Most RVs used to come with a dinette. Now, more and more RVs are coming with tables and chairs, and some of them are really nice! But if you still have a dinette, how many people can comfortably sit at it? Please note the word comfortably… not all eight of your friends want to be crammed in there for dinner! We know it depends on the size of your RV’s dinette, but we still want to know.
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It would depend on their size.
Depends on how well fed they are. Wife and me, no issues add grand kids still do able. Son & DIL, no way.
From the factory in my dinette seats four but you added the word comfortably so two is comfortable
Exactly my response. Ours looks like a four-person dinette, and we HAVE seated four, but “comfortably? Two.
1, shared with sewing machine and cats.
We removed the cheap pedestal table from our 5th wheel and replaced it with trestle table bench & two chairs made in Scotland from pine. Chairs & table are strapped down during travel and can be moved out allowing access to the bench when set up at our campsite. It’s a beautiful work of art and has a few marks in it from my boys when they were very young.
we removed the dinette and replaced it with RecPro recliners. BEST DECISION EVER. we can use trays when eating inside, or picnic or outside table and chairs for better days.
We did the same thing. But I removed the pedestal legs and installed folding legs on the table. Now we usually use trays. But we have the ability to set up the table and use folding camp chairs on the other side and sit 4 adults comfortably for cards or dining.
4 comfortable, 5 if need be and still not too crowded. We have a free-standing dinette with a built-in extension.
I answered three to four but for best results two to three is pushing it
5 on a good day but usually just 4
Our coach has an extendible table and two chairs. There are 2 matching folding chairs in the “belly” so we can pull out the table and seat 4 comfortably for dinner. We tell people – it seats 8 for cocktails, 4 for dinner, and sleeps 2!
We replaced our table to one with an extension. When the new one was installed we had it moved as far away from the wall/window as possible so the person sitting on the inside isn’t all scrunched up. Without the extension I would say three people. One on the end and the other two across from each other.
We have a booth with two leather settees that can comfortably seat 4. Only two us travel for vacations and sometimes one of my Dalmatians use it for a couch while parked.
Zero it has a dinette should be an option.
4 if we add a chair, 3 with just the factory seats.
It will comfortably seat only two people.
None but table is so far forward you have to set literly of your seat. You did say comfortably!
We opted for the two recliners instead of the dinette. This was an option from Renegade by the Rev Group for the Villagio model. We use a fold up table that fits behind the recliners when moving. Works out great for the two of us when forced to eat inside.
We replaced our dinette (the table was so small you couldn’t get 2 plates across from each other) with a table, chairs, and computer desk. Works well and now we could seat 6 if we had to.
In theory 4, in practice I haven’t used it for 3 months and it has acquired “stuff”.
Three, if the third sits in a chair at the end of the dinette. It’s really just big enough for two, otherwise.
No dinette, just a sofa and portable table for 2. Anyone else dining at my place brings their own comfortable chair and we have the whole outdoors to be comfortable.
Took it out…do have a folding counter height table with two stools that I haven’t used in over a year of it being there. I never ate at the dinette when it was there.
We have four chairs. Two are fixed and two are folding. The table is wide enough for two, but can be extended to seat two more. A fifth person potentially can sit at the end of the table, but securing a chair with the correct height could be a problem.
Our booth can seat 6 for snacks and games, but 4 comfortably for a meal. Pretty good for a 19ft TT!
It says four but I hate to say it I fit comfy on side by myself. Two is comfy 4 is crowded. Turning that table into a sofa bed.
I had the typical u-shaped dinette in a 2011 Tracer. Useless for more than two people, especially the “u-part”. First I simply removed the “U” section and pushed (screwed down) the table up against the wall, enabling a chair to be used on the normally unoccupied section on the outside of the table. The bench interfered with the ability to get to the bath when traveling with the slide out in the “in” position. So I cut the interfering bench more or less in half. It naturally splits where the cushions could be used for a smaller dinette. But I had to saw the wooden frame. Then I ended up building a fold down table (went to a cabinet shop and used a custom cabinet door for the table top, only cost about $30) and moved the whole affair where the useless jack knife couch had been (trashed it) and used the original table as a desk area. Worked great.
Really, really dislike dinettes! Our 5er had a table and chairs, but still took up a lot of space for just the two of us. And we enjoy sitting outside at the picnic table when weather is nice.
Our current rig – a 30′ C — is smaller and had the danged dinette taking up half of the open space. Worse, the chairs and TV were positioned so that you would break you neck trying to watch the TV! So we found a nice credenza with a floor mount TV stand to put behind it, positioned where the dinette was. Now the TV is directly across from the seating! We also gained storage in the credenza plus the empty TV cabinet is another storage area.
We then got two nice, wooden folding chairs and nice wooden snack tables…we often sit in the recliner with the snack tables when inside. We had have a heavy piece of plexiglass cut to fit across the open doors of the credenza when we want a “real” table. And our two storage ottomans provide another two seats if needed.
We enjoy having most meals outside at the picnic table when the weather is good. We also have a round folding table with an umbrella and five chairs that fit around it, that we bring with us. Isn’t being outside what it is all about anyways?
I checked “three or four” but my dinette has become my music room, so no one can actually eat there! I have a table-top book case on the table with most of my music books in it and a full-sized portable digital piano keyboard across the end of the table and extending above the benches. Since getting the keyboard, I’ve begun to feel a bit cramped, but I’m not in the mood to try to find a larger RV in today’s market.
We took ours out, put 60″ of upper (12″) cupboards and a counter top on the top of it. We use folding chairs to sit at it. Added storage, floor space, and it’s only my wife and I in so it works for us.
We seat two comfortably in our class-a. My wife and I. When our 18 year old son comes along,… let’s just say he spreads out-like a teen. RV dinettes are an experiment in togetherness, and will test your marriage if you are selfish people. 🙂