Bailey Pegasus Rimini

The Rimini is adaptable – with its lounge layout option and the versatility of which family members sleep where.

GRAPHICS  in sky blue, a practical triple front locker design – and LED lights set into grab handles; Pegasus looks are designed to turn heads.

The difference between the new Rimini and all other caravans except the new Bailey Orion 460-5 is in the rear panel.

This is not about exotic light clusters or new-style sculpture in reinforced plastic. It’s about the position of the toilet, which is mounted on the rear panel, next to the washbasin, at the back of the shower room.

The advantage is that you extract the cassette from the rear of the caravan. If you’re using an awning, you’ll immediately see the benefit of not having to transport your toilet through the living area, as would be necessary for nearside toilets.

And if your added living space is a porch, rather than full awning, it’s one hatch less to consider when you’re deciding where precisely to place your porch to avoid windows, the door and other apertures.

LOUNGE

Riminis offer a choice of lounge layout. You can opt for the U-shaped seating arrangement in our review caravan, or you can buy a chest of drawers (£286 at time of going to press). There are advantages to both.

The drawers give you extra storage space and a table for two to pull out from the surface on the top. The U-shaped lounge gives you much more seating space and a larger double bed. Which you choose depends on your personal needs – everyone is different, which is why we applaud option lounge layouts.

KITCHEN

The Rimini’s kitchen gives you a cabinet, together with two metal basket-style drawers. Beneath these drawers is a deep cupboard space, easily large enough to hold tall items such as soft drinks bottles.  It’s not enormous in terms of storage and surface area – but more than adequate.

DINING

The free-standing table stores in a slot within the kitchen. Five can sit around it in the U-shaped lounge version.

BEDS

Twin beds are the latest layout craze. Although the majority of purchasers of this layout are couples, we can see family applications, too.

When kids hit teen years they’ve grown out of bunk beds yet they appreciate their own space. Twin beds, complete with vast storage opportunities beneath, may be the perfect layout for families at this stage.

The parents make up the double bed in the lounge and the young people get the single beds.

SHOWERING

The shower is a good size. Floorspace is generous – and, because the wardrobe is in this area, the shower room is a true dressing room.

STORAGE

The Rimini’s wardrobe is in the shower room, which means it doesn’t clutter the living space. There’s full hanging depth, plus a shelf above the rail.

The bed area has six deep top lockers, five of which have shelves. Six more lockers surround the lounge. Total storage is first-rate for four people.

There’s more space under the lounge seating but these lockers have small doors; pulling and pushing bedding in and out here would be a struggle unless you lift up the settee bases.

Access to the storage areas under the twin beds is far easier; they lift effortlessly, supported on gas-filled struts.
Under the nearside bed, an exterior hatch enables you to lift items in from the outside – great for folding chairs, for example.

A plastic tray that’s the width of the hatch confines any mud or grass that might adhere to chair legs, and keeps it away from other items in the locker. The storage story continues outside. The Pegasus range has three front lockers.

TOWING

On its road test, the Rimini excelled in terms of stability and level cornering. And the ATC stability system is there to enhance safety.

High enough spec to satisfy most, we think the Rimini is value for its price.