Once you start looking into buying an awning you quickly become aware of the number of caravan awning manufacturers out there – and the number of products each brand offers. It can subsequently feel like a tricky decision to know which make to go with, which is where this guide comes in.
Buying the best caravan awning can provide you with a great way of enhancing the available room you have when you’re on tour. Whether you’re looking to achieve an additional living area or want extra sleeping space once you’re pitched up, an awning is the answer. In short, they can make a real difference to a touring experience, and there’s a reason many will have them down on their list of caravan essentials.
When you’re choosing an awning, it’s not just a case of deciding whether you want to go for a traditional poled model or one of the best caravan air awnings, and making your mind up about the kind of fabric you want. Knowing which make to go with plays a big part too. However, with the wide array of caravan awning manufacturers out there, it can be hard to know which brand to go with.
To help you through this maze, we’re taking a look at the major caravan awning manufacturers out there, ranging from Bradcot and Dorema to Isabella and Vango.
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Caravan awning manufacturers
Bradcot
Camp Tech
Dometic
Dorema
Isabella
Miriad Quest
Olpro
Outdoor Revolution
Sunncamp
Telta
Trigano
Vango
The best caravan awning brands:
Bradcot
Website: www.bradcot-awnings.co.uk
Bradcot has been making awnings since the early 1960s. So, while it was the first company to bring out an acrylic awning, and the first to offer glass fibre poles – at a time when poled awnings was all there was – it is also steeped in tradition.
That is why it was very proud earlier this decade to bring all its manufacturing back to the UK from the Far East, to its home city in Bradford – a move it celebrated by adding a discreet union flag to its branding.
The company’s most recent popular models include the Modul-Air V2, an inflatable awning which can be adapted to be either a porch awning or a full model.
Camp Tech
Website: www.camptech.com
Manchester-based Camp Tech has been expanding rapidly in the past few years. The company is unusual in the awnings industry for being owned by the factory where the awnings are made, rather than being effectively a design company which contacts out the manufacturing.
Positioned perhaps slightly more at the budget end of the market, the company aims to make awnings that are affordable and easy to assemble, without compromising on materials.
Popular models include the Atlantis DL, a poled awning designed for seasonal pitches with the highest grade fabric the company produces, exterior blinds and optional storm guys.
Look out too for the Savanna DL, another all-season model you can adapt with optional annexes and with front panels that can be folded down to create a verandah or completely removed to turn the awning into a canopy.
Dometic
Website: www.dometic.com
Dometic is a name that is of course attached to a great many things to do with caravans – fridges, toilets, and much more. While the Swedish company was already producing its own awnings and well, its awning offer expanded quite considerably in 2018 when it took over Kampa, the company that had really pioneered inflatable awnings in this country.
The Kampa name has been retained largely for campervan awnings, while Dometic has continued to cater for both the caravan and motorhome markets. Its most recent developments on the caravan side have included the lannch of the new Tour range.
These designs offer larger, simplified windows that are designed to let in more light. They also have apex ventilation to keep condensation down, and are made with dope-dyed polyester fabric for better UV resistance. And for the first time, all poles, valve and connectors inside the awning come in matching colours.
Dorema
Website: www.dorema.co.uk
Dutch company Dorema was founded in 1987, and now has a strong presence in the UK market, making regular appearances at the NEC shows and elsewhere. Working with its partners in the Far East, the company produces ranges of both poled and inflatable awnings.
These include the Daytona (available both as a poled awning or an inflatable), the Luxor and Horizon (both air awnings) and the Monza, Onyx, and Diamond (all poled awnings). All are made using Tencate fabrics for added protection from the elements.
Isabella
Website: www.isabella.net
Danish company Isabella is seen as being very much at the upper end of the market, offering quality products that are made to last all year round, but often at a fairly hefty price.
The company was founded in 1957 by Soren Odgaard in the basement of his house, and has since grown to the point where it exports to 35 different countries, including the UK.
As you might expect from a well-established operator, the company was quite late moving into air awnings. Even today, most Isabella awnings are of the poled variety. But it has spun off a sister company, Ventura, which produces air awnings.
The latest new models to join the Isabella range include the Nordic, an all-season poled awning with a PVC roof for strength and insulation and sides made of the company’s very own Isacryl acrylic fabric. This is breathable and fibre-dyed at source, so it shouldn’t fade in the sunlight. The awning also comes with front panels that are interchangeable, so you can position doors where they are most convenient, and exterior blinds to keep prying eyes out.
Miriad Quest
Website: www.miriadquest.com
Formerly known as Quest Leisure, this West Midlands-based company has for many years been the UK importer for the German Westfield brand of high performance air awnings – models like the Pluto 2XL full awning.
It also produces poled and inflatable awnings under its own name – premium models like the Westminster, Kensington and Windsor, and more lightweight models like the Falcon.
In 2021 the company was taken over by Miriad Products, another leisure industry supplier, so that it now sells a wider range of products besides awnings.
Olpro
Website: www.olproshop.com
Founded in the Malvern Hills in 2011 by a husband and wife team, from the outset Olpro wanted to focus on providing camping products, including awnings, designed with both quality and sustainability in mind.
Since then much of the focus in awnings has been on campervan awnings, many of them highly innovative. But a few years ago the company did branch out into caravan awnings with the View Lite, a poled porch awning. The company is also unusual in selling almost entirely via its own website.
Outdoor Revolution
Website: www.outdoor-revolution.com
Having initially started out in a different industry, West Yorkshire-based Outdoor Revolution has been making caravan and driveaway awnings for over two decades now. Its caravan awnings are all inflatable models, and mostly porch awnings.
Ranges include the premium Sport Pro, lightweight Sportlite Air and the slightly larger Eclipse Pro and Eclipse Pro X.
2025 sees the launch of the Porch Pro, a porch awning with just one tube and and integrated rechargeable electric pump. In effect, it is a self-inflating awning.
Sunncamp
Website: www.sunncamp.co.uk
Sunncamp is one of the oldest caravan awning manufacturers in the business, having been making tourer and motorhome awnings for nearly four decades.
Its current model range includes the Swift Air range of canopies, Dash Air porch awnings, and the Esteemed Air and Icon Air full awnings. Icon Air is designed for seasonal pitches with a separate “eyebrow” canopy over each front window.
Many of its models come with annexes and with other features such as verandah poles. Most of its awnings incorporate its Air Volution inflation system, designed to be easy to use, even by just one person.
Telta
Website: www.mytelta.co.uk
It may be just a few years old, but Telta has been set up by seasoned industry professionals with experience in running both Sunncamp and Kampa. The company’s awnings are designed to fit both motorhomes and caravans, and are made with fabrics that can withstand higher pressures than average to ensure a smoother finish.
New products for caravans this season include the Sky Link, a canopy one person can roll up into a dedicated bag that stays on the side on the side of your caravan as you travel. There’s also the Scenic range of caravan and motorhome awnings that does away with a central pole at the front to provide you with a better view.
Trigano
Website: www.trigano-camping.com
Trigano is of course the name of a French multinational conglomerate that owns a wide selection of motorhome brands (including, in this country, Auto-Trail, Auto-Sleepers and Marquis Leisure). But it’s only when it comes to awnings that the company uses its name actually on a brand.
Trigano awnings used to be called Eurovent. They come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, and include the Ocean, Montreux, Goa and Guerande. It also does a range specifically designed for caravans with a pop-up roof.
Vango
Website: www.vango.co.uk
Scottish company Vango (the name is a mash-up of the Govan district of Glasgow where it started) is known for producing a wide selection of outdoor products, including tents, sleeping bags, rucksacks – and awnings.
Its caravan awnings include everything from small Balletto porch awnings to the full-size Tuscany Air, with a bowed front designed for seasonal pitches.
Many models are made with the company’s Elements Proshield Fabric, which is highly waterproof and made with a ColourLok technology designed to prevent ultraviolet light causing colours to fade. And thanks to the new Vango Viewar augmented reality system, you can view many of these in 3D on the company website to see how the awning you are looking at might fit with your caravan.
Some caravanners who are only embarking on shorter stays may prefer the lighter weight provided by the best sun canopy for a caravan – our guide features products from some of the awning manufacturers mentioned here.
Before you buy one, it’s important to know how to measure a caravan awning too, to ensure you get the right one for your tourer.
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