Dunno if you have bought yet...but one of the major issues imo to take in to consideration is still the main sleeping arrangement.
The majority of camper trailers as you would know have the bed on top of the trailer and perpendicular to the tent area. This means of course that one must climb up to the bed and essentially crawl across the partner if that is the sleeping arrangement...ie if one has a regular nightly visit to the toilet.
We have a regular lay out soft floored camper trailer, my better half usually has the need to get up during the night where I don't, so she gets the easy access side while I usually being later to turn in have to crawl across her to get to my side.
That's fine while you are younger and reasonably fit, but will become very difficult if you are beginning to suffer from weight or joint issues...even from a convenience point of view it is inconvenient.
Initially I had planned on a forward fold due to the superior bedding access arrangement, plus the smaller footprint, but eventually settled on the regular camper as it is well over half a tonne lighter...loaded...and being we do a fair bit of out of the way beach camping I didn't relish the thought of dragging a two tonne anchor through kilometres of soft sand.
Also the forward folds we looked at only had a relatively small "seating" area where one can change clothes etc, My other half didn't like that there was so little space as opposed to the regular soft floor camper we bought which gives her a full sized room in which to keep her wardrobe and change in. Plus there are the bonus roof poles she can use as to hang her stuff!
We do have a fridge slide in our camper but being it is on the draw bar it ends up on the wrong side of the tent when set up due to a rear swing out kitchen. I use a collapsible fridge stand and locate the main fridge near the swing out kitchen, and use the fitted slide out to house a separate freezer. We have never even heard the fridge running at night...it is a 60 litre fridge freezer but makes no noise at all. I carry the main fridge in the 4WD when travelling and the freezer in the slide out, running power to the trailer while on the road.
Ours is a Mars camper, of mostly Chinese manufacture, but we have found it to be robust and of reasonably good overall quality. the tent is fine and shows no sign of cheap manufacture. The whole thing including annex can free stand, only needing to add rope stays if the concern is for bad weather. Ours has withstood some mild storms and strong winds with no dramas at all.
It has independent type suspension, and I fitted 31" all terrain tyres on wider rims than it came with for better flotation and ground clearance.
(I compensate for the small difference in overall height which can affect the tent set up when camping by digging small indents under the tyres)
The only other issue I believe need to be considered with a regular soft floor camper trailer is the orientation when setting up. If as we do you may often camp on sand and beaches the access can be tricky, it can be difficult therefore to set the orientation of your camp set up the way you would prefer. It can take a lot more manoeuvering and mucking around which takes time attempting to get it just right...even then it may be a compromise. In some cases the perfect spot you want just won't work with a camper trailer either....but would have been accessible with a forward or rear fold like a caravan basically.
A forward fold or rear fold can be a whole lot easier from that perspective too...smaller footprint and easier to orient the way you prefer...it will be facing one way or the other....simple.
