Yeah, they do have a way of looking a LOT smaller in the promotional photos, this even holds true of the "small" 22-24 ft Sprinter based coaches. Now my take on parking and fitting in spaces as the owner of a 28 ft class A (2002 Safari Trek 178 inch wheel base, P32 chassis 98.5 inches side wall to wall not counting mirrors / awnings, and 11'1" tall to top of air conditioner). Height only matters when there are low hanging limbs, and the occasional low clearance underpass as no RV is going to fit through the drive through window at a fast food joint, at 11'1" I generally don't have to worry too much about limbs, which just means I get lulled into a false sense of security until I hit a small town that does not trim their trees. Length is an issue depending on where you plan to travel, if you are looking at national parks, some state parks, etc. being under 30 ft helps. We are going to Yellowstone next month, we made reservations about 7 months ago, and at that time we would have been out of luck if we were any longer as most nights we wanted to stay there only 30 ft spaces were left available. Having said that you will always find places that don't allow RV's over 25 or even 23 feet, which I feel is a bit insane since my crew cab F-250 is 21 ft long. For places outside campground length for smaller motorhomes is not really that big of issue, a standard full size parking space as found at most big box stores is going to be 9 ft wide and 22 ft long, so few motorhomes will fit in a single space, and most will fit in 2 spaces end to end. The problem is getting in and out of those 2 spaces without intruding on too many others due to off tracking and tail swing when making corners. Even with my relatively small class A I find I need to take up at least 4 parking spaces (2x2 grid)in a typical parking lot. If I try to squeeze into 2 spaces end to end, and someone parks next to me I would hit them pulling out if I could not pull straight forward. thanks to off tracking and tail swing, I would likely intrude into 2 parking spaces with tail swing on the outside of the turn, and 1 other with off tracking on the inside of the turn for a total of 5 parking spaces needed pull out of being parked in 2 spaces end to end, and even then it is hard to make a sharp enough turn in a typical big box store parking lot to clear the next row of parking spaces.