First night in the upstairs bedroom!

[John Slater]

Well, after nearly a year and the weather warming up, we slept upstairs for the first time last night. Certainly more space, warm enough, bit noisy (owls and then cuckoos), zero condensation and much easier not having to make the downstairs bed and then put away again

 

[MartG]

... bit noisy (owls and then cuckoos)...

I knew it! Bloody thin bellows...

 

[TripleBee]

Wait till you get inbetween pigeons and blackbirds!

 

[TwoDogs]

Or Nightingales

 

[Hotel California]

Only just now slept on top after one year.....a whole new world to discover...

 

[Amarillo]

Wait till you get inbetween pigeons and blackbirds!

It's a myth that doves are peaceful!

 

[TwoDogs]

We've only slept downstairs for 3 nights (in howling gale so too noisy upstairs). It seems so much easier then having to move everything

 

[Doorbundle]

Mrs Db and I slept 'uptairs',1st time last weekend at Hunters Lodge, Starcross, Chicken, ducks, geese. Need I say more? OK - Great.

 

[TripleBee]

Why don't you all trade your Hotel California for a regular hotel?
Don't buy a California for going into nature if you can't stand nature.





I sometimes want to shoot all that wakes me too .

 

[Wesel]

How many of you had gone camping before buying this "camper".

 

[John Slater]

How many of you had gone camping before buying this "camper".

This is our second VW camper and we're in our 10th year of ownership!

 

[motacyclist]

Wait till you get inbetween pigeons and blackbirds!

Or two other Calis with their heaters on!

 

[TripleBee]

How many of you had gone camping before buying this "camper".

I have been camping 26 years before buying my blue tent on wheels.

Or two other Calis with their heaters on!

Try to sleep downstairs with your own heater on.

 

[BerndRos]

Yes, camped very many times before.

Had my Cali 9 years, slept in it many many hundreds of nights, only below once in a Waitrose carpark, the rest ‘up top’....love the openness feeling of it.

 

[Doorbundle]

Since 1967, in small tents, then larger as our family grew, then smaller again, finally cracked last year and after due consideration, bought our camper, about 15 years consideration, that is. I guess we're used to the fresh air.

 

[Frankyworthy]

How many of you had gone camping before buying this "camper".

Good question!

 

[ArunAlec]

Have I missed something? From what I’ve read nothing the original poster said was derogatory about sleeping upstairs, they just shared their first experience, nothing contentious.

 

[andrew bazeley]

We slept upstairs for the first five years of our Cali, then downstairs for a couple of years (when clambering up and down to get up several times in the night became a real chore), but then decided on upstairs again a couple of years ago. Upstairs every time! Mind you, putting the Branderup Gore-Tex liner in the we bought the van 11 years ago was a bloody good move!

 

[Mikado]

We have only had our Cali a couple of weeks and so far have spent 3 wonderful nights in it - upstairs.
We 'chose' upstairs because our 42kg long-haired German Shepherd decided that he preferred to be downstairs!

 

[GregW]

In 18 months of ownership I’ve never slept upstairs, used the sink, put water in the tank, or used the hob.

 

[briwy]

Anyone sleeping upstairs at Slimbridge would wish they had a shotgun licence

 

[flying banana]

In 18 months of ownership I’ve never slept upstairs, used the sink, put water in the tank, or used the hob.

And the point is....

 

[soulstyledevon]

In 18 months of ownership I’ve never slept upstairs, used the sink, put water in the tank, or used the hob.

Do you have a Beach...

 

[GregW]

Do you have a Beach...

An ocean. But there’s only 2 of us, we never invite guests, and we like eating out.

 

[Nigel Whitwood]

In 18 months of ownership I’ve never slept upstairs, used the sink, put water in the tank, or used the hob.

Why not go for a Beach then ?