Question Desk vs dinette options

[Old-RV'er]

In the first picture above, the drawer aft of the table, I had modified to hold my laptop, the cabinet below will take the printer/surge protector, and still have room for our basket of cleaners. It would be wonderful if they designed in a dedicated desk thing for the shorter MH's. Alas, what I have done is workable for a 17" laptop. I will post picture, from which i got the idea. I trimmed the back and sides on top of the flat board with short wood stock to hold Laptop in place going down road. The factory did the work for 230.00. Much better than I could do it with. I provided the wood, they used the old glides, but I keep the original drawer in case we want to put it back to OEM and sell the MH some day.

 

[Desertboyz]

In my opinion, it all comes down to whether you have carpeted slides or not. We had the desk option in our prior Tiffin. It had carpeted slides and I HATED that the chairs were lopsided! 2 legs were on the carpet and 2 legs were on tile! We went with the Booth in our Dutch Star. I like it a lot better...but, I'd maybe consider the desk in a Newmar (Dutch Star or higher) because of the all tile slides.

 

[Old-RV'er]

Yes, I don't like the carpeted area in the slide. Don't feel any difference in height in ours, but no way to keep carpet clean and from spilling coffee on it. But, there is no such thing as the perfect RV, somewhere, and somehow, there are compromises on something to get it as close to what you want. When we ordered ours wanted the different floor plan with fixed front TV, but that one does not come with the all electric option, and I don't want to deal with propane fill ups period, tunnels, etc. So we had to take the 3407, because the other one has a chair right behind the drivers position, which is a waste of space. Ok, not quite true, Marathon will build one for you exactly how you want it, just short couple million for that to happen.

 

[JRS]

We like the desk with buffet dinette for reasons mentioned above