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The time has come to get me a new awning for the new caravan and have been looking through the Towsure catalouge and various web-sites and am thinking of the Towsure Rialto (bearing in mind a van size of 1009) there all in the expensive side of pricings, anybody have one or recommend a another in the same'ish price bracket.

Again in need of your opinions  cheers

Second hand Isabella

Wouldn't buy any other

Steve

PS All mine have been second hand.

Hello Pete and Angie

We looked at awnings for ages. We liked the quality and colour of the Isabella but could not justify spending all that money for something that we would only use a few times a year. I think the second hand option as suggested above is a good route.

In the end we went to Camping International and bought a Ventura (made by Isabella) Atlantic Verde (green) awning with 2 matching tall annexes and Isabella inner tents this was delivered for 1069 pounds (the annexes alone cost around 200-225 pounds usually) so we thought we got quite a bargain really. http://www.ventura-camping.com/uk/ventura-awnings-.html

http://www.camping-intl.com/products/awnings/ventura/full-awnings/atlantic

We also bought a 89 pound half tunnel tent porch awning (Swindon Caravan Centre) - i see on your gallery that you have the "3 section" version also -

http://www.swindoncaravans.com/Swindonframeset.htm (go into "shop" and look for "Base Camp Panorama 260 Awning" )

that really stood up well to last weekends winds!!! and we use this for weekends etc..  Here is a link to Towsure just to give you an example but theres were much more expensive but probably have little extras like tie down kits or something.

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/redirect.asp?redir=http://www.towsure.com/category/6818

p.s. we also looked at the Rialto awnings and found they are made by Dorema but made in China to a lower / cheaper spec... so best check before buying cause they may be ok 

Hope this helps

Andy