While ‘vans can of course take the world and his wife along with them, many people say that they really come into their own when it is just the two of you going along for the journey, ready to spend weeks on the road exploring the world. This is where the best motorhome for couples comes in.
Unlike the best two berth motorhomes and the four berth ‘vans – which have strictly that amount of sleeping spaces – the best motorhomes for couples can have two to four berths. This is one of the crucial considerations when picking a good motorhome for couples will be making sure you both have enough space to enjoy a comfortable tour when you’re pitched up.
The best motorhomes in this category will also factor in that some couples may look for a ‘van in which they could host guests or have friends tour with them.
Our judging panel at the Practical Motorhome Awards 2025 picked out the Pilote 720U Expression as the best couples’ motorhome on the market – we think it offers plenty of room for the pair of you to spread out in. Here, you can see what we made of it, as well as this year’s highly commended options and some of our other favourite ‘vans from recent years, featuring some of the best motorhome brands such as Chausson, Roller Team and Benimar.
The best motorhomes for couples
Shortlisted at the Practical Motorhome Awards 2025
Pilote 720U Expression
Chausson S695 Sport Line
Roller Team Kronos Compact 590
Our top picks from recent years
Pilote Atlas A656D
Benimar Tessoro 483
Joa Camp 75Q
Elddis Autoquest 115
Roller Team Pegaso 590
Swift Escape Compact C402
Bailey Advance 66-2
The best motorhome for couples
Pilote 720U Expression
- Base vehicle: Fiat Ducato
- Berths: 4
- Belts: 4
- MTPLM: 3500
- MIRO: 3150kg
- Payload: 350kg
- Length: 7.15m
- Width: 2.30m
Reason to buy:
- A comfortable van the two of you can spread out in.
Reason to avoid:
- The garage is still quite minimal.
Best motorhome for couples at the Practical Motorhome Awards 2025
This new model from Pilote is in effect an elongated version of last season’s 696U, with a U-shaped rear lounge, a side kitchen and a washroom up front behind the cab. It is designed to sleep four, as along with the drop-down bed you can make another double out of the lounge settees and the table. But actually it works even better for couples, because you can just drop the bed right down to settee level and forget about what’s underneath. You then have a really roomy van that you can quickly switch to daytime use.
Pilote has also used the extra length to mitigate a problem that often bedevils rear lounge vans – the lack of a garage. Instead of having the washroom straddle the van, the designers have left it all on the nearside, while on the offside you have a large half-height wardrobe above (thus making the aisle a great dressing space) and an internally and externally accessible garage space below that should be large enough for a fold-up bike at least.
Full review: Pilote 720U Expression
Chausson S695 Sport Line
- Base vehicle: Ford Transit
- Price: £57,790
- Berths: 2
- Belts: 4
- MTPLM: 3500
- MIRO: 2643
- Payload: 857kg
- Length: 6.59m
- Width: 2.1m
Reason to buy:
- A great bedroom space
Reason to avoid:
- The kitchen is adequate – no more than that
Highly commended at the Practical Motorhome Awards 2025
The S695 is the third model in Chausson’s compact “S” series after the transverse bed S514 and fixed single beds S697. This time you get a French bed – potentially more sociable for a couple – which is remarkably easily accessible, really for both of you. And that is not all: the bed lifts up to reveal a huge wardrobe which two of you could possibly even have difficulty filling. Combined with the space around the bed and another wardrobe in the corner it makes for a great dressing area. Also next to this bed is a shelf with ample room for a tray holding breakfast in bed.
You still get a fair size garage with two doors underneath all this, and the front dinette is big enough for you to invite a friend or two in for dinner. You could even go as far as having an optional bed here too, then one of them could stay the night.
Roller Team Kronos Compact 590
- Base vehicle: Ford Transit
- Price: £57,990
- Berths: 2
- Belts: 4
- MTPLM: 3500kg
- MIRO: TBC
- Payload: TBC
- Length: TBC
- Width: 2.15m
Reason to buy:
- A comfy lounge, a large washroom.
Reason to avoid:
- You need to like the colour red – there is a lot of it in here.
Highly commended at the Practical Motorhome Awards 2025
The first model in yet another new compact range from a major coachbuilt manufacturer, the Kronos may at first sight look like a two-berth. But the only bed you will see here is the large double that drops down from the ceiling. Although there is a cost option to make the lounge underneath it into a bed, as standard it stays as a lounge, with a comfortable face to face layout, all the time.
If you’re touring as a couple, you should get to appreciate the rear washroom with its ample storage facilities, including a large cupboard you can access from inside and outside, that much more.
You get perfectly decent workspace in the kitchen, thanks to the hob and the sink being moved back towards the large window. And while you might prefer to stretch out in that lounge and watch a bit of telly or admire the view, there is plenty of space to invite friends in for dinner too.
Pilote Atlas A656D
- Year: 2024
- Berths: 4
- MTPLM: 3500kg
- MiRO: 3015kg
- Payload: 485kg
- Length: 6.60m
- Width: 2.20m
Reasons to buy:
- It’s a super comfortable interior with a rugged exterior
Reasons to avoid:
- If you’re not really the off-road type, it’s quite pricey
Coming on a Ford Transit Trail base vehicle means this Atlas has a chassis with limited slip differential, making it easier for the two of you to go off-road and get away from it all.
It is in effect a Ford Transit Trail version of Pilote’s existing P626D Fiat-based motorhome, which has already proved popular. So you get a large dressing room/washroom across the back, a side kitchen and then a comfortable lounge up front with plenty of space for you to stretch out in, even in a vehicle that is just 6.6m long.
Come nighttime, if it’s just the two of you travelling, you don’t even have to move any cushions to make the bed. You just drop the bed down from the ceiling. We like the funky decals on the outside here too, designed to imitate the Ford’s luton. The only downside is the extra money you have to part with to get this chassis.
Full review: Pilote Atlas A656D
Benimar Tessoro 483
- Year: 2022
- Berths: 4
- MTPLM: 3500kg
- MiRO: 3049kg
- Payload: 451kg
- Length: 6.70m
- Width: 2.30m
Reason to buy:
- Great garage and wardrobe, high level of kit, spacious end washroom
Reason to avoid:
- No internal access to garage
The 2022 winner of the best motorhome for couples category is the Spanish manufacturer’s impressive take on an increasingly popular layout that entails having a large lounge with a drop-down bed above it, a side kitchen, and then a huge washroom at the end with a large cupboard behind it and plenty of room to dress inside.
It’s really a layout which is ideally suited for couples because you have all the room in the world to get up in the morning, and at the flick of a switch you have access to a comfy lounge with a large table where you can have all your meals in comfort. Then at the end of the day you just flick that switch to get the bed back – no fumbling around with infills and cushions (as long as you don’t try to make up the downstairs bed. It’s a very comfy bed too.
This model goes a bit further, however, with a high level of spec. You get a solar panel on the roof, along with external shower and BBQ points. The kitchen includes a three burner hob a 145-litre fridge (huge for a couple), and yes, although it is a Continental motorhome you do get an oven, albeit a combined oven and grill.
All in all, you are all set for a couple on tour.
Full review: Benimar Tessoro 483
Joa Camp 75Q
- Year: 2022
- Berths: 3
- MTPLM: 3500kg
- MiRO: 2825kg
- Payload: 675kg
- Length: 7.40m
- Width: 2.30m
Reason to buy:
- Excellent spec for the price, comfortable island bed
Reason to avoid:
- Only a two-burner hob
The Joa Camp 75Q is a budget-friendly release from Pilote, with the lower price achieved thanks to the cheaper base vehicle – the Citroën Relay – and the decision to go for modular construction.
The decor may be a reminder of the ‘van’s lower price, with no locker handles and fewer access flaps, but it’s still a comfortable and well-lit interior. The latter is achieved by the light that floods in through the sunroof and windows.
As many as eight can sit at the table – and this can even be used as extra work space, as it’s close to the kitchen. This is a clever touch, as the side kitchen’s work surface isn’t the biggest. You do get a Thetford Duplex oven though, as well as a 133-litre Dometic two-way-opening Series 10 fridge.
Couples are bound to love the comfortable island bed. We think the addition of two swan-neck spotlights is excellent, but should point out the bed doesn’t roll back, and you only get a plastic concertina partition too.
The lounge offers good storage; this includes three overhead lockers that are all a good size, while you get some useful room beneath the side settee.
Full review: Joa Camp 75Q
Elddis Autoquest 115
- Year: 2023
- MTPLM: 3500kg
- MiRO: 2619kg
- Payload: 881kg
- Length: 6.6m
- Width: 2.2m
Reasons to buy:
- Flexible lounge, spacious kitchen
Reasons to avoid:
- Washroom is a bit basic if you are planning long tours away from facilities
This end kitchen Autoquest model was always going to be a great couples motorhome, with two long parallel settees that made adequate single beds. This season it has got that little bit better, because they gone for a 45cm longer Peugeot base vehicle, and they have used pretty much all that extra length on even longer settees. When it comes to making up the double, however, the extra length remains as seats.
It may sound parsimonious, but actually the double was already a great size, and this arrangement works even better for just the two of you. If you want to, you can leave the double made up all day because you will still have somewhere for the two of you to sit.
It’s also great if one of you is an early riser, or if one of you fancies an early night while the other still wants to sit up and read. And of course it is a great solution if one of you needs to rest during the day for health reasons. The other will still have somewhere to relax.
Put that all together with a well thought out kitchen, a large wardrobe and an adequate corner washroom, even if the shower tray does share space with the washing area, and you have a real contender for couples.
Full review: Elddis Autoquest 115
Roller Team Pegaso 590
- Year: 2019
- Berths: 4
- Belts: 4
- L/W/H: 5.99/2.35/2.95m
- Base vehicle Fiat Ducato
- MTPLM: 3500kg
- Payload: 635kg
Reason to avoid:
- Works well as a motorhome for couples, with everything staying in place at night
Reason to avoid:
- No outside BBQ point
Yes, it’s an A-class motorhome, but it’s only a tiddly one, less than 6m long. So it still makes for a nimble vehicle.
Although it’s actually a four-berth, the 590 is another one of those vehicles you would be much better off using almost exclusively as a two-berth. The second bed is made up from infill cushions and dropping the dinette table, so it is a bit fiddly (although perfectly OK for an emergency). If you don’t use it, you can leave the ladder in place to access the drop-down bed over the cab, and still leave the large front lounge in order, with easy access to the rear washroom at night time and to the kitchen for that early morning cuppa.
For an A-class the 590 is also surprisingly cheap. Yet it still comes loaded with a really high spec fitted as standard, including a Truma Combi 6 heating system and a rear view mirror.
And there is one thing that makes this particular range of A-classes unique in the UK market currently. Roller-Team is the only A-class manufacturer that provides its vehicles with a driver door on the UK side. With all the others you have to put up with it still being on the passenger side. It’s not a deal-maker, but over time is the kind of little convenience that you will come to appreciate.
Full review: Roller Team Pegaso 590 review
Swift Escape Compact C402
- Year: 2019
- Berths: 2
- Belts: 4
- L/W/H: 5.99/2.26/2.78m
- Base vehicle: Fiat Ducato
- MTPLM: 3300kg
- Payload: 603kg
Reason to buy:
- Narrow width makes manoeuvring easier
Reason to avoid:
- Rear double bed is a bit small
This two-berth was one of three models Swift included in its then new Escape Compact sub-brand in 2019. At the time, it justly went on to win the best small motorhome category in our Motorhome of the Year awards.
It’s called Compact mainly because of its width – at 2.26m, it should be that much easier to navigate around narrow city streets and windy country lanes.
But it certainly doesn’t feel cramped inside, thanks to the modern interior with matt white surfaces that Swift introduced on all Escape models in the 2017 season.
Even if it is a two berth, and only 5.99m long, this motorhome still has room for two lounges – one in the rear, which is a definite plus for UK travelling, and a dinette at the front where there are two travel seats. So you could, if you really wanted to, use this as a day-to-day vehicle.
Those two lounges don’t mean other areas are compromised either. The washroom doesn’t include a separate shower, but it is roomy. And the kitchen still manages to include a microwave as well as an oven and grill.
The only thing we would say is that you may need to be cosy as a couple: the transverse double you make up from the rear lounge is not the cosiest we have seen.
Full review: Swift Escape Compact C402
Bailey Advance 66-2
- Year: 2018
- Berths: 2
- Belts: 2
- L/W/H 6.59/2.28/2.76m
- Base vehicle: Peugeot Boxer
- MTPLM: 3500kg
- Payload: 800kg
Reason to buy:
- Huge lounge and washroom
Reason to avoid:
- The kitchen is only adequate.
This couple’s motorhome is strictly a two-berth: it has two facing settees in the lounge without even an option for folding travel seats, so you would have to be sure you would only need it for two people before you bought it. But if you are sure of that, it really makes an ideal used motorhome for a touring couple. Those two facing settees are enormous. If you are the kind of touring couple who like to invite people into your motorhome for a get-together when you arrive on site, then this is the van for you.
The settees are so long that you can easily leave them at night-time as separate single beds. But if you prefer a double, you only need to pull the two platforms together to make an enormous one.
And you still get enough room in here for a perfectly adequate kitchen and of course, a very generous washroom-cum-dressing room at the rear complete with a separate shower cubicle.
Best of all, this motorhome has a whopping 800kg payload, so you really can take everything with you.
Full review: Bailey Advance 66-2
How we choose the best motorhome for couples
A motorhome for couples may have more than two berths, with a key consideration being to ensure you both have enough space for a comfortable tour. This means we look at things including the value for money the ‘van provides, the layout, and the space the motorhome offers couples, amongst other things.
We’re in an excellent place to be accessing these things, thanks to our combined decades of experience in the industry. Since Practical Motorhome first launched in 2001, we’ve carried out hundreds of tests, many of which you can find in our motorhome reviews section. We make sure we highlight the plus points of each ‘van, as well as any flaws that become apparent. Our About Us page provides more information about our testing process.
Our Owner Satisfaction Awards are another valuable tool, giving us an insight into how the public get on when buying from the many manufacturers out there.
Combining this puts us in a strong position to begin to draw up our shortlist.
After creating a preliminary list of ‘vans to include, we then whittle it down to a final list. Each model on the shortlist is a worthy contender for the best motorhome for couples, and we’ll highlight why each model was included.
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