Caravan sleeping

[Deleted account DD]

Weve decided to go for a new caravan.

Problem is most of the fixed beds in tourers are only 6ft long. As Im 6ft2 theyre a bit of a non starter.

Anyone using or know of any make that has longer beds?

[lacroupade]

Weve decided to go for a new caravan.

Problem is most of the fixed beds in tourers are only 6ft long. As Im 6ft2 theyre a bit of a non starter.

Anyone using or know of any make that has longer beds?

well thats put me straight off....guess I'll have to buy a shell and fit it out myself then LOL

[Coop48]

I have a 2008 Bailey 620/6 with a fixed bed and have no trouble and I am 6ft 1in
Gary

[makeitfit]

I've spent years advising on caravan ergonomics :lol
I reckon I'll have them down to 5ft soon enough :wasntme

[extreme-4x4]

dont caravans come with proper beds nowadays free standing double beds in a proper bedroom . some even have ensuite showers . but i suspect your feet will still stick out the end of the bed .

but i have a couple of odd socks under my bed:o , id be happy to post ya. save feet getting cold :nenau

:lol:lol:lol

and pete, im soooooo in love with your avatar

[Deleted account DD]

well thats put me straight off....guess I'll have to buy a shell and fit it out myself then LOL

Its an option. Better still theres a new style of van out from the 5th wheel company. Out of our price range at the mo but looks superb. I will be giving them a ring just to check what is available and if theyre willing to negotiate.

http://www.fifthwheelco.com/inos-caravan/inos.aspx :augie:augie:augie

[lacroupade]

Its an option. Better still theres a new style of van out from the 5th wheel company. Out of our price range at the mo but looks superb. I will be giving them a ring just to check what is available and if theyre willing to negotiate.

http://www.fifthwheelco.com/inos-caravan/inos.aspx :augie:augie:augie

Ah you can afford it on your wages mate :thumbs

But seriously, it would be cheaper to get a cheaper van and pay someone to refit it surely. I mean I know its not cheap but you get what you want. A bloke on the Z4 site spent £20k having his VW Transporter converted - I thought he was bonkers but he ended up with a beautiful camper designed to his personal spec, really nice.

Or get an airstream. Now thats a proper caravan.:thumb2

[(RIP) PLANK]

Weve decided to go for a new caravan.

Problem is most of the fixed beds in tourers are only 6ft long. As Im 6ft2 theyre a bit of a non starter.

Anyone using or know of any make that has longer beds?

Get a proper 8ft wide travellers trailer and enjoy a proper sized bed! My Buccaneer bed is over 7 feet long :thumb2

[zippy656]

i cant remember of the top of my head, but there is a company that refit caravans for disabled..


will have a search..

[Liam]

Do people over 6ft really need to sleep in a poker straight position? Used to hang around with a bloke that was about 6ft 2 or 3 and standard size beds worked fine for him, and that was a single bed. Can't see two inches less being a problem, just sleep at a slight angle, job done. Think you're fussing over nothing Dave. What I think may be more important is duvet length and as you can get these in King Size, tootsies stay nice and cosy.

[Deleted account DD]

Do people over 6ft really need to sleep in a poker straight position? Used to hang around with a bloke that was about 6ft 2 or 3 and standard size beds worked fine for him, and that was a single bed. Can't see two inches less being a problem, just sleep at a slight angle, job done. Think you're fussing over nothing Dave. What I think may be more important is duvet length and as you can get these in King Size, tootsies stay nice and cosy.

I agree with you about poker straight :thumb2 but the problem is most are not generous on the width either so when youre comfortably sprawled or diagonal youve got more than 50% without trying :nenau
Dont forget the 6ft overall usually has a wall at each end so by the time your pillows on there our current one is 6ft2 which is why we got it. My feet bang off the end into the wall. I couldnt understand at first so out came the tape measure, realistic usable bed length is under 5ft10 :D

Tbh im not that arsed but when we're shelling out I want to be comfy :D

[Deleted account DD]

i cant remember of the top of my head, but there is a company that refit caravans for disabled..


will have a search..

I'd be interested if you can recall who they are :thumb2 our other option on the realisically affordable one is to ask them to change the size on the production line but thats getting expensive

http://www.buccaneercaravans.co.uk/tourers/2357/buccaneer_caravel.html

[Deleted account DD]

Get a proper 8ft wide travellers trailer and enjoy a proper sized bed! My Buccaneer bed is over 7 feet long :thumb2

agreed and it is an option, we're trying to find dealers near us :D

[Deleted account DD]

Ah you can afford it on your wages mate :thumbs


no we cant, thats why the cheeky email went off to them this morning :augie


Or get an airstream. Now thats a proper caravan.:thumb2

I like , Debs doesnt.................you know the answer there, same as in your house :D

[(RIP) PLANK]

agreed and it is an option, we're trying to find dealers near us :D

go and have a nosey at Roma in hertfordshire, they can build (or modify) to your spec :thumb2

[Deleted account DD]

go and have a nosey at Roma in hertfordshire, they can build (or modify) to your spec :thumb2

isnt that in the south :eek::eek::eek:

[(RIP) PLANK]

isnt that in the south :eek::eek::eek:

you may need a translator if so i have contacts :thumbs

[Deleted account DD]

you may need a translator if so i have contacts :thumbs

cheers :thumb2

Just been on their site, possibly a bit blingy for me and I guess their main market are travellers? do they do wet vans too?

[briggie]

you may need a translator if so i have contacts :thumbs

i kan speek essex innit

[(RIP) PLANK]

cheers :thumb2

Just been on their site, possibly a bit blingy for me and I guess their main market are travellers? do they do wet vans too?

They do wet vans now, and can do pretty much anything you want inside, worth considering if you have the money and the inclination it would be a head turner, made in England, and hold it's value well :thumb2

[Deleted account DD]

They do wet vans now, and can do pretty much anything you want inside, worth considering if you have the money and the inclination it would be a head turner, made in England, and hold it's value well :thumb2

Ive had a look on the site , nothing wrong with the romas but to be honest at that cost the inos from the 5th wheel company is more to my taste or the Bucc caravel :D:thumb2

[Liam]

:eek: That Bucanneer Caravel is much higher specced than my house!!!!

[Deleted account DD]

:eek: That Bucanneer Caravel is much higher specced than my house!!!!

Ours too :lol:lol:lol:lol:lol:lol

[harlowmaverick]

no you cant briggie!:augie
you are obviously pissed yet again!!!:doh:doh:doh:sly

[briggie]

no you cant briggie!:augie
you are obviously pissed yet again!!!:doh:doh:doh:sly




????????? didnt say owt

[briggie]

was nice of you to bring your daughter to ricks party though :naughty

[(RIP) PLANK]

Ive had a look on the site , nothing wrong with the romas but to be honest at that cost the inos from the 5th wheel company is more to my taste or the Bucc caravel :D:thumb2

I've got a 'real' Buccaneer, back from the days before they sold the brand name. Loads of bling! I love sitting in front of thee wood burner on the leather seats sipping wine from my antique crystal glass - makes me feel like henry the eighth :thumb2

[Deleted account DD]

makes me feel like henry the eighth :thumb2

what..........fat and randy with syphilis :confused:

[R1cho]

what..........fat and randy with syphilis :confused:

:jesterbg

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

no a taste for serial monogamy and dislike of the pope....

[lacroupade]

what..........fat and randy with syphilis :confused:

sounds like Plank alright.....

Actually years ago I used to work in the finance business and was swooping up the Cowley Road in Oxford one day when I passed a known debtor who was 'on the run'. So I stopped and had a word with him, got a bit of money and went on my merry way. Yer man was on crutches and in bad shape and I thought he'd just hurt his leg.

Next day our local collections manager, who was a retired Chief Inspector and freemason (so in those days not only immune from everything but still operating almost like he was still in uniform LOL) pulls me aside to tell me the local scuffers had been on the phone to him after tracing my company car registration to ask WTF was I up to....turns out yer man was a long-retired but once famous West Indian boxer who ran a knocking shop up the Cowley Road and was involved in a few other dodgy deals to boot....the crutches were because he was in the acute stages of syphilis.

That same retired CI also told me a story about a bloke they'd found dead in a pigpen with his trousers round his ankles, but thats for another day...:eek:

Anyway, I digress.....:lol:lol:lol

[Liam]

:rolleyes: You live a very interesting and varied life, don't you. Masons,syphilis, police,gay chandelier owning people, whatever next!!!

[lacroupade]

:rolleyes: You live a very interesting and varied life, don't you. Masons,syphilis, police,gay chandelier owning people, whatever next!!!

Well there was the time when I used to work in IT and got wired up for a police trap in a motorway service station against two major thieves who had propositioned me on the subject of a very large quantity of warehoused PC kit? Squad of plain clothes, video van, the whole nine yards...I thought it was very exciting til they started to brief me on what to do if the perps pulled a weapon, and the position to adopt if the police had to ram any vehicle I was travelling in......LMBO I've got a million stories mate! :lol

[Liam]

Better keep a safe distance so!!!

[R1cho]

I thought it was very exciting til they started to brief me on what to do if the perps pulled a weapon, and the position to adopt if the police had to ram any vehicle I was travelling in:lol

Put ya head between ya legs and kiss ya ar$e goodbye :lol:lol:lol

[lacroupade]

Put ya head between ya legs and kiss ya ar$e goodbye :lol:lol:lol

that was about the size of it too! I nearly backed out at that point, but thought I might end up on Crimewatch LOL

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

sounds like Plank alright.....

Actually years ago I used to work in the finance business and was swooping up the Cowley Road in Oxford one day when I passed a known debtor who was 'on the run'. So I stopped and had a word with him, got a bit of money and went on my merry way. Yer man was on crutches and in bad shape and I thought he'd just hurt his leg.

Next day our local collections manager, who was a retired Chief Inspector and freemason (so in those days not only immune from everything but still operating almost like he was still in uniform LOL) pulls me aside to tell me the local scuffers had been on the phone to him after tracing my company car registration to ask WTF was I up to....turns out yer man was a long-retired but once famous West Indian boxer who ran a knocking shop up the Cowley Road and was involved in a few other dodgy deals to boot....the crutches were because he was in the acute stages of syphilis.

That same retired CI also told me a story about a bloke they'd found dead in a pigpen with his trousers round his ankles, but thats for another day...:eek:

Anyway, I digress.....:lol:lol:lol

Sounds like one of Plank's stories.....

[solarman216]

funny how the size of beds in a caravan transforms into some very interesting dialogue on all sorts of subjects, great init, Rick

[Deleted account DD]

perps




youve been watching too many episodes of hill street blues :D

[(RIP) PLANK]

Sounds like one of Plank's stories.....

yes it does a bit :lol

[lacroupade]

youve been watching too many episodes of hill street blues :D

I'll be taking you down....

yes it does a bit :lol

Can't wait to get you and Dixon of Dock Green there round the old camp fire LOL.:lol

[(RIP) PLANK]

I'll be taking you down....



Can't wait to get you and Dixon of Dock Green there round the old camp fire LOL.:lol


see if you can get some antibiotics for me, will ya? :augie

[lacroupade]

see if you can get some antibiotics for me, will ya? :augie

theres a farmers co-op in town, I'll see what they've got LOL!

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

theres a farmers co-op in town, I'll see what they've got LOL!

evenin all, whats all this then, a west wales national?

[lacroupade]

evenin all, whats all this then, a west wales national?

no just a threatened campout sometime if these two ever get their arses into gear.:augie

[briggie]

no just a threatened campout sometime if these two ever get their arses into gear.:augie

try not to mention arses when camping ...... i get nervous :eek:

[(RIP) PLANK]

no just a threatened campout sometime if these two ever get their arses into gear.:augie

I'm looking forward to it, give us a few weeks and I'll be there :thumb2

maybe you could show me a few local (and easy) green lanes.

you haven't got a spare intercooler have you, now that would be a god excuse to come and visit!

[lacroupade]

I'm looking forward to it, give us a few weeks and I'll be there :thumb2

maybe you could show me a few local (and easy) green lanes.

you haven't got a spare intercooler have you, now that would be a god excuse to come and visit!

Only one with a car attached......and Strata Florida is easy I swear. Or we could just do a few - ahem - forest tracks LOL

[(RIP) PLANK]

Only one with a car attached......and Strata Florida is easy I swear. Or we could just do a few - ahem - forest tracks LOL

sounds good to me, i just need to get my intercooler sorted first. I ad the old one fixed, he didn't have much confidence in it and it has gone again. Got a used one today had it tested and it is leaking in the same place, going to swap it on Monday and try again.

[lacroupade]

sounds good to me, i just need to get my intercooler sorted first. I ad the old one fixed, he didn't have much confidence in it and it has gone again. Got a used one today had it tested and it is leaking in the same place, going to swap it on Monday and try again.

where is it leaking? Is it a crack in the casing or what, and how did you diagnose it? Need to know on a need-to-know basis :augie

[(RIP) PLANK]

shall i add it to my 'INTERCOOLER' thread? :augie

[lacroupade]

shall i add it to my 'INTERCOOLER' thread? :augie

sarcasm is the lowest form of wit Mr P. :lol

Spose I'd better go and find it now....:doh

[lacroupade]

Well I looked but it just says its leaking? :(

[(RIP) PLANK]

click 'new post' :thumb2

[Deleted account DD]

no just a threatened campout sometime if these two ever get their arses into gear.:augie


if we get our new van ..............................:augie

on the hunt this weekend :thumb2