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Littlechickadee's avatar
Sep 23, 2016

Rear Dining

Just a note on the advantages of rear dining in a small Travel Trailer. My husband and I just returned from a trip to Maine. Camped at Acadia's Seawall campground for a week and did a lot of hiking. My husband and I do lot of hiking and Acadia has a lot of good trails, although they have a lot of people on them compared to Colorado. We then stayed at a beautiful campground called Cobbscook further up the coast. We found a site right on the water and backed in and had lunch looking out on the water. We have a Gulfstream Vista 17rwd, It has rear dining and we get a lot of complements on it and we love it. We met some people with TTs around the size of ours, but the had front or side dining. One couple had an Escape 19, it's a very nice camper, though I couldn't believe the price, but they said that they really liked ours when they sat down at the booth and saw what great view we had, windows on 3 sides. All they could see was their truck.
I think that more manufacturers ought to go to rear dinning it just makes sense. Sometimes you need to be inside, if it's raining or it's cold or maybe you just want to sit at a table and have your breakfast or dinner in privacy. Why not also have the bet view possible. Jut my 2 cents.
  • I've always liked the concept of a rear dinette or rear lounge floor plan with a window on the back of the trailer but have never owned one. In thinking more about it though I can think of only the rare occasion on which there would have been a view of any kind to the rear of the trailer worth looking at, almost always it's just trees, bushes, and more trees. Same for any floor plan which features a dinette on the street side of the trailer ... almost nothing worth looking at and one of many reasons we chose in our latest trailer one that has no dinette at all but rather a sofa. In our experience if there's any view at all it's almost always from the curb side (campsite side) of the trailer. To each his / her own though. :R