Bed Orientation Pros & Cons

[RVpullinGuy]

I would like a king size bed in our new 5er toy hauler but noticed that all of the Voltage king bed options the bed is East/West orientation and not North/South. Are there any inherent pros and/or cons with bed orientation? I would appreciate hearing your experiences and opinions. Thanks!

[slapshot12]

It depends on how the bed it configured in the room. We looked at a few TH's that had the bed E/W with the bed against the front wall. So if the person in the front (her) gets up, they have to crawl over the other (me). I prefer N/S in non-slide TH's.

[taken]

I'm with Carl and those above him. I purposely shopped for a floorplan with a N/S layout. Not only for colder trips but hot ones as well. The siding on most slide is black aluminum and it's like sleeping in a toaster if your in a site without shade. No night stands and less room to walk around the bed are other negatives. We've had both and really like N/S better...

[CarlT100]

For the reasons the two posters above mentioned, I prefer the N/S layout.

[face_down]

Unless you have a fairly large slide in a E/W configuration you are eliminating night stands/end tables...which was a deal breaker for us. Got to have a place to charge the phone, a glass of water and a clock...at least for us we do. 😉

[joebedford]

We had East / West and despised it.

It's very cold in the winter: we had to put special insulation under the part of the bed that stuck out and put insulation to block the icy cold coming off the windows.

I really didn't like heavy rain hitting the slide 24" above my head - very disruptive to my sleep.

We now have a North / South and it's vastly better for us. Voltage 3950.

YMMV.

[BigDogF250]

I like the east/west layout for the breeze but we don't have a slide so there is no walk around. So my wife hates it because she has to crawl over me to get up in the middle of the night.

I would say that's pretty important, ease of getting in/out.

[allcool]

I like the east/west layout with windows at both e/w ends for a nice cross breeze.

On those cool crisp winter nites in the dunes its awesome to sleep with those windows cracked open and get a good cross breeze right over you all nite.I sleep great like that...

jmo

[lawnspecialties]

I would think whichever way gave me the most floorspace in the bedroom would work for me. I've had three N/S and one E/W. Wasn't a big deal but the E/W did have some nice room in there for getting dressed, etc.

[arhayes]

Ours is E/W and after a year of full-timing I cannot imagine any advantage to N/S. Get the overall bedroom layout that you like best.

[lightfoot]

I prefer the N/S version. The E/W version is additional work/weight on the slide operation. We have enough problems with the slides, don't need to look for any more trouble.

[tinner12002]

I guess it would just depend on which way you parked your toy hauler as to whether you were east/west or north/south...be bold and switch it up occasionally!

[gbopp]

Ours is N/S. It makes no difference to me. It makes no difference to my DW, as long as there is no window above the headboard.
Get the floor plan you like.

[stro1965]

I've had both and it makes no difference to me.

[path1]

I prefer north/south just because I feel I'm more "in tune" with the world, but it's difficult sometimes because of the sun going east/west:B.