Adventure Begins in a Airstream - 2017 Airstream Sport Bambi 22FB

Quintin and Robyn gave us an excellent tour of the trailer and were conscious of COVID-19 concerns. The trailer was great on our trip and had no major unexpected issues. We will rent from them again.

Quintin met me in a terrible storm to get set up with the trailer. It was our first time renting one. As the storm pounded us, he quickly went through a series of issues for me to manage and helped me get the trailer set up. I felt nervous that there wasn’t a specific user manual of any kind, not even some links to You Tubes compiled to help make the arrival at our camp site easier. But we got there ok and got set up.

The challenges started a few hours later. Quintin sent us off without any fresh water in the tank. This was almost immediately a problem. Through the help provided by the camp host, we managed to get 10 gallons of water into the trailer for the first night.

Except Quintin has also neglected to send us on our way with charged batteries. This meant that we ran out of power, our phones died and we had no power even to run our water pump. Super inconvenient and frustrating.

The final things we found frustrating were just these little things:

—backup camera was up there on the trailer but Quintin offered nothing on how to use it. We couldn’t use it. Backing a trailer blind is a challenge.

—the TV and Bluetooth: again we couldn’t figure these out at all to show movies for our kids. A big disappointment. When I asked Quintin about this when I returned the trailer he said: “hmm I’ve never used those. Don’t really know.”

—the sleeping area for our kids over the dinette. Quintin told me when I picked up the trailer that there was a way to make the dinette into a bed. He didn’t really have any experience on how to do this. It wasn’t simple to collapse the table and thankfully we did find our own YouTube to finally crack this code

—cleaning products were not readily available other than a broom and dust bin. We paid $209 a night for the trailer and with no Clorox Wipes or a toilet brush available we weren’t going to spend too much effort on our own to figure out cleaning.

Despite these frustrations, I think this is a gorgeous trailer and that we suffered in our tutorial the first day because of the fierce weather. Quintin is a likable and very helpful person who wanted our weekend to be great. He is an eager ambassador for camping of this kind. My sense is with better circumstances around our launch and a pair of charged batteries and a full fresh water tank that this whole review would have been mostly positive. Final point: Quintin dinged is $100 for extra cleaning even though he’d sent us off in the trailer without water or hardly any power. That felt wrong.