RV review: Jayco Jay Flight 235MBH—with or without a slide

Today’s RV review is of the 2025 Jayco Jay Flight 235MBH bunkhouse travel trailer. But wait, there’s more. The main topic of this review is a bunkhouse stick-and-tin travel trailer that has a single road-side slide with a couch. But Jayco also makes the Jay Flight 224BH, which is almost the exact same floor plan, but without a slide!

So, if you’re looking for some extra living space, the 235MBH might be the right choice. But if you’re looking for something simpler or less expensive, the 224BH could be the rig for you. 

Either way, these are among the more affordable offerings Jayco makes, being a wood-framed, aluminum-skinned trailer. Typically this means that these are not all that well equipped. But I would say there is a good amount of value here, so they don’t really feel cheap. 

Murphy bed

Perhaps the biggest deal breaker for some might be the Murphy bed. However, in either rig, you can just leave the bed permanently down and keep it as a bed. In fact, even in the 235MBH, which has a slide, there’s enough room to replace the short queen mattress with a proper queen mattress and still leave the bed down permanently, if you choose to. 

A lot of RV companies put a lot of content in their rigs that is clearly from the lowest bidder. This is especially true of mattresses. But I got to spend the day with Jayco’s Vice President of Marketing, Trey Miller, who showed me around Jayco’s facilities. I was impressed with how much investment the company is putting into its own systems, processes, and grounds. 

One of the things he mentioned was that Jayco is using a better tool to monitor customer feedback and then correcting the things they see as customer pain points. For example, they’ve moved the furnace ducts up into the cabinets on most of their models. 

Another thing that they’ve done is spec better mattresses—and the one in this trailer isn’t bad at all. In fact, if you want something more cushy, I think a simple foam pad on top would do the trick. That would also mean you’re not filling a landfill with another mattress. It could even be that this mattress is fine. 

That way, even if you do keep the bed down much of the time, for those times when you do want to take advantage of the couch under the bed you can still do so. Oh, and something I’ve advocated for almost all RV beds for some time is the RVSuperbag, which really helps making the bed easier. 

How these are built

Of course, these are simple wood-framed aluminum-skinned trailers, as mentioned. These are also single-axle units on leaf springs, so they are at the more affordable end of the price/build spectrum. 

Even so, I do like that Jayco has a provision for installing side-view cameras. Naturally, there is also the provision for a backup or rearview camera, like in almost every other RV. 

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Main living space in the Jayco Jay Flight series

In the case of these trailers, you get a dinette on the road side of the camper. If you choose the larger 235MBH, that dinette is in a cable-operated slide. 

There’s actually a decent kitchen, except for the worthless 17” oven. (I wonder what Jayco’s customers have to say about that?) There’s also an okay amount of counterspace here, and even a place you can put a trash can below the sink. 

Jayco was among the first to really beef-up their bunks. This one features double-over-double bunks, with each one being rated for 600 pounds. That means if I cloned myself three times you could bring all of us with you with this trailer. 

Hey, if I could clone myself, I wonder if I could get one of me to write these reviews while the original me just goes and volunteers at tourist trains? Hmmm. Instead of ChatGPT it would be TypeTonyB. I wonder how much money that me would want? 

Travel access in the Jayco Jay Flight 235MBH

Since the slide is sort of not that necessary for the basic function of this trailer, it also doesn’t really impede using the trailer. You can leave the bed in the bed position and get to and use anything in this trailer with the slide closed. Pretty nifty. 

So why would you want the complexity and expense of the slide, then? When you consider that this can sleep up to eight people, you’d want that additional floor space. Frankly, I personally would want to bring a tent with me or just stay home—if there were seven other people in the same trailer. 

And what if all seven of those were clones of me? We’d better bring a lot of beer. 

Conclusions about the Jayco Jay Flight 235MBH

One of the other nifty things about this trailer is that the ceiling height is 6’9”. So you not only get more headroom all around, but you also get more headroom in the shower. Oh, and of course, there’s just the do-nothing 4” fan in the bathroom. 

Overall this could be a great offering for families or people starting out on their RV adventure. I was pretty impressed with Jayco’s dedicated PDI facilities and much of what else I saw on my tour. Jayco also offers a really good warranty. 

Not bad at this price, and even better if you go with no slide room. 

My thanks to Josh from Bish’s RV for the photos and video in this article

More about these RV reviews

These RV reviews are written based on information provided by the manufacturers along with our writer’s own research. They are based on information from a single unit and may not reflect your actual experience. Shop your RV and dealership carefully before making a buying decision. We receive no money or other financial benefits from these reviews. They are intended only as a brief overview of the vehicle, not a comprehensive critique, which would require a thorough inspection and/or test drive.

Tony comes to RVtravel.com having worked at an RV dealership and been a life long RV enthusiast. He also has written the syndicated Curbside column about cars. He also works closely with a number of RV manufacturers to get an inside look at how things are done and is a brand ambassador for Rockwood Mini Lite with his wife, Peggy.

You can also check out his RV podcast with Peggy. 

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