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Subject Topic: l shape lounge AND fixed bunks?? Post Reply Post New Topic
Personlottieskinner
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Hi everyone, we are newbies looking to buy our first caravan for around £6k. We have one 2 year old, and the 2 of us. I'm trying to find a model with both an l shaped lounge and rear fixed bunks. Does such a thing exist because I can't find any! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.


Persontedthebear
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Personlottieskinner
28/10/2014 at 10:44am
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I've looked on caravan finder and there are no caravans with l shape lounge and fixed bunks, does this mean they don't exist? Does caravan finder have everything? I don't understand why someone wouldn't make one!


PersonAL53HX
28/10/2014 at 11:45am
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Try Venture caravans website.
I have an Adria Adora that would fit your needs(butI'm keeping it)by fixed bunks do you mean single beds?


Personlottieskinner
28/10/2014 at 12:59pm
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Hi AL53HX. No, I don't mean fixed single beds, I mean L shaped lounge at the back and 2 (or 3) bunk beds at the rear of the caravan. Just thought this type of layout would give the most space for our needs because only 1 of the beds will be used (i.e. we don't need 2 single beds. Hub and I will sleep in the lounge and bubba on the lower bunk. Thats the idea anyway.


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Personiank01
28/10/2014 at 1:54pm
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I doubt very much if you will find any caravan with L shape lounge at the back and also bunk beds at the rear. Most L shape lounges are in the front with the bunks at the rear. Lunar did a number of L shape lounges as an option.


Personlottieskinner
28/10/2014 at 2:45pm
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Sorry, I meant L shape lounge at the front and bunks at the rear. I haven't seen this option anywhere.


Personiank01
28/10/2014 at 3:06pm
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Quote: Originally posted by lottieskinner on 28/10/2014
Sorry, I meant L shape lounge at the front and bunks at the rear. I haven't seen this option anywhere.

I think you can get a number of layouts where the dinette in the middle converts to bunks and there is an L shape lounge in front. This may be a better option.
Like yourselves we like the L shape lounge, but it seems manufacturers no longer offer it as an option.


PersonPukka
28/10/2014 at 7:14pm
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Have a look at the adria Tamar.


Personegbert
01/11/2014 at 2:19pm
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We have just had out first outing in our Lunar Zenith which was about your price. It's got fixed bunks at the back but the lounge isnt L shaped - but we found it gave us plenty of space for our 2 - ages 5 and 8 - as they had the middle table to play at.


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Personalisonmc
02/11/2014 at 9:27am
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We changed our caravan a year ago and searched for another L shaped lounge as we had loved our old one so much but as one of the earlier replies mentioned, the manufacturers do not make that many. We ended up compromising by going for wrap around seating. It suits us really well and with little children you might get more use than us!! (My rear end isn't so little). Wrap around seating can be put in most vans with parallel seating by removing the central cupboard. This might be the closest you can get to your perfect caravan. In my experience you usually have to compromise on something when finding your next caravan. But you might be lucky. I wish you all the best

Alison.


Personrtayl112
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We went to the Caravan and Motorhome show at the NEC in October and to be honest did not see any L shaped lounges on any stand just the usual clones of parallel lounges. We have a Fleetwood Meridian 560-EK, an L shaped lounge with loads of room and a hugh L shaped kitchen with again loads of room, the show was so bad it become boring looking at the same layouts from every manufacturer with only the odd different one. Spoke to one manufacturer and they said that there was no demand for L shaped lounges, there is no demand because they will not make them!!
Come on manufacturers give us something different, look at some of the previous Fleetwood forward looking layouts and revive some of them. By the way Fleetwood was closed down by Adria solely because they had no dealer network to speak of in the UK so took over and closed Fleetwood purely to get that network and not because of poor Fleetwood sales!!!!


Personiank01
11/11/2014 at 10:11am
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Very few manufactures offered the L shape as standard. Normally it was an option. Most people for some reason prefer bunk seats which are boring and uncomfortable to watch TV etc. L shape gives you a lot more leg room and almost as if you are in the lounge at home.


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having had an L shaped lounge van we found that as you HAD to make up a double bed it did not suit us we preferred the option of being able to use the front sofa's as single beds a much greater advantage than the apparently more spacious front lounge. We also found that on many L shaped lounges when the table was erected you could only seat 2 people at the table as one side was not provided with seating


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11/11/2014 at 12:39pm
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We have always had the L shape lounge with a fixed bed. I can understand bunks if no fixed bed which is what the OP wants.



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