✅ Easier ✅ More Affordable ✅ Similar Result
Buying, maintaining, and travelling in a campervan is expensive.
A TentBox is an affordable alternative, that fits on your current car, and gives you a very similar experience.
Best campervan alternative
TentBox vs. Campervan
More Affordable
A TentBox is a cost effective way to turn your car into a campervan.
- Cheaper initial cost
- Lower campsite fees
- No cost to maintain an additional vehicle
- Lower fuel costs
Cost Comparison
| Cost type | TentBox | Campervan |
|---|---|---|
| Initial cost | £1,250 - £2,750 | £20,000 - £60,000 |
| Tax cost | £0 (you already tax your car) |
£265 / year |
| Insurance cost | £0 (you already insure your car) |
£500 - £1250 / year |
| Maintenance cost | £0 (you already maintain your car) |
£500 - £1000 / year |
| Fuel costs* | £170 / year | £250 / year |
| Campsite costs** | £500 / year | £750 / year |
| Total Cost | £1250 - £2750 up front £670 / year |
£10,000 - £60,000 up front £2265 - £3265 / year |
*based on 5 yearly trips, 200 miles per trip
**based on 5 yearly trips, 5 nights at a campsite per trip
A campervan can cost up to £58,000 more up-front, and £2500 more per year!
A Similar Result
A TentBox gives you a very similar experience to a Campervan.
- A quick and easy mobile sleeping unit
- Comfortable and close to nature
- Lower costs
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Feature Comparison
| Feature | TentBox | Campervan |
|---|---|---|
| Quick set-up | ✅ Yes (30-60 seconds) | ✅ Yes |
| Easy to use | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes (if you are ok driving a van) |
| Spontaneous getaways | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Freedom | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Adventure | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Close to nature | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Can sleep in car parks / lay-bys | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Comfortable | ✅ Yes (built in mattress) | ✅ Yes |
| Sleeps | Up to 3 | Up to 6 |
| Living area | Need to purchase a gazebo / awning | Built in |
| Kitchen area | Need to purchase a camping kitchen | Built in |
| Cost | Low | High |
A TentBox is Easier
A TentBox is an easy way to live the vanlife, without needing a van.
- No need to purchase an additional vehicle
- Fits easily on any car
- You can take it off when not using it
- If you buy a new car, you can transfer it over
Customisable
Although a campervan can sometimes sleep more, and often has a living and kitchen area built in, it is possible to customise your TentBox set-up to accommodate all of these things, for very little cost.
Live the vanlife dream
Almost everyone aspires to live the vanlife dream: freedom, roadtripping and exploration. The only problem is that it costs an absolute bomb to achieve this!
TentBox was set-up to bring the vanlife to people without a van.
A TentBox is the best alternative to a campervan, and makes car camping accessible to all.