We’ve been camper shopping for quite a while and we saw the Jay Flight 33 RLDS last January at an RV show in Indianapolis. Ever since we’ve been looking for something we liked better and haven’t found anything.
The first thing that sold us on 33 RLDS is how wide open the living room and kitchen are. There’s probably 100 sq. ft. (or more) of open floor there. We don’t want the fireplace option because we want the large back window which, as someone on another thread said, will give it a feeling of even more openness. We’re going with recliners (actually rockers) on the door side and the free standing dinette. Probably do the hide-a-bed on the driver side.
We also like the bedroom—plenty of space to hang clothes and there’s a nice sized linen closet in the bedroom slide out. Plus, both of us get a “night stand” (seems trivial but a lot of units we looked at only had one).
One drawback is this unit doesn’t have as much outside storage space as some other units…all you’ve got is the pass through. But there’s a ton of storage inside. There’s not a lot of kitchen counter space in this layout, which for us isn’t a big deal. We do 99% of our cooking outside anyway.
One thing you might want to take a look at (not trying to sound like the weight police) is the dry weight of this unit. The factory lists it at about 7,800 lbs. but I’ve seen yellow stickers on these from 8,500 to over 9,000 lbs. dry. Depending on options, this thing could easily be loaded for camping to around 10,000 lbs. (I think the GVWR is 10,300 lbs.) You could also end up with a pretty heavy tongue weight.
It’s odd this thread should come up right now, because we’re going in the morning to do a thorough examination of one of these. It’s not the one we want, but it’s close enough to look at. The dealer was nice enough to offer to pull it inside so we could take our time looking at it. The next step will be to get the price we want to pay. I don’t know how the one you looked at is equipped, but from looking at these online I think you might be able to do a little better than $28,900. We have a pretty good price from a dealer about 4 hours away and we’re hoping this dealer that’s much closer will match it. If not…. We’ll make the drive. But this is the one we’ve pretty much settled on.
