750kg Family Caravan for £20k - Freedom Carpento 360

How do you fancy a Family Caravan weighing in at 750kg and costing a shade under £20k? Enter the new Freedom Carpento 360.

00:00 - Introduction
00:22 - Price, weights, and dimensions of the Freedom Carpento 360
01:05 - Interior tour of the Freedom Carpento 360
03:36 - Converting Front Dinette to Double Bed
04:48 - Fridge, wardrobe, and washroom
05:43 - Conclusion
06:30 - Outro and DOUGAL!

The Freedom Carpento 360 is a lightweight 4 berth family caravan that you can tow with a small car. Join me, Andrew Ditton, as I take you on a quick first look at this EV-friendly caravan.

If you look at just the price and the spec, you'll see that this caravan does not deliver the value that you would get with a Bailey Discovery, an Elddis Xplore, or a Swift Sprite.

Freedom Caravans has achieved the light weight by giving the Carpento a light spec, so there is no heating or hot water as standard. And beware the limited payload, which is obviously deliberate to keep the caravan under the magic 750kg figure.

There are fixed bunks at the back of this family-friendly lightweight caravan as well as a modest kitchen and a washroom. But what is genius about the Carpento range (built in Turkey) is the way the front dinette converts into a double bed.

Do be aware that the Freedom Carpento that I looked at was a prototype - please check price, spec, and warranty terms with Freedom before committing.

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[andrewjditton]

And now for something completely different! Good to see an alternative on the market, but will the light specification cut it with prospective buyers? That bed mechanism is certainly genius.

[jackiemorrison]

Love those front windows! The make up of the beds - genius. Nice little van. Nice to see you out and about again doing the vlogs, cheers.

[MYJ]

Very nice light weight selection! Great job as always Andrew. Thank you.

[GaetanHobby]

Thank you Andrew for the review of this little caravan 😉

[christinegibbins]

Cute little van, thanks Andrew and Dougal down with Mum. Take care.

[lindaelizabethcole]

That's a cracking little caravan, some great design features, very smart inside and out, love the wraparound windows, good price too, you could take it a anywhere, perfect for touring, great video as usual Andrew !!

[Oudschei]

Hi Andrew, Thanks for presenting this at least to me unknown caravan! I love the fresh design and different look which is absolutely soemthing completely different :-) Hope this gives the Freedom a boost!
Say hello to Dougal from my doggy Davis

[TheMcNeillsonWheels]

We absolutely fell in love with these little vans at the show! In fact, most of our vlog ended up being about them! Wonderful review, and great to meet you in person at the show too! Stacey and Jamie

[rachelunderhill]

Aww cute little caravan xx lovely 2 meet u last Tuesday Andrew, looked around some motorhomes and caravans, took some very nice cheese home lolxx take care xx

[lindahiggins]

Hi Andrew, first caravan tour I have seen it’s so tiny but practical stay safe, hope you either show. x

[bradleythompson]

Hey just seen you on TV.... very many congrats fella. Keep it up.... today at the caravan we need the pooch bit you'll do... only kidding keep it up

[autumn]

My family and i love this little caravan! We enjoyed the Channel 5 shows and in particular your excellent contributions.

[martinkitchin]

Really smart caravan, looks solid and comes with some ingenious design features.
For somebody who (still) hates making up the bed, that table would be a god send too.
With hot water it still sounds a bit of a steal doesn't it and of course, it comes from the wonderful, Freedom Stafford 🤗

[Andy-DTRF]

Great to see you making excellent review videos again, I am looking forward to you getting out and about and doing some longer term site and leisure vehicle reviews. Agree with other comments that even though it was great to see mainstream coverage on channel 5 your content did stand out as being of a higher calibre.

[scottwilson]

Seen the TV programme.. well done to you both!!! Tween awnings, vans and Brighton.. must have been busy! Another fab vid and can't wait for the next.

[cyborg]

Andrew - great to see you on TV. The contrast between you and the other presenters was stark. Let's hope it's recognised by future programmers that people watching it are adults and don't need the presenting style to be dumbed down. I'm afraid to say the others ruined it for me and your slots were the only ones I didn't end up fast forwarding.

[tacodias]

Great little van for my great little family! I’ll be checking their site!

[CaravanVlogger]

Good to see something different. Didn’t get a good look myself at the show. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻

[hywel]

Hi Andrew, it was great to meet you at the show and we really enjoyed your talk on the Western Isles 🙂
Freedom are producing some really innovative lightweight vans with clever, original design touches, and all credit to them for doing so. Surely they are paving the way for the larger manufacturers to follow in due course?

[TheHappyPensioners]

Well then, what a right cracking bed arrangement, I mean the lift up drop down thing. That’s a smashing idea so it is. We just switched ours to a fixed bed as we are a right pair of unashamedly lazy pensioner types. But if we were 50 years younger, this van would be in the frame! The lack of hot running water for a shower would not be a problem for us, we haven’t used our shower in the caravan, I think that as we are fairly stationary anyway, don’t move about fast, we rarely need to wash, and it helps being Northern, plus dead common and rough. Speaking of Channel Five and their offering of the show at the NEC. It was dire, it really was, your bit along with a couple of other contributors was defo the highlights on an otherwise lacklustre program presented by a couple of professional presenters who should both change their careers and become either milkmen, or bus conductors.
Great video, did I mention that?
And what about Dougal ? Lovely pooch! Just sits there with his arm, (leg) over your shoulder, or waits patiently sat sitting outside a van while you do your review!
Great stuff!