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The six most compelling videos on the Noovo Plus
We’ve seen all the videos, many more than once, and not just on the Noovo. We’ve watched hundreds of videos of every RV you can imagine, even videos on the bus-like Class A behemoths (just out of curiosity and a strange fascination with a very different conception of travel). From all of that, it was a small number of videos on the Noovo that piqued our interest and led us to the Tahoe Adventure Van Expo, where we placed our deposit on a Noovo Plus.
First things first. Noovo makes four models: The Lite, the Pop-up, the Plus, and the new Next. The Lite and Pop-up are based on the Ram Promaster chassis and both have fixed beds in the rear. And you might have guessed, the pop-up also has a pop-up roof that allows for sleeping for an additional two people.
The Next is their newest van, based for the first time on the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter. Now the Sprinter, from our point of view, is a blessing and a curse. It’s a blessing in that it can go on worse roads than the Promaster and there is a huge, thriving ecosystem of third-party accessories available. The curse comes from the widespread stories of mechanical and electrical problems, the higher cost of the Sprinter, the smaller interior, and lastly, the crazy high prices for repairs—$1000+ for the “A” service is just the beginning. We will see if Noovo’s Next will address some of these issues.
The Noovo Plus is based on the Ram Promaster but, unlike the others, has a dual-purpose rear area. By day, it is a large, comfortable lounge, which can be used for everything from hanging out, working on laptops, playing games (even the Euro-style games which need a bit of room to spread out in), and watching movies, all with lots of space to spare. You could squeeze eight or ten people around the table if you wanted. By night, the overhead bed comes down with your bed already made (if you made it before you put it up, at least). The van, seven feet high inside, is so roomy that you don’t feel cramped at all with that bed up there.
But it was the YouTube videos that sold us. We knew everything about the Plus before we arrived in Tahoe, before we sat in it for the first time, and we were primed and ready to make an on-the-spot decision, which we did. Sort of amazing once you think about it.
Here are the videos (in no certain order) that we found to be the most useful to us in making our final decision:
1. StrangerPalooza: YouTuber Hank Strange and Nick Schmidt of Sunshine State RV in Florida check out the Plus.
This is the video where the Plus first caught our eye. My wife was especially intrigued by the Noovo. The Plus solved so many issues for us—my head didn’t touch the ceiling, the quality of the van seemed high and, oh my god, the lounge area and lift bed. I was, at the time, aiming at a different van. From this video on, that other van was in retreat.
2. StrangerPalooza: Hank and Nick take the Noovo factory tour.
If my wife was impressed by the first video, I was impressed by this video, which e watched soon after. The RV industry—the whole RV industry—has a serious and deeply ingrained quality problem. All RVs will have issues, but my god, what a turn off when you discover how deep the rot goes at the mainstream RV manufacturing plants. This video opened my eyes to the high quality in the building of the Noovo vans and how central manufacturing quality is to the company—how central it is to their work culture. I was impressed.
3. The Vancaskeys take us for a tour of the Plus.
The Vancaskeys are popular “influencers,” a husband and wife team who recently quit their days jobs and are (as of late September 2025) embarked on a 50-state journey in their non-Noovo van. How did they get on this list? First, they made a video on the Noovo Plus (this video) but recently they had a breakdown in their van and Noovo loaned them one of theirs. Very cool.
4. The EKKOnesters take us on a tour of the Plus
Like the Vancaskeys, the EKKOnesters are a husband and wife team of “influencers” and in this video they give us their own tour. The EKKOnesters travel around in a Winnebago Ekko, a van we looked at seriously once-upon-a-time, but they also seem unusually interested in the Noovo vans. Perhaps the EKKOnesters will one day become the NOOVOnesters?
5. Beth keeps it real in her Noovo.
Beth’s MidLifeAdventure chronicles the adventures (and mishaps) of Beth, who travels the country in her OG Noovo Elite. In her videos you get more of the day-to-day of life in a van, the good and the bad (she’s had at least three roof leaks in her Noovo roof and you get to see it all, in detail). Beth comes off as an endearing, down-to-earth host. In this video she tries out the Plus model for a week.
6. Where RV Going? films a customer walkthrough.
Noovo, like most RV sellers, walks the customer (on their pick-up date) through the details of the van. The customer, guided in this case by Sloan of Noovo, is shown every feature from the water system to the electronics, trying out their van for the first time, while Issac Angel of Where RV Going? chronicles it all.
Watch the videos, spend some time with the Plus.