Top 8 best six-berth caravans for families

£29,080

The single-axle Avon has a layout that is unique on the British market. What makes it unique is that it has three bunks, in a stack. This is a superb caravan for a family with very young children – not just because of its six-berth capability, but because the base bunk is almost level with the floor, meaning that if the occupant rolls out of bed, they simply roll onto the floor and can’t hurt themselves. The middle bunk is easy to crawl into, and there’s a ladder for the top bunk. The base bunk can have a double function, in that it can be used for storage (ideal when you are on tow); there is a large hatch to the exterior.

What’s also special about the bunk area is that it has a floor-to-ceiling, pleated, stiffened-fabric partition; much more effective in excluding light than curtains. The partition fabric is a dense enough weave to exclude almost all of the light.

The lounge is superbly large, because it has wrap-around seating. So all six caravanners could just about sit around the table. But there’s no need to all squash in together if you don’t want to – because the Avon has a two-person dining area at the rear, opposite the bunks.

Cooking equipment is three burners, of differing sizes, arranged in a line, plus a combined oven/grill and a microwave. The fridge/freezer, on the front end of the kitchen, is Thetford’s tall, slimline model, with 140-litre capacity.

Storage is plentiful, with two wardrobes, plus five lockers over the lounge and two over the rear dining area, and of course, there’s storage space beneath the rear dining area and the lounge.

£32,499

The Elddis Avante range offers two layout options for six-berth seekers. They’re the same price, the same size, on twin axles, and same MTPLM figure.

The 840 accommodates six in three areas: the lounge, of course, transforms into a double bed, or can be used as twin beds. The large U-shaped dining area opposite the kitchen makes a double bed. And there’s a double bed longitudinally aligned at the near, on the nearside.

The shower room is on the offside; like the bed, it’s longitudinally aligned. What makes this layout possible is that the 840 is eight feet wide, as is its sibling, the 868.

Avantes have the Whale CompleteHeat system. Kitchen kit is a 153-litre fridge/freezer, an oven with separate grill, a hob that has three burners and a main hotplate, plus a microwave.

Kitchen cabinet space is plentiful and storage space elsewhere measures up to the six-person task, with lockers above the dining area and lounge, around the bedroom walls and a good-sized wardrobe.

The 868 has an extraordinary layout, with a true family bedroom that contains a double bed plus two bunk pods alongside it. The lounge seating can be used as single beds, or a double bed can be created by drawing out a central base section from within the cabinet at the front.

The washing arrangements are amidships, with the shower on one side and the toilet/washbasin compartment opposite.

£28,249

This model has a shower room spanning the whole width of the caravan at the rear – and it contains two wardrobes. Forward of the shower room on the offside are two bunks. On the nearside, forward of the door, is a two-seater dining area that you can make into two more bunks. And, as you’d expect, the sofas make a double bed or can be used as two singles.

The fridge’s capacity is 103 litres. It’s accommodated opposite the kitchen, in a dresser-style unit that gives you an extra kitchen surface. The 762 has a combined oven/grill and a four-burner hob. Heating is provided by the Truma Combi 4 system.

Among this caravan’s features is a Sonos sound system with a portable speaker, and a wireless phone charger pad with two integrated USB sockets.

£32,499

The twin-axle Amalfi has a rear bedroom that can be compared to that in the Avante 868, with bunks alongside the double bed. This makes the Amalfi, along with the Avante 868, a caravan that will appeal to families with very young children; the thinking behind this layout is that little ones will settle to sleep well if they know their parents are going to bed down alongside them in the double bed.

The name Grande is a reference to the Amalfi’s eight-foot width – which means it’s a spacious caravan; again, underlining its suitability for families (space is always a keynote of ease of use).

The shower room is amidships, with doors that close it off at each end, meaning that it has a flexible privacy arrangement.

You can use the lounge as twin beds; they are 1.91m long, or you can create a double bed here.

The Amalfi has a 137-litre fridge/freezer – and it’s equipped with a portable sound system that recharges on a dock that is set into the cabinet alongside the door.

£46,990

The six-berth in the high-spec Buccaneer range has a double bed at the rear with a shower room alongside it, a U-shaped seating area opposite the kitchen that converts to a double bed, and a lounge that can be used as single beds or made into a massive double. This is the same layout as the Elddis Avante 840 from the same manufacturer, Erwin Hymer Group; like the Elddis Avante 840, it’s eight feet wide.

The Buccaneer version of this layout, though, has Alde heating, complete with underfloor heating, and a hydraulic self-levelling system that levels the caravan at the touch of a button in two minutes. The Aruba also has a 40-litre onboard water tank, and an Aquasource waterline for direct connection to a tap on a pitch.

It has an alarm system and tracker, and the Alde Load Monitor system that automatically switches off the heating when you use an appliance such as the microwave, to prevent you from tripping out the electricity supply to your pitch.

£28,495

We of course had to include our 2024 Caravan of the Year, the fabulous six-berth Sprite Quattro MB, that has a double-bed aligned across the caravan at the rear, making this caravan a unique-layout model.

This Truma-heated model is a star performer in terms of value; £28,495 means it’s within scope of many buyers’ budgets.

It’s the only caravan in our family selection to have an L-shaped lounge; the family dining table stands on a monopod base that secures into a metal recess in the floor. There’s also a dining area for two, on the offside.

The MB – a new layout introduced for 2025 – has its shower room forward of the bedroom, on the nearside, with a separate toilet/washbasin room opposite. Doors close on both ends of this washing arrangement, meaning that privacy is guaranteed three ways, that’s making it en suite to the bedroom, self-contained, or open and therefore ensuite to the dining/lounge area.

£31,595

The FB has been a component of the Sprite range for some years, establishing its popularity as a six-berth with a fixed bed and offside dining area that makes into bunks. Then, with the advent – and subsequent expansion – of the eight-foot-wide concept came another FB, this time maximum width, and with an offside, U-shaped dining area of greater proportions, making not into bunks but into a double bed measuring 1.9m by 1.34m.

The original, standard width (2.25m) FB is still in the range; costing £3,100 less and with an MTPLM of 1,630kg; that’s 119kg less than its eight-foot-wide cousin. Both ride on twin axles.

The Grande Quattro FB’s superiority isn’t just about the large U-shaped dining area. It’s about the shower room. Whereas in the 1.25m wide FB, you have to step through the shower to get to the toilet, in the Grand FB, the shower room is wider, so the shower is separate, and each element – basin, toilet and shower – has its own space.