To Bunkhouse ,,,or not to bunkhouse ,that is a question

One nice iidea is a Cherokee 254q. It's a non bunk plan that has drop down bunks over the couch and dinette in the slide. Very slick design. My good camping friend has one and its pretty cool. You'd never know there were bunks there if they didn't tell you. They power raise up and down really easy with just a twist of a key.

we have the BH 318 lacrosse, Its like a den with a sofa and tv.

Wii video game, grandkids don't camp anymore. but adults use that area just to chill out.

I'm in a slightly different situation....I have a 35 year old son, but I also have a 10 year old daughter and a 7 year old daughter. We spend in excess of 100+ days in our RV each year, so we have a bunkhouse. We had the rear, quad bunkhouse and HATED it. We upgraded to a 5th wheel that has the front bunkhouse with 3 bunks and a couch. It works great for us. The master is in the back and is usually quieter and the bunk room is beside the bathroom for easier access for the kids. (I have to climb 3 steps to potty, but for now, it works). The configuation of this bunkhouse gives the kids some floor space, which was severely lacking in the quad bunk. There was about 16" between the beds, so they either were laying on the beds or in the living room with us.

If you have custody of at least one of the kids and they will be with you all the time, go for the bunkhouse. It only takes one awful weekend to kill the camping fever in the kids.

We did the make couch/break couch as a bed for about a year and a half and that was all we could take. It gets really old.

We LOVE our bunkhouse. Yes, the majority of the time camping is spent outside, but when it is pouring out, the kids have their own space .....and so do the adults. It's wonderful!
We have the quad bunks for 3 kids and it suits our needs well. The 4th bunk converts to a table/chairs when not used for sleeping. We use it for storage when nobody is sleeping there.

Be sure to look at the weight limits on the bunks prior to purchase. Some are rated only to 100 pounds.

The double bunks are what I am considering. He just happened to be with me when I looked at one with a bunkhouse with single size bunks. I guess we could convert them to other space later as long as it doesn't hurt to knock them out.

If the GKs are going to be with you a lot a bunk house slide option is a great feature.

What I have seen people do with bunk houses once the kids no longer camped, or camped less. Convert them into more useable space. Computer rooms, sewing rooms, office, storage, and one guy who was super handy made a second bathroom/laundry out of one.

Some of these options still gives you the option of leaving a bunk if you wanted. Just a thought.

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Have you considered something like this? I have three kids myself and I wouldn't let them sleep in a quad bunkhouse set up because the beds are just too narrow for my liking. I'm sure that you could put up some kind of netting to catch them if they were to roll out.

One of the advantages of a larger bunk it that it will give them space to store their bags and whatever else they need to bring along. I think I have seen one mfg. that had triple bunks

We have bunk room in our RV. Grandkids are the reason we got the plan, they still come with us often but when they don't we love using the room as a nice closet/storage area.

Thanks for the comments. One of our granddaughters live with us and the other 2 are here almost every weekend. I have thought about a nice tent and good cots with airbeds, in a few years they will probably prefer that . My grandson , one of the 9 yr olds said he wouldn't mind the couch , he said he rolls and moves too much for an upper bunk LOL.

Get what suits you, not the occasional others. That's what tents are for.