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Review of the 2023 Lance 2075 travel trailer

Tony Barthel

Today’s RV review is of the 2023 Lance 2075 travel trailer. This is a no-slide couples’ camper from the people at Lance. It also features some very innovative aspects including an optional outside kitchen that may be the best outside kitchen in the business. 

First of all I should say that I prefer things to be simpler in my own world. While I certainly appreciate all sorts of wonderful features that make modern RVs what they are today, my personal preference is to not have things like slide rooms or other complications. For me I often stealth camp in places on my way to other places where I then bring out the lawn chairs and flamingo lights and such.

No slide - but still open and airy

Part of the attraction, to me, is no slide room. But inside this is still a spacious camper and the bedroom is incredible, featuring a windshield that sort of wraps up the front of the trailer which then flows into a second window on the roof of the bedroom. To further light up your life, there are large windows on either side of the bed and Lance uses a European-style composite window that tilts out so you also get a lot of air flow. 

Of course there are shades and screens for all these windows but my imagination took me to a place where I could look up and see a canopy of Redwood trees without leaving the bed. 

Another thing I sincerely appreciated is that there is no ultra confusing audio system - just a single Furion Bluetooth speaker that works with the devices we all inevitably have with us. If I never have to fight the miserable interface of an iRV audio system again it’ll be too soon. 

At the very rear of this trailer was a dinette upholstered in a material that was not, I repeat not brown. I hope you were sitting down for that. If you were sitting in the dinette you would notice the sliding table top and the storage for the wine bottles along with more of those European-style windows all around. 

Okay, so you can buy this with brown upholstery but that blue upholstery that I saw just floated my boat.  

That rear-most window opens up, as do the others, but the significance of that rear window is that you can work with the individual at the outside rear kitchen to pass through spices or ingredients. 

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Outdoor kitchen winner

Yep, Lance put an optional outdoor kitchen across the rear of this trailer with a two-burner stove, a chilled drawer and even a sink. Above that is an optional power awning which compliments the main power awning along the side of the trailer. But, as they say on late-night TV, there’s more. When the kitchen slides into the trailer Lance has made enough space to hold lawn chairs or other things back here too. 

Between the rear bumper and the body of the coach is a compartment designed to hold not only the sewer hose but also the various attachments for that hose. 

On the side below the body of the trailer is another compartment and the compartments in the actual body of the trailer include one that is vented so you can stow a generator and fuel. The batteries, too, have their own vented compartments in the body of the coach rather than being easily stolen from the tongue of the trailer with a compartment on either side with a sliding drawer to hold a battery. 

Oh, and on the subject of sliding drawers the main storage compartment at the front of the trailer has a sliding drawer to hold your stuff but then a rail on top to hold a plastic folding table. 

Lance features

Lance provides a long list of standard and optional features in all their models and the 2075 is no exception. I think if I were checking boxes on the options list, I would include the second 190watt solar panel, the dual lithium batteries, that rear awning, the rear “tailgate” package which is the outdoor kitchen, and probably a few other goodies. 

And therein is the downside of a Lance. They have a well-deserved reputation as being well made RVs and are definitely on the higher end of the price spectrum which means your lowly RV reviewer has got to write a bunch more reviews before one of these will show-up in the driveway. 

And on the subject of downsides, I do like my things to be simpler and Lance has moved over to a digital control panel to operate awnings, lights and things of that sort. Yes, you can Bluetooth connect that to the phone but give me simple push buttons instead. 

Unless you can borrow the user interface folks from Apple for a while, I have yet to see any of these control panels that are anything but convoluted and confusing. I can find a button in the dark but I’d rather be camping that fiddle through a series of menus to simply turn on a light. 

Conclusion

All in all you have probably guessed by my gushing that I absolutely love this trailer. With so many thoughtful touches like the compartments for a generator and batteries, the table top that slides around so we gravitationally-challenged folks can sit there too and an interior color choice that isn’t only brown. 

Interestingly Lance is the last hold-out of manufacturing RVs in Southern California. While there used to be quite a few builders there, the economic and legislative climate have caused most of those to leave or just close their doors. While Lance still maintains production there, the company has announced that they are planning a second manufacturing facility in Indiana. 

Not that this is a big deal yet, but just a sign of the times. 

This is a terrific floor plan with no unnecessary bits and a solid layout that absolutely makes it one of my favorite couples’ campers. 

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