2026 Grand DesignImagine XLS 25DBE

The Imagine XLS 25DBE is the family bunkhouse of the XLS line — the plan for buyers who want Grand Design's residential finish and standard solar but need to sleep the kids. A private front bedroom gives the parents their own space, double bunks at the rear handle the children, and two entry doors keep traffic flowing in a busy family trailer. It sleeps seven, the most of the four XLS plans profiled here.

The build is the XLS standard — laminated aluminum-framed walls over a gel-coated fiberglass exterior with foam insulation, a one-piece roof membrane and a heated, enclosed underbelly — with the line's 200-watt rooftop solar, 30-amp controller and 10-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator included. An 82-gallon grey tank supports a full family for longer stretches between dumps, and the 15,000-BTU air conditioner cools the whole layout.

At 6,313 pounds dry with a 7,995-pound GVWR it leaves 1,682 pounds of payload and tows in half-ton territory. It's the priciest of the four XLS plans here, but it's also the only true family layout among them. For families who want Grand Design quality and standard off-grid capability in a sub-30-foot bunkhouse, the 25DBE is the XLS line's family answer.

Grand Design's Imagine family — the premium-mainstream volume leader and the industry's perennial owner-satisfaction front-runner. It spans three sub-lines: the lightweight Imagine AIM, the medium-duty Imagine XLS (standard rooftop solar), and the residential flagship Imagine. The 25DBE on this page is highlighted; each other profiled plan links to its own page. The full family runs more than thirty floorplans; the highest-demand layouts across XLS and the flagship line are detailed here and the rest are catalogued on the line hub.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 37-gallon fresh tank is roughly 18% of the 1,682-pound cargo capacity, leaving the Imagine XLS 25DBE with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 656 pounds is 10% of the 6,313-pound dry weight, which sits inside the 10–15% band usually quoted for stable towing. It is still a dry figure: loading the front pass-through and the fresh tank both push it up.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 7,995-pound GVWR the Imagine XLS 25DBE is towing 1,682 pounds more than its 6,313-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 37 gallons of fresh against 82 grey and 37 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the Imagine XLS 25DBE sits 4 of 8 in the Imagine line: 7,995 pounds against a line that runs from 6,395 to 10,195 pounds. That position is the useful thing to know, because the plans immediately either side of it are the real alternatives.

Either side of it in the same line: Imagine 2500RL is 145 pounds lighter at 7,850 lb GVWR; and Imagine XLS 25RLE matches it exactly at 7,995 lb GVWR.

1 other Imagine plan shares this floorplan’s 7,995 lb GVWR, so the ranking above separates plans that tow to the same ceiling. On a shared chassis the figure that actually differs between them is cargo capacity and where the weight sits, not the rating.

Against the Imagine XLS 25DBE: the Jay Flight 265RLS is 1 ft longer and sleeps 1 fewer; the White Hawk 27RB is 5 lb heavier and 3 ft longer and sleeps 1 fewer; the Campsite Ultra 26BW is 10 lb lighter. Those are differences in the published numbers only — what they cost, how they are built and how they live are separate questions each of those pages answers on its own terms.

Those are the nearest travel trailers from other lines by weight — one per line, picked by proximity on that figure and nothing else. They are listed so the same tow vehicle can be checked against real alternatives, not because they are equivalent inside; layout, build and price diverge sharply across that group.

For scale, the Imagine floorplans profiled here run 4,921 to 8,725 pounds dry and 22 to 37 feet of exterior length across 8 plans. Where a floorplan falls in that spread usually says more about which vehicle can tow it, and which site it fits, than the layout name does.

Every profiled floorplan in this line, with the full weight table, is on the Imagine line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 16 of them for the Imagine XLS 25DBE. The rest are not shown, because the alternative is reading a figure across from a sibling floorplan or from what the segment usually does — and a number nobody published is worth less than an admitted gap.

Not published for this floorplan: slide count, tire specification. If you find one of these in a manufacturer document for this plan, it belongs on this page.

The completeness figure at the foot of this page (97%) measures the same thing on the full field set: it is a measurement of how much this floorplan’s manufacturer publishes, not of how much research went into the page.

How every figure here was sourced and checked is set out on the methodology page.