RV review: Safari Condo Ultra F2414
Honest review of the 2026 Safari Condo Alto F2414
I was wandering the halls of the RV Open House in the vendor section because, well, I love “stuff” and RV stuff even more and I saw a lady with a shirt from Safari Condo, a Canadian maker of RVs. I have been following Safari Condo for some time but haven’t really had a chance to look at them as much as I’d like. I asked the lady if they had a place to see their RVs and, sure as shootin’, they were here for the first time showing off their rigs.
It also turns out that the lady I ran into is Dominique Nadeau, the daughter of the man who founded Safari Condo and now the company head. After heading to their exhibit I had a great conversation with her.
I got to see a number of their offerings but today we’re looking at the 2026 Safari Condo Alto F2414, a travel trailer that can sleep 5-7 people and has seating for all of them too but might be light enough to tow with a mid-sized pickup. No, seriously.
First, let’s talk weight. Seeing a trailer that’s 24 feet in length you develop an assumption that something like this would weigh in at about 5,000lbs or so. Not in this case, the Safari Condo Alto F2124 weighs in under 3,000lb with a gross vehicle weight of just 4,500 pounds.
Materials
The secret is that the roof and walls are made of a sandwich-type material with a plastic honeycomb core laminated with aluminum skin on one side and Alufiber or aluminum on the other. Alufiber combines the lightweight of aluminum with the durability of fiberglass. The only materials used in building the Alto are those on which water has little effect such as aluminum, Alufiber, plastic, Formica and glass. Inside, the furniture consists largely of aluminum and composite materials. Rigid and ultra-light sandwich panels are integrated into the bed cushions, while the entire bed structure is made of aluminum extrusions.
Water is heated by a Truma Combi system that also serves to heat the cabin of the trailer by circulating glycol in tubes. This provides a wonderfully even radiant heat but doesn’t heat up the interior as quickly as a fan-forced furnace might.
What’s inside the Safari Condo Alto F2414
Stepping inside the first thing you’ll notice is that there’s a dinette at the front which sits below a huge front window. This polycarbonate dual-pane window can be tilted upwards a full 90° for air flow and features day/night shades with screens. It’s delightful.
On either side of the dinette are round “porthole” style windows which are fixed. To the left of the front door you’ll find the galley which consists of a round sink with a glass cover. Flip the cover up, flip up the faucet and you have a functioning sink. Flip it all back down and you have more counter space.
Kitchen in the Safari Condo Alto F2414
There’s a simple two-burner stove which, like the sink, is recessed beneath a glass cover. Above that is a microwave but I don’t believe it’s a convection microwave and, without any oven, I wish it were. The fridge is a smaller 12 volt model. Funny thing - at Open House they had chosen this model for the team’s lunches.
There are a lot of drawers and cabinets overall in here and I like that they use positive mechanical latches for them which means they won’t come flying open on lousy roads. The drawer below the sink has compartments for silverware - there are a lot of nice touches inside these RVs.
Sleeping in the Safari Condo Alto F2414
Out back are two twin beds which sit on extruded aluminum and sandwich panels. In fact the entire interior is comprised of a more metallic looking substance much like the interior of an Airstream, but this trailer is built very differently from an Airstream.
You can either rock the twin beds like Lucy and Desi did in I Love Lucy or drop a panel between them to create a large king-sized bed. You could also leave this made-up as a bed if you choose, of course, as you still have the front dinette. Furthermore, you could use this as a dinette and then have seating for eight in here.
If you really want to up the number of people you can accommodate Safari also offers a second king-sized bed that comes down from the ceiling giving you two layers of sleeping surfaces. This brings the number of sleeping spots to six.
There is cabinet space overhead throughout the trailer but the only hanging wardrobe space is at the foot of the road-side bed.
Bathroom and shower in the Safari Condo Alto F2414
Next to that closet is the shower and, rather than being in the bathroom, it exits right into the interior of the trailer. Considering that you can sleep four people in here they had better be comfortable with freshly-washed naked folks. This would make more sense if there were curtains or doors where you could more easily segregate portions of the trailer but you could certainly accomplish that with tension rods and curtains so it’s not that big a deal.
Next to that is the toilet which has its own room along with a small sink. I was told the large window in the bathroom in the model that I saw was an option.
On the subject of windows, all the windows, except the round ones up front, open a full 90° and feature day/night shades that also have a screen in them. You could literally cook up something in the kitchen and hand it out the two large windows to people outside.
Things I loved about the Safari Condo Alto F2414
If you’ve been following me for some time you know I have a love-hate relationship with those solid steps that fold up into the doorway of an RV. I like how solid they are, but I don’t like setting them up nor that they often bring dirt and rain into the RV when they’re folded in.
The Safari Condo Alto F2414 has more traditional travel trailer steps that sort of hang from underneath the trailer itself. I found the ones here to be very solid compared to some I’ve stepped on. I noticed this in the Lance 2075 that I saw in Hershey, too.
All RV companies talk about aerodynamics but this is literally the first time I’ve ever seen anyone mention actual aerodynamic testing but it’s likely to become increasingly important, especially as electric trucks come on the scene. It also wouldn’t be a bad thing that every travel trailer out there is such a wind break that you know your mileage will stink when you hook up.
There’s a table that slots into the camp side of the Safari Condo Alto F2414 and I love this because I’m always looking for a table as I set-up camp. I use the table to unpack our RV water hoses and RV water filter and all those connections and this is perfect. It’s also made of the same material as the walls. Nice.
In fact even the base of the propane tanks is made of the same material as the wall and, if memory services (which it usually doesn’t!) pieces like the table and propane base and even the platforms on the dinette and such are “spare” cutouts from where the windows are cut out and such.
One last thing - these incorporate the See Level tank monitors which are accurate to 1% increments in the tanks. Rather than empty/sorta full/fullish/you’re hosed these report in 1% increments. But even better, the sensors themselves are outside the tank so they don’t get clogged up with TP and such. So they stay accurate. Not a cheap solution, but a very good one.
What you might not like about the Safari Condo Alto F2414
There are certainly some folks who aren’t going to like the almost austere interior of these but there are stick-on wallpapers that can address that and, the removable wallpapers at places like spoonflower.com mean you don’t have to make a permanent choice.
I’d love to tow one of these behind my truck and see how differently it performs from my own trailer.
The one thing I would wish for is that they had a larger fresh water tank. 26 gallons isn’t much considering that there are so many aspects of this rig that could be great for boondockers.
In summary
Considering how these trailers are built and the materials used which contributes to very light weight but rigid structure, the number of sleeping and seating spaces and even the choice of upholstery colors in other than brown this trailer really is intriguing. I’m hoping I can spend more time inside one to see how it “feels” but, with the specs, there’s a lot to like about this model.
I have a friend who had another Safari Condo product and the one thing they didn’t like about it was that the insulation wasn’t great, especially when it got really hot. These are not insulated like normal trailers and I got to speak with Dominique Nadeau who said the company is looking at making changes to the way their trailers are insulated including potential changes in the wall lamination.
The company had only sold these directly in the past but the reason I got to see them in person at Open House was that they’re looking for a few US dealerships who are interested in stocking them. I can see these being eye catching at a dealership.
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