Castaway House has everything you need for a family retreat including a spacious game/playroom on the second level with a trundle bed. This stunning newly-built home is surrounded by native pines and natural landscapes for quiet enjoyment away from the crowds. It all adds up to a very classy, if expensive, caravan.Enjoy your stay in Perdido Key's newest subdivision, Serenity, located 1 mile from our emerald blue waters and white-sand beaches. I’m sure that there’ll be more later on, but I think the philosophy was to get everything working right and then move on, rather than use a ‘shotgun’ approach.Īll up, the Castaway is built very similarly to the Paradise motorhomes and that experience shines through. The Castaway layout reviewed here is the only one available at the moment. Having thoroughly inspected this van, what this says to me is that Paradise actually worked on the design with its eyes more on engineering than the cost. The slightly higher and heavier (but not much) offroad version is more expensive. Now, just before you rush out with your cheque book to pay a deposit for this van, I’d better tell you the price – the better part of $120,000. And Paradise seems to have made an effort to create a van that tows very smoothly. Certainly our Holden Colorado dual cab buzzed along without any dramas. The Tare comes in at 2100kg and the ATM at 2900kg, which gives you a huge load capacity but, if you carry a light load, there’s an excellent selection of tow vehicles available. An additional feature that will be in all future Paradise vans is an integrated control that links up to the Truma Aventa air-conditioner, thus giving you control of every temperature condition. Instead of separate hot water and space heaters, this van has a Truma Combi 240V/gas unit installed – it does two jobs and saves space at the same time.

Discreet LED lighting is fitted into all the appropriate locations and a multi-circuit touch control panel is handily located by the entry door. The Castaway comes with all the essential electrical items, such as a 100Ah battery, 30A smartcharger and two 150W solar panels. And the bathroom in the rear can still be accessed with the slide-out closed up. One of the assets of having the east-west bed in the slide-out is that it creates plenty of space to walk around the bed and a very generous wardrobe cabinet. In a nod to Paradise’s motorhome origins, the Castaway has a slide-out fitted into the rear offside wall and it runs very smoothly. That leaves space towards the rear for an east-west bed with bedhead set into the offside slide-out and a large bank of wardrobes along the nearside wall. The kitchen bench runs along the mid-offside, with the fridge and microwave oven on the opposite side. Up front, the club lounge is very inviting. The layout is not the common front bedroom, full-width rear bathroom set-up. Ben said the structural foam was environmentally friendly, fire resistant and had incredible tensile and compressive strength compared to other composite foams. Like the floor, the walls and roof are one-piece composite panels but are slightly thinner at 35mm.

It’s all one-piece, fully water resistant and incredibly strong.” A major part of the caravan’s overall strength comes from the high grade composite floor, 50mm-thick structural foam that is fibreglass infused. “Production caravans will have a galvanised drawbar, powder-coated suspension framework and high strength alloy rear frame section.

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