The Best New Caravan For 2024 Is...? My Top 5 Coolest New Caravan Designs

Of course you need an oven.

Yuk. Microwave ovens ... useless for proper cooking. Your puzzlement about why full 3 burner hob, grills and ovens are still desired might speak more about yourr lack of cooking skills and your millenial home cooking culinary ignorance... induction is slso a pain. Gas is best .

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First vid I have come across and aside from the amazing content, super disappointed you don't go by camervan

Really enjoyed that thanks.

Really enjoyed watching this video. I’ve always loved caravans.

The wind has less directions than you

If you cant get tye dit and dinish rught fir a show, thsn you have to question a companies ability

Speak for yourself. I always use my oven and grill.

5 - Eriba Touring: I don't like get up & down stairs specially on the night (f.i. when someone need to go to the bath)
4- Swift Basecamp: ¿Bags for store?. ¿Really?
3 - Knaus Yaseo : No phisical space to cooking area or how they do it?
2 - Bailey Discovery: They should have expanded the bathroom a bit more, but is not bad.
1- La Mancelle Liberty: Ahm... I don't know, nature no need too many luxuries.

I wish many of these were available in the USA. Eriba did have a small presence here many years ago, my parents owned a puck towed by a white VW. So many of these would make sense for many of the cars and crossovers sold which cannot tow over 5000 Lbs. Many of these vehicles have a 3500 or 2000 Lb. limit with brakes to tow.

Electric yes please. I can charge it from my car as it too is electric

Not many uk/euro vans have little bed nooks for mobile phones and charging and even CPAP machines that many people have these days;Also recessing the cook top down a few cms so the bench top can continue across flush to give more space and flips up when in use; a multi use oven/ microwave instead of an oven ; remove curtains as they’re fussy and take up space; dec reliance on power- moving to solar and lithium. I know your vans are much lighter and tow vehicles are less hefty so it would limit weights and inclusions of course. In Australia our caravans are comparatively more expensive from $70000 to $250000+, usually related to the off road chassis and inclusions. Each country does it so differently. Great to compare.
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This was a really interesting, informative, and well-presented video thank you... Needless to say, I subscribed innit...😀

Really enjoying your channel, my husband and I are going to be fixing up my parents old van they have given me it’s a 1989 Gypsey caravette 6 (South African van) we bought it new so very sentimental… looking at your channel now watching your vintage van rebuild the 1964

I use oven and gill.

Everyone is sick of all this woke talk about carbon footprint,sustainability,net zero,climate change (a hoax) etc.

I do wonder if now that the airfyer has taken over the imagination of the UK the need for ovens will reduce. I barely use my oven at home these days never mind when on holiday!

Wouldn't you get condensation on the mattress in the roof bed when the caravan was in storage? Just wondered how the pop top would affect moisture?

Very well presented, a breath of fresh air.
My favourite was the Mancelle, really stylish and airy. Totally agree with all that was said about it. Coming from Aus, l don’t understand the Pom’s love of the oven in a van. It adds weight and is rarely used (l know that the traditionalists will get up on their high horse about that comment). All you need is a couple of burners an air fryer (which let’s face it, it’s an oven) and a good bbq.

I think the Gypsy community are very lucky being able to live in them all year round, I have a disability and live in a flat I would love to be able to live in one of those touring caravans all year but all the caravan parks that are 12 months will only allow you to stay for about six weeks at the most, I wish the government would change the law..

Brilliantly presented, well done. I have a Knaus Südwind 580 QS from 23 and the quality is stunning ❤️

12 volt compression fridges are replacing every other fridge in all the campers here in America. They sip electricity, yet they provide excellent refrigeration. You set your temperature and they keep within a few degrees, even in the hotest weather. I won't travel with anything less any more.

I like the French one do they make a longer one , interesting tho do you recon the British built ones ar poor quality made like their cars 🤔

All those featured have their benefits and equally their failings. As with every caravan, motorhome and even a house, all will come with a compromise. One of the biggest takeaways from this is really how the caravan services are powered. The traditional three way fridges are absolutely useless in hot summers. I'm talking about nigh on 40C in the daytime and above 30C at night summers. A compressor fridge makes so much more sense. I like the drawer type compressor fridges that the French spec La Mancelle and the Trigano Caravelair Artica models have. I would also like to see manufacturers offer a choice between the gas powered heater/boiler and their diesel powered alternatives. Yes, they are available and in my market, the large bottled gas is a pain in the you know where to procure and also requires taking a certification test. In my market, we also convert the hob to be used with the cassette gas canisters (and three way fridges) that are sold EVERYWHERE. However, the best thing about all of these caravans is the lack of a daft protruding chest of drawers at the front of the trailers. It's not the chest of drawers themselves that are daft, but the way they protrude. The only manufacturer to get this right is Coachman. They have the chest of drawers embedded into the front and two lockers on either side. In summary, I think that manufacturers need to adopt a more flexible approach and going to the extreme of all electric is not necessarily the best way forward. In my neck of the woods, these vehicles are also shelters and temporary homes in the event of a natural disaster. All electric, or more poignantly, only electric, isn't the best option - even with an EV to power it. I will state however, there is no such thing as a perfect caravan and certainly not one that is fully natural disaster prepared, but they do beat sharing a gymnasium or classroom with lots of other people, surrounded only with temporary cardboard for privacy.

We use the oven and grill quite a lot... In summer we love the gas BBQ outside, but for winter touring, we often cook a nice meal with a bottle of wine as we may do at home...

Nice summary of all that’s different :) To answer you question, I don’t have an oven or grill so don’t use it, do carry a small multi cooker though ;-) there’s an infill cushion for the hand holding bed btw, for those who also prefer a bit of… footsie! That’s my favourite Eriba Touring interior colour choice too, though not a fan of the family practicality of the new 600 series…

in the states we're starting to see convection microwaves to solve for the oven, though with that you need to have the power to run them.

ahem, i use the grill and oven. Nothing quite like a half toasted slice of bread and a damp lasagne ! ;-)

The Knaus caravan felt really dark and claustrophobic. Ironically once you lower the bed you have a big window! This seems odd as its only usable once you are going to bed. That has to be poor design.

Eriba :
Hand holding in bed. Thoroughly approve of that.
No more & no less 😂 [joke]

All of those caravans to choose from and these are the best....
Birdy

All electric caravan? No thanks.