Expect you have all had your holidays now but just for possibly useful info. Ours slept on the back platform of our Danbury and we used the bunks to store coats, rugs, sleeping bags, and fishing rods. Dog slept on back platform with them. You can get 3 kids under six years on the back, dog keeps them warm. They don't fight much, too tired from being out in the air all day. Leaves plenty of room for parents to sit and read, listen to radio, cook etc in safety, and not bang our heads on bunks.
Earlier the youngest baby would be in an old fashioned carrycot wedged on the front seat by the steering wheel. Bottle making gear on the sink top. 1 flask boiling water, 1 flask pre-boiled cold water, milk powder in bottle ready. If memory serves - and I am 64 now - it was four fld.ozs cold and two fld. ozs hot, made a perfect luke warm bottle temp. A good shake and all done by torchlight, and no disposable nappies then.
Another flask held boiling water ready for morning tea. Only downside with Danbury layout is you have to dismantle a bit of your bed to get at the cooker. So morning tea was from the flask. T-bags and sugar in the mugs on the sink all ready.......
Happy days, the kids are 29,26,and 25 now, and we've got another Danbury, just for us. The older two are 39 and 40, they did sleep in the bunks for overnight stops while travelling but usually went out into the awning, or their own tent when we were set up on site, unless the weather was very bad.
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The most we had sleeping in the van was four full sized adults, (us and oldest son and his girlfriend,) plus our three youngest aged 8,9, and 12, plus boxer dog, when we went to Swinderby for second son's RAF passing out parade - that was a bit of a squeeze.
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