A Liner Camper Ownership: What’s it Really Like?

A Liner Camper Ownership

I’ve been so impressed with our A Liner camper. Even though it was over 8 years old when we bought it, all the issues have been cosmetic.

We’ve taken it on long Alaskan road trips. Many over hundreds of miles of gravel roads. It has held up amazingly.

Interior

We are a family of four, with two adults and two young children.  For now, the two beds in our Aliner Expedition are big enough for our family.  But in the next couple of years, we’ll definitely need to upgrade to a model with more beds.

Even with 4 of us and a dog, there’s enough room to move around. But, if we had older kids, it would definitely get tight. There’s also a good amount of interior storage space.

One definite con of some A Liner camper models is that they do not allow easy access to the interior of the trailer without raising the walls.  But, newer models can be set up in 30 seconds!

From time to time I will crawl under the collapsed walls to get food from the refrigerator for a road-side picnic lunch. It is definitely less convenient than opening the door to a free-standing camper.

Some new models of Aliner campers have the refrigerator accessible from outside the camper. So that issue has been resolved for some newer models.

I am also amazed at how well insulated our A Liner camper is from outside noise, even in a busy, generator-filled, RV campground.  I never have any trouble sleeping because of outside noises. And our kids’ sleep doesn’t get disrupted when we decided to stay up later with friends around the campfire.

During spring and late summer camping trips in Alaska, the temperatures at night can dip pretty low. The camper itself stays pretty warm at night without the heater on. But when we do need some heat, the furnace in our A Liner camper does a great job at quickly warming the camper.

A Liner Camper Set up

I love how easy the set up and take down of an A liner camper is! I can have the whole camper set up or taken down in about 5 minutes. This is especially nice during the rainy season up here in Alaska.

Maybe it’s the age of my A Liner camper, but I find the 30 second set up claim a little optimistic. Regardless, set up is faster than for most other camper types.

Towing

Towing my A Liner camper is as easy as I was hoping for with a lighter weight soft-sided pop up camper.

We have to go over high mountain passes to get to some of our favorite Alaskan campgrounds. Our camper has always handled well going uphill and allowed me to maintain good speed. My A Liner camper has handled equally well going downhill.