Adventure off road trailers

If the brand is that made in Adelaide, then I only have one word - Brilliant!

chris

Ex neigbour has one about 3-4 years old and has done a few trips with it,
only prob that i know about was one wheel brg spat it on plenty highway,
otherwise he loves it.
Made in SA must be Great LOLOL

Hi Banjo,

We hired an Adventure Camper for a couple of weeks earlier this year to go off road with. They take only a little bit longer to set up compared to the normal 'tent on top of the trailer' set up, but it was worth it due to the extra storage space and kitchen set up on the trailer. The kitchen is easy to access on the side of the road for lunch or a coffee. We also hired an an annex to enclose the kitchen area. We found it a bit too small for two adults and two children to sit in as it was a bit cramped. The velco roof and wall attachments on the annex were a bit fiddly but I think this would get easy with practice. If you have kids, you may find like we did that you can't fit all of the bedding on the main bed when you fold it up, so some had to get packed back in the car. On the model we hired, we found that the canvas didn't attach to the corners, and that there was a skirting that folds down over the bed sides to enclose the tent. You need to be careful that you peg the tent down squarely to avoid gaps at the end of the bed, as we had some crickets which made there way in, much to the disgust of the kids. They were reading in bed when they saw one on the quilt. (We thought that someone was in there attacking them with an axe when we heard the screams).
The trailer also towed very well.
We have a caravan that we normally take away with us (Not off road) and hired one of these trailers with the thought of purchasing one. We found that the caravan suits our purposes better at this stage with the kids. If we want to go off road again we will hire a trailer again. (Next time I think we will just get a basic camping trailer from one of the local hire places, the 1,200 km round trip to Adelaide to pick up and drop off the trailer probably wasn't worth it!)
For mainly off road trips, I think they would be well worth considering.

Cheers

Hi Banjobush,

The Adventure trailers are amazing, brilliantly thought out, and they are an extremely helpful bunch. Having said that, after spending some years watching the development of campertrailers we decided not to buy one! The plusses are obviously the very accessible kitchen, the bed arrangements and lots of storage. From our point of view though, they are very expensive (possibly better value buying a 2nd hand one), they are quite heavy unloaded - check the weight on the tow bar, and the more gadgets they have the more there is to go wrong. We bought a Challenge campertrailer, which was about $10,000 cheaper! The kitchen is on the back gate and very accessible. The dry weight on the tow bar is about 300kg lighter. It has a queen size bed, so if you are taking kids you do need to carry bedding for them, but there is heaps of room. There is also a remarkable amount of storage in the trailer. We bought the annexe and have happily accommodated 6 people dining together. The campertrailer is also very quick to put up. We lived in our trailer for 6 months while we were travelling this year, so I guess you could say we had a bit of experience!\

Good luck. Enjoy whatever trailer you buy and happy travelling
Anni