We have just bought our 1st motorhome after several years of researching. We found loads of useful info from the motorhome fun site.
As spooky touched on the biggest thing that could catch you out that you won’t have considered is payload. If you don’t know about this, as i didn’t, do some research as with 4 of you you might struggle to get a van with enough spare payload for all of you and your stuff that is under 3.5t so have you got c1 on your licence?
We have gone for a dethleffs and it seems that the German brands in general seem to be much better quality than British stuff and really well laid out.
We have gone fixed island bed at the rear. Only 2 of us but there were options with drop down double up front.