Dethleffs: 2025 Essential Guide
Dethleffs: 2025 Essential Guide
94 years ago, the founder of Dethleffs made a caravan so his family could travel with him on work trips. This soon became a small business in its own right, which has now developed into the company you see today, offering motorhomes and a growing range of campervans in the UK. 2025 heralds a whole series of new models and range updates...
About Dethleffs
Between the mountains and Lake Constance, Arist Dethleffs constructed Germany’s first camper car for his family in 1931
Contact details
Web: dethleffs.co.uk
Address:
Dethleffs,
Arist-Dethleffs-Straße 12,
D-88316 Isny,
Germany
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Instagram: dethleffsuk
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Trend
Specifications
Price: From £80,890
Base vehicle: Fiat Ducato
Layouts: Island bed, transverse double or fixed singles
Berths: 2-5
Travel seats: 4
Length: 6.71m – 7.41m
Width: 2.33m
Gross weight:3,499kg
Payload: tbc
Dethleffs is focusing on its Trend coachbuilts this year, making them, erm, even trendier, better equipped and more comfortable.
The interior now offers a Scandi-style blend of light wood and dark grey.
The dark ceiling is unusual, working well with clean furniture lines and over 2m of headroom.
Low-profiles get a skylight above the cab, while the transition between cab roof and optional drop-down bed is smooth, especially if you add the optional ambient lighting pack (called Light Moments).
Because of the standard drop-down bed in the cab of the A-class models, a panoramic skylight sits above the lounge.
In the kitchen, UK models will come with a low-level oven.
The fridge is a 137-litre unit that automatically selects the power source (gas, 12V when driving, or mains when hooked up).
Wall-mounted rails are practical and flexible, with optional hooks, kitchen roll holders or a small shelf.
Bedrooms get handy storage nets for essentials – whether that’s a pair of glasses, the latest paperback or your mobile phone.
There’s a USB socket for charging tech, too.
The 15cm-thick cold foam mattresses have climate-regulating properties and sit on desirable slatted frames.
The single beds have a ratchet support allowing easy and adjustable access to the wardrobes and storage from the top – a door also offers a way into the under-bed space, too.
Washrooms have been modernised and showers are backlit if you opt for the Light Moments Pack.
In layouts where the washroom is split across the aisle, toilet cubicle doors pivot to close off the ablutions from the front, while a second wooden sliding door provides privacy from the bedroom.
A mirror cabinet has a sliding door, but raised edges and elasticated straps stop items from falling out.
Alpa
Specifications
Price: From £134,690 (Overcab), £155,390 (A-class)
Base vehicle: Fiat Ducato
Layout: Rear lounge
Berths: 2-4
Travel seats: 4
Length: 7.33m – 8.58m
Width: 2.33m
Gross weight: 4,800kg – 5,000kg
Payload: Varie
This model made waves when it was launched, offering a rear lounge (unusual for a European manufacturer at the time) mated to a overcab body and amazing levels of storage and luxury.
It still offers all those things, but now there’s an A-class option, too.
Both are available in two lengths, the 6820-2 and the 7820-2.
The star feature is a U-shaped lounge at the rear (the longer one wraps around a little further to form more of a C-shape), while the front features single beds.
With windows on all three sides, no matter where you choose to put your feet up you will be rewarded with views of the surrounding scenery.
In the overcab, a door, with a set of folding steps, slides across to shut off the cab – giving it more of an apartment feel.
These steps give easy access to the single beds; in the A-class these lower electrically. The washroom is split across the aisle with a supersized shower on one side.
Over on the other side the washroom has a rooflight for daytime illumination and ventilation, while storage abounds.
Kitchens get large drawers with central locking for ease of use – the locking automatically engages when the engine starts up.
Globetrail
Specifications
Price: From £60,290
Base vehicle: Fiat Ducato or Citroën Jumper
Layout: Fixed double or single beds
Berths: 2-4
Travel seats: 4
Length: 5.41m – 6.36m
Width: 2.05m
Gross weight: 3,499kg
Payload: Varied
Dethleffs only introduced its campervans to the UK last year with its Fiat-based Globetrail models, offering a choice of 13 layouts with two specification levels, entry-level Classic and more premium Advantage.
Fixed beds running across the rear are available in medium and long-wheelbase forms, while there are two models with fixed singles at the rear on the extra-long van.
There is one more key point to make when picking one of these models and that’s to look at the washrooms.
There are three distinct types, the fixed one with a shower curtain (for 600 DF), the compact one with a tambour door instead of a hinged one, offering a more wet room-style (600 DK and 640 EK), and the centre version that has a shower tray jutting out into the campervan aisle.
While Classic and Advantage models are available as a Citroën, most coming to the UK will be based on the Fiat Ducato.
Classics get 16in steel wheels as standard, while these are alloy versions on the Advantage.
There’s a different interior look (Hygge for Classics and Kos for Advantage), while the premium models also get flush-fitting windows, extra USB charging in the lounge and loads more.
Highlights of Dethleffs's 2025 motorhomes
- New XL A 7872-2 Family overcab motorhome has a transverse bed and large lounge behind the cab.
- Trend range relaunched with more modern interiors and more standard equipment.
- Globebus and Just Camp both available as Active special edition with extra specification.
- Globetrail 640 HR is new with two double beds.
