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blw2:

We retired about 15 years ago and are now going thru similar discussions and decision making right now but coming at it from the opposite end that you are.

For several years we had large Class A’s, first a 32’ and then a 38’. Our use case was traveling to a winter destination and then spending several months living in the MH before returning north in the Spring - typical snowbird. We did some tourist traveling in the summer months but the winter long term stays were our primary use. We then decided to buy a home in FL for the winters and sell the motorhome.

A decade later we decided we wanted to travel again, but weren’t interested in a rig for long term stays. So we bought our Vegas 25.2.

We’ve now sold the home in FL and decided to go back to spending 2 or 3 winter months living in the motorhome. The question we’re dealing with now is is the Vegas big enough to be comfortable for these extended stays? We’ve decided the answer is no, but we don’t want to go back to larger Class A type rig that we had before.

We’ve decided on an ACE 29.3 for a number of reasons. We would also consider a Hurricane or Windsport 29M, which are basically the same floorpan, but offering features that are options or simply not available on the ACE.

Because the ACE is built on the F53 chassis, you get a bigger fuel tank, and slightly bigger fresh water and grey tanks. Unfortunately, the black tank remains about the same 40 gallons. (if anyone from Thor design is reading this, I’d gladly give up fresh water storage for a larger black tank.)

Two of the big factors for us involved the kitchen. The Axis/Vegas rigs do not have a standard LP oven and since 2017 have moved the microwave from eye level down to knee level. The 29x floorplans fix both of these issues for us.

The final decision point was exterior and interior storage. The 27 foot floorplans were deficient in both areas, but the 29.3 and 29M plans are adequate. I’d gladly give up the exterior kitchen for more storage but even with it, these floorplans offer as much storage as our Vegas, so we’re pretty sure that we can be happy with this choice.

To summarize, the ACE 29.3 is small enough to offer nimble driving when playing tourist and big enough, with enough storage and features to be comfortable during longer term winter stays. Our Vegas 25.2 is perfect if we were only interested in short (a month or less) trips but for longer term living, bigger is better and the econoline chassis just doesn't give us what we need.