The best campervan for solo travel provides a fantastic way to travel if you are holidaying on your own. After all, campervans are all about getting up and going, and that is so much easier to do if you don’t have to wait for anyone else’s approval.
The best camper vans allow you to go where you want to, when you want to, how you want to. But some ‘vans are going to be better suited for solo travel than others. You probably want to stay away from ones that require a fair amount of manoeuvring inside to get everything into place, because you may find such manoeuvring is a two-person job.
And if it is just you travelling, you don’t want your interior to be lumbered with beds or extra lounges that you may find in the best campervan for a family of 4 but are unlikely ever to use.
To help you find the model for you, our judging panel at the Practical Motorhome Awards 2025 have picked out the best campervans for solo travellers for the 2025 season. Our winner was the Swift Trekker X – an option that impressed us with the great spec it provides, its rugged good looks and good storage.
The best campervans for solo travel
Swift Trekker X
Dreamer Cap Land Select
Elddis Autoquest CV60 60th Anniversary Edition
The best campervan for solo travel
Swift Trekker X
- Price: £73,995
- MTPLM: 3500kg
- MIRO: 2890kg
- Payload: 610kg
- Berths: 4
- Belts: 4
- Length: 5.98m
- Width: 2.11m
Reason to buy:
- Rugged looks, great spec
Reason to avoid:
- The central aisle is a bit narrow
The best campervan for solo travel at the Practical Motorhome Awards 2025
If you are travelling by yourself, particularly if you have a van with a pop-up roof, you probably don’t need two lounges. You can have the front lounge to yourself, so anything at the back could more easily be used as a storage area, or somewhere where, say, you could work on your bike out of the rain.
All that would be very possible with Trekker X, one of three models that now make up the company’s new rugged campervan range. Its rear section does have a bed that folds down, so that effectively you could sleep four people in here. But if it’s just you who is travelling you could leave the bed tucked away, and then this area becomes a great, easily accessed and well lit area to store all kinds of equipment. There are drawers and lockers here too, so if you did have to work on your bike in the rain, there would be space to leave tools and accessories too.
Then you would still have a comfortable front dinette, a handy kitchen area with plenty of workspace, and a neat little washroom, as well as a roofbed with strip lighting and all the USB ports you need.
Dreamer Cap Land Select
- Base vehicle: Ford Transit Custom
- Price: £67,100
- Berths: 4
- Belts: 4
- MTPLM: 3200kg
- MIRO: 2755kg
- Payload: 445kg
- Length: 5.45m
- Width: 2.03m
Reason to buy:
- An easy to use van with everything you need on board.
Reason to avoid:
- A mostly white interior is perhaps not totally practical
Highly commended at the Practical Motorhome Awards 2025
Travelling by yourself in a campervan or motorhome is as easy as pie – until the moment you have to do awkward things like push beds into place, because two people are often required for that.
Fortunately the upgraded Dreamer Cap Land now comes with a downstairs bed that lowers and raises itself electronically at the flick of a switch. No more struggle. And if that bed is a bit too small for you, and you fancy a change, well, if it is just yourself on your own you can use the roofbed instead. The roof doesn’t raise electronically, but it’s a fairly easy one to manoeuvre.
There is a toilet at the back of this campervan too. Even with a partition, it’s perhaps not the most private loo, but, again, if it is just you on your own this hardly matters.
With this van, you could park just about anywhere and have the whole vehicle to yourself very easily.
Elddis Autoquest CV60 60th Anniversary Edition
- Base vehicle: Fiat Ducato
- Price: £60,499
- Berths: 2
- Belts: 2
- MTPLM: 3500kg
- MIRO: 2846kg
- Payload: 611kg
- Length: 5.99m
- Width: 2.50m
Reason to buy:
- A great van to relax in.
Reason to avoid:
- You couldn’t really bring a friend along, unless they were more than friends.
Highly commended at the Practical Motorhome Awards 2025
When we named the Elddis Autoquest CV60 as our Motorhome of the Year at the start of this decade, several of the judges pointed out just what a good van it would be for a solo traveller.
Now, specially done up in exclusive 60th anniversary upholstery and decals, the same still applies, in a ‘van that was also shortlisted for our best budget campervan category.
The French bed at the rear is designed to be a double, but really it can work as an extra comfortable large single too. And if it’s just one of you travelling you could leave it as a bed, and just use the mini “lounge” there is up at the front where the cab seats swivel around a small pedestal table.
Or you could return the bed to daybed mode, and have all the space to watch TV or admire the view on your own. Heaven.
You still get a perfectly decent kitchen and washroom in the middle.
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