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Had a lovely time at the NEC spending imaginary money- fell in love with the various fixed island bed layouts with the separate washroom & shower 'in' the bedroom (eg. Elddis Cyclone, Sterling Elite Explorer etc)    BUT amount they cost / size / twin axle / new car / never-had-a-caravan-before notwithstanding.... just realised that the design means that the toilet window & waste would therefore be on the awning side of the caravan !

Does anyone else think this may be an issue (eg privacy / smells / emptying toilet tank etc ) ?

Our toilet cassette door is on the awning side - I prefer it that way!  Means I don't get quite so wet when it's raining and toilet needs emptying!  Our bathroom window is at the back - we just keep the blind closed.

We had a caravan with the toilet waste on the awning side, as a result we actively looked for one that didn't have one, as we didn't like taking the cassette thought awning. Nothing to do with privacy just it was more difficult and dictated where you could put things in the awning.

yes i understand what your saying regarding this as in our recent hunt for a newer van that has put me off every dsingle one we looked at

im sorry but best willin the world ok there will always be a tiny bit of dribble, and i certainly dont want to think that when i go out in the awning that im going to have my feet in wee!! also what if you are all sat in the awning on a night and need the loo, why not just bring a bucket out int he awning a pee in front of everyone thats there? its only 3 inches at best between you and everyone else so that is a definate no no for me.

we went to a show last year and fell in love with the van we are getting tomorrow but the loo thing was what put me off as it was on the wrong side!, since then we have found the earlier model that has it on the right side i.e. you empty it from the other side of the van, hence why we are getting the one we are now.

you can see i feel strongly enough about it to not bother with a van even tho on every other aspect we loved that van and would have bought it if it hadnt been for that reason.

Quote: Originally posted by Ecocamping on 22/10/2009

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We had a caravan with the toilet waste on the awning side, as a result we actively looked for one that didn't have one, as we didn't like taking the cassette thought awning. Nothing to do with privacy just it was more difficult and dictated where you could put things in the awning.

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Thanks for the replies - not sure if it would be an issue for me or not really ??!  though we do go away camping a lot with friends so I'm sure the awning could become a central meeting point - and now I've got the 3" away in my head

By the time we make a decision I bet the layouts have all changed too anyway !

Quote: Originally posted by LifeBeginsAt40 on 22/10/2009

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Thanks for the replies - not sure if it would be an issue for me or not really ??!  though we do go away camping a lot with friends so I'm sure the awning could become a central meeting point - and now I've got the 3" away in my head

By the time we make a decision I bet the layouts have all changed too anyway !

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