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We are thinking about buying a small lightweight caravan for weekends away, or maybe longer; we being hubbie, me and 'she who must be obeyed' namely Gemma the border terrier. Our two teenagers may come along on occasions but we would either house them in the awning or separate tent at night.

The problem is that we would like to store the caravan at home under the car port, for quick getaways, but the height restriction of 230 cm and maximum width of 200 cm greatly restricts our choice of caravan.

We have seen the Freedom Microlite range and went down to Automotive Leisure yesterday to view Eribas which we liked at lot, particularly the Puck L, but not the price! Hubbie doesn't want an old one, 2000+, although I wouldn't mind an older one.

Does anyone know of any other small caravans out there in caravan land? Also any idea where to purchase a Puck L, they seem to be rather rare. 

Any help given would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

Julie

Dont know where you are located but there is one on ebay at the moment, (2001 in Cornwall) See what you mean, they are a bit pricey tho..

Have you thought about a folding camper, ???

Hi there,

Lots of interesting stuff to consider. 

Fleetwood, the search started with a folding camper but hubbie not keen on trying to dry out the tent material; he finds this a faff when we come back from a wet weekend in the tent.  Have looked at Dandy's, etc, but he is not convinced. 

Tentz - I hadn't appreciated that Puck L is fairly new concept, hence a lack of them.  We liked the Puck but they just felt a little too small whereas the Puck L gave us just the right amount of room (I sound like the camping version of Goldilocks ).  Had a quick look at Kip Kompakt and they do look interesting - any idea of what is not an inflated price??

Angela - we have a quick peek into the Silver's when we were at the NEC.  Are they fairly sturdy? 

Many thanks for your replies everyone. I'm off to do some more surfing/researching.

Julie

you can get pop top caravans and we recently saw a narrow caravan for sale -it was shorter in height too. im sorry I cant remember the make

good luck with your search

Quote: Originally posted by JulieEllenPB on 17/3/2013

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Had a quick look at Kip Kompakt and they do look interesting - any idea of what is not an inflated price??

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Quote: Originally posted by Anglebox 66 on 17/3/2013

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Angela - we have a quick peek into the Silver's when we were at the NEC. Are they fairly sturdy?

The build quality of the Silvers is very good, they are made in France but they do make models with a UK spec. Our first Fleurette was a continental spec but caused no problems for us with the door on the 'wrong' side!

The pop-top is solid with opening winds along the sides - unlike the Eribas where the pop-tops are canvas sided.

We have endured awful winds with ours without problem.

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Meant to say 'windows'!



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Oops didn't meant to post two empty responses, how did that happen!!

Thanks everyone for your responses, much appreciated.

Bordercaz, hubbie likes the look of the Freedom's because he would prefer a new interior; I do think they are cute but really liked the interior set up of the Eribas .  Got tickets for the Newark show at the weekend, courtesy of UK Campsite, so are taking a trip to look at them again - well hoping they will be there.

Thanks Tentz for explaining about pricing, makes sense once you spelled it out to me.

Will look some more Angela and Anne44 at the silver's; hopefully they will be at Newark too, so we can have an informed explore.

Thanks for the idea about the Gobur folding caravans evenStephen, the thing is if we had the money we would get an Eriba; I really do like them but hubbie says we do not have the budget for a newish one.

Oh well, just need to keep researching the possibilities and awaiting advice from my fellow campers/caravanners on UK Campsite - it is a wonderful website.

Julie