The Caravan Talk Awards all started from a single suggestion posted by a forum user back in March of this year, and has since snowballed into an industry recognized award to be presented at The Motorhome and Caravan Show at the NEC in October.

We managed to speak to Ben Feltwell, Marketing Manager at Caravan Talk, to ask him what he feels the awards will bring to the caravanning community and industry.

He said: “Many (caravan) awards are determined by judges in the media or the industry and they are incredibly subjective, especially considering that most caravans are only tested for a few days at most.

“Caravans are designed to be lived in and towed across the globe, so why not look for the opinions of the people who do just that; the caravanners.

“By letting the caravanners pick their own nominations you’ll see some names and companies in the running that you would probably never have heard of before. They have been nominated because of their service and qualities, not because they are the biggest.”

The categories and nominees for the 2012 Caravan Talk Awards are as follows:

Best UK Campsite
Bashley Park
Bunree Caravan Site
Dornafield
Lady Heyes
Old Oaks

Best Caravan
Adria Adora
Bailey Olympus
Bailey Senator
Bailey Unicorn
Swift Challenger

Best Towcar
Hyundai Santa Fe
Kia Sorento
Land Rover Discovery
Land Rover Freelander 2
Volkswagon Tiguan

Best Caravan Dealer
Broad Lane Leisure
Catterick Caravans
Northam Farm
Reads Blackburn
Teesside Caravans

Best Caravan Servicing
Avonbridge Specialist Repair Services
Caravan Chris Mobile Service Engineer
Newark Independent Caravan Services
Reads Blackburn
Stewart Longton

Best European Campsite
Camping Baia Verde
Camping des Abers
Camping Laacher
Camping La Ferme de Lann Hoedic
Les Abrets

Best Family Caravan
Adria Adora
Avondale Argente
Elddis Crusader
Hymer Swing
Sprite Major

Best Small Caravan
Cosalt Safari
Elddis Xplore
Eriba Familia
Lunar Stella
The Splash

Caravan Talk Contributor of the Year
Gordon
Ian Dunning
Left Hand Down
Snooks
ValA

Caravan Industry Personality of the Year
Andy Harris
Chris Gosling
Gary Glenn
Jeremy Clarkson
Sue Irwin

Ben is hopeful the awards will be successful, stating: “This is only the first year and our members have been incredibly involved with the awards, moving forward I think the next few years will be incredibly exciting!”

Head over to the Caravan Talk Awards page to cast your vote and you could win 1 of 20 tickets to the Motorhome and Caravan Show at the NEC on 16^th-21^st October, where the award winners will be announced.