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Around 6 years back when I was looking at buying my first caravan, I looked at everything on the market that met my slightly meagre towing capacity (1350Kg), including the Eriba models of interest to you, VERY quickly ruled them out when stepping in to them, as found the pop-top quite claustrophobic when standing! They are not wide vans at best, but the pop-top is really quite narrow as only the gap between high level lockers, and as a 6ft tall big bloke, my head, and shoulders too really, were entirely in the 'pop-top', didn't feel very comfortable with that. Clearly not a problem for some folk, but definitely not for me personally.
I looked at Gobur folding vans, which whilst similar dimensions, didn't suffer the narrow pop-top problem, I did exclude them on high cost versus basic kitchen and no shower though - felt better value for money elsewhere, but as a van layout, I was much happier with them and their modest dimensions, but without the disadvantage of the narrow roof space.
For what it's worth, I spent a lot of time (about a year at shows and dealer forecourts), looking at 'everything', it changed my initial view of what I thought I wanted quite considerably, my final purchase was nothing like my first thoughts on what I wanted, largely as I found and excluded (Eriba pop-top for example! .... and miniscule shower over loo type bathrooms on other vans!) many aspects of vans I saw and decided really were not for me. 6 years on and the van I bought has proven itself to have been the perfect choice, I'd very happily go and buy exactly the same spec/layout again, all that research and homework paid off! .... plenty of people do buy in haste and without enough thought, then change their van shortly after, as the realities dawn on them!
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Topic: Eriba Vintage Caravans
via mobile 05/7/2024 at 12:28pm
