We love to travel! Presently we are doing so in a class B camper van - the Coachman Beyond. Our goal is to travel throughout the USA and Canada. We hope our videos will inspire you to explore our beautiful world. Along the way we will also post tips to make traveling easier and reviews of items we have found useful (or not).
Thanks for the review (a couple of years ago). I see you put curtains the back...how come, curiously? Also, do you have a link perhaps for those clever drop-down basket? I'd be interested in some even longer ones. Is that driver seat turned around kinda pointless since the shower is right in front of it?
Thank you for the review roundup! I’m in a situation where I need a higher seat height chair that I need to hike with for a mile on a recurring basis with other camping gear, and then need it to allow us to function at a table (hence higher seat height), and these are a lot of the chairs I’m looking at for this purpose. Cheers!
This is great info, thank you! One of the reasons I'm leaning toward this model is the bed situation, so good to know about a topper and the airflow. Did you add the curtain bar across the back?
They definitely DO NOT back up your warranty. I've called them 10 times in 3 weeks because mine ran for 1 day and won't start and they won't contact me. I even had a lawyer contact them for communication and a fefund. Crickets. I tried to find a service center that will fix it and they won't do warranty work with Westinghouse because their customer service sux
I shut the battery down when not in use during the winter. No issues. I do not want to keep it plugged in and with heater...just doesn't seem to make sense to me. What if there is a power failure or fire? So batteries hibernate.
You can cook and bake in the convection microwave! Of course it is necessary! All you’ll have is one induction cooktop. Good luck with that if you’re looking to cook several things at one time.
Tks for sharing your review, very helpful. ? Do you find when driving in windy conditions, or across wide open plains with wind gusts, the van becomes a White knuckle experience to keep it on course? My impressions lead me to consider due to the height and narrow body it could feel like like a sail on a boat.Tks
You would think so given height and width, but it drives really well. Must be the dual wheels in the back. You will get a little bit of rocking if you follow an 18 wheeler too closely at highway speed.
It does kind of baffle me that they had those two pillars in the back corner and Coachmen didn't bother to add three-point restraints for at least the outside two rear seating positions. U.S. (and Canadian) RV manufacturers keep getting away with a loophole in the law requiring shoulder belts for car passengers in cars. Even worse are the sideways seating positions like in the 20D. None of these would be legal seating positions in the EU. And I am not picking on Coachmen specifically either. The same is true of most North American motorhome manufacturers. Thanks for the review. I think what she said about travel style is key. If you move a lot, any sort of towable and even larger motorhomes are going to be a tremendous hassle to deal with. I am hopeful that we will start to see some more European-style small class Cs on the U.S. market soon that are about this same length (21'-22') that are almost as parkable as a Class B but offer a little more room inside and some modest outside storage as well.
Helinox was the OG company (from Korea) to design and make these light, compact camping chairs. They have a 5 year warranty and use much higher grade (stronger!) aluminium, plastics and fabrics. The other companies (including many other, cheap, Amazon-available no-name brands) are made in China and copied the Helinox concept (some of the companies, illegally!), use cheaper (weaker!) materials, and they have minimal warranties (1 year, if that). The other advantage of the Helinox chairs is that they make a range of modular accessories like sunshades, rocker feet etc that are not available for the other chairs.
Helinox sunset is on sale and I bought it yesterday So about 100 bucks to me its definitely worth it. All the reasons you mentioned is why I went with Helinox especially the DAC poles they use. I will say I tried that cascade mountain at costco and it's pretty damn comfortable.
Thanks for the demo, very helpful. Although the mattresses taking up valuable storage space behind the couch is OK for week enders or part timers, but if on the road for longer period of time there is more need for 'stuff' . I agree whomever thinks sleeping on cracks is comfortable must be extremely tired when going to bed, or one of those people who could sleep anywhere on anything.. Again,Thanks.
I see so many people traveling with the storage boxes on the back of their Class B vans that allow you to still open the back doors. Have you considered getting one of those for storage? @@travelinginspirations
Yeah I considered those. I actually first used a couple dolly but broke in half when went up the ramp in garage...wheels got stuck on small bump and whole thing broke. Thus this sturdier cart with larger wheels.
I really like the features offered in the Beyond, but my primary concern with ANY mainstream RV is build quality and long term reliability. The mainstream RV industry overall is just pathetic when it comes to build quality and given the ever increasing prices of RVs these days, I would be furious if I had my trip ruined by shoddy build quality. A custom build is always an option, but that can get extremely expensive and is not viable for most buyers.
You are so right on that, and that is something I was very concerned with. One big reason we looked at Panoramic. But chassis reliability is important too and could not get past Ram's lower reliability. Build quality has been good with the Beyond. So far no regrets and would purchase again.
@@travelinginspirations That's good to know. I would not purchase any model built on the Promaster either. The Transit is a good choice because of the strong powertrain and massive service center network.
