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Microcamper - with dogs!

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RedCarsGoFaster · 25/06/2022 18:33

TL:DR - if you take your dogs camping with a microcamper-type van, where do they sleep?

We're about to pick up a Citroen Berlingo car with a microcamper "boot jump" bed for the back!

It'll be about half the cost to run as a car as our thirsty old Landrover, and we fancied the idea of an easy bit of camping as well.

We have two dogs - one large, one medium - who we'd like to take with us and I'm not sure how best to accommodate them overnight....

I'm looking at drive-away van awnings but I don't see how they'd be secure when attached to the car/van? I'm thinking of putting a blackout sleeping section (cooler when the sun comes up) into an awning and zipping the girls in at night, just like you would humans, but tbh I'm worried someone will try to steal them (possible I'm a bit PFB).

27kg and 18kg of dog both tend to potter around the room a bit in the night, so I think they'd be miserable cooped up in the van with us, and I think we'd struggle for leg room!

How do others make it work?

OP posts:
RedCarsGoFaster · 26/06/2022 09:25

Bumping for the Sunday crowd....

OP posts:
PritiPatelsMaker · 27/06/2022 09:43

My DS has a slightly larger camper, she's got a Roma Home.

The last dog slept underneath their bed. The new one sleeps between them.

PaulaSmith1 · 14/07/2022 10:15

We tried drive away awnings but found that it was too much hassle to align the van and connect up. So we have a stand alone quick up tent that we park close to - don't really see the need to be connected at all.

Having said that it also depends how often you are going to move the van as to how annoying the connecting/disconnecting would be.

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