Wow, Pop Ups are now a rip off!

Terryallan wrote:


And you know what? A pup will do something a travel trailer will NEVER be able to do. You can unzip the canvas all the way around the pup. Only leaving the screen. It's like sleeping outside.

That was the best part of the Pop Up.

Terryallan wrote:
The only thing the TT has over the pup, is the bathroom. There are a lot of times, I wish we had not down graded to a TT.

While a nice upgrade, that's far from the best. The need not to bend down for every stored item is what my wife loves. Having storage above your waist is so nice on the back and convenient.

Also to bring enough frozen meat and such for a week is the best advantage over the freezerless PUP fridge.

It's also nice to have dressers for all the sleeping areas so no more duffle shuffle. ;)

I guess the biggest upgrade is having room to put all the necessities without shuffling them from one spot to another, as needed.

Then I don't have to load the truck with chairs, screen room, and games anymore. It all stays in the travel trailer now.

When I do get that urge to have that screen house affect, I can either go into the screen house or use my Eureka tents to camp in. Nice to have the best of both worlds.

There is trade offs for everything. It just depends what trade offs you can live with to also get the benefits. Different strokes for different folks.

Right now for my family, the TT is much more desirable but we could make due with a PUP if it had the right floorplan and offered some of the new storage features as a swing galley that can store instead of a flip over galley. Plus now there's models with bay windows and swing up storage cabinets. Then again these low wall PUPs were over MSRP $16K!