Seasonal pitches offer caravanners the opportunity to position their caravans on a favoured site for the whole of a season. It’s cheaper than buying a static caravan, and means you can choose a different site every season. So if you’re happy to spend a few weeks or months in one location but want the flexibility of trying somewhere different next year – this could be the way to go. But what is the best caravan for seasonal pitches?

We’re on hand to help, as we have used our decades of collective experience within the industry to choose the winner of the best seasonal pitch caravan at the Practical Caravan Awards 2025, as well as our shortlisted options.

This year, our judging panel have picked out the Bailey Alicanto Deluxe Alvor as the best caravan for seasonal pitches, as we thought it had the features you could want when you’re on a seasonal caravan pitch, including plenty of space and comfort for all.

In this guide, you’ll also be able to see what we made of the shortlisted models, which feature tourers from Coachman, as well as take a look at the vans that made our shortlist last year, where you’ll find some of the biggest names in the industry included, such as Bailey, Adria and Hobby – if you’d like to find out more about these brands, head to our guide to the best caravan manufacturers.

The best caravans for seasonal pitches are:

Shortlisted at the Practical Caravan Awards 2025

Bailey Alicanto Deluxe Alvor
Coachman Laser 845 Xtra
Swift Elegance Grande 835

Our top picks from recent years

Swift Elegance Grande 760
Coachman Laser Xtra 665
Coachman Laser Xcel 850
Bailey Alicanto Grande Evora
Adria Alpina Rio Grande
Sprite Super Quattro EB

The best caravan for seasonal pitches:

The Bailey Alicanto Deluxe Alvor
The Bailey Alicanto Deluxe Alvor

Bailey Alicanto Deluxe Alvor

  • Price: £40,499
  • Berths: 4
  • MTPLM: 1852kg
  • MIRO: 1682kg
  • Payload: 170kg
  • Length: 7.9m
  • Width: 2.45m

Reasons to buy:

  • There’s way more spec than we can describe in a short write-up!

Reasons to avoid:

  • It’s a big van to tow and store.

The best caravan for seasonal pitches at the Practical Caravan Awards 2025

This twin-axle, 8-foot wide model is the ultimate luxury caravan for long-term pitching, offering exceptional space and comfort for up to four people. More like a boutique hotel bedroom than a tourer, it’s designed with comfort, style and practicality in mind. On the outside, it features an aerodynamic GRP-skinned Alu-Tech bodyshell, ensuring durability, strength and stability, whether you’re on the move or on site.

The Alvor is constructed on an AL-KO chassis with ATC, stabiliser hitch and TUV-approved alloy wheels for towing performance, and two AL-KO secure wheel locks for enhanced security.

Inside, the spacious L-shaped front lounge converts to a double bed and comes with a wall-mounted TV station. It’s available in three fabric options. Meanwhile, the spacious kitchen boasts ample storage and worktop space, complemented by an oven, microwave and Thetford 156-litre tower fridge. Towards the rear, a king-sized, transverse island bed offers the ultimate in touring luxury, while sliding doors enhance privacy and relaxation. The rear washroom is spec’d with everything you’ll need on holiday.

The Coachman Laser 845 Xtra
The Coachman Laser 845 Xtra

Coachman Laser 845 Xtra

  • Price: £43,060
  • Berths: 4
  • MTPLM: 1886kg
  • MIRO: 1726kg
  • Payload: 160kg
  • Length: 7.89m
  • Width: 2.44m

Reasons to buy:

  • This caravan offers practicality and versatility along with style and comfort

Reasons to avoid:

  • The high price

Highly commended at the Practical Caravan Awards 2025

The Coachman Laser 845 Xtra offers a luxurious and practical design, packed with a premium specification to attract the discerning caravanner. With superior foam construction upholstery throughout, it combines comfort with elegance, while the stylish overhead locker profile in a graphite design features silver trim and layered LED lighting for a contemporary interior aesthetic.

The mid-washroom provides separation of day and nighttime areas, increasing privacy for occupants at both ends of the caravan. There’s a separate loo/basin space, which is located opposite the roomy, domestic-style shower cubicle. Smart door design means the entire area can be completely cordoned off, or the facilities can be used independently.

Overall, this washroom has a spa-like feel that’s bound to impress. The off-side kitchen is stylish and well equipped, with acrylic flush-fitting units, while the L-shaped lounge offers plenty of options for relaxing or sleeping. Practical features include matt-black LED reading spotlights with USB ports, along with integrated speakers in the lounge and bedroom.

Full review: Coachman Laser 845 Xtra

The Swift Elegance Grande 835
The Swift Elegance Grande 835

Swift Elegance Grande 835

  • Price: £47,495
  • Berths: 4
  • MTPLM: 2099kg
  • MIRO: 1898kg
  • Payload: 160kg
  • Length: 7.98m
  • Width: 2.45m

Reasons to buy:

  • This big van has a great payload allowance for when you take all your kit to the seasonal pitch

Reasons to avoid:

  • At more than two tonnes, you’ll need a big towcar to pull the 835

Highly commended at the Practical Caravan Awards 2025

The 2025 Elegance Grande 835 is part of Swift’s luxury caravan line-up. This eight-foot wide, twin-axle caravan combines striking design with advanced features, offering a premium touring experience in every respect.

The 835 has been enhanced for 2025, and now boasts new Ultraleather Dusk soft-furnishings, an illuminated cocktail cabinet and a wireless phone charging point.

The domestic-spec kitchen features a Mini-Heki roof light and an extractor hood, ensuring excellent ventilation and odour-free cooking. Meanwhile, generous worktop space and a range of high-quality appliances ensure practicality combined with a touch of elegance.

The 835’s upgraded washroom impresses with its boutique-style illuminated shower console, durable shower tray and washroom Omnivent extractor fan. Its midships position in the van neatly separates the sleeping and living quarters.

Luxury is further elevated with Alde underfloor heating, constant hot water and a thermostat sensor in the bedroom for tailored climate control. Additional options include provision for a motor mover and E&P’s auto-levelling system. Perfectly crafted, the Elegance Grande redefines high-end touring.

Swift Elegance Grande 760
The Swift Elegance Grande 760

Swift Elegance Grande 760

  • Year: 2024
  • Berths: 4
  • MTPLM: 1871kg
  • MiRO: 1674kg
  • Payload: 197kg
  • Shipping length: 7.57m
  • Width: 2.45m

Reason to buy:

  • Comfortable island bed, plenty of space

Reason to avoid:

  • Not everyone may like the shape of bed created from L-shaped seating

The best seasonal pitch caravans should give you that little bit of extra space to stretch out in, and perhaps more of a sense that this is a home you have come back to, not just somewhere convenient to crash for the night.

This new single-axle, 8ft-wide caravan from Swift has an L-shaped lounge, so that you can indeed stretch out. Hidden behind the large central washroom is a very comfortable in-line island bed, set in its own bedroom. That should really make you feel as though you are retiring properly for the night.

This is an Elegance Grande, so you can rest assured that the latest version of the SMART construction system should keep your van in tip-top condition, even in the roughest of winters. And with a 30-litre water tank on board, you might not have to worry about that Aquaroll, otherwise something of a caravan essential.

The single axle keeps the overall weight down just a touch, so you can tow this big beast with a relatively standard car.

Full review: Swift Elegance Grande 760

Coachman Laser Xtra 665
The Coachman Laser Xtra 665

Coachman Laser Xtra 665

  • Year: 2024
  • Berths: 4
  • MTPLM: 1898kg
  • MiRO: 1738kg
  • Payload: TBC
  • Shipping length: 7.90m
  • Width: 2.44m

Reason to buy:

  • Good digital spec, provides home-from-home comforts

Reason to avoid:

  • Shower and washroom partition doors can clash, no roof vent in shower cubicle

Now an 8ft-wide van, we think this tourer offers a great level of comfort and luxury, with its central washroom and rear fixed singles layout essentially creating separate ‘rooms’.

Its well-lit lounge is ideal for entertaining – easily seating six, there are higher backrests for enhanced support too. The matt black spotlights, each with USBs, look great, while a TV can be set up just to the right of the door (check out our guide to the best caravan TVs if you’re looking for one).

The beds at the rear are now wider as well. A bedside table with a socket sits between the singles, and luxurious headboards provide comfort. We like that there’s no hauling of infill cushions required to make up the double in the lounge either, due to the height of the backrests.

Perhaps our only gripe is the central washroom. You get a dressing room effect, with swing doors dividing both sides, but the roomy shower itself has a single swinging door too, so it can be a bit tricky to access. However, the main washroom itself feels homely, thanks to the blinds on the opaque window.

Full review: Coachman Laser Xtra 665

Coachman Laser Xcel 850
The Coachman Laser Xcel 850

Coachman Laser Xcel 850

  • Year: 2024
  • Berth: 4
  • MTPLM: 1929kg
  • MiRO: 1769kg
  • Payload: 160kg
  • Shipping length: 7.90m
  • Width: 2.44m

What we like:

  • Spacious feeling, good lighting

What we don’t like:

  • Wardrobe is now only in rear bedroom

If plenty of space is an important trait in your dream seasonal pitch caravan, this could be the best caravan for you.

The latest iteration of the Laser Xcel 850 sees the rear transverse island bed flipped 180 and a change to Thetford appliances in the kitchen.

A sunroom and Heki allow light to flood into the spacious lounge, with taller settee backrests providing comfort too. We really like the sophisticated touches in this tourer. For instance, Coachman has added matt-black spotlights with USBs in each corner of the lounge, while a wireless charging pad can be found near the central chest, which also offers a slide out shelf if you don’t want to use the table.

The ‘L’ shaped kitchen work surface ensures there’s plenty of room for food preparation, and again, it’s well-lit, thanks to a large window and a striplight.

Those matt-black spotlights can also be found at the head of the transverse island bed, while a TV can be set up on the offside wall. Storage options are also great in this tourer, giving you room for all of your luxury caravan accessories. This particularly applies if you take bulky outdoor items with you, while a near full-height wardrobe can also be located in the rear bedroom.

Full review: Coachman Laser Xcel 850

The Bailey Alicanto Grande Evora

Bailey Alicanto Grande Evora

  • Year: 2023
  • Berths: 4
  • MTPLM: 1855kg
  • MiRO: 1694kg
  • Payload: 160kg
  • Shipping length: 7.86m
  • Width: 2.45m

Reason to buy:

  • Loads of space, plenty of storage

Reason to avoid:

  • Table can be hard to retrieve from under the bed.

The only new caravan model from Bailey this season should make a great season pitch model, thanks to its generously sized rear washroom and a rear bedroom complete with a transverse island bed, a large wardrobe with two hanging rails, and a separate dressing table unit where you could store everything you are likely to need during a long stay.

Nor is that all. The front lounge is comfortable and bright thanks to the large central window and generous side windows, through which you can easily admire the view.

The central kitchen has plenty of workspace, and there’s even room for that all essential wine rack.

This caravan comes complete with an onboard 40-litre water tank too, so you can luxuriate in the shower without worrying about the Aquaroll running out.

Full review: Bailey Alicanto Grande Evora

Adria Alpina Rio Grande

Adria Alpina Rio Grande

  • Year: 2023
  • Berths: 4
  • MTPLM: 2000kg
  • Payload: 260kg
  • MiRO: 1740kg
  • Shipping length: 8.19m
  • Width: 2.46m

Reason to avoid:

  • Front kitchen caravans are not always popular in the UK, so it may be harder to sell on

While most of the attention this year has been on updating the more budget Altea range, at the last minute a new model has been added to the upmarket Alpinas. And it looks as if it could be a serious contender in the seasonal pitch stakes.

Why? Because, along with the rear washroom and rear transverse island bed should make you really feel at home, the front end of the caravan doesn’t disappoint either.

There is a generously sized kitchen spread across the front of the caravan, and then the central lounge is made up of a side settee on the nearside, an L-shaped settee on the offside, and a large table in the middle. Easily enough room for two people to spread out, or for you to have guests around on your pitch.

Then if you are staying as a foursome, or if some of your guests rather like the idea of staying over for the night, a second double bed is easily made from the L-shaped settee. And there will still be enough seating space for anyone who wakes up early in the morning.

When put together with a similarly sized awning, you should have a real seasonal palace with this caravan.

Full review: Adria Alpina Rio Grande

Sprite Super Quattro EB

Sprite Super Quattro EB

  • Year: 2020
  • Berths: 4
  • MTPLM: 1705kg
  • MiRO: 1500kg
  • Payload: 205kg
  • Overall length: 7.98m (26ft 2in)
  • Width: 2.46m (8ft)

Reason to buy: 

  • Light-filled lounge, comfy bedroom

Reason to avoid:

  • Small shower and fridge, no ATC – even as an option

Swift Group’s twin-axle Sprite Supers offer the luxury of wider living space at a budget price. This is the only four-berth in the three-strong range, and has a transverse island bed behind a central washroom making it a strong contender for couples seeking a van to leave at their favourite site on a seasonal pitch. The front sofas will easily seat four people, but at just 5’4” long their usefulness as single beds is limited, however, they do make up into a good-sized double, so this is workable as a family van, too.

There’s a domestic-style door separating the kitchen from the washroom and a sliding door separating the washroom from the sleeping quarters.

Despite appearances – it has a three-piece front window and a sunroof – this is a budget caravan so if you want niceties such as an AKS 3004 stabiliser, a microwave, alloy wheels and a DAB radio you’ll need the optional Diamond Pack.

There’s external access on the offside to the area beneath the transverse island bed, so you can reach for the outdoor furniture from there.

Kitchen kit includes a large stainless-steel sink, a three-burner gas hob, a separate oven and grill, but only a small fridge, which is fine for two and only just adequate for four.

The lounge may be a little short but the van’s extra width gives plenty of room to manoeuvre in the kitchen, a spacious washroom and a bedroom where you don’t have to roll back the bed to gain access to the vanity area. It’s luxury living for a couple at a budget price.

Full review: Sprite Super Quattro EB


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