Top 10 Best Trailer Tents and Folding Campers - Touring Magazine (2024)

If you love touring but sleeping in a tent is too basic and you don’t like the idea of having to store a caravan or motorhome, perhaps a trailer tent could be the answer. Find out in this guide to the best trailer tents and folding campers on the market

1 Pennine Pathfinder

From £15,995

The newest of the Pennine collection from Pennine Outdoor Leisure combines style, luxury, practicality and comfort in this top of the range folding camper. The classic neutral colours keep it modern, crisp and clean while the array of optional extras mean this home away from home can be tailored to your exact requirements.

With a hot water system, integral central heating and an external shower, this folding camper from the Pennine Pathfinder collection has it all before we’ve even begun.

2 Isabella Camp-Let Passion

from £7,799

With room for the whole family, the Camp-Let Passion from Isabella is your ticket to enjoy the great outdoors with ease. Compact when towing and spacious when unfolded, this trailer tent is simple to erect and prides itself on the interior comfort. The revived design features the new colours of Raw and Nordic and has a choice of a Standard, Allround or Deluxe kitchens depending on your individual needs.

3 Opus Camper All-Road/Off-Road Air

from £20,995

Winner of various design awards, the Opus Camper is fitted with air tent tech which inflates the canvas in around 90 seconds. You won’t be getting caught out in the rain erecting this trailer tent, instead, you’ll be cosy and warm inside with the kettle already boiling!

The Opus Camper comes in All-Road and Off-Road versions meaning this tented trailer brand gives you the option to roam to the furthest destination you can imagine. Designed for the extreme and with the space to take everything with you, the Opus Camper is purpose built for exploring the unknown.

The Off-Road Air comes with three different chassis options depending on your desired payload and just how much of the extreme stuff you plan on doing. It’s entirely between you and your map.

4 Trigano Alpha

from £6,495

A luxurious two berth folding camper from Trigano for when you just need some time out.

Ultra-compact and easy to erect, your holiday starts as soon as you arrive at the campsite. Perfect for late night card games as the wide front windows and side door panels with mesh flyscreens allow the last of the sunlight into the airy living space.

You can fully relax when you go away in an Alpha safe in the knowledge that you have space, comfort and ease all at your fingertips.

5 Trigano Galleon GL

from £5,999

Up next is another trailer tent from Trigano. The Galleon GL is an exceptionally easy to tow, family orientated trailer tent. Everything is easy, convenient and of the upmost quality.

The Galleon has a selection of optional awnings: Short trips and weekends, bad weather days, multi-purpose weekend and the longer holidays. The versatility of this trailer tent means it can always be your ‘go-to’ space to go away in. With mocha as the newest colour scheme, the canvas shell looks better than ever.

When it’s not in use it can come with side storage brackets so it can slide into a storage area on its side taking up very little space (and you won’t have to look at it and wish you were on holiday every day.)

6 Raclet Safari

from £7,450

The Raclet Safari is the full package. It’s easy to pitch, spacious and good looking. Perfect for the family or for the comings and goings of friends with the option of using the under-beds.

The Safari is a ‘the more the merrier’ style of camping without feeling overwhelmed at the space when you’re not entertaining.

It has three different options for the kitchen unit: Internal, external, or without (you are on holiday after all.)

7 Combi-Camp Country Xclusive

from €14,195

Charmingly described as a “luxurious trailer for Fairy-Tale persons” this storm proof Combi-Camp trailer tent lets you pitch wherever you like. Asphalt, gravel, sand or grass, you are always going to be more than comfortable staying in the Country Xclusive.

With a bed as good as you would get at home, wake up feeling refreshed and ready to make the most out of the camping kitchen of your dreams. No more chopping veggies whilst sitting on the floor, it’s all a comfortable work height here.

This is a year-round camper. With 100% cotton tents, ventilation will never be a problem again, you’ll be warm when you want to be warm and cool when you want to be cool. Just what we like to hear.

8 Cabanon Mercury

from £6,695

The Mercury from Cabanon possesses an exceptionally large awning including a sun canopy with built in wind breakers. This trailer tent is ideal for anyone with a lot of extra-curricular activities and in need of inside storage space, or anyone who enjoys a large indoor/outdoor living space to be able to relax to your fullest potential.

With a generous payload, you can pack up and still be able to tow the Mercury with almost any vehicle so there’s no excuse not to get on the road and get out there.

9 Pennine Conway Countryman

From £12,995

Back to Pennine for the new Countryman. It’s narrower and lighter to tow than most other folding campers so there really is no excuse not to be out and about. With internal luxury to suit your every need – think hot running water and you’ll get the idea – this camper is for the newbie or the old-hand of the folding camper world.

10 Holtkamper Kyte WindForce

From €22,995

A trailer tent from the future (well, Netherlands-based Holtkamper). The Kyte WindForce can be erected and packed away all through using air pressure. This is a seamless, stylish and still family orientated trailer tent with ample space inside.

Features include a ‘climate chamber’ which keeps the entire tent at the perfect temperature and keeps away condensation on the rainy days. The pole free awning will be your best friend on those darker nights when usually you might be tripping over guy ropes, instead you can walk freely safe in the knowledge there won’t be any of those pesky hazards.