>>2429444> But what you said about the bathrooms is a good point.Two buddies of mine have big ass RV-type campers (something like a 32’ double-slideout and a 24’ single slideout models) and neither really use the toilet/shower, as it’s a pain in the ass to clean and the internal fresh water tanks aren’t very large.
My buddy with the 32’ camper has a wife and three daughters (plus an occasional niece) and he insists that they only use the toilet for pissing, as cleaning out shit from the towable wheeled waste water tank is nasty and difficult (even more so cleaning the internal waste water tank) and they never use the shower as there simply isn’t enough internal fresh water available (though they camp where hose spigots are available for every couple of camp sites). If anybody has to shit or shower they go to the campground’s shower/toilet building that’s roughly a 1/4 mile away.
The buddy with the smaller 24’ camper uses it almost exclusively for hunting here in Michigan on his own property and also never uses the toilet or shower for the same reasons, plus during November deer season the toilet trap can become frozen, rendering the toilet inoperable unless boiling water is poured down.
So it seems to me that a camper with toilet and shower is only really of value if one camps were there are full utilities hook-ups with incoming fresh water and outgoing toilet septic tanks at each site.
> Still somewhat leery of popups as I've heard they have a tendency to leak after only a few seasons, which mold is a bit bigger of a pain in the ass than I want to deal with.True, fabric is less sturdy then fiberglass and a wet pop-up ought to be popped back up at home in the garage/driveway to dry out throughly before packing away, which is why the hard-side pop-ups (several posted in this thread) are becoming more popular, as they provide the best of both worlds, though you’ll pay a premium for those advantages.
