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Denise: Hey everybody, it's Kory and Denise from Does Size Matter, and we are at the Austin Convention Center at the RV Trade Show
We're at the Princess Craft section where they keep the Lance Campers and I can't wait to show you more!
Now remember all of our reviews are just our opinion based on our research, and you know you might have something to add,
or you might have questions, and if that's the case shoot us a comment and we'll do what we can to answer it for you
So you're going to be able to find all the "nuts and bolts" of the real construction of a Lance Camper in a separate video, and we'll link to that at the end of this one
So this one's going to show you a tour of the Lance 850, which is an 8 foot 11 inch Truck Camper
Let's just take a little tour around this Camper and have a look
So pretty tight quarters here at the RV show, and that's pretty normal
But on this Camper you've got your Propane down here, you've got your 30 Amp Hookup there
and then when we go around to the other side I'll show you some of the storage areas that it has as well
From this angle you can see the Storage is here
And then if you come around- I can't get into these, they're locked- but this is where you can drain your Tanks from
You hook up your hose here, drain your tanks there
So the cool thing about that is.....you KNOW you're getting a Bathroom!
Electric Jacks on this Camper
And this is something I DON'T love. The actual hookup to hold your Door is one of those....yeah just not my favorite, they could do better than that
There's also a coded lock on this Door
Then if we come around: I like the Handle, I like the Ladder
There's LED lighting back here, which is helpful
And I'm not sure if you can see it that well, but there is quite a large Awning and Speakers on this
So that'll be an Electric Awning as well, hopefully with some LED Lighting and because I love that
So going over the numbers for the Lance 850 Long Bed Truck Camper
They've got a floor length of 8 foot 11 inches
with a dry weight 2501 pounds
30 Fresh gallons of water, 20 Gray and 18 Black
And there's just a little picture of the floor plan there, and of course the nice American dollar price!
And let's go inside and look at all the cool stuff in there, come on!
Inside the Lance 850 where you got pretty nice cabinetry in the kitchen
Remember this is the 5-ply plywood, so they've got this little push system. This is a CLOSET, interesting. It's a it's a decent-sized closet
It's lit, did you notice?
Then they've got the Drawer here, so that's kind of handy
Let's see, is it a Soft-Close?
Kory: (off camera) Good thing!
D: I like that! (giggles)
This I think is just access, yeah it is. It's got ducting and stuff like that in there
So in the rest of the Kitchen, I mean it's very functional
A little skimpy on Countertop space, and even the smaller Camper had more Countertop space
But it does have a 3-burner Propane Stove with a decent sized Oven
and a small but functional Microwave up there
And then you get a Double Sink, I'm actually surprised that's a fairly decent Faucet
There's Cabinetry up here, and it's pretty deep but for me that would be hard to reach
What I do like is that the hinges can stay up on their own, I guess that's a friction-style hinge
To help you not have to fight with that when you're getting in and out of there
This one is fairly big, but there's a lot of the utility stuff in there,
so really there's not that much space in there
But, I mean this is a pretty decent Kitchen
You get a much bigger Fridge in this unit, I'm not sure how many cubic feet that is, I want to say maybe 6?
Maybe the first one was 6 and this one's 8
This one also comes with a Freezer, so that's handy too, right?
Now, again we have another giant step to get over, to get us up here
We have an A/C that's pretty handy
And then you get up here into the Bunk, which I believe is a residential Queen Mattress
And it's really quite spacious! I mean okay I'm not the tallest, but it's quite spacious
I remember our Campers being really quite low, so so this is good. It seems like a pretty comfortable Mattress
There is Storage up here
So you've got some Cupboards in there
I do like the side Windows in here too!
There's another Cabinet here, it's not that deep, but you could put your laundry in there
You've got a another one here, and that's a Closet, and it does go quite a bit further down, like to where the bottom of the mattress must be
So you could hang much longer things in there than what the opening shows
And then, I mean you've got similar stuff over here, right? More Shelves and a Drawer
Look it's Soft-Close!
I don't know if you can see it, but there's a small TV here
And there's some Outlets here too, like a cigarette-lighter type outlet and another one up at the top
And then there's more...and you can adjust these....Shelves I'm noticing too, so that's good
I've heard, and I think in some Lances, so it must be an additional thing that they've got screens and things that you can pull across this
But it's really quite dark, so I'm not sure
One other thing I want to show you, let me back up here a little
Check that out! That's nice to have
I really like those, and I do look for them in just about every area we go in
Because, you wouldn't think of it in a small space like this, but doesn't it add so much?
The Dinette area, and this is pretty spacious, you could you could easily sit four people in here
Like if I slide around, you know there's enough space in here
These are fairly comfortable cushions, and of course this makes down to a Bed
I don't know that I'd put my Brother-in-Law in this bed....but WE could fit!
It's interesting. Now there isn't a ton of storage under these, mostly I think it's just access to things
But, you know, they've got big Windows
They got great Day and Night Blinds,
those are the MCD Brand, so that's pretty cool, right?
And then I noticed, this particular Camper has the Bunk
I'm not gonna undo it for you, but basically I'll see if I open that
You could put Storage in here, and that could be a Cupboard for you if that's what you so chose
But you could also unhook up here on each side, and there's a hinge,
and this would fold down onto here, and you would have another Bed for a kid
So, it always amazes me in these small, small spaces how many people you can actually sleep, if you need to
Now the room we've all been waiting for
Believe it or not, in a long bed Truck Camper, with no slides, you still get a Bathroom- check this out!
It is a wet Bath, but you still get a Toilet, a Sink, a Shower, a Mirror
And it's it's decently spacious
I'm noticing that it is different than the other Floorplan, but it is still very functional
I'm going to get in and show you
So, here's me on the can!
I can use the Sink, and it's spacious enough to take a Shower in
So if this is your style of RVing, you're gonna love this
Because you don't have to go to the outhouse, you don't have to go to the shower house, you could do everything right here, so it's pretty handy
So that's our tour of the Lance 850 Long Box Camper...it's totally cool!
You get a lot of living in a small space and this one doesn't even have Slides
You know what that means it brings down your price, and it brings down your weight, so it could be the camper for you
You still get the full Bathroom, although it's a wet bath- it's it's there
You can sleep a number of people
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