3 Travel Trailers Perfect For Beginners

In this YouTube video, we tour and review 3 small travel trailers perfect for beginners. These camper trailers are perfect for newbies because they are easy to tow, they are lightweight, and they don't have any slide outs.

The small travel trailers we review in this video have bathrooms with a toilet and shower.

The 3 small camping trailers we tour in this video are:

0:00 Intro
0:47 Starcraft Autumn Ridge 172FB
6:28 Forest River Viking 16SFB
13:23 Grand Design Imagine AIM 15BH

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[RVBlogger]

Hi Everyone,
We hope you enjoyed our video! Which small travel trailer perfect for beginners did you like best? Please say hello by leaving a comment below!
Also, please feel free to ask any questions or just tell us about yourselves. We want to get to know you and share our RV experiences.

[robertdragoff]

The Grand Design, it has a decent layout, a HUGE kitchen

Hope you guys have a happy new year

[jeffruebens]

The biggest problems with cheap trailers is moisture in the bathroom, put spray car wax on most bathroom surfaces, use the vent fan and when plugged in add a small electric space heater after taking a shower to speed drying. A trailer with only 2 tires is more of a problem with a flat tire, keep track of tire pressures, add shiny spray to the inner and outer sidewalls to help prevent aging cracks, lift the tires off the ground during long storage, and it is best to replace tires before they are 10 years old.

[billymiller]

OMG Awesome. Thank you for sitting at the dinette! No one EVER sits at the dinette’s….it’s so hard to gauge the size in reviews without someone sitting in them 😀👍🏻

[pennymoore]

My favorite was the one with bunk beds

[laurienix]

The Grand Design is the winner for me and the 60"x80" will get me every time. I long for the day when a murphy bed model will be a full queen size. The bathroom sink is not a problem for us.

[barbswanson]

I’m one of “those people”. I want a sink in the bathroom not just a kitchen sink 😏😀

[alisonshanahan]

That last caravan is fantastic. I love the fold up hand basin, the large rear kitchen and all the storage. I think the prices are excellent, here in Australia you'd be adding 100k to the price at minimum.

[Erin-Thor]

Apologies in advance if this sounds weird or rude, but what do you qualify as RV's for beginners? RV's that you won't plan on keeping? RV's that are cheap enough to throw away when you want to upgrade? RV's with entry level features that you will want to upgrade or replace? The terminology has me concerned as my goal is and has always been to buy my last RV first, a KEEPER. I’d like to buy a good RV of some quality that won't nickel and dime me to death, or work my patience too much. I would rather purchase smart than quick and dirty and end up wishing I had researched my purchase decision more. 😊

[williamsawyer]

Cool video I will not have problem washing my hands in the kitchen sink. They should have put a little sink inside the shower

[paulkovacs]

I like the grand design imagine 15bh for the bunk bed and the front kitchen

[scupking]

The 15BH is the best out of all of them. Still needs some changes to make it perfect. Take the dinette out and put a couch in that can seat 4 adults. Also put storage cabinets above that window (can make the window a little smaller). Shrink the bunk bed width down to 38 inches wide (38x80 is twin xl size). No need for bigger on bunk. With those changes I think that would be the perfect 4 family little travel trailer!

[terryelliott]

I like the Grand Design. The bunk beds are nice feature. And the frig with the freezer draw is nice.

[mattwaters]

Currently I own a truck camper and out of the three choices, I'd have to settle for the third floor plan. The kitchen area is very nice and the fold down basin is great. Seems more spacious all around. Great video! 👍

[voiceaerobics]

We recently purchased Coachman Clipper 17FQF and love it. Perfect size for couple and easy set-up. Best features, though are walk around queen and BIG bathroom. Might want to show it in future video

[HamiltonVanMan]

For what it's worth, I would be very comfortable washing my hands in the kitchen sink. If I wasn't, I probably wouldn't be out camping anyway.

[scottelwood]

Number 3 is my choice. The first two are going to fall apart just going down the road. Enjoy your video 👍 thanks

[rosemarydoran]

For sure The Grand Design would be my first choice. They build a high quality product and this is just packed full of features and great storage space too. The finishes are high-end for a more entry level trailer and they did a good job with the kitchen as well as the refrigerator space. I can't believe the amount of countertop space available in that kitchen; it's just amazing! The bathroom is large and has a lot of great features too. The drop-down sink is a wonderful idea. My second choice would be the Starcraft and the Forest River would be my last choice. Both of my second and third choices don't have any paneling in the shower but I think that's something you could remedy in a DIY project that wouldn't cost too much money and adding a retractable shower door would definitely be money well spent to eliminate a lot of aggravation. The Starcraft I think is just a better design and has both a better bathroom and kitchen than the Forest River does. That Forest River I know why it doesn't have a bathroom sink because they put it in the kitchen; that's about the size of the sink in the kitchen! 😂 I also don't like the tiny refrigerator in the kitchen and the fact that they put the cooktop east to west and not north to south to provide extra counter space. I don't really have a problem with the fact that they didn't put a microwave in and in fact I kind of like being able to choose my own. I guess I would probably just have to sleep with my pillows at the footboard of the bed if I really wanted to watch TV that badly and both the Starcraft and the Forest River campers. As far as the Great bathroom sink debate, I definitely prefer a sink in the bathroom if possible. If there are dishes in the kitchen sink and you go to wash your hands in there it is a little bit gross but I don't think the world would come to an end and I don't think a worldwide pandemic would start if you had to use the kitchen sink to wash your hands. The only thing is, if the bathroom is so small it can't support its own sink, I would be very concerned that the kitchen sink would be so small that it would be very unfunctional (is that even a word?) to use as either a kitchen or bathroom sink (see poor attempt at a joke above.)Thanks for bringing us some basic entry-level campers. I appreciate all the work you and Susan do to put the videos together! I hope you guys had great Christmas and a Happy New Year and looking forward to more videos in 2023!

[babsdemers]

My favorite is actually the BH model. Even though we wouldn’t use the bunk normally!

[brownsugarcoffee]

I love the last one, but what I would do with the last one I would remove the top bunk and tell them to put some cabinets up there❤❤