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29/4/2014 at 6:18am
Location: Derbyshire
Outfit: ElddisAvante462 Honda CRV SE2.2 i-Dtec
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There are other options to gain a fixed bed with a propper mattress other than buying a newish caravan with a designated unremovable 'fixed bed' .
Why not buy a caravan with a rear double dinette which can be left made up with a double mattress of your choice fitted? That way, if you didnt like the fixed double it would be easy enough to convert it back to its original form and use the front singles if that suited you best.
Just to clarify, is you 10k budget just for the caravan or for the entire outfit? The answer to this will be a big factor in which outfits may suit your requirements, and obviously the larger the caravan the more powerful the towcar will need to be to tow it, so running costs need to be considered as well. Im disabled myself, and we are both retired, as my OH is in his 70s, but we find our two berth with two good sized front singles and a rear washroom suits us fine. lt only tatkes a couple of mins to roll the sleeping bags out for night time use, or if we do decide to make up the double, that is only a few mins more. If we take one of our grandchildren with us, shes happy to sleep on the back cushions placed on the floor between the two singles for a few nights. We did try the fixed bed models before buying this van, but as mentioned above, discarded them for the reasons of poor access to overhead lockers, the climbing over each other to go to the loo in the night, and the squabbles about who got to sleep on the side of the bed with the missing corner cut off.
Good luck with your search, take your time and dont listen to too much sales talk from those who are trying to sell on a particular model at a dealership, there are plenty of good secondhand caravans out there, and im sure that you will eventually find the right one for you and your needs.
Julia
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But there is a lot of faffing around to make it up and it took up space. So now we have a 4 berth fixed bed and we're really happy with it. My ideal would have been an island bed but you had to make a compromise in other areas. 
so it could be interesting.
