What car,what caravan?

That was partly the info I wanted. Where to start without talking silly money. If I started looking at say AUD10,000 would I be looking at wrecks?
Thanks for the feedback.

Thanks Dave,
excellent advise. Would you say buying privately is a better option?

Sorry cant help you there
we went through every dealer on the sunshine coast sometimes twice or more times over. Its hard to get good advice as we found too many had there own vans and wouldn't shift from them something like the Holden Ford thing. Even on the sites people give great advice but some tend to jump in with there own preference even if its not the style or design you are asking about.

My best advice is to really decide what you want from you van, Camping, Off Road, Bitumen with comfort or one that will take you into something like an National Park with some rough roads. We chose ours on that sort of criteria my wife said she wouldn't come with me if I didn't have the en suite and all the bells and whistles....so I bought a camper....just joking so we bought a large van with ensuite

I've also found it best not to get into debates about which van is best or ratings everyone has their own likes and dislikes...just don't rush it and don't listen to the sales people look at things really carefully look inside the cupboards see how many staples hold it together, check EVERYTHING TWICE

Best of Luck
Dave

Thank you both,
I haven't as yet looked at all the information on this site.But given time I hope to wade through it. As you say there is a wealth of it!
Advice much appreciated.

The second one to suggest a "Tray on Camper". I'm going to check this out further.
Thanks very much for getting back to me.