Trailer Tent And Folding Camper Awards

Trailer Tent and Folding Camper Owner Satisfaction Survey 2025: background

Trailer tents and folding campers are both wheeled trailers for pulling behind a car or motorbike – a folding camper pitches off-ground while a trailer tent’s main canvas pegs directly into the ground.

In early surveys, we had a very small number of responses from trailer tent buyers and our awards were dominated by folding campers. For our 2023 awards we were pleased to say numbers had risen so we re-introduced an award specifically for trailer tents and we are happy this trend has continued through to our 2025 awards.

Best Trailer Tents | Best Folding Campers

Winner: Isabella Camp-let 93%

Highly commended: Trigano 91%

Previous winners
2024 Isabella Camp-let
2023 Camp-let

2025 Trailer Tent Owner Satisfaction Awards update

Danish brand Isabella Camp-let once again takes the accolade in this year’s trailer tent awards, for the third successive year.

Trailer tent and folding camper suppliers scored particularly well for owner satisfaction, with more than 70% of buyers scoring their supplier at 10 (excellent) on a scale of 1 (poor) to 10 (excellent). Only 2% rated their supplier at 5 or below.

Nearly two thirds of respondents bought at a discount, more than in previous surveys.
Modern design and brand reputation were the main reasons given for buying a particular trailer tent or folding camper and the method of pitching was said to be the most important factor influencing the purchasing decision.

However, more people reported defects with their folding camper or trailer tent this time, with only 71% saying they had defect-free models. The main problems reported were broken poles or defective tubes and damaged fabric.

The quality of tent pegs again scores badly and owners would like to see better instructions and value for money. Nevertheless, 86% of respondents would by the same make of folding camper or trailer tent again, with only 6% saying they definitely would not.

2024 Trailer Tent Owner Satisfaction Awards update

The winner in our 2024 Trailer Tent Owner Satisfaction Awards is Isabella Camp-let with Trigano being highly commended, rankings that reflect last year’s survey results. However, Trigano has closed the gap from a five percentage point difference to just two this year.

The average price paid for a trailer tent this year remained around £6,500 and in general trailer tent owners were very pleased with their purchases. When asked how satisfied they were overall with how the trailer tent performed on a scale of 1 to 10 from 1 ‘not at all satisfied’ to 10 ‘extremely satisfied’, none of the respondents gave a response of 5 or lower.

2023 Trailer Tent Owner Satisfaction Awards update

Danish brand Camp-let (now part of the Isabella fold) was highly commended in the 2022 combined trailer tent and folding camper awards and took the top spot in the separate trailer tent category, five percentage points ahead of French manufacturer Trigano. Both companies have been making trailer tents for more than half a century.

Winner: OPUS 96%

Highly commended: Pennine 92%

2025 Trailer Tent Owner Satisfaction Awards update

OPUS has once again taken the crown in these awards. Check the trailer tents section for more details about this year's survey responses.

2024 Folding Camper Owner Satisfaction Awards update

Manufactured in the East of England, OPUS folding campers have once again vied with Pennine for the top spot in our Folding Camper awards, OPUS winning this year by a small margin. It takes the lead in the competition that’s been dominated by these two companies since the Trailer Tent and Folding Camper Award was first made in 2018.

2023 Trailer Tent Owner Satisfaction Awards update

Lancashire-based folding camper manufacturer Pennine Outdoor Leisure takes the crown this year in a tight competition that’s dominated this category since the awards began.

2018-2022 awards updates

For the 2022 awards and before, we linked folding campers and trailer tents under a single heading as we had very few responses from trailer tent users.

Previous Winners
2022 Opus
2020 Opus and Pennine
2019 Opus
2018 Pennine

2022 Folding Camper Owner (including Trailer Tents) Satisfaction Awards update

Folding camper brand Opus was victorious this time with a satisfaction score of 96%. It is good to see a trailer tent manufacturer (Camp-let) back in the running this time. It was highly commended at 92%.

2020 Folding Camper Owner Satisfaction Awards update

Opus and Pennine claimed the top spot with 96%.
Such was the dominance of these two brands – in terms of number of responses as well as satisfaction – we had no highly commended brands this time.

However, are there signs of a comeback for folding campers/trailer tents? With total annual sales typically in the low thousands for new models, it was interesting to note some 36% of our responses were from purchases in 2018 and a further 34% were bought in 2019.

2019 Trailer Tent and Folding Camper Owner Satisfaction Awards update

Folding campers (including trailer tents) is a tiny, yet significant, sector in the whole tent market, hence its inclusion here.

This year’s winner, Opus, scored 93% for overall satisfaction. By far its most popular model was its flagship, the Full Monty.
Last year’s winner, Pennine, scored 90% this time.

Other brands reported on include Cabanon, Camp-let, Conway, Raclet, Sunncamp and Trigano.