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HIGH QUALITY CAMPERVAN DESIGN AND BUILD

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Welcome to Thistle Rose Leisure.

We are professional camper van converters based in North Yorkshire with over 100 years of amassed experience in special vehicle conversions and adaptations.

We love to make buying a campervan as simple, pain-free and enjoyable an experience as possible. In this website we hope you'll find all the information you'll need to follow your dreams in a Thistle Rose Campervan.

Perhaps you're brand new to campervans or have a definite shopping list of things you want. You can start your Thistle Rose Leisure journey by just browsing through the pages or by following the links below:

I'm new to campervans - help me decide what I want
I know what I want - show me what you can do

We produce numerous designs to our customers desires and take pride in our friendly pre-sales advice - why not contact us to explore the camper van life that Thistle Rose can provide

'We don't sell you a mass produced van that we want to build - buy a van from us that you want us to build'

Before you browse our site, we'd just like to say a huge thank you to all our customers for trusting us with their investment and precious leisure time. An especial thank you goes to the customers who continue to send in great images of their vans and have allowed us to use these 'action' shots in our website.

What Our Customers Say

Google review

This small family company converted our Transit Custom van that I have just travelled around Scandinavia in for the past four months. What an excellent job they did, paying attention to those little details that I asked for and completing a top quality job. I don’t usually write reviews but these guys really deserve a mention. – John

Google review

A fantastic company for bespoke high quality camper van conversions. Peter knows everything you can know about converting vans. He guided us through the decision making process explaining all the pros and cons (very patiently I might add!) and we ended up with a high quality van conversion with exactly the spec we wanted. After sales care was also excellent. Would highly recommend. – Rachel

Google review

Excellent service from very knowledgeable and pleasant people. I've had historical problems with the charging system fitted to my van by a rival company so I contacted Peter who assessed, recommended and quoted for a "proper" system. To cut a long story short I now have a system that works. Nothing too much trouble for the staff at Thistle Rose. Many thanks! - Malcolm

facebook Review

First class makes dreams come true with the conversions, blew my mind with how they transformed my van. Left a basic white van with them and picked up a beautiful bespoke camper-van. Everything I asked for was included and more, there was a constant dialogue with any changes etc i cannot recommend Thistle Rose enough am going to be grinning for ear to ear for the next few years in my van. - Chris

facebook Review

found them to be quick and friendly. – Steve

Google review

They converted our van in April and couldn’t be happier. Nothing is too much trouble and their knowledge is second to none. Thank you Julie and Peter. – Chris

Facebook Review

Great place and quality conversions. Very knowledgeable and attention to detail on every camper. – Shane

Our Camper Conversions

VW T6

The VW Transporter remains the most popular choice for campervan conversions. Thistle Rose construct lots of different layouts on the SWB and LWB vans.

Transit Custom

The Transit Custom is a real alternative to the VW T6, available in short and long wheelbase as well as with a hi-top factory roof, this van makes an excellent practical campervan.

Nissan NV200 & eNV200

An exceptionally compact fun vehicle that can make a full camper for 2+2 with a full length bed and side kitchen squeezed into a vehicle that is no larger than a compact hatchback car.

Ducato, Boxer, Relay

The large Sevel vans make exceptional campervans. With their near vertical side walls, they are ideal to convert into a living space. We have various designs for this vehicle including bed-over-garage and rear dinette designs.

Other Builds

As qualified automotive designers and professionals in rapid prototype and development, we are uniquely placed to look at bespoke design and build projects

Our Range of Conversions

Podcasts Now on Site!

Thinking about a campervan? Not quite got the time to trawl through all the websites? Why not listen to our podcasts on the various aspects of buying and owning a campervan? Click on the links here to listen to these helpful discussions. Each podcast lasts around 10 minutes, so grab yourself a cuppa and have a listen.

PERFECTION TAKES TIME

- but maybe not as long as you would think -

'Rather than buy a campervan that someone wants to sell, why not talk to us about the camper van you want to buy'

At Thistle Rose Leisure, we are qualified, professional automotive engineers with a pedigree in design for many of Europe's main converters. Our staff have worked for household names such as Mercedes-Benz and Volvo in design, vehicle conversion, consultancy and compliance. Our owner, Peter Occardi has worked on European working groups as a national representative for vehicle safety standards in emergency vehicles, where lives depend on the quality of the engineering.

We bring this knowledge pool and mindset on safety and quality to our camper conversions.

Alongside our knowledge of engineering, design, compliance and vehicle conversion we also know what makes a camper van great. From build quality and layout to fittings and equipment, we understand the details that make camper vans part of the family and help us get the very best from our leisure time. As well as being professionals in the field of automotive design, we are also campers - and therefore experienced in fields of a completely different type (usually muddy!).

NEWS!!

We've moved! We are now on Snaygill Estate (2 minutes from our old premises)

Our new address is:

Unit 6A, Union Business Park, Snaygill, Skipton, BD23 2QR

Please see our contact page for directions and how to find us.

OUR LATEST CONVERSIONS

Below are some of the conversions completed recently, each with their own story to tell. Why not contact us and talk about what you'd like in your conversion?