Our goal was to stay under 30' (size restrictions in northeast parks). Ours is 27' also. For that extra three feet we get a full time queen bedroom with a door and over 100 cubic feet of storage underneath. At 27' it still fits into a pull through parking space although we don't usually have any problems finding parking on the outside lanes of parking lots since we pull a 14' trailer for the Harley's much of the time. After driving both a 24' and a 27' I found there is little difference in maneuverability or handling. In the years we were looking for, the 450 chassis has a wider stance and more capacity than the 350 chassis so that was an advantage also. We didn't want slides so we have plenty of unused weight capacity (slides eat that up).