Thread: Hard Floor Campers

Originally Posted by garrycol

JC

Normally a max of two. I am not a person who tends to stay in one spot so looking for quick setup, so annex would not normally be used. If there would be more people then they would be out in the annex.

Thanks for the comments.

Cheers

Garry

Agree, hardfloor are SOOO much quicker to set up and put away. Thats the reason we looked and looked for one that was big enough, to no avail

Hope you find what you are after, only other bit of advice I would give is try and find a manufacturer who hot dips the whole frame etc. I have seen many painted/ coated ones with surface rust etc from stone chips, and salty mud etc. Not a good look

JC

JC

Normally a max of two. I am not a person who tends to stay in one spot so looking for quick setup, so annex would not normally be used. If there would be more people then they would be out in the annex.

Thanks for the comments.

Cheers

Garry

The best, most awarded hardfloor camper on the market, perfect for two people, and with the quickest set up time bar none, is the T Van.
The kitchen is a side kitchen, but, what about this for an option...I have one of these (In a car back combo) in my 4wd drawers, and I can set it up wherever I want. You could store it in the T Van under the bed, and put it in the tent when you needed to.

http://www.drifta.com.au/UteCarback....8833ecddd8358b

had a gold stream hard floor offroad camper the kitchen was on the side but had an annexe that dropped to cover cooking area on side if required and was released if staying more than one night as shade area on camper.

Gold stream had another annexe shade area at rear of camper and a complete side zip on awning for cover that extended out a fair way for extended stay shade area.

l like the hard floor flip top as easy to erect and put away when touring and moving daily and roomy and dry when staying anywhere and never had problems with muddy ground or grass on bottom flooring

I have a camper van with an inside only kitchen, I would give my left ball to have an outside kitchen. food smells from cooking inside permeate everything and if your not careful it's awfully easy to set the canvas alight.
Maybe you could rig up a quick setup awning to cover the outside kitchen w/out having to setup the annex, Regards Frank.

I have a 1997 Camp'o'matic hard floor.
I cannot see how you could have a kitchen inside with a conventional hard floor. If you did then you would halve the easily available under bed storage space which is pretty small anyway.

There would have to be a concentina leg arrangement and it would the probably stop the use of the second door ( which is rarely used in my case. BUt I would not like the cooking smells, and fat inside and the reduction of interior space which we use for nylon boxes of clothes and pots n pans etc.

IMHO the slide out kitchen is a great idea, and on my 3 month trip last year I used the annex only a couple of nights.

On the earlier Campomatic like mine you are able to leave the annex attached to the roof when folded, and if you need it it is a matter of just flipping it over , 3 posts and 5 pegs, which takes all of 5 minutes. It covers the kitchen with a sort of lean to.

The biggest disadvantage I have found with the outside kitchen is wind . regardless of whether the annex is up or down , if it is very windy it takes forever to boil the kettle and really forget cooking. This happened I think twice in my three months and if the trailer can be oriented correctly
with the kitchen on the lee side then its not such a problem.

It sounds like you need a Jayco Eagle but I wouldn't swap, and everyone I met just loves their Camp'o'matic.
Regards Philip A

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I have the solution.....

TA Dah...hard floor, rear kitchen:

Travelander International - Off-Road Hard Floor Camper Trailer - Standard

Or the new Cub Spacevan Drover. Hard floor - internal kitchen.

Spacevan Drover | Cub Campers - camper trailers for on & off-road touring - Australia's most popular fliptop camper trailer since 1968