Lunar Arriva

"Op why are you considering an Ariva?"

It's not so very long ago that hooker started a thread saying he was thinking of buying a motorhome, and asked a rather loaded question about club sites. Obviously someone who likes to keep his options open!

I was not about to buy one. My view of user payload adequacy is as relevant as yours so get off your high horse and drink yer milk cowboy. 

WN, you sound rather like one of Hooker's usual posts there.😀

I did really consider a camper but her looked at the bed and said no way, so I moved on to motor home and looking at our holiday destinations this year Cornwall, northwales , Cumbria it would have been a nightmare moving about so it was back to the caravan, never really took much notice of user payload has I weighed it every time I loaded it and so long has it was below 1200kg I was happy, but now I find I was playing with 360 kg user payload which probably made it easy, so my foray into a new van has ended at the moment, if I had put a mover and leisure battery in, payload may have disappeared. I do like the arriva pity they do not put a larger capacity axle or give you the choice. So it looks like new beds and upholstery for the old girl.

We`ve had three including an Ariva with hardly any issues now on a Clubman!

The Ariva was a smashing small van this one never had to go back to the dealer apart from a service in the three years we owned it. Most caravans have a low payload and the Ariva is not particularily poor,as with most vans heavier items go in the car. Though narrower than most vans the seating is the same length as most two berths longer than many fixed beds so you can stretch out and watch the tele. Wardrobe is about average and the kitchen area fine, the bathroom is however small and this is where site facilities are probably best used. As regards equipment they have just about everything a larger caravan has. This is a good go anywhere touring caravan there are few roads and sites that will trouble you. 

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Bought an Ariva one year old in 2013 have been using it since then.Great van ,small but you get used to it,great on narrow roads,even had Grandson and his fiance stay with us using awning with an annex.Have towed with 1.6 diesel cars currently towing with a Kuga .

I have not read defensive posts David. Tigi was apparently happy with the three they owned. I had one from March 2012 until December 2017 and was happy with it and indeed bought another. Yours, I agree, seems to have been a total disaster. 

It's the size that attracts me, it is the payload that concerns me, if I fit a motor mover with a battery could you still manage, at the moment I carry car spare wheel as well but could do something different with that.

I have a mover fitted and have weighed everything that goes in the van,as there are only two of us all the heavy stuff goes in the car.Must admit to never having it weighed though.We find the van great just had a week in Somerset and didn't use the awning because of the weather and we are still talking,but we do get on well.