Bailey Pegasus 624
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Key Features
Model Year
2010
Product Class
Twin Axle
Price from (£)
£17670
Berths
4
Full Review
IT’S one of the lightest caravans for its length, it sleeps four in a permanent bed and two long singles – and it has a large full-width rear washroom.
The flagship of the Pegasus range has a lot of family appeal even before you begin to consider the merits of the revolutionary Alu-Tech construction that gives you enhanced insulation compared with conventional-build caravans.
And, in common with the rest of the seven-model Pegasus range, it has slightly more headroom, at 1.96m, than most other caravans.
Now consider its value. You get a lot of caravan for £17,295 – and a lot of specification. Standard equipment extends to an inboard water tank (of which more later), the ATC trailer stability system, AL-KO Secure Wheel Locks – and even an Avtex television worth £369.
You also get a 10-year body warranty, demonstrating Bailey’s confidence in the capability of this construction method in conquering water ingress.
Pegasus caravans are distinctive in appearance as well as by reason of the construction method that doesn’t use any wood.
The gas bottle locker is dark grey opaque plastic, for instance, and the grab handles contain a row of LED lights.
The distinctive features list even extends to the freestanding table. When you get it out of its kitchen cupboard storage slot, the sides extend on substantial hinges, giving you an extra 20cm of table width.
The big-caravan theme continues in the kitchen. Pegasus (four burner) hobs are easily domestic-sized. And the amount of work surface matches.
Cupboards earn praise, too. The central kitchen cupboard gives you three wire basket shelves plus space alongside and two cutlery drawers. The top one is of the “soft-close” type, so that it closes its last few centimetres automatically, slowly, smoothly – it’s a minor refinement, but it helps to illustrate the picture of impressive detail that builds up the more you examine the 624.
Opposite the kitchen, across the good-sized central corridor, is a second cupboard beside the heater unit.
The television connection points are here, beside the Venetian blind that forms part of the divider between bedroom and living area.
Above the blind is a surprise: a three-shelf spice rack, enough to contain spices for a restaurant recipe repertoire, disguised as part of the divider. And just in case your caravan cuisine requirements don’t extend to 20-plus jars of spices and herbs, it’s also the perfect place for keys and phones.
It wasn’t quite good news all the way during our test. This range has inboard tanks which you fill by removing them from the caravan through an exterior hatch and wheeling them to a tap.
You wheel the full tank back to the caravan – and then lift it, complete with 23 litres of water, into the hatch.
Because of the angle of lift, it’s not easy. While inboard water tanks are essential to sub-zero temperature caravanning, with a Pegasus you would confine its use to those freezing times and use a conventional exterior water container at all other times.
There are two exterior hatches, though, for which we have nothing but praise. They’re on either side at the front, extending towards the centre to meet up with the gas bottle locker which is plenty large enough for two bottles.
Everything else goes in these large side lockers – toilet chemicals, Al-KO Secure Wheel Lock bags.… Room for loads of paraphernalia to be stowed in two very organised compartments.
The flagship of the Pegasus range has a lot of family appeal even before you begin to consider the merits of the revolutionary Alu-Tech construction that gives you enhanced insulation compared with conventional-build caravans.
And, in common with the rest of the seven-model Pegasus range, it has slightly more headroom, at 1.96m, than most other caravans.
Now consider its value. You get a lot of caravan for £17,295 – and a lot of specification. Standard equipment extends to an inboard water tank (of which more later), the ATC trailer stability system, AL-KO Secure Wheel Locks – and even an Avtex television worth £369.
You also get a 10-year body warranty, demonstrating Bailey’s confidence in the capability of this construction method in conquering water ingress.
Pegasus caravans are distinctive in appearance as well as by reason of the construction method that doesn’t use any wood.
The gas bottle locker is dark grey opaque plastic, for instance, and the grab handles contain a row of LED lights.
The distinctive features list even extends to the freestanding table. When you get it out of its kitchen cupboard storage slot, the sides extend on substantial hinges, giving you an extra 20cm of table width.
The big-caravan theme continues in the kitchen. Pegasus (four burner) hobs are easily domestic-sized. And the amount of work surface matches.
Cupboards earn praise, too. The central kitchen cupboard gives you three wire basket shelves plus space alongside and two cutlery drawers. The top one is of the “soft-close” type, so that it closes its last few centimetres automatically, slowly, smoothly – it’s a minor refinement, but it helps to illustrate the picture of impressive detail that builds up the more you examine the 624.
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Opposite the kitchen, across the good-sized central corridor, is a second cupboard beside the heater unit.
The television connection points are here, beside the Venetian blind that forms part of the divider between bedroom and living area.
Above the blind is a surprise: a three-shelf spice rack, enough to contain spices for a restaurant recipe repertoire, disguised as part of the divider. And just in case your caravan cuisine requirements don’t extend to 20-plus jars of spices and herbs, it’s also the perfect place for keys and phones.
It wasn’t quite good news all the way during our test. This range has inboard tanks which you fill by removing them from the caravan through an exterior hatch and wheeling them to a tap.
You wheel the full tank back to the caravan – and then lift it, complete with 23 litres of water, into the hatch.
Because of the angle of lift, it’s not easy. While inboard water tanks are essential to sub-zero temperature caravanning, with a Pegasus you would confine its use to those freezing times and use a conventional exterior water container at all other times.
There are two exterior hatches, though, for which we have nothing but praise. They’re on either side at the front, extending towards the centre to meet up with the gas bottle locker which is plenty large enough for two bottles.
Everything else goes in these large side lockers – toilet chemicals, Al-KO Secure Wheel Lock bags.… Room for loads of paraphernalia to be stowed in two very organised compartments.
- This new caravan review was first published in the May 2010 issue of Go Caravan magazine.
