Air Conditioner use - West Coast Podders

We have a 179 we prefer state and national park campgrounds which often means no 110 so no air conditioning. The air conditioning becomes a must when we travel from our home near Boston to Colorado and beyond because we often find ourselves driving long days then doing a quick overnight at a crowded KOA or other campground near the highway where the noise and layout of the campsites as well the heat means you need AC for a good nights sleep. We probably use it 5 or 6 times a year but when you need it you really need it. If you are comfortable you can avoid or live with those situations then the only other consideration I can think of is resale value. I believe not having the microwave may also affect resale value.

Leo, I would totally understand that. If I was on the East Coast, or planning on spending time in that direction, A/C would be mandatory. We camp in the Sierra's, north into Oregon and on the coast so I'm thinking it would be a waste.

We camp mainly in the TN/AL area, I do not use my AC much even in summer.  The micro we use a great deal when possible.  RPod does well with fans at night.  Fans do well with humidity too.  We are active and not in the TT during day much, more use the AC for our English Bulldog.  My only thought is resale value, without the amenities your initial buy cost will be down, but your resale or trade-in will suffer. Just my thinking, better to have when time comes to sell or trade.  BTW I have a generator so do not require 110 campsite.

I am not from your part of the country but special ordered our 177 back in January 2011 without A/C, without entertainment system, and without microwave/convection oven.  I still work as a golf course superintendent in northern Michigan so our camping usually fall in the shoulder months of April-May and September - November.  We do some weekend camping trips of 2 days in the summer as I work 12 days on 2 days off.  We have had a total of 2 times that A/C would have been really nice, once in Iowa and another time in Oklahoma, both times the temps stayed in the mid 80's with high humidity during the evening.  Needless to say, sleep eluded my wife and me.  Like you we normally dry camp so we couldn't use all that anyway unless we purchased a generator, but we like to go simple and we enjoy basic camping.  For us to move up from pop-up camping for 29 years we feel like we are spoiled rotten in the pod.  We enjoy it as it is, no regrets and usually camp about 30 days/year.