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At a caravan dealer localish to me called elite caravans. The aussie one has aircon,omnistor roll out sun canopy, 76 litre onboard water tank etc all as standard to say I was impressed was a bit of an understatement, the island bed has a reflex foam mattress so a good nights sleep is assured!!! and I love the fridge freezer what a size.

We've just put a deposit down on a 565 from Elite but we don't pick it up for a couple of weeks (our delay, not Elite's).

I know this doesn't help you in any way but I'm damn excited and just wanted to tell everyone again about my new purchase  

It's our first caravan so I have no previous experience to compare it with. To be honest, I find all caravans pretty flimsy feeling and I don't remember the new Baileys we looked at being any flimsier but I bow to the far superior experience of others on here who say they are great.

What I will say about Elite is that you won't get anything out of them - no discounts or any freebies thrown in. Not complaining when the van is so much cheaper than elsewhere but just a warning....

Hi Carproamer

We got ours from elite in June this year and have been extremely pleased with it, The service from them was very good

The caravan is brilliant itself, We had a 2007 swift charisma before and the Geist feels so much better built than the swift.

We have had about 8 outings already in ours and have found it fantastic

Just check your weights out with your towcar though as I think the C4 has quite a low towing capacity and the Xclusiv is a heavy van

Quote: Originally posted by Carproamer on 17/9/2009

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At a caravan dealer localish to me called elite caravans.

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Stupid thing but if you do go back to Elite again in the next week, can you see if they have locked up my 565 (there was only one there, I think)?

They promised they would but not sure if I trust them and don't like the thought of people trampling over 'my' van....

Hi Carproamer

We decided to buy a caravan recently and looked round a few Baileys at a dealership in Herts, we left feeling a little disappointed at how flimsy they felt.  We then happened upon Elite and the Geist caravans.... we started looking round and straight away felt they were better made, I am not an expert so this is based purely on opening and closing a few cupboard doors etc but a lot of people seem to agree the German vans are better built.  Anyway, we bought the 495 and have been on a few trips and absolutely love it! 

We had a problem with the Omnister sun awning but Elite were brilliant and sorted it out.  As the post earlier said, Elite will not give you any discounts etc but when we went to collect our van I went round it with a fine tooth comb and managed to find a few things to complain about... small chip on the edge of the wardrobe door, scratch on the window etc.  and got £100 off accessories.  So it is worth looking round the van to see if there is anything.  The way I saw it was if I found nothing then I would be pleased but if I didn't check and saw something later and had missed the opportunity to get some money off then I would have felt miffed!

Anyway, would def reccommend both Geist and Elite.

Hope this helps!

Quote: Originally posted by albut on 02/2/2010

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We bought a Geist535 from Elite caravans, and had two outings with it very pleased so far, one little problem our porch awning wouldn,t reach the ground so any ideas folks its a very tall van, also will other caravan dealers carry out service and warranty repairs more local to us near Lincoln

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Hi Albut.......I have a Geist LV550 and bought a Dorema Toronto porch awning for out of season use and had the same problem with the ladder type ties nearest to the van (think it's the larger wheels that lift it up higher than normal and leave it 2/3 inches higher).

I bought extra ladder ties and and fitted them to the existing ones to extend them and this did the trick......you could do the same by extending them with rubber ties (or whatever) on the ones next to the van. There's a picture of it in my profile.