Elddis Odyssey 524
IF you want an offside dining area in a four-berth layout, this new caravan model, with an end washroom, is one to consider especially if you have a young family; showering and dressing children in this caravan’s amazingly spacious washroom is just so easy.
Elddis crams a lot into this short length and manages to keep the MRO to 1339kg. And the designers have given you something really luxurious – that full-width washroom. That’s where we’ll start your guided tour.
Step inside and prepare to be impressed by a rectangular shower of at least the size of the one you probably have at home.
The washbasin, set into a gleaming, dark-grey surface, tops a useful-sized cupboard. On the offside, across the corner, is a huge wardrobe with three large drawers beneath.
Clothing storage doesn’t come much better than this, especially as putting the wardrobe inside the washroom means that this is a true dressing room.
A long towel rail attached to the door is far more useful than the small towel loop usually found in washrooms – so more praise gathered here, too.
Next stop, the kitchen – surely the hub of family holiday lifestyle. The 524 delivers amply… at surface level. Cupboard space, though, doesn’t match the surface. Put simply, there are no kitchen cupboards.
You do get two large drawers but, apart from the fridge, food storage would be a challenge. Enter a couple of plastic under-bed storage boxes that would fit under the side dining area seats, perhaps. There’s usually a way around practical problems…
There is one area, though, where no compromise is needed; it’s at floor level. Elddis has chosen a carpet the colour of the darkest imaginable chocolate. No need for a shoes-off rule in order to preserve this carpet.
This really is a fantastic family caravan, Part exchange and finance available.
