No direct experience of Telta, in fact not sure I'd heard of them AFAIK, had to look them up to see who they were! All I can say, their heritage looks promising, with both Kampa and Sunncamp brands associated with Telta owners.
I've got both a Kampa air porch awning and a smaller Sunncamp poled porch awning, plus a number of camping accessories from both brands, dating back to the time of Telta's owners management, and been very happy with all.
I think many an awning, regardless of brand, is bought in from a Chinese manufacturer, and the similarity between brands products rather implies they are not unique designs, but a 'stock' design with maybe a tweak and branding all that separates them! How does that bode for quality? Probably down to how many cost cutting tweaks and individual brand QA attitudes! - I think every brand has a duff product along the way though!
From my professional dealings with Chinese manufacturers outside of the camping market, they do take liberties if not closely monitored!!!!! The quality of a product to the end user is often down to how well a brand enforces QA and supports it's products, and is willing to honour warranty and consumer rights!
Telta are not at the budget end if pricing is a guide, and they openly have spares advertised, they also offer a 2-3 year warranty. Their products seem to have thoughtful features like air tube isolation valves etc. Without actual experience of them, it does all rather bode well IMHO. .... but the decision is yours BOFS
We saw them for the first time when we had to call into Norwich Camping last summer to pick up a few bits and pieces when we were on holiday. From a distance I thought they were Kampa as they look very similar. We asked the sales assistant and he said that when Kampa were taken over, one of the key original Kampa staff started Telta. We have never had either brand but did look at Kampa awnings before we bought our Isabella and the Telta seemed to be of a similar design and quality.
Many thanks both for your input.
Still on the hunt for an easily manageable, not too heavy, decent quality porch awning for use in autumn, winter, spring. I’m sure there’s one out there somewhere!
We have a Telta skylink canopy, we also bought the sides and front as well. We like it as we have it fitted permanently to the awning rail. That way it makes life easy onsite, just unzip, undo a couple of clips, drop it down pump peg the legs all done. If we want the sides and front on it’s a case of zip them on and peg down. The total cost was £740.
Quote: Originally posted by les + june on 03/3/2026
We have a Telta skylink canopy, we also bought the sides and front as well. We like it as we have it fitted permanently to the awning rail. That way it makes life easy onsite, just unzip, undo a couple of clips, drop it down pump peg the legs all done. If we want the sides and front on it’s a case of zip them on and peg down. The total cost was £740.
Hope this helps.
Les
I saw this and was attracted to it for the reasons you mention, but we would need to use it all year round with the front and sides in and wondered how it would stand up to wet and windy weather.
Have you used it in these sorts of conditions?
New member here, but I did a lot of research before I bought my new Telta Life 390 at last years show. I went o the show specifically for Telta.
Used it a couple of times now and it’s absolutely spot on. Quality as good as Isabella in my opinion.
Little heavy if you leave the sides and curtains in but not unmanageable (I’m relatively fit 42 yr old). Easy enough to take the sides out to reduce the weight whilst erecting.
No problems with rain at all so far. And this weekend it’s been up in some pretty windy weather already and hasn’t shifted.
Here’s hoping to many more years of use.
The birds seem to like it too, at least they’ve shared “appreciation” a few times already. Gutted.
Quote: Originally posted by les + june on 03/3/2026
We have a Telta skylink canopy, we also bought the sides and front as well. We like it as we have it fitted permanently to the awning rail. That way it makes life easy onsite, just unzip, undo a couple of clips, drop it down pump peg the legs all done. If we want the sides and front on it’s a case of zip them on and peg down. The total cost was £740.
Hope this helps.
Les
I saw this and was attracted to it for the reasons you mention, but we would need to use it all year round with the front and sides in and wondered how it would stand up to wet and windy weather.
Have you used it in these sorts of conditions?
Whilst we were in spin in January the wind and rain was so bad we had to evacuate the site. Up to that point we had the awning up with no problems at all. We do use it all year.
I've watched the video on how to set up and pack away the main canopy which travels on the side of the van.
Is it as straightforward and easy as it seems, especially the packing away?
Quote: Originally posted by bofs on 07/4/2026
I've watched the video on how to set up and pack away the main canopy which travels on the side of the van.
Is it as straightforward and easy as it seems, especially the packing away?
Packing away is very easy I use my step to be able to reach up and put it in the bag.
Quote: Originally posted by les + june on 03/3/2026
We have a Telta skylink canopy, we also bought the sides and front as well. We like it as we have it fitted permanently to the awning rail. That way it makes life easy onsite, just unzip, undo a couple of clips, drop it down pump peg the legs all done. If we want the sides and front on its a case of zip them on and peg down. The total cost was 740.
Hope this helps.
Les
I saw this and was attracted to it for the reasons you mention, but we would need to use it all year round with the front and sides in and wondered how it would stand up to wet and windy weather.
Have you used it in these sorts of conditions?
Replaced our trusted Kampa/Dometic Sunshine 400 with Telta Sky 400 and sides for this season... and I'm VERY unimpressed!
First use during easter weekend, windy ( 8-10m/s with peaks at 13-14 m/s) and on both sides the fabric was torn out from the keder-profil strip that fit the caravan...
Telta has now asked be to send it in for warranty REPAIR, let's see how that comes out...
Right now the level of trust in Telta is low...
Oh dear, that doesn't sound good.
Hope the repair is done quickly and effectively.
I might have expected them to offer a replacement under warranty though.
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Topic: Telta awnings
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