What’s the best campervan for a family of 4 in the UK?

Given the type of trip you want, what you’ll consider the best four-berth campervan isn’t just about the facts and figures behind the vehicle. Rather, it’s about how beds, living areas, washrooms, travel seats, storage and the mod cons all work together for your version of family life on the road.

At Bailey of Bristol, we currently make three answers to the four berth motorhome question:

• Endurance E65
• Endeavour B64
• Endeavour B65

All three are built on the Ford Transit, all are campervans you can drive on a standard Category B licence, and all can comfortably sleep four. They just go about it in slightly different ways.

This guide walks through what matters most when you’re choosing the best campervan for a family of 4, then shows how each of these models solves those needs in its own way.

What actually makes a great family-of-four campervan?

A good family campervan has to do a few jobs very well:

When you’re travelling with your entire family (especially young children), the quality of the travel seats in your campervan can make the difference between an enjoyable road trip and a lot of stressful travel.

So, when choosing a campervan for your family, looking for Aguti travel seats if you want a flexible layout and ISOFIX if you need to attach a car seat will help you find a campervan that is both practical and safe. Both of these features will make every road trip noticeably easier.

This is the international standard for securing child seats using built-in anchor points rather than the vehicle’s seatbelt.

ISOFIX works by:

• Keeping the seat fixed in the correct position
• Reducing the risk of installing your child seat incorrectly
• Giving you a more stable and safe setup for babies, toddlers and younger children

Aguti is a premium seating system designed specifically for campervans and motorhomes. When you’re on the road, they behave like high-quality car seats. And once you’re pitched up, they can fold back into comfortable living-space seating.

When choosing a campervan that will work for your family one of the key considerations is where everyone is going to sleep.

Ideally, a campervan should give your family:

• Enough bed space so nobody is cramped
• Separation so people can go to bed at a time that works for them, without following everyone else’s routine
• A setup that gives you the option of not having to make beds up every evening if you don’t want to

Different campervan layouts solve this in different ways; for example:

• Pop-top (or Tentbox) beds give you a separate, more private bedroom at the top of the vehicle
• Fold-down rear doubles give you a sleeping space that doesn’t eat into the main living area
• Flexible lounges offer single beds, doubles or a combination of the two that suit mixed-age families or those who travel with friends (but do require some making up each night)

The important thing is to choose the campervan that offers you a sleeping arrangement that is best for all the family. Take the whole family when choosing a campervan so you can get an idea of what each vehicle would be like to live in and what the space looks like when everyone is inside.

Four people often come with a lot of items when on holiday, think clothes, bikes, wetsuits, scooters, helmets, muddy boots, board games, schoolwork, food and all the rest.

A good family campervan needs a combination of:

• A rear garage or an under-bed storage area that can take bulky, awkward items without you having to keep them in everyone’s way in the main living area
• Strong fixing points so bikes and heavy kit stay exactly where they should during travel, without moving around every time you go around a corner
• A sensible mix of interior cupboards, cubbies and low-level storage so everyday essentials have a place that is accessible when you need them and out of sight when you don’t

When your campervan layout has each of these suited to your family, you’ll find it feels calm and organised, even on longer trips.

Most families don’t only travel in the warmer summer months, so heating and insulation matter, especially with the curveballs the Great British weather can throw your way.

All Bailey models feature:

• Grade III insulation: This is the highest classification for motorhome and campervan thermal performance, which in practice means the interior stays warm even when outside temperatures drop sharply. At Bailey, we test our insulation through cold chamber testing, meaning your campervan will keep you warm even when the temperature dips well into minus figures.
• Truma Diesel Combi heating: This comes as standard across both the Endurance and Endeavour ranges. Diesel heating makes a real difference, because it doesn’t rely exclusively on LPG supplies, so you’re not rationing warmth on longer trips or remote overnights. It also heats the water and the living space together, so showers, drying clothes and warming up after a walk all happen without you having to juggle them.

That means you can head out all year and still be warm, dry and comfortable.

Endurance E65: The adventure-ready family campervan

On paper, the Endurance E65 is a two-berth campervan. In practice, with the Adventure Pack and TentBox, it becomes one of the most interesting and flexible options if you’re looking for the best campervan for a family of four.

The Endurance E65 is a compact nearly 6-metre long campervan with a front dinette and a raised rear fold-away double bed.

It’s built on a Ford Transit with a 2.0L, 165 bhp engine and 6-speed manual gearbox (automatic is available as an option). Inside, you get:

• Front dinette with dedicated travel seats, ISOFIX and wall-mounted table.
• Fully equipped kitchen with a Thetford 90-litre compressor fridge, 2-ring gas hob and sink with fold-down tap.
• Space-saving combination washroom with on-board shower and tambour partition door.
• Rear fold-away double bed with under-bed storage and a metal-floored “garage” area for bikes and big kit.

The overall feel is practical, and it’s geared towards outdoor life. It looks and behaves more like an “adventure van” than a traditional family motorhome.

The clever part with the E65 is what happens when you add the Adventure Pack and TentBox option.

• The Adventure Pack brings together the fittings you need to turn the E65 from a two-berth adventure van into a genuine family camper. It prepares the roof to take a TentBox, adds the ladder mounting points at the rear and includes the hardware that supports the extra weight safely. In other words, it turns the van into a platform that can carry a proper rooftop bedroom.
• The TentBox itself is a hard-shell roof tent designed for year-round use. It creates a fully enclosed double bed above the van and feels private. Because it’s accessed by the rear ladder, you get a natural distinction between inside and outside areas, which families often find helpful on longer trips to give more privacy between sleeping area. It’s robust enough for regular touring yet simple to remove when you’re travelling as a couple and want the van back in its lighter, two-berth setup.

With both of these packs fitted, the Endurance becomes a genuine 4-berth campervan:

• Adults can sleep on the rear fold-down double bed inside the van.
• Children or teenagers can sleep in the TentBox on the roof, accessed via a ladder at the back.

The Endurance E65 has a few other features that make it a strong contender for “best campervan for family of 4” if your trips are activity-heavy:

• The rear garage sits under the fold-away bed and uses a metal tread floor with lashing points so you can secure your bulkier items (think bikes and scooters).
• There’s a cold water shower point at the back, so you can hose down bikes, boots or dogs before they come inside.
• It has a 130-watt Truma solar panel, plus two 80 Ah AGM leisure batteries, which give you strong off-grid capability.

All of that explains why the Endurance E65 has just picked up two Highly Commended awards:

• One from the Practical Motorhome Awards for “Best Campervan for a Family of 4”
• Another from the Out & About Campervan Awards for “Best Fixed Double Bed Campervan.”

If you’re the kind of family that wants to visit bike trails, forest sites and take long outdoor walks, the E65 plus TentBox combination is very hard to beat.

Endeavour B64: A flexible pop-top for families and friends

If you prioritise interior flexibility and a big lounge over an off-road look, the Endeavour B64 is the one to look at first.

The B64 is a 4-berth, roughly 6-metre campervan with a front flexi lounge and pop-top roof. It’s built on a Ford Transit, again with a 2.0L 165 bhp engine, and 8-speed automatic gearbox as standard.

The B64 works because its layout gives you a level of space and flexibility that’s rare in a compact 6-metre campervan.

• Lounge: You start with the front flexi lounge, which uses Aguti travel seats with ISOFIX for travel and then converts into your lower sleeping area at night. Those seats form either two singles or a generous double, depending on what suits your family best.
• Pop-top: Above, the pop-top roof adds a proper high-level double bed works as a completely separate, private sleeping zone.
• Kitchen: Alongside that, the fully equipped kitchen gives you a 90-litre compressor fridge, 3-ring gas hob and combination oven and grill, so you can cook properly on longer trips.
• Washroom: The combination washroom uses a tambour door that slides rather than swings, which frees up space in both the bathroom and kitchen. Your family will feel that difference immediately because it avoids the bottleneck you often get with hinged doors in smaller vans.
• Dining: There’s also a floor-mounted pedestal dining table with its own storage, so you can put it away cleanly when the lounge needs to change role.
• Cab: The panoramic overcab sunroof brings in extra light during the day and keeps the whole interior feeling open and relaxed.

Those features create several sleeping configurations, which is where the B64 really earns its place on a shortlist for families of four. You can set the space up so:

• Parents sleep downstairs while children take the pop-top.
• Kids use the downstairs singles while adults enjoy the privacy of the roof bed.
• Friends or grandparents use the lounge beds while you take the pop-top, giving everyone their own defined space.

This flexibility adds a lot of usability to bedtime. People can turn in at their own pace, and nobody feels pushed into a layout that doesn’t suit them. For mixed-age families, or those who often travel with others, that adaptability is often the deciding factor.

Because the B64 doesn’t carry a large fold-down bed at the rear, the lounge remains open and usable throughout the day. Hence, the space works as a social area, a workspace or a quiet corner depending on what the day demands.

You can:

• Spread out on the sofas after a long walk
• Set the dining table up for schoolwork or lunch
• Swivel the cab seats to create a near U-shaped seating area that feels far bigger than the van’s footprint suggests

If your idea of the right campervan for a family of four is one that combines a generous lounge, flexible sleeping zones and a bright, modern interior, the B64 sits naturally in that sweet spot. It adapts when your plans do and keeps daily life simple rather than requiring constant compromise.

Endeavour B65: Two double beds with a more “home-like” feel

The Endeavour B65 shares the same overall length and Ford Transit base as the B64, but it shifts the layout towards families that want two doubles and a living area that feels slightly more “home-like” in its design.

In the B65, you get:

• A front dinette with travel seats, ISOFIX and a wall-mounted table that you can fold out into different positions
• A raised fold-away transverse double bed at the rear that sits over a storage garage
• A pop-top roof that gives you an extra high-level double bed and mattress
• A fully equipped kitchen and a combination washroom

That means you can have two full double beds available at once, without rebuilding the lounge every night. For many families, particularly those with older children, that gives a big upgrade to the ease of life on the road.

This sort of setup means parents can have a fixed rear bed that stays made up, while kids use the pop-top, or vice versa. Teenagers typically like the privacy the pop-top bed brings, because it feels like their own private bedroom.

Whichever way you work this layout, everyone gets a proper sleeping space and a bit of separation.

Because of the rear bed and garage, the lounge area in the B65 is smaller than in the B64. So, the main trade-off is that you gain beds you can more easily leave up all the time and a garage at the sacrifice of a small bit of communal seating space.

However, you still get:

• Under-bed storage with lashing points for bikes and outdoor kit
• A mix of cubbies and cupboards under the bed, rather than open bungee-cord cubbies (like you’ll find in the Endurance)

If you travel with bikes or bulkier kit (think surfboards or bodyboards), that garage space can be the deciding factor. It means you don’t have to load everything through the side door every time you set off.

If you picture your ideal campervan for the entire family as one with several bedrooms that can exist throughout the day, the B65 is your most natural fit.

So, which is the best campervan for your family of 4?

As you’ll have discovered by now, there isn’t a single right answer that suits every family. Instead, there’s the right answer for your family’s specific holidaying style.

In simple terms:

• Choose the Endurance E65 if you want an off-road-styled campervan that you can set up as a 4-berth with the TentBox, then strip back to a 2-berth for couple-only trips. It’s best for trips out in the wilderness, and for older kids who love the idea of their own private rooftop bedroom.
• Choose the Endeavour B64 if you want flexibility in a compact vehicle. This campervan offers you different combinations of single and double beds and a larger lounge. It suits families with children of different ages, or those who regularly bring friends or grandparents along.
• Choose the Endeavour B65 if you want two doubles, both inside the van, that can always be left made up and a garage for storing bulkier items. It’s ideal for families with older children or teens who don’t want to sleep outside the main vehicle.

If you’re at the stage of shortlisting, the most useful next step to map your typical trip on paper, including:

• Where you drive
• What you bring
• Who goes to bed when

And then see which of these layouts fits your situation most closely.

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