RE: So is it easier than a pop up?

[fivegonefishing]

 
A thread in general board got me thinking, one of the reasons we went to a hybrid was to cut down the set up time.  From start to finish, putting up the AAR and setting everything else up, it would take easily 2 hours if not more to set up and break down the pop up.  I m hoping that a lot of that time will be eliminated by having everything in it s place.   Seeing as how we won t even get ours until April 12th, can anyone comment.
 
 TIA
 
 Tammy

[BrBorns]

 fivegonefishing
I ll tell you how easy it is.. I had the experience of a down pour with my wife and child at Barrington Shores in New Hampshire. We arrived at five that evening. As we were heading to our site, the skies opened up. I was able to back in to our site. If I still had the pop-up, I know two things, I would have wished I got there earlier or I would have been using my second language, the ones with ****#####. Once I was in the site, all I did was  move the slide out, turn on the gas and plug in the electric and plug in the antenna for cable TV.  I didn t open the ends and take the hitch off until later that evening when the rains stopped..How much easier could it be... child fed wife dry and me sitting reading the paper.

[fivegonefishing]

 fivegonefishing
Now that is what I was hoping to hear thanks![]

[dee106]

 fivegonefishing
thats what happen to us this weekend! we got to the site it was raining, we opened the door and went inside! when it slowed down, then we turned on the gas and plugged it in, we just used the battery for the first half hour. we picked up fast food on the way in, so we didn t need the gas to cook right away, and since we carry everything inside the TT we didn t have to carry in the clothes food etc. just the cold stuff in a small cooler. when the rain past, we went outside opened the bed, thru the trap  cross the bunkend, clamped it on in five minutes done!  another five minutes to make up the bed, plug in the little cermeric heater to it the dampness out and we were HOME!

[campingboaters]

 fivegonefishing
I m with all of you.  It is SO much easier than a pop-up, other than towing.  Towing a pop-up is MUCH easier, but a hybrid is hands down eaiser in most every other aspect (at least for us).  Just being able to load everything in the camper (whenever I have some free time during the week) and not having to pop it up to do so is the reason why we went with a hybrid.  Our set up time went from 2 hours to about 20 minutes and that includes lowering the stabilizers, hooking up all utilities, setting up the beds, expanding the awning, setting up the chairs around the fire and hooking up the outside grill.  The time we saved was not having to organize everything inside once the roof was raised.  Everything inside pretty much stays where it should.
 
 Good luck with your new hybrid!