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My friend usually lets their 2 girls sleep in the bedroom and she just keeps the lounge bed down and uses the awning as the living area,to save all the hassle of making up beds.

thats one of the main reasons why we dont like fixed bed caravans, they are not so versitile as the older styles with two double dinettes, In our old Avondale we could seat 8 adults comfortably for a meal, and often did. When our girls were infants, they slept on the seat bases without even having to make it into a bed, or put the bunk up over the rear. By day it was their play and activities area, somewhere to colour and paint or play-doh on a wet day if we didnt have the awning up. By night, we could sleep two adults and a child on the front bed made up into a king size double, and two more adults and two more young children top'n'tailing on the long bunk over the rear dinette, seven people accomodated without the use of any awning!

I have yet to find a lightweight new caravan with a similar layout of two 6ft bench seats at the front, and a double 4ft 6ins dinette at the rear with a bunk over, and still be weighing in at little over a 1000kg unladen, its just a pity it turned out to be the dampest caravan we have ever owned, hence it was traded in at 3yrs old for the Coachman.

Julia