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Having seen Vango's latest tent - an inflatable one - 'Infinity'(?). We were quite impressed with it - with the blow up bits seem to be quite sturdy.... and it does looks good!

Do people think that the concept come over to mainstream caravan awnings ?? Weight wise it does make sense.

I have found this website which does an inflatable caravan awning, it is by a firm which seems to be more geared towards industrial inflatable tents and they do look quite bouncy castle - ish! The look of their caravan awning  doesnt quite do it for me! http://www.aireshelta.co.uk/the-aire-awning-3/

Quote: Originally posted by Tentz on 25/4/2011

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Karsten do inflatable awnings but they cost about £2000 tho.

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I got the impression that they are only doing awnings for the Ariba? Cant see any for the 'mainstream' type of van?

Well it may not be the best looking awning in the world but to be honest most awnings look like Wendy houses & really aren't my cup of tea anyway.

An awning that's easy & quick to erect is brilliant and as long as it's stable then I'd buy one tomorrow - if I could afford it.... ah there's the snag !

Something that's inflated to to high pressure will be very rigid as long as it's been well designed so there's no reason why a well designed inflatable awning can't be as stable as a traditional one as far as I can see.

If ever they are available for a lot less money (in relative terms) I'll be dragging hubby to see one  

Good post !

Well I certainly wouldn't be up for carrying a compressor & having to keep one running - but when I looked at the rest of their website it didn't seem to me that you needed to - did I miss something ?

ETA - my OH says you can get very small compressors, they're not all terribly noisy.. he reminded me it's a compressor that pumps up my Aerobed  !

Until  you've had the chance to actually have a look at all the different onesavailable  I can't imagine it's possible to say wheteher they're likely to be good or not.

if it was made in the same way as a bouncy castle then it will have internally stiched seems and need a blower to keep it up as it wont be air tight 9just like a bouncy castle. however if it was made with bouncy castle material but heat seemed then it would just need to be blown up.

however a good freind of mine does have an awning made from bouncy castle material that works the same way as any other awning (it doesnt need to be inflated)

feel free to contact http://www.childsplayleisure.com who will make pretty much anything you wish

please note the above company has nothing what so ever to do with me.