Is there a real 4 berth family caravan?

I sent this to the club magazine a number of months ago, but it didn't get published. So I'm taking a chance and posting it here!! I just wonder what others think? Have I got it wrong?

I might be opening a can of worms here, but here I go anyway! We have a 2008 Avondale Dart 475, which is serving us very well a first caravan, and it’s fixed rear bunks suit our needs as a family of 4, with boys aged 13 and 8, and it’s light weight is perfect for our Skoda Octavia Scout. We’ve had several wonderful breaks since buying it just before the first lockdown in Feb 2020, but at 15yrs old, it is starting to show its age. Whilst spending the half term week at the club’s Wythall site near Birmingham, we were able spend a whole day at the Motorhome and Caravan show at the NEC, and despite seeing loads and loads of beautifully appointed caravans, there are virtually none that I would call a proper 4 berth family caravan. There is to me far too much of a fixation with fixed beds. This means that many 4 berth caravans that are being touted as ‘family’ caravans actually aren’t really because in order to create sufficient space for the fixed bed, the door is forward of the wheels, meaning the front dinette will only convert to a double and not two singles. My boys might tolerate ‘sharing’ a bed occasionally now but not in a year or two, and our 13-year-old is already 5ft 7in tall so he won’t squeeze onto any front sofa because they’re all too short. In truth they are not 4 berth caravans really, they are 2 berth with a separate bedroom, and if some friends turn up then you can accommodate them if they don’t mind sharing. I raised this issue with a few reps on the stands and none of them could really answer the dilemma, except one who pointed us to a competitor’s model (that actually no longer existed).

There are some vague possibilities, some versions of the Weinsberg CaraOne are every similar to ours, except it’s smaller so there’s no point, and one or two builders still do the two full singles instead of a fixed double, but this is a huge waste of space to me. We could go for a six berth to get a couple of fixed bunks (I know someone who has), but then we’d end up with a dinette we don’t want, and probably a washroom not much bigger that the one we have now (if like us you have to stick to a single axle sixed outfit because of storage space). There were a couple of continental caravans that might work, but they were surprisingly heavy even by modern standards, and the last fixed bunk 4 berth van I can find made in the UK was the Coachman Pastiche 525/4 which won caravan of the year in 2013 and promptly left the line up the following year (and it isn't exactly lightweight either). We’re already aware that the significant weight of modern-day caravans means we would also have to change the car too, but in actual fact there’s little point because no one seems to make a proper 4 berth family caravan that’s just a nice increase on the size of our current one. Or is it just me????