15 September 2022 Hershey RV Show

 When we originally planned this portion of our itinerary, we did not know the giant Hershey RV Show was this week. Since we were little more than an hour from Hershey, and having an interest to see what the latest and greatest RV technologies are, we decided to make the drive back to Hershey. Leslie’s toe is still hurting pretty good, so we were not planning to walk the whole show. We mostly wanted to see the vendor areas to see the new gadgets and also to visit the New Horizons display to see what they were cooking up for new fivers. Just the walk in from the packed parking lots was longer than we expected. We toured the vender areas in the Giant Center arena finding a few things of interest and picking up some brochures. One thing we were interested in was the Fantasy RV tours since they do caravan tours to Alaska and RV tours in New Zealand/Australia. We then went out to the trailer displays, stopping to tour a few other venders just to see what we might like in a future fiver. We ended up at the New Horizons chalet and toured the Summit and Majestic fivers they had there. The both featured new formats with the kitchen in the back, a bar along the passenger slide out (instead of a table) and a wraparound sofa in the living room. Of course, they had modern materials and decor. The rear kitchen was interesting but is not accessible with the slide outs pulled in.  One featured a two-burner inductive stove and the other had a four-burner propane stove. There are times when we wish we could put three pots on our stove. We liked the new famers kitchen type sinks in both. The Majestic also had a residential type heat pump instead of the usual propane heaters and roof top air conditioners. David talked with Brian, one of the sales people (Drew is no longer in sales and Ken has not retired yet), about some of the latest changes and the ambassador program. We may be interested in becoming ambassadors since we give so many tours of our fiver to curious people. Brian said the one requirement is that you have to be “nice people”. I think we meet that requirement!

New Horizons Chalet

Summit

Inside the Summit looking toward the rear

In the Summits kitchen, the new sink design

In the Summit looking forward from the kitchen

In the Summit, the bedroom (a bit cramped for David)

In the Summit, the vanaty

looking at the Majestic

Looking toward the back of the Majestic

In the Majestic looking toward the front

In the Majestic, the bedroom with attached Bath and walk in closet

In the Majestic, walk in closet is cool but there is not much room for hanging cloths.

The heat pump in the Majestic.