Monti & JoAnn,
Most of us are a little biased here, but I think you'll still get a lot of honest opinions. We've never had a "higher end" unit like the Montana before we bought ours last fall but we have been trailering and camping for years, our last 5ver was a Dutchmen and there is no comparison. We did look at the Cardnial too but kept going back to the Monty. And, it would be kind of neat for Monti to own a Monty!
mac