How cold will I be in a Jayco hybrid?

In CA - no worries. Born and raised in SO CA and I know it can get chilly in the fall/winter near beaches, but strongly suggest you invest in Pop Up Gizmos and either an electric ceramic heater or use your furnace for a few hours overnight and you'll be fine. Obviously, either a sleeping bag or blanket. You'd be amazed at the # of our neighbors north of the border who live and breathe Pop-ups and HTTs and wouldn't have it any other way. Many have a traditional New Year's weekend and love it. If you're looking at any Forest River products, ROO/Shamrock for example, they have heated mattresses and they are worth their weight in gold....you do need either a power hook up or a generator, but something to consider. Don't think the Jayco offers them but not sure. Worth investigating. Happy Camping1

Basically there is no insulation or sound deadening in the tent fabric so expect noise and heat/cold to permeate the fabric. But then, with the A/C directly overhead and pumping out cold air the interior temps should be OK and the noise of the A/C should drown out any outside noise.

We camp ten month's a year here in Oregon and have camped in snow several times. Bunks are a tad cooler than main trailer but not much notice. When you heat the inside and it is cold outside condensation can be more of a problem. We coompletely solved this with an electric dehumidifier which can also be put in the bathroom for wet cloths drying. Hybrids have best space to weight ratio. Down side is may have to set ends up at home to dry if you camp in the rain and hard to keep out noisey neighbors aside from running a fan for white noise. Best of luck BTW coldest we camped in was 12 degrees.

mikene wrote:
My family and I are looking at the Jayco hybrids because they are light and I can tow them in my Jeep Grand Cherokee (V8) but curious how the fold out tents deal with weather, noise, moisture etc.... we're not planning on anything too extreme.. mostly CA lakes/beaches, etc.

any help is appreciated.

(X23F, X23U, X254 models specifically)

mike

we've been camping in Cali, with our Roo hybrid for almost 8 years.
i always use the PUGs and Reflectix as others have mentioned.
i've camped in 100 degrees in the Sierra foothills and in spring snow in the Yosemite Valley.
we've stayed cool/warm in both cases and inbetween.

noise is about the only thing there is no mod for. your fan/lite combos can provide some white noise at night.
but they allow less noise than a popup or a tent, since it does have two big solid walls and solid roof.

by the way, the 254 model is NOT a hybrid, but it is an "expandable".
to be a hybrid, it has to have the canvas tent ends, like a popup, combined with the solid walls of a travel trailer. therefore the term, "hybrid".

in reality, the 254 is no different than any modern travel trailer, except its bedroom slideout is on the back, instead of on the side like regular travel trailers.
don't know why manufacturers continue to call rear bed slide trailers "expandable". that would make any RV with slideouts an "expandable".:h

IMO: With PopUpGizmos they're good down to around freezing, then get uncomfortable. Without PopUpGizmos they start getting uncomfortable around 40.

Water, etc... Some have had issues, many haven't (including me).

The are fine in the low 30's. You can get heated mattresses or aftermarket bed pads. Pugz on the roof and windows, or reflectix. I am not sure why you are asking about cold. Do you plan on winter camping, ski camping, and or hunting?

Most state parks in PA close on Labor Day, offer limited hookups until the end of deer season. I use mine to hunt, but that's fare weather October archery season.

Live and camp in Texas. Camped as hot as 110 and as cold as 18. To me, hot is worse than cold. When we do our winter camping, I pack a sleeping bag that I use as a mattress pad and I also use an electric blanket. Even the nights that we've accidentally let ourselves run out of propane, we stay warm. Never really noticed bad condensation on the tent ends. During summer, we usually camp under shade. If we don't, we use the solar blankets on the tent ends. It's usually bearable. Sad to say that we seem to stay cooler in my hybrid than my parents TT, an Open Range. Just my opinion....

My hybrid last year

We have camped down to 20 and up to 106, and stayed comfortable the whole time.

In the winter, we leave the heat on overnight set to 50, and we use sleeping bags and old fashioned wool blankets on top. We stay downright toasty.

In the summer heat, we leave the air on low and use the 12V tent bed fans to circulate the cooler air.

In both hot and cold temps we use our PUGS which help to insulate in both conditions.

As to noise, use something that creates a white noise in a crowded environment. Again, the 12V tent end fans work great for this.