[peaky]

I have an over garage fixed bed, and an in lounge drop down bed, useful if having visitors as they can be at the back and sleep whilst I can go in the drop down when im ready, its 7m long with l shape sofa and side sofa so plenty of lounging space too, you just have to find whats most important, make a list, mine was a bed I could watch tv in and rest on at anytime, and plent of lounging space and a tv that I did nt have to crane my neck to watch, the garage is huge depending on which height you select, the bathroom was the compromise as it has nt got a separate shower, iv e had the motorhome a year and am still very pleased with it.

 

[chermic]

BEWARE: Friends of ours have just bought a brand new LMC A Class motorhome and they have discovered that the drop down bed will only take 200Kgs of weight. Due to this, they are not able to use it, just store their bedding on it.

I thought it was a one off, but when we were at Lincoln I saw many new A Classes with a sticker on the bed restricting the weight to 200Kgs.

So if you both weigh more than the above, look for another type of bed to be on the safe side.

 

[vicdicdoc]

. . . The only 2 drawbacks I can see are if the inner person wants to get up in the night they have to climb over the outer person and you have to be reasonably mobile to get up and down the ladder,anyone with a disability may struggle.

No problems for us as we sleep top to tail & (TG) no disabilities

 

[Superk]

On the 5.6m van (HRZ Reisemobile, Holiday Dream) the bed ran lengthwise so no one was trapped on the inside. Only two steps up and no problem for one to go to bed while the other sat in the diner/lounge area underneath. Also had a separate shower. Toured in it for 6 months and we're pensioners.

 

[mearsy]

Our decision tree was that we wanted the smallest van we could get, but with a decent bed (which didn't need to be made up) and a large lounge.....wanted to get off the beaten track, but with some comfort!

This led us to the drop down bed concept and we chose the Rapido as it had the best clearance in the bed, bed could be left made up, the lounge was large and the finish was excellent.

Easy to get into and you can get out both sides......only down side is that you have to go to bed together, but as we always do anyway, not a problem.

Wife is always worried that bed will not work (it's electric) but we've never had a problem (touch wood) and you can wind it up and down manually.....

Have always been surprised that UK manufacturers have not followed this layout....

 

[fatbuddha]

as others have said, there is no such thing as the "perfect" m'home - you have to compromise to find what works best for your setup.

we're on our 3rd m'home and I think with this one (Rollerteam T-line 700 non-family) we are about as close as we can be to what we want - anything extra that we'd like is perhaps frippery or unrealisable.

I would however suggest that you go and see as many as possible to check their layouts and see what you like/dislike, talk to dealers - the Motorhome and Caravan Show is on at the NEC at the end of the month so you will get to see so many that your head will be spinning!! maybe take 2 days to go around them all and then revisit which ones you like to narrow down further.

we bought ours there last year having seen it the previous year - we'd liked it 1st time, liked it even more the 2nd time knowing nothing better had appeared - and a good trade in made a big difference this time.... :wink: