Hello Mike and Kirsty Your at our favourite site Pinewoods aren't you. Lovely layout just like our Autotrail apache 634u lowline, you know the one you reviewed and we brought one the day after, we had a Bolero before and couldn't live with the layout and the mechanical and electrical issues . We looked at motorhomes with ready-made beds and the compromise was the space, it takes 5 minutes to make up the pull out bed, we love the layout. Enjoy every moment in your new pride and joy and we're forever grateful for introducing us to Pinewoods. Love Paul and Alison

Brilliant tour as always Mike, really pleased for you both. Van looks lovely and actually very spacious - making beds is tedious after a while but it gives you so much more I think it’s well worth it. Enjoy 😉

Hi Mike and Kirsty, a great tour of your new van. It’s really lovely, will enjoy watching your next travels x

Absolutely gorgeous! Love the rear lounge xx Enjoy xx

Lovely van, thanks for sharing - hope you have many happy trips

Beautiful van, health to enjoy it & happy travels. Nice to see the dogs are settling in too, I'm sure Kirsty will soon have everything in order but make sure you get that "man drawer" Mike!

That's a really nice van! 🤩 💯 We wish you many happy adventures! 😁👌

Great looking motorhome, hope you enjoy it as much as your last one.👍

Another awesome piece of footage

Looks like a great van. Hope you enjoy lots of adventures in it.

What a superb video Mike, an impressive van with very little space unused, be fine when everything is in the correct place for you.

Very nice van, great condition, like the layout 👍

Lovely example of a cracking van, I think the plus points far outweigh any compromises. Great food prep area and, super relaxing space in the u shape lounge. We have to make our beds up every night but it soon became routine, and the one up/one down rule works for us! Thanks for the look around, and for the explanation for the change. You've done well I think :)

Hi Mike and Kirsty, Congratulations on the new van - it looks terrific, great quality and with lots of clever additional features we've not seen on motorhomes/campervans before. It looks as if it will give you great service and be a wee bit easier to use in narrow places. Enjoy it - we're looking forward to more vlogs from the new one ! Thanks for sharing. George and Trish - CaravanningMacs

Lovely new home. Health to enjoy 😉👍

Lovely van Mike! Nice rear seating area for chilling. You will get into our passing places in Scotland now!! lol 😂👍 Graeme

I prefer motor homes with a ready made bed but this change from sofa to bed is the easiest I've seen so far on the videos I've seen. It's really good and I love the lounge. It's a difficult choice I'm gonna have to make when I can afford my own van. Nice video. Thanks for sharing 👍🏼

Hi Mike and Kirsty. After seeing this vlog, I'll back track a bit.🤔 Like the layout, bit tight in the middle. With Kirsty on the wash room, just a matter of getting used too. As for making the bed up, no problem there we have always done that. Gives you more usable room. Lots of storage and well thought out. Think all 4 of you are going to enjoy it. Well done mucker and look after yourselves. Pete and Su.

Great looking van, hope you enjoy 😀

Lots of common ground with our van conversion there Mike and Kirsty. Looks like you have most of the transition sorted. Love your van, it suits you and will definitely get down the little lanes 😃👍🏻🚐 Trev n Sue

Looks like you had good reasons for a change and what a great choice you made😀. We are so looking forward to our 6 metre Consort van with its U shape rear lounge having previously had a fixed rear bed in a continental van. Just really envious you have your fabulous van already but really pleased for you👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Great looking van, the quality comes through very well in the video, lounge looks perfect for a wet afternoon. We are waiting for our pilote 626d in the new year, if we find it too fat the vantage is where we will look next, enjoy.

Looks amazing you two, big difference but it ticks all the boxes for you both.happy holidays 👍

Looks lovely 👍🏻👍🏻

Excellent van, happy travels

Good vlog, enjoyed it.

Had never heard of that conversion until now and what a conversion, looks absolutely fantastic great storage and the rear lounge would be a great place to spend time in, your slight concern in regards space I think I told you this before do as I do, let the other half pack it then take 50% out it works perfect, once again great looking moho. Oh on a vlog you done a while back you showed a 500w small radiator you use , well I bought that exact one and i just used it in Scotland the last week in October and it worked a treat.

A nice van and I can understand you not being at ease driving that great big Motorhome, we are looking forward to our new V line 610 Sport Automatic

Very nice van. Personally I love this layout. I'm getting my first Van conversion in 4 weeks time from Autotrail. Been waiting a while for this. It's only the 6m van on the new Ducato version 8 chassis not a wrap at the back but 2 long 1.91 metre beds or one very big double so no transverse sleeping in a ball. I'm sure you will love it more every trip and be happier with the manoeuvrability and ease of parking even in a supermarket. Looking forward to seeing how you get on.

Lovely van, congrats, enjoy 😉

Hi Mike and Kirsty, I do hope you enjoy your new Vantage Neo, I know that the conversion is well made and the carpentry and woodwork is brilliant, I have a Vantage Vue, the same year as yours, mine being the centre lounge, a word of warning regarding keeping your bedding above the cab though, it's fine during the warmer weather, but if the weather is cold and your not using the van say during January to March it can promote mildew, I had a pillow stowed up there in mine and it ruined it. Anyway I hope you have some great outings you and the dogs. Cheers Alan.

Great van folks hope it works out well for you both. Me and my better half are thinking of doing the same but we are going to wait until Europe opens up more freely and this crappy covid buggers off well easy's off then we will make the move. Great video keep them coming 👍👍👍

First time we have watched, enjoyed your "Honest" appraisal.

We have recently bought an Autotrail 635 Sport which, as you know, has a very similar layout. We love the U-shaped lounge and the kitchen area is great too. However, like you, when we first bought the van we were always banging our heads when moving in and out of the cab area - got used to it now though - we'd rather have the storage area than the panoramic roof! No regrets - love the van conversion - in my opinion its much more versatile than a big coach built motorhome

Absolutely beautiful ❤️ ❤️ xx

Lovely van - can’t wait for my new van with u-shape rear lounge. My last van (Adria - just gone yesterday) had panoramic roof over the cab, so I may also need to invest in a hard hat for the cab area🤪

Hi Mike and Kirsty Your new motorhome is really lovely and I’m so pleased for you both . We put our bin between the front seats and when we travel it sits in the shower tray . I see lots of similarities between your new moho and ours :0)

Lovely van. The U shape lounge is on our radar when we eventually change, we liked the Devon Aztec? you reviewed a bit ago but also the Vantage Eos was a nice van when we saw one earlier this year. Thanks for showing us round 👍

A really lovely van ,I think you both made a good choice. Kirsty is right when she said the whole van is being used, to my mind fixed beds or bed is dead space two thirds of the day . The compromises you’ve made seem very small compared to the benefits you are going to have . So glad you’ve had the fish and chips,just to christen it , made me chuckle. Now for the rack for the ET a bike 👍Good video , thanks . 🚐👍

That does seem like a very well laid out van. I rather like it 👍

It's an excellent Motorhome. I love the 'U'shaped lounge wish we had that. Not so keen on the bathroom area being in the middle but guessing that's a compromise for having a bigger lounge area. I'm looking forward to see you both on your travels. Would you now consider getting an awning just to give you extra space? Wish you lots of fun and enjoyable memories. Take care Wend and Rog.

We all have to make compromises, you don’t have to make the beds up as you’ve been used to singles, can understand your reasons totally , East Anglia has an abundance of park ups which you can try (park4night will be your favourite) Good luck in your future travels & yes we’ll wave if we see you 👋👋😊

Lovely van,bet less stressful to get about in. We've just downsized from a 6m ducato to a 5.4m...just hope we haven't shrunk too much,to be fair it's the width more than the length that makes for an easier drive.Enjoy.

Yes, I struggle with cleaning the Kon-Tiki and the shape of the kitchen. The table is a pain too. We're not ready for down sizing yet, but we'd definitely look at rear lounges. Ironically a lot of the Bailey appeals to us, apart from the drop down bed. We will be doing a two year review soon.

That’s a nice van good choice

lovely van, great thing with the compressor fridges they can work at a lot higher ambient temperature which is great when in Spain, no more removing fridge grills to try a cool the rear fins down on the evaporator fridges. Also you can leave them running when on a ferry. Only down side is the power they pull on your battery.

Cracking van, same as our Devon Aztec. Stand your ground on the man-draw!

We changed from a 7.4 Mir Bailey to a ih Nclass 630RL in 2017 and have never looked back , as you say once you get a system going it all works well , we think its more of an adventure going away in this van the others were just hard work , we use a collapsible canvas bin with a plastic bag liner, we soon got use to not bumping our heads , good luck , just relax

Love the video we stop the head banging in our CV20 by Sue putting up bunting so you need to duck never banged head since.

Such a cracking little van,, for me ( I'm on my own ) size wise I think it would be ideal,,

That van has a lot going for it, I like it. 👍. I’m looking to trade the caravan in for a van conversion and this one ticks all the boxes.

That is a really lovely van and your fridge is so much better than Madge’s. I love the rear lounge (Madge has a rear lounge but the seats are much shorter). The kitchen worktop space is making me green with envy 😂. Sadly it is not suitable for us as we like having 4 belted seats for day trips or holidays with our family. (We have an air awning with 2 double bedroom annexes for our grown up children and partners). We call the man cupboard “The really useful drawer” we also have one in the house where Steve puts his stuff. I bought 2 big cooler seats over 15 years ago when we were still tent camping. I paid £9.99 each and Steve thought we would never use them. We take them on every holiday. They are a seat with a cooler lining that collapse. We use them to carry things into Madge each 2ltr bottles of pop and they go behind the drivers seat until we arrive on a site. We then use them as our bins normal and recycling. We store them between the driver and passenger seat so as not to trip over them. We sit on them when we use the tapenyaki or BBQ. As I have arthritis I also use them with my camping chair as a footstool. Take care Gill

Not all about size 😆 lovely van I’m sure you will both settle soon enough . Fixed bed is a waste of usable daytime space so in a way you have more room 👍🏼 happy camping 🚐🥂

Nice one, good honest review/content. We downsized last month to a Warwick XL for pretty much the same reasons. The slightly narrower van makes it far less stressful on smaller roads. Rear lounge is great. We considered Autotrail 636 Sport and Wildax. So far, loving it. I hope you have many more exciting adventures 🙂

Yup, I have a Elddis Autoquest CV60 and I smack my head getting into the cab.

Great.....👍🙂

Great van you were lucky to find one .I also have a van conversion and would not swap it for anything so practical and economical, the more space you have the more rubbish you take. I am sure you won’t go back to coach built, personally don’t understand all the fuss about making up the bed only takes a couple of minutes Only downside you do keep banging your head in cab I would advise a little more padding required 😀I am a baldy so even worse for me . Will watch your future videos with great interest, Enjoy.

We've been waiting for your review so thank you! It's very helpful! Beautiful Van hope you enjoy it. We have it down to two contenders. This one the Neo and the wildax Europa. We'll hopefully decide once we've been to the NEC in Feb. Can we ask what was your final deciding factor between the two? Cheers Gary and Lynzie 👍🏻

iv had my autocruise vista for a few years know and dont think ill go bigger, its perfect for parking around towns so we are never restricted to camp sites.

Look a beaut Mike and hey, you gotta do what’s right for you, I should know that You gonna have a great time in her

Nice van. Unless you have a custom built van (& you’d need a lottery win for that) there will always be something you’d change - even then bet you’d fine something that could’ve been done better 🙂

Can i ask what you are doing for bedding in the Neo? Are you fitting a fitted sheet each night, rolling out something or using duvalays? Thanks!

All valid reasons to downsize, we’re looking for a 2 berth caravan & the smaller the better.

When is Kirsty having her van Mike that van is full of your stuff ha ha spare shoes, camera equipment, mans draw tut tut, ha ha ha poor Kirsty Fair play plenty of storage tho x

That is one very nice motorhome! Do you plan to use it as your daily vehicle?

I have a Bailey 816 with front and rear u shape lounge and drop down bed but make the rear lounge into a bed easier than the drop down bed

Best of luck with your new campervan...you no its easier for wildcamping..🐕🐕🐕

how comfy to you find the make up beds ?

The person who owned vantage sold the company and he now he has started another can't think of the name but thay are very similar did think about one but the wife chose to have one converted by nu venture to our spec

Pinewoods!

Other than the width the layout is identical to my Swift Sundance

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