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My wife and myself are seriously cosidering buying a new Fleetwood Meridian 560-EK and would be grateful for any feed back on either this model or Fleetwood caravans in general.

Thanks a lot

Rob

You could look here :

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/chatter/search.asp?search=Fleetwood&searchMode=allwords&searchIn=Topic&forum=8&searchSort=dateDESC&Submit=Start+Search

Thanks Scuba unfortunately there was nothing re the 560-EK I will still keep looking though.

Regards

Rob

Hi RJT, I reviewed a 2006 model for Caravan Magazine last year. Lovely van, especially that enormous kitchen. The 2007 is IMHO greatly improved with the better bathroom design and parallel dinette.

The only quibbles we had were that the large table (in 2006) was a £250 extra, and the side dinette had no reading lights and no mains sockets. We also found the dinky gas locker door on the front panel made access difficult when changing gas bottles. Speaking of the front panel, that striking design has been used since 2001 and the ABI Award. Unless the mould has been replaced, it must be approaching the end of its useful life. Go over the front panel with a fine tooth comb, checking for imperfections. Similarly, the graphics on our prototype peeled off far too easily. The position of the sink in the 2006 model would have made a 'one wash one wipe' scenario difficult at washing up time, so check that too.  

Fleetwood are now owned by Adria, and the quality has, again in my opinion, improved greatly over the past couple of years. The one we had was pretty much spot-on.

I only had a 5 minute look at the 2007 model in September, and remember being very impressed.

Hope this helps; best of luck!

Andrew

Andrew thanks for your help, sorry I have not got back to you sooner but as usual in our house computor problems. We looked at the 2007 model at the NEC in October but prefer the 2006 layout with the L shaped lounge as we have at present, it is only either me and my wife or plus one other- son daughter or MIL. As you said the sink is a bit awkward but we like the seperate shower and the part that can be isolated to make a changing area. As Fleetwood only make about 800 caravans a year We are hoping that the customer service should be be more personal and more willing to help when anything goes wrong.

Rob