Wow, Pop Ups are now a rip off!

rbpru wrote:
I could sing the praises for a pop-up all day; that is why I kept mine. But for convenience my TT wins hands down. You get out of bed on your side of the bed, you walk to a full bath, central air and heating etc. Like apples and oranges each was its own niche.

Unfortunately, as you noted, like everything else the cost of a new pop-up is comparable to a 3 year old used TT.

We had PUs for 15 years when the kids were little. As great as they were, I got tired of:

1) no A/C
2) little storage area
3) worrying about packing up canvas in wet weather (which is 90% of our camping trips)
4) worrying about the canvas in very high winds (also a high percentage of our trips)
5) one of our PU's canvas actually had dry rot and leaked
6) fold up kitchen
7) setting and taking down the shower
8) not being able to load much into the PU, which took up space in the TV, and also required much more loading and unloading a the site
9) setting up a manual awning or screen house
10) very small fridge
11) very little noise isolation and lack of safety
12) no microwave
13) no walk-around bed
14) no ducted heat
15) no separate bathroom sink, and emptying a cassette potty

I could list quite a few more, but let's just say I wish I had upgraded my TV sooner and bought a TT.

BTW - our TV is 12 years old and we hope we can keep it another 10 years!