FREEDOM WAYFARER QUAD

This budget-priced four-berth has plenty to offer caravanners who prefer to travel light

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Price £14,995 Berths 4 MIRO 700kg MTPLM 850kg

REMEMBER WHEN you headed for your summer break in a metal box that had no heating or hot water, still less a shower?

Freedom Caravans' new Wayfarer harks back to those times a little - the Staffordshire firm reckons that plenty of caravanners tour only in the summer, happy to do without the mod cons that have added hugely to both the weight and the cost of today's tourers.

But if they do want some of those mod cons, they can have them as cost options.

This range is imported from the same Polish manufacturer as its other models, but rather than being monocoque, it uses sandwich construction, with aluminium sides. We checked out the four-berth Quad, which comes fitted with bunk beds.

Pitch and set-up

For a supposedly back-to-basics caravan, the Quad has upmarket decals. The chassis is made in-house, but you get Al-Ko brakes and cabling, as well as an AKS stabiliser.

Although the A-frame probably isn't stripped back or large enough to house a bike rack, the gas bottle locker behind it is absolutely huge and its door swings up high, so tall people don't have to stoop down low to remove the gas bottles.

It has enough room for a spare wheel to be fitted as standard, and two 6 or 7kg bottles. The door also has a solid metal handle.

Black plastic grab handles make moving the caravan easy, and as the van is so light, you could possibly do so by yourself.