There's no "by the book" definition of luxury because luxury, like everything else in life, can be a subjective experience. Whoever is doing the defining and whatever our personal understanding of luxury, we can all agree that it has to have an element of comfort to it.
To German builder Knaus Tabbert, luxury is their bread and butter. Tabbert has been in business since the early 1950s and has, over the decades, repeatedly put out their own interpretation of luxury in RVs: mobile homes with premium finishes and high-quality materials, with impeccable options and styling that makes them stand out from the crowd.
This is not a plug, paid or otherwise; it's context to understand how the Cellini luxury trailer came to be.
The Tabbert Cellini was first introduced in 2019 and gets a refreshed model every year, which brings upgrades, more streamlined features, and better equipment. The Cellini now offers two different configurations, one lighter and more compact, and the other larger, heavier, and with a slide-out that expands available space by as much as 25%.
Photo: Knaus Tabbert
We'll focus on the latter in this story.
The Tabbert Cellini 750 HTD Slide-Out might not have the most poetic or creative name, but it tries to make up for it with the promise of being "the best you can achieve in caravan construction," the "can do it all" perfect trailer designed for luxury, comfortable living, and adventures on the road. These are exact phrases from Tabbert themselves, but you'll be the judge on whether it lives up to the hype.
Described as a smart mobile home with the feel of a yacht and the features of a designer apartment, the Cellini 750 HTD is the larger of the two flagship luxury models. The other, the Cellini 655 DF, lacks a couple of meters in length and the slide-out, for which reason it's less spacious and has a smaller kitchen. It can still sleep four people in comfort, though.
Photo: Knaus Tabbert
The Cellini 750 HTD is 10.27 meters (33.7 feet) long, 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) wide, and sits on a dual-axle AL-KO galvanized chassis with shock absorbers. Gross weight is 3,500 kg (7,716 lbs), and it comes rigged for solar, TV antenna, and extra features like an awning, exterior entertainment center, and a surveillance system. It has a single slide-out that takes up more than half its length and expands the dining room/lounge inside, turning it into a multi-purpose space.
The layout offers a dining room at the front and a fixed-bed bedroom with a bathroom at the opposite end, with the kitchen and additional storage in the middle. It's nothing spectacular when you put it in writing like this, but as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. You'll find several thousand words in the gallery above.
The Cellini is designed like a landyacht on purpose: luxurious, visually impressive, and functional in equal measure. You get leather-clad walls and starry ceilings, adjustable recessed lights, smart home controls, hidden appliances, plush carpets, and genuine leather sofas.
Photo: Knaus Tabbert
The U-shaped seating in the dining room is a good example of how Tabbert delivers luxury mobile living. Made of fine leather, the couch allows you to adjust its firmness automatically or to adjust the headrests according to whether you want to chill reclining or sitting. One section hides a bar table, which is perhaps the most telling bit about the target customer for these RVs. It also converts into a guest bed, but that's the least surprising part.
The kitchen offers a gas oven with an oven or a microwave grill (optionally), a sink, a residential fridge with freezer, a water purifier, and enough space to cook gourmet meals for the entire family, if you're so inclined. A small bar is found across the hall, in case the secret bar table isn't enough to get you in the drinking mood.
Finishes are gorgeous, with dark browns and delicate neutrals for the wood of the furniture, and plenty of blacks for appliances. This isn't just a functional kitchen: it's good-looking, too.
The same goes for the bathroom, where you'll find a shower cabin, a sink with an oversize vanity, a toilet, a wardrobe, and heated tiles. The feel of the place is that of a five-star hotel, and it was the look designers aimed for, Tabbert explains.
Photo: Knaus Tabbert
The Cellini is designed as "the caravan of superlatives" in all respects: easy on the eye, durable, high quality, and wanting nothing. In short, it's meant to be more than a vehicle you happen to reside in temporarily while you get to your destination: it wants to be the destination itself.
That last part is probably worth remembering because it will make not spending money on vacations to buy the Cellini easier to bear. The Cellini 750 HTD Slide-Out starts at €102,000 ($109,000 at the current exchange rate). A fully-specced unit (including Thule Omnistor awning, a larger water tank, extra entertainment options, extra kitchen options, and stuff like linens and pillows) goes for €117,000 ($125,000).
No matter how you or anyone else defines luxury, it'll always be expensive.
Elena has been writing for a living since 2006 and, as a journalist, she has put her double major in English and Spanish to good use. She covers automotive and mobility topics like cars and bicycles, and she always knows the shows worth watching on Netflix and friends. Full profile
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