Tips for reducing set-up time?

We found the best thing to do is have a check list that has been refined multiple times to get the sequence in place. Then, divide the tasks that need to be done.

I can see no way one can spend that much time setting up and then returning to travel.
If I'm overnighting in a park I pull into the site, engage the jacks to level, walk outside and check the shorepower and connection and plug in. Hook up a hose for water and that just can't take over 10 to 15 minutes top. I never hook up the sewer for an overnight stay.
Hooking up the sewer is another 3 to 5 minutes, I use a sewer solution setup which is much faster than a stinky slinky. But even the slinky is not a big deal unless you insist on putting the little tressel to hold it off the ground. Going back to travel is even faster, 10 minutes tops. That said, I'm not all that agile on my feet and so others can do the same much quicker than I.
Now if you spending days in a site, the amount of stuff you pull out for comfort will add to the time. Lawn chairs, awning lights, leds for the ground, patio cover, folding table, bar-b-q, propane bottle, bikes, lighted palm trees, potted plants all take a lot of time and many feel that they need all of those homey things for their experience...after 10 years of fulltime, I have a bar-b-q, ground cloth, two lawn chairs.

I make sure that levelers, chocks, hose and electrical are readily accessible so I'm not digging around at set up time.

How in heck can it take an hour and a half? When I get to a campsite as I usually arrive ahead of the wife, it may take 15-25 minutes to back in, level, hook up water, electricity, sewer, deploy awnings' set out chairs, raise the antenna and start the tv scan.

The idea of a checklist/routine is a good one. You might consider shortening the travel time so you're not so tired at the end of the day.

If it's just for an overnight, you definitely should not be doing any "setting up" period. Pull in, stay connected, hookup electrical, put slides out, sleep you're done.

Person doing the setup has to choose to minimize what gets done. When in traveling mode, I may level as I park (I don't have jacks to mess with), hook up electricity only, run out only one of the two slideouts (bedroom). I don't haul out camping or recreational equipment, and since I don't watch TV, no need to mess with antenna or satellite stuff. Less than 15 minutes. If I do a water hookup too, that does not add more than three minutes.

Leaving sometimes takes a little longer, have to put away the stuff we got out inside.

If I cook outside, getting out that equipment isn't part of setup, it is part of cooking, and gets put away after, rather than leaving it out until morning.

Even when staying 3-4 days in one place, I don't have more than 30 minutes of things to do before considering myself set up. But I understand your situation, we go RVing with at least a couple guys who will take more than an hour to do pretty much the same things.

I would be exhausted too if I spent 1.5 hours setting up unless we were there for a week, even then, I could do it in 30 minutes. You don't say if you have jacks, but even running up on blocks doesn't take that long.

Realistically, disconnecting my toad takes about ten minutes from start to finish and I usually do that in the registration lane while my wife does the registration. She walks out, hands me the campsite number and jumps in the toad and follows me.

I back into my site, connect my water and electric, no sewer if just overnight, pull a floor mat out of the bay for the front door and go inside. I air down, level, turn on satellite and extend slides. I wash my hands, get something cold to drink and go outside and pull out a chair and relax. From registration to sitting down in the chair is under 30 minutes.

A tip I tell many.....buy the brass quick connects for your water hose and attach on the RV side. You won't spend time trying to thread a hose on each time. It also saves the connection from constant on and off.

Thanks for the replies. We do have a checklist; it's just very long :)
As I said, hubby is very particular and won't drive the coach to a site without checking it out for things like tree limbs, etc. especially in a campground we have never stayed at before.

1.5 hr, to set up, must be including cooking steaks on the grill for dinner..

Does it take your husband longer than most people to accomplish other tasks? It may just be his nature. I have a brother in law that takes twice as long to do any tasks than others. If that is the case, there is no answer.

We don't have a coach but for overnight stops our setup and takedown time is uch shorter than if we are staying awhile.