The Fifth Wheel Cup HolderBy Steadi Labs

—A base for the seat you are actually in

Two cup holders for the whole lounge.

On the two-recliner set most rigs ship with, both of them are in the console, and the console is one piece of furniture. Keystone’s own floorplan copy puts a tri-fold sleeper sofa opposite the recliners and a dinette that “can comfortably seat 4-5 people” beside them. None of that furniture has a well in it.

Buying the console on its own is $276.46. This is $14.95 and it goes wherever somebody sat down.

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A can standing in a terracotta Steadi on the cushion beside someone reclined with their feet up.
On the cushion, in the seat you are already in. Twelve colours in all.

—Read the spec lists, not the brochure photo

The count is in their own specifications.

Not our figure — theirs. These are the manufacturers’ and retailers’ own product pages, read on 3 September 2026. Thomas Payne’s Heritage line is modular and consoles are sold individually, so two is what the conventional two-recliner set carries, not a limit imposed on every possible arrangement.

Thomas Payne theatre set

$2,399.99

two wells

Sixty-seven inches, three pieces, two recliners and one console. The whole set’s drink provision is the console’s “lighted dual cupholders.”

RecPro Charles 67″

$1,379.95

two wells, 9″ console

“Center console with two cup holders.” The console frame is nine inches wide. The wells are 3 1/2 inches across.

RecPro Michael 66″ tri-fold

$1,414.95

none at all

The sofa Keystone puts opposite the recliners. Sixty-six inches of seating, and the phrase “cup holder” does not appear anywhere in its published specification.

Or set one down

$14.95

nothing

A 5.2-inch moulded base, 3.6 ounces. It works on the recliner arm, the tri-fold, the dinette and the console lid, because it is not part of any of them.

Sources: campingworld.com · unitedrvparts.com · recpro.com · keystonerv.com · jspmanufacturing.com. Prices and specifications fetched 3 September 2026 and quoted as published.

—The part nobody points out at the dealership

The sofa opposite has none. Not one, anywhere in its specification.

  • The tri-fold sleeper sofa publishes zero cup holders

    RecPro’s Michael 66″ EZ-OUT tri-fold is the piece Keystone puts opposite the recliners. Sixty-six inches of seating, and the phrase “cup holder” does not appear once in its published specification — we searched the whole page for it.

  • Buying your way out costs $1,824.95

    RecPro’s Charles 80″ powered triple does give the outer seats their own lit cup-holders, with a USB port in the rim, plus a 22″ Comfort Console third seat. It is the well-provisioned option in this aisle and that is what it costs.

  • The console is a separate purchase, and it is not cheap

    Camping World lists the Thomas Payne Heritage centre console on its own — no seat, 12″ wide — at $276.46 — a promotional price on the day we looked, down from a $476.99 list.

  • The furniture opposite has nothing

    Keystone’s Cougar 320RDS copy: “The giant L-shaped lounge includes two theater recliners & a king tri-fold sleeper sofa.” RecPro’s equivalent tri-fold publishes no cup holder at all.

  • And the wells are not one size

    The standard drop-in furniture well is 2 21/32 inches inside diameter and 2 7/8 deep. The jumbo is 3.515 inches and needs a 3-5/8 inch hole cut. Which one you have decides whether your tumbler goes in, and nobody told you which one you bought.

recpro.com · campingworld.com · keystonerv.com · jspmanufacturing.com. Fetched 3 September 2026, quoted from the pages named.

A hand sliding an aluminium can down into the fins of a Steadi.
The whole installation. No hole, no console, no cushion to give up.

—Does it actually work

It wobbles. Then it settles.

Somebody drops into the recliner beside you, or the footrest comes up, and the drink comes back level instead of going over. The base is 5.2 inches across and spreads the load rather than balancing on a point.

Filmed on a couch cushion. A theatre recliner is upholstered foam over a frame — the same problem, and if anything a firmer one.

A full can standing in a white Steadi on a cushion.
Real footage, one take, no cuts.

—How it holds

Width, and nothing else.

The base

5.2 inches across and fixed. It moves the edge the drink would have to tip over much further out, so the whole thing has to lean much further before it goes.

The fins

Six of them, holding the bottom inch. Cans and bottles slide on from the top; tumblers and glasses drop in. Drink and base then rock as one piece.

The upholstery

A wide foot spreads the weight across the seat instead of pressing into it at a point. It marks nothing and lifts away clean.

A macro photograph of the flared base of a terracotta Steadi, showing the moulded STEADI mark.
The flare, close. That width is the entire mechanism.

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—The object

One piece of rubber. No cutting.

There is no hole to cut, no console to buy, no cushion to give up and no hardware of any kind. It goes on the seat and the drink goes in it. When you pull the slides in it goes in a drawer.

  • Base5.2″ — fixed
  • Height2.8″
  • Opening at rest1.64″
  • Weightabout 3.6 oz
  • Fins6, from 0.92″ up, flexing to 3.15″
  • MaterialShore 85A TPU
  • Hole requiredNone
  • HardwareNone
  • CleaningRinse, wipe, or dishwasher
Several sizes of can standing in Steadis side by side, from a slim can to a tallboy.
Slim can to tallboy. Bases between two and three inches all seat.

—What seats and what does not

Your console well is either 2.65 inches or about 3.5. This takes both jobs.

JSP’s standard drop-in furniture well is 2 21/32 inches inside diameter; its jumbo is 3.515. RecPro publishes 3 1/2 inches for the cupholder on its Charles 67″ console. A 40 oz Stanley Quencher is 3.1 inches at the base — which clears the wide ones and not the standard one, and is exactly why a tumbler ends up wedged in at an angle. This seats anything from two to 3.15 inches, and it tells you honestly when it will not.

A handled mug does not seat here either — the handle lands where the fins grip. Fifth-wheel owners say the same thing about their consoles, which is a limit we share rather than one we fixed.

Search by container

Every width below comes from a published specification, not from us. Where a spec is uncertain, the answer says so.

Or the width across the bottom

A width across the bottom of the cup, in inches.

Without a tape measure

A standard sticky note is three inches square. A cup standing on one with its base inside the paper will seat.

Anything that overhangs, or anything borderline — hello@steadilabs.com reaches a person, and the answer will be honest either way, including a no.

—Where they end up

The recliner arm, the tri-fold, the dinette, the console lid.

Every seat in the lounge, which is the point — the two wells you already own serve the two seats either side of the console and nothing else. Outside at the site it goes on the folding table and the cooler lid, and when the slides come in it goes in a drawer.

Twelve colours, and the picker assigns one per unit, which in a rig with the grandkids in it is mostly about telling whose drink is whose.

—What the aisle costs

Every other way to add a drink position is furniture or a hole saw.

Prices were looked up on 3 September 2026, not estimated. Every figure is the seller’s own.

The productPriceWhat it gives you, and what it asks
Thomas Payne Heritage centre console, console only$276.46Two wells and no seat, 12″ wide. A promotional price on the day of capture, down from a $476.99 list; retailers rotate these. It has to fit between two recliners you already own.
Lippert Thomas Payne Seismic theatre set, 67″$2,399.99Two recliners and one console. Total drink provision: the console’s two lit wells.
RecPro Charles 67″ double with console$1,379.95Two seats, two 3 1/2″ wells. Needs 36 1/4″ of slide-out depth with overhang.
RecPro Charles 80″ powered triple$1,824.95Three seats, and the best provisioned thing here: each outer recliner has its own lit cup-holder, plus a 22″ Comfort Console with a drop-down back. This is what solving it with furniture costs.
JSP jumbo drop-in well, retrofit$6.99Genuinely cheap, and permanent. Its own instruction: “Make sure it’s 3-5/8″ hole.” Into your console.
The Fifth Wheel Cup Holder$14.95 · four for $39.95, $9.99 eachNothing. It stands on the seat and lifts off, and it moves to whichever seat is occupied.

The drop-in well is $6.99, and it is a better buy than this one if you know exactly where the drink should live forever. It costs eight dollars less and a 3-5/8 inch hole in a console you paid $276 for. That is the trade, stated plainly.

If the two seats either side of the console are the only two that ever get used, you already have what you need and you should keep your money.

—Get one

How many seats, and what colour goes where.

Count the seats in the lounge that get used, not the ones in the brochure photo. With the recliners, the tri-fold and the dinette, four is the common answer here. Free shipping on all of them.

Checkout is handled by Steadi Labs — the company that makes The Fifth Wheel Cup Holder. Secure checkout at steadilabs.com. Free shipping on every order, and 90 days to change your mind, used is fine.

—From people who bought one

None of these is from a fifth wheel.

We are not going to imply otherwise. They are here because they describe reclining furniture, upholstered seating and somebody landing on the cushion beside you — which is what this page claims. Verbatim, unedited, not filtered by rating.

A lavender Bass Pro Shops insulated mug with a handle seated in a green drink base marked STEADI, standing on a cluttered wooden side table with jars and a red cup behind
Photograph sent in by Linda Waugh with this review.

★★★★★

Works really great. Fits all size containers. Keeps them from getting knocked over.

Linda Waugh · 2026-05-27Photo from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyer

★★★★★

This is such a fantastic idea that is very well done. We have a deep couch and 3 dogs who love to jump on it. I have tried so many trays and holders, and none of them have worked. But with my Steadi, Ican lay back on the lounger part, have my drink in arms reach, and not worry about the dogs knocking it over. My husband was skeptical, but even he is now impressed. This thing is GREAT!

Erin Cooney · May 2026

★★★★★

I LOVE my 2 steadis!!! I can now have my cold canned seltzers and sodas on my sofa, my bed, it’s fabulous. I’m considering buying more for when the grandkids are here. You just cannot knock your drink over. It’s fabulous!

beth skillins · May 2026

★★★★★

Steadi works very well in stabilizing my drinks on soft surfaces, like the couch or by the chair I use as a nightstand.

Marie Adams · July 2026

★★★★★

Amazing product! Great for the couch and with kids that love to just plop down like animals. With Steadi, drinks are nearly impossible to spill

Michael Miller · July 2026

18 more, photographed by the people who bought them

Sent in with their reviews. Tap any one to read it. Different rooms, different drinks, different colours — none of them staged by us.

A slice of one product-wide corpus — reviews of the Steadi, not of this page. The full corpus is published live.

—The limits, in one place

What it does not do.

—If it turns out to be the wrong thing

Ninety days. Used is fine. Nothing goes back in a box.

Take them out for a season. If the answer is no, hello@steadilabs.com reaches a person and the money comes back — no form, no restocking fee, no questions about condition, and nothing to pack up or post.

  1. You order. Free shipping, every order, always.
  2. It leaves Orange, California within one business day.
  3. USPS, 2–5 days, tracked.

—Who makes it

Steadi Labs. One person, in Orange, California.

The steel injection mould open in the machine, the cavity that forms the base visible.
The mould, in the machine.
Scott Rodriguez at a workbench, holding a terracotta Steadi and looking at it, with shipping boxes behind him.
Scott, who makes them.

Scott Rodriguez made the first one after a full drink went over on a soft cushion with three kids under three in the house. It was built for spills, not for rigs.

Nobody with a fifth wheel asked for this page. It exists because a wide base does the same thing on a recliner cushion as it does on a couch, and because a lounge with two wells in it is a real gap that furniture money is a silly way to close.

We make one thing and we make all of it here — the moulds, the material, the colour runs, everything within about three and a half miles of the shop.

  • Steadi Labs — veteran founded and veteran owned
  • Designed, injection moulded, picked, packed and shipped in Orange, California
  • Patent pending
  • 100% BPA free
  • 5.2 inches across the foot, about 3.6 ounces

— Scott, Steadi Labs

—Questions

Straight answers.

Will it fit my theatre seating?

There is nothing to fit. It does not go in the console well and it does not clamp to the arm — it stands on the seat or the arm top, so console width, well diameter and recliner brand are all irrelevant. That is the whole reason this page exists rather than a compatibility chart.

Can I use it while we’re towing?

No. It has no fastener of any kind, so it is for a rig that is parked and levelled. Everything loose gets stowed before you hitch up and this is no different.

Will it hold a 40 oz Stanley?

Yes. The Quencher H2.0 40 oz is about 3.1 inches at the base, inside the range the fins flex to. Snug rather than drop-in — it seats with a push. Whether it goes in your console well depends on which well the factory fitted — the standard drop-in is 2 21/32 inches and the wide ones are around 3 1/2.

Does it work on the recliner arm?

If the arm has a flat top, yes. If it is rounded, the seat cushion beside you is the better spot and it is closer to your hand anyway.

Will it mark the upholstery?

It marks nothing and lifts clean. There is no adhesive, no suction and no hardware touching the seat.

Why not just fit the $6.99 drop-in well?

Because it is $6.99 and a 3-5/8 inch hole in a console. If you are happy to cut, it is a good product and it never moves. This page is for people who are not, and for the seats a console cannot reach.

Where does it live when we’re moving?

A drawer. It is 2.8 inches tall and about 3.6 ounces, and they nest.

Can it go in the dishwasher?

Yes. Shore 85A TPU, 100% BPA free. Rinse it, wipe it, or run it through the dishwasher.

Why does this site only sell one thing?

Because it is one thing. It is a Steadi, made by Steadi Labs in Orange, California, and checkout finishes at steadilabs.com where the company lives.

—Still deciding

$14.95 for a piece of rubber.

It is. The console that carries the two wells you already have was $276.46 on its own. Ninety days covers being wrong about this one, used, with nothing to post back.

We already have theatre seating.

Then two seats are solved. The question is the tri-fold opposite — which publishes no cup holder at all — and the dinette.

I’d rather have it fixed in place.

Then fix it in place — the drop-in well is $6.99 and it works. Read the hole size first. It is 3-5/8 inches, and it goes into furniture you cannot un-cut.

Will it slide on the vinyl?

The TPU is grippy against a seat surface, and the wide foot is what keeps a knock from tipping it. On a hard console lid it behaves like anything else that is not fastened down — it stays where it is set, and it will slide if the surface is slick and the knock is hard.

Nothing gets cut, and nobody gives up a seat.

For the recliner, the tri-fold that publishes none, and the dinette.

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