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 will strictly have two berths and four berths respectively), the best motorhomes for couples can have two to four berths. This is why 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.
This year, we’ve named the Auto-Sleepers Burford Duo as our pick of the motorhome for couples. Our judging panel has been impressed with the style it offers, as well as the continuous hot water and the choice of toilet too.
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 2026
Auto-Sleepers Burford Duo
Auto-Trail Frontier Delaware
Rimor Sailer 55 Plus
Our top picks from recent years
Pilote 720U Expression
Chausson S695 Sport Line
Roller Team Kronos Compact 590
Pilote Atlas A656D
Benimar Tessoro 483
Joa Camp 75Q
Elddis Autoquest 115
Roller Team Pegaso 590
Bailey Advance 66-2
The best motorhome for couples
Auto-Sleepers Burford Duo
- Base vehicle: Mercedes Sprinter
- Price: £120,200
- Berths: 4
- Belts: 2
- MTPLM: 4100kg
- MIRO: 3383kg
- Payload: 717kg
- Length: 7.92m
- Width: 2.35m
Reason to buy:
- Great British style, continuous hot water, and the option of a different toilet
Reason to avoid:
- The most expensive of our award winners here
The best motorhome for couples at the Practical Motorhome Awards 2026
The Mercedes-based Burford Duo has been a long-standing part of the Auto Sleepers line-up, but has been significantly improved this year with the inclusion of the Alde 3030 heating system that gives you continuous hot water, and a much darker and more sophisticated furniture finish that looks more elegant with flecks of copper.
You get a choice of colours for the upholstery and curtains too, the latter held back with elegant ties. Plus, as an option, with this model, you can go for an incinerator toilet. No more messing around with foul-smelling chemicals.
Despite its name, Duo also makes a great four-berth if you host friends too (this fixed single beds motorhome is only so called to distinguish it from its French bed cousin, the Burford). You can turn the settees in the large lounge into single beds, or you can pull them together with solid platforms to make a huge double.
But there’s masses of space for a couple on tour, and a decent payload too. In short, an all-round winner.
Full review: Auto-Sleepers Burford Duo
Auto-Trail Frontier Delaware
- Base vehicle: Fiat Ducato on an Al-Ko chassis
- Price: £112,031
- Berths: 2
- Belts: 2
- MTPLM: 4500kg
- MIRO: 3700kg
- Payload: 800kg
- Length: 8.07m
- Width: 2.35m
Reason to buy:
- A huge vehicle for just the two of you
Reason to avoid:
- You might find it too huge
Highly commended at the Practical Motorhome Awards 2026
If your idea of a motorhome for couples is a cosy van where the two of you can just get away and not be disturbed, chances are you will need a vehicle with a decent washroom, so there’s no need to venture out to the cold shower block.
Auto-Trail’s Frontier models have all been given posh new washrooms this season, complete with huge, well lit mirrors, ladder radiators and plenty of roof vents to take all the steam away. All of which makes this lengthy island bed motorhome even more appealing, especially for a long out-of-season stay at some quiet park.
With a large L-shaped kitchen that comes with a huge 171-litre fridge – surely more than you would ever need for just the two of you? – and a comfortable parallel settee lounge, it really should feel like home from home.
Rimor Sailer 55 Plus
- Base vehicle: Ford Transit
- Price: £64,995
- Berths: 4
- Belts: 4
- MTPLM: 3500kg
- MIRO: TBC
- Payload: TBC
- Length: 7.33m
- Width: 2.34m
Reason to buy:
- A really spacious place for just the two of you
Reason to avoid:
- Fresh and waste water tanks could be more generous
Highly commended at the Practical Motorhome Awards 2026
The new Sailer models are what used to be Rimor’s low-profile Super Brigs. Rimor is, of course, well known for producing family-friendly motorhomes. But the 55 Plus would be really sumptuous as a two-berth.
You have a comfortable front lounge with face-to-face settees, a decent kitchen complete with an oven and a 141-litre fridge, a huge washroom that straddles the motorhome and includes a huge separate shower, and then a huge transverse bed at the back, with plenty of room next to it to get dressed in the morning. There is even internal access to the garage underneath.
Then, if you do have a couple travelling with you, a large drop-down bed can be lowered above the lounge.
Pilote 720U Expression
- Year: 2025
- 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.
This model from Pilote is in effect an elongated version of the 2024 696U, with a U-shaped rear lounge, a side kitchen and a washroom up front behind the cab.
Last year’s category winner 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
Roller Team Kronos Compact 590
- Year: 2025
- Base vehicle: Ford Transit
- Price: £57,990
- Berths: 2
- Belts: 4
- MTPLM: 3500kg
- MIRO: 2865kg
- Payload: 635kg
- Length: 5.99m
- 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.
The first model in yet another new compact range from a major coachbuilt manufacturer for the 2025 season, 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. For those of you who want one of the best small motorhomes for couples, this could be a tempting option.
Full review: Roller Team Kronos 590
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
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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