed model in which I removed the unneeded 3rd bed and while it was a great trailer the writing was already on the wall before we even took delivery - i.e. I knew it would only be a matter of time before they'd decide they wouldn't want to camp with us any longer and we'd be left dragging around bunk beds we didn't need. :S Eventually that did happen, we sold the trailer and suffered significant loss in depreciation, and bought our current couple's model. And guess what? ... the younger boy who is now in university decided he liked camping after all and now insists on going with us whenever he can! Arrghhh! ... should have kept that bunk bed trailer and saved ourselves HUGE sums $$$$$ AND enjoyed the extra storage space offered by those bunk beds. My suggestion - remove the bunks if you must and convert that space for other use such as a den 'cause no matter how you cut it keeping what you have will be significantly cheaper than trading for another trailer. ;)
