Cozy Campers vs Black Sheep Campers

Cozy Campers and Black Sheep Campers represent two fundamentally different ideas of what a camper is. Cozy Campers, founded in 2014, builds design-led, comfort-first campervans -- fully built-out vans with hand-designed interiors, so the vehicle you rent is an enclosed living space you cook, sleep, and shelter inside. Black Sheep Campers takes the opposite approach: its entire fleet is 4x4 SUVs where you sleep in the back of the vehicle or in a hard-shell roof-top tent. There are no built-out campervans, no built-in kitchen, no toilet, and no indoor standing height. The lineup runs from a Suzuki Jimny with a roof tent (sleeps 2) and Dacia Duster sleep-in-the-back models (sleeps 2) up to a Ford Explorer with a roof tent that sleeps 4, its largest option. Every Black Sheep vehicle is 4x4, and all except the automatic Subaru Legacy are cleared for F-roads.

The living setup follows from that fleet difference. Inside a Cozy van you cook on a gas stove with a full cookware set, keep food cold in a 21L powered refrigerator, draw from a sink with running water fed by two 10L tanks, and sleep under goose-down duvets on linen sheets -- and a Webasto fuel-fired parking heater warms the cabin off the van's own fuel supply, with no campsite hookup required. Black Sheep is a camp-out experience by design: cooking is done outside on a portable camp stove, and the included kit covers a stove, kettle, pots and pan, coffee press, cutlery, and dishes, plus a mattress, two sleeping bags, pillows, sheets, and towels. Cooling is a passive cooling box rather than a powered fridge, and there is no water tank or sink. Its only heater is a 220V electric unit offered from November 1 to April 15 that must be plugged into a campsite electrical hookup to run -- there is no diesel or parking heater -- so off-grid warmth is far more limited than in a Cozy van. Wi-Fi is an optional add-on on both sides: a 4G-hotspot tablet at Cozy, a separate hotspot device at Black Sheep.

On pricing and policy, Cozy Campers bundles CDW, unlimited mileage, a fuel discount card, free post-trip cleaning, and VAT into the base rate, with a clearly structured three-tier insurance menu; its standard rate, however, is non-refundable, and a fully refundable rate costs extra. Black Sheep quotes an all-in EUR price with taxes and standard insurances included, unlimited mileage, and 24/7 support, keeping Wi-Fi, an extra driver, a roof box, and a GPS tablet as optional add-ons; its cancellation is more forgiving -- a full refund if you cancel more than 48 hours before pickup, no deposit at booking, and only a card hold at collection. Pickup logistics differ too. Cozy operates from a yard in Kopavogur, roughly 45 minutes from Keflavik Airport, with transfer options. Black Sheep offers two self-service locations: a lockbox lot next to the BSI Bus Terminal in central Reykjavik and Keflavik Airport, with a free shuttle from BSI, plus flexible self-service returns (minimum age 20, three-day minimum rental). Both score well with customers -- Cozy Campers holds a perfect 5.0 on Google across 1,015 reviews and 4.8 on Trustpilot from 42, while Black Sheep sits at 4.9 on Google from 148 reviews, 4.5 (Excellent) on Trustpilot from 39, and 9.1/10 on the Northbound aggregator from 103 reviews.