Top 10 Campervan ESSENTIAL Accessories for Beginners with our VW California Ocean

Great video guys 😎🍷🚍⚓️🇬🇧👍

You guys have give us a great insight to the Cali, been buying things for almost 18 months and finally took delivery three weeks ago
Can you tell me where you got you’re coloured ball lights from please

Big thank you for this video. We have purchased our first camper van and purchased most of your suggested items. Just returned from first night away to test everything and found all of the item brilliant. Only wished we had ordered the fan heater and plug in thermostat, which we are ordering right now 🙂

Just looked @ yr vdeo for the first time & it's really helpful for newbie campervaners like us. Will be watching more for sure. Thank you

Hi Guys just joined California Time and love the videos they are a great help. We will be getting our new Cali Ocean in 4 weeks and now looking at getting the essentials, so we have taken many notes from your top tips. I would like to get a thermal screen cover, can you tell use what one you have as it seems well made and having looked there are loads and we like to go on recommendation.
Looking forward to the next video, Nicky & David.

Thanks from a camper van newby.

Great video. Love the windscreen cover

Love it!!! I went straight online for the ridge monkey skillet and they are back ordered. And then I ordered the mosquito light. I just keep adding everything to my Amazon account for the day that I actually get a van! Lol Safe travels my friends I just subscribed.

Folding kettle very heavy and hardly saves any space .
Do not worry about the expansive toilet paper . Just the thin saver type dissolves just the same. External screen nightmare if you wake up to lashing down with rain.

Have the same heater very good

Hi good video where did u get your screen cover thanks

Hello. Great tips and ideas. Please can we ask for hat make windscreen cover you have?

I don't have a fancy campervan, just my old Pontiac Montana minivan. So my essential for power is my Bluetti EB70s (800W) with the 200W folding solar panel. I just got a 12 V fridge/freezer that I'll use as a freezer two frozen juice jugs that I'll alternate in my 12 V cooler. This will make my groceries last longer, but not take up more power. The Bluetti is great for charging my I-phone, my solar/USB light, my electric gooseneck lighter and running my USB fan.. I've used it during power outages. :)
I almost bought a bug zapper, not as fancy as yours, but cancelled as it wouldn't arrive at Walmart when the other purchases did. Of course, then the orders only dribbled in, so I should have kept it in my shopping cart. It's over an hour drive to get there, so I hope the rest all come together.
Most of my camping gear came from Canadian Tire, the camp cot, 3" foam mattress, cooler, camping cookware (with a kettle so small it will only make enough for my two cup teapot), and my Luggable Loo, which has come in handy when my house's water inlet froze and I couldn't flush. The hand pump for my 5 gal. jug was put to use, too.
The rest of my gear, the butane stove and fuel came from other places.
I just got a folding wooden TV tray and plastic organization cubes and have ordered a folding camping chair that I hope will be comfortable.
My adventures will have to be small day trips as I have two old cats at home who might not travel well. But they might just surprise me. :)
Jon in rural BC, Canada

Getting a strong Martin Lewis Vibe

do you set your toilet up in your awning or in the van?

Very helpful thank you!

You needs a shower/toilet tent and a solar shower. 35 quid all in from go outdoors a couple of years ago. Super fun and a million times better than making the van pong.😅😅

The windscreen cover is great on campsites, but I'd never recommend fitting one if wild camping or stealth camping, as it's impossible to drive off if your van is attacked or being broke into without getting out of the van door.

Great reviews - obviously 😊

I cannot find that Ridgemonkey model ANYWHERE :-( Any tips?

With that lamp you actually almost selectively kill a really important and beneficial insects and almost no mosquitoes.

What brand of cab thermal wrap do you have? Brilliant hacks thank you!

I stopped watching after the toilet (which is an essential) then came the grill thing.
Well, there is difference of opinion about the meaning of the word essential.

Three things... 1. Thank you for the great suggestions. 2. Never talk over your wife and you do it all the time. 3. You need to have 6-8 kids with this girl. You both would make great kids because both of you are good looking and very smart

Where did you buy the screen cover from?

Very useful video thank you! Cant help but notice how much you interrupted her throughout the video though! Let her speak!

Lovely couple, like all your tips. Enjoyed watching

I need 100 of those mosquitoe lights 🤣🤣

Don't have any of that my essential list is:-

No 1. is a reliable van. 2. A comfortable bed. 3. A cook/cooker. 4. An uncramped interior. 5. Swivel front seat. 6. Two duvets, one for summer, another duck and down for winter. 7. 3 pillows. 8. Table for inside and out and two folding chairs. 9. Tool kit with bits and pieces, tape etc. 10. Book of maps. Bonus:- Sense of adventure.
Heating:- 1500watts is way too much heat, ours is 500watts.

Great video guys! Waiting to pick up my T5 Camper next week so already ordering lots of essentials, including the fold up kettle and ridge monkey.

Totally brilliant 👍 Learnt so much

Tnx

just got a VW van, this was GOLDEN. Thanks so much for the practical advice and commen sense insights!

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I am about to start a camper adventure and this vid is v helpful 👍Can you tell me the brand of the external insulated screen cover TIA👍

The kettles made of PLASTIC, are the worst thing for your health, specially the collapsible ones. Mix Heat water and Plastic and what do you get? Millions of microplastic in your body every time you take something heat on them. Those things should be actually forbidden instead of being promoted by campers.

The kettles made of PLASTIC, are the worst thing for your health, specially the collapsible ones. Mix Heat water and Plastic and what do you get? Millions of microplastic in your body every time you take something heat on them. Those things should be actually forbidden instead of being promoted by campers.

Can you tell us the maker of your thermal screen cover please?

Just bought our first CV and am absolutely thrilled to have found your site. So so helpful thank you

You really do not need all this crap. Just get behind the wheel and go! Honestly, if you can't do without all this crap, sell the van and stay at home 😚

My thankful for keeping it short, speaking clearly at a noteable pace, & practical suggestions.

For your elbows try soaking with your own urine. Sometimes it works. Very old tip

Thank you, we've just got a Campervan, and your video is so helpful.

Thank you for doing this, its all still very relevant and so helpful to someone like me who is just setting out on his Campervan journey.

Thanks guys! Very helpful! “On the brink” of buying our first Cali so thanks again!

Is your husband aware of just how much he interrupts and talks over the top of you? I had to give up halfway through, as it drove me nuts!

Initially I bought the internal windscreen and side window covers, the morning condensation was a major problem, to help alleviate this, I bought a USB powered fan which I turned on in the morning to clear the windscreen.

You guys are so cute

Great help - thanks

Thank you. Fab. Love it. Your posts make a big difference because if it’s just me & the kids, it’s good to have some other thoughts/advice/wisdom & safety tips. Appreciated.