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, and 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 2026 has picked out the best campervans for solo travellers for the 2026 season. This year, we’ve named the Citroën Holidays as our favourite option on the market, as we think it offers great value for one and is an ideal choice for a spur-of-the-moment adventure.
The best campervans for solo travel
Shortlisted at the Practical Motorhome Awards 2026
Citroën Holidays
Panama P/10E
Pilote V630S Fit Edition
Our top picks from last season
Swift Trekker X
Dreamer Cap Land Select
Elddis Autoquest CV60 60th Anniversary Edition
The best campervan for solo travel
Citroën Holidays
- Base vehicle: Citroën SpaceTourer
- Price: £55,695
- Berths: 4
- Belts: 4
- MTPLM: 3100kg
- MIRO: 2365kg
- Payload: 735kg
- Length: 4.98m
- Width: 1.92m
Reason to buy:
- Great value if it’s just one of you paying
Reason to avoid:
- It will only ever have 4 seats in total
The best campervan for solo travel at the Practical Motorhome Awards 2026
Citroën’s entry into the campervan market can accommodate families (up to a point, as it only has a maximum of four seats). But it would also make a perfect little run-around vehicle if you just fancy something that you might want to head off in on the spur of the moment.
You can actually remove the rear bench seat completely for some good campervan storage options, so if you are off, say, on a solo biking adventure, you should have all the room you need to store bikes and equipment in the space behind – and yet you will still have the bed in the rising roof to make use of in the evenings.
You shouldn’t need to leave room to get around the kitchen unit either, because this too can be removed, if the weather is OK to eat outside. Not only that, but theoretically, you could wash outside as well, as this campervan comes with an external shower that has its own water tank.
All that makes the van very suitable as a day-to-day vehicle too, which is possibly just as well. After all, if there is only one of you paying for it, it makes sense to have just one vehicle to pay for.
Panama P/10E
- Base vehicle: Ford Tourneo Custom
- Price: £79,995
- Berths: 4
- Belts: 5
- MTPLM: 3245kg
- MIRO: 2780kg
- Payload: 465kg
- Length: 5.04m
- Width: 2.27m
Reason to buy:
- A great runaround van that should meet your green credentials too.
Reason to avoid:
- There’s no fixed toilet included.
Highly commended at the Practical Motorhome Awards 2026
Like the Holidays, the P10/E gives you plenty of options for storing things in the back if you don’t actually need anyone to be in the rear seats, while you still get access to the bed in the rising roof.
As it’s a hybrid, you can go anywhere in it too – thus extending its capabilities as a day-to-day van. In fact, we named it the best campervan for everyday use at this year’s Awards.
You can’t quite entirely remove as many things from the rear as you can with the Holidays van, but in one respect, it has an advantage over our category winner in that, should you suddenly find yourself with unexpected company, that rear seat can take three extra people. Perfect for giving fellow adventurers a lift home, or at least to the nearest station.
Pilote V630S Fit Edition
- Base vehicle: Fiat Ducato
- Price: £69,400
- Berths: 4
- Belts: 4
- MTPLM: 3500kg
- MIRO: 2945kg
- Payload: 555kg
- Length: 6.36m
- Width: 2.05m
Highly commended at the Practical Motorhome Awards 2026
This may sound like a bit of a strange inclusion in a shortlist of campervans suitable for solo travel, given that it has four beds and four travel seats.
But those four beds are four modular bunks that can be used in different ways, and that includes having just one bunk, taking the other three out, and therefore having a huge area at the back where you can store campervan gadgets or whatever other outdoor equipment you need.
Then you still have enough travel seats to transport anyone you meet along the way, or with enough notice, enough extra berths to accommodate a mate if they decide that they will come along with you after all. You can add a double bed or two separate beds.
Go for the FIT Edition, and for just £1000 over the price of a standard V630S, you get £4510 worth of extras.
Swift Trekker X
- Year: 2025
- 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
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 rugged campervan range, and the model we named the best campervan for solo travel at the Practical Motorhome Awards 2025.
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.
Full review: Swift Trekker X
Dreamer Cap Land Select
- Base vehicle: Ford Transit Custom
- Year: 2025
- 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
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
- Year: 2025
- 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.
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 last year.
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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