RV review: 2025 Lance Squire SQ19 travel trailer
Today’s RV review is of the Lance Squire SQ19 travel trailer. If you’re familiar with the Lance brand of travel trailers the name Squire is likely new to you as it’s a new brand from the company that has been building pickup campers since the 1960s.
What is the Lance Squire
I have written a lot about “decontenting” of RVs lately. Essentially what is happening is that RV manufacturers had been adding more and more features and functions when RV sales were seemingly unstoppable. As such, the price of RVs went up significantly. Now that many shoppers are looking at their budgets more carefully, RV companies are also looking at core features.
Lance isn’t immune to this. If you look at the Lance 1995 travel trailer it’s basically the same floor plan as the Squire SQ19 - same length, dimensions and layout. But very different pricing and features.
I took a look at the Squire SQ19 to see what was different and what had been cut. And, is the quality the same?
Lance has absolutely established itself as the builder of one of the the highest-quality travel trailers in the industry. In so many ways Lance does things differently than most RV makers.
The company uses CNC machines to route cabinets and walls, they do wiring harnesses like a car company. Over and over when there’s a way to do things Lance chooses the best way. Lance has a very enviable and well deserved reputation for building a very high quality camper.
What you don’t get
When I set out to find out what was missing on the Squire I was very pleasantly surprised to find that the core build quality and heart of these trailers hasn’t changed. The walls and cabinets are all still built the same including the double Azdel substrates on the wall build. The wiring harnesses are still done the same way which really does make a difference.
But what’s missing are some of the features you might find in other Lance trailers.
For example, Lance has partnered with Truma for their climate control in the standard Lance offerings. I feel the Truma systems are some of the best in the RV industry but they’re also expensive.
But, for the Squire, you get a Coleman Mach air conditioner and gas-electric water heater instead of the Truma systems.
This saves thousands and thousands of dollars. And these aren’t bad systems, they’re just not as premium as what Truma does. They’re also more like what you’d find in most travel trailers.
You also don’t get the dual-pane European windows. These, too, are pricey. And there’s no windshield in this.
The suspension, too, is different. The Squire uses a torsion axle suspension which is one of my favorites whereas the other Lance trailers use a leaf spring suspension with a Road Armor equalizer and have shock absorbers built into the suspension. So even the “lesser” variant of the Lance trailer is still better than that of a lot of other brands.
While the cabinets in this are the CNC routed doors and such they aren’t the curved doors that Lance has been using which are also quite costly.
So, quite honestly, based on Lance’s build quality and methodology what you’re getting is a really well constructed travel trailer that has more mainstream features and components.
You also will find that the underbelly of these is still enclosed and heated and the tanks also have heat pads.
What is the Lance Squire SQ19
Essentially this is a travel trailer that’s under 20 feet long with a fixed queen-sized mattress. There’s a big u-shaped dinette in a rather deep slide room but one that’s built over the wheel openings so you’ll have to step up to get into the slide.
That’s true of many Lance models which tend to have a lower profile and that could mean a wee bit easier towing.
The kitchen consists of a three-burner stove with a real 22” oven. There is a microwave overhead and you can opt in a convection microwave if you’d like.
I like that there’s a shower curtain in the bathroom for the radius shower stall rather than glass. I used to have these glass shower enclosures just randomly shatter when I was managing warranties and you want to talk about a big mess. Those teeny shards of glass are like the gift that keeps on giving. This is why I took them out of our own trailer as a preventative measure.
Boondocking and travel access
I know you can get to the bathroom in this trailer with the slide room in but I couldn’t tell if the slide blocked access to the bedroom or kitchen. It’s a relatively deep slide.
There are two solar options - a single 200-watt panel and a second one. There are also optional inverters and there’s even a cabinet that’s meant to house a generator if you want to go that way.
Conclusions
It’s still a Lance. In fact if you go back a few years, it’s still a new version of an older Lance 1995, quite frankly. Some of the upgrades and improvements made to that trailer are really what has pushed the price up.
In no way does this feel like a cheaper or more poorly built version of a Lance and that’s a good thing. In fact some of the key Lance features are very much in place including the metal back- and side-splashes in the kitchen around the stove, the high-performance vent fan and just the overall build feel and quality.
I do love all the Truma bits in the newer Lance products but if I were the guy writing the check, I’d probably have a very tough time deciding if they were worth the notable uptick in the price.
As always, I am looking forward to and really appreciate your input on this.
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