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Most of the caravans I tow are between 17ft and 22ft. Every once in a while, however, I hitch up a big Bertha – a caravan with more living space than a city apartment and a large on-road footprint. In early September, I received a call: Royal Flair Caravans had just finished a 24ft quad-bunk caravan in its Family Flair range.

Now, the Family Flair has been the name of this manufacturer’ s dedicated range of bunk vans for at least 15 years. I recall doing a big tour of Victoria’ s Gippsland region in a Family Flair in 2010. Back then, Royal Flair built with meranti timber and corrugated aluminium cladding, and the bunks on that van had folddown DVD players, which was cutting-edge at the time and viewed as mandatory equipment for a family van. How far we’ ve come in such a short time …

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