What’s a good family tent? Must be easy to put up! (The boss might go on her own with the girls)
check out wild country tents... they are the more 'leisure' oriented branch of terra nova.
Very well put together tents; easy to pitch with lots of nice features in places where you'd want them (like storage pockets and door straps etc.).
Dave
Quechua base seconds from Decathlon?
what's the budget?
no idea!
VauDe make some good tents and second alfabus regarding Wild Country. Stay away from Khyam Tents in my view - they used to be about the best family tents out there but they've lost the plot on build quality. They now break in a slight breeze!
I have 3 kids (8, 6 and 2) and a wife who does not know how a tent goes up so went with a vango tunnel tent rather than the dome versions. It is an 8 man one so we can all fit in and stand up. Very easy to put up and it is too easy to get wrong. You get a bigger new tent for your money with Outwell but many believe other tents are of slightly better quality.
Hardest thing is getting it all back in the bag at the end of the weekend.
You get a bigger new tent for your money with Outwell but many believe other tents are of slightly better quality
I don't think I've ever seen a better quality leisure tent than an Outwell, TBH. Ours is uttery superb. 🙂
Kampa Pendine 8 - tunnel tent which sleeps 8. 3 sleeping pods and large living area. Proper metal poles. Absolute bargin for £300.
Outwell Montana 6 (or the more expensive Outwell Montana Lake).
Fantastic family tent with large shared family space and 2 sleeping pods.
I second the Outwell Montana 6, however it may be a struggle to put up on your own.
What you need is my Wild Country Homestead (Homestead '5' I think) - selling as we've bought something a bit smaller.
Ace condition , mail if interested, Chester area if you wanted to view.
ChristiansenATliveDOTcoDOTuk
No, he needs my Outwell Winfield I put on the classifieds the other day.....
Montana 6 "thirded". Really well made. Plenty bog enough. Easy enough for one adult to put up on their own. Not cheap but worth it.
What about a bell tent? Simplicity itself to put up and take down single handed. If the family are young enough that you don't need the privacy of separate "rooms" it's a winner. This is our first season with ours and it's already a firm favourite
[url= http://www.belltent.co.uk/index.php ]Bell tent[/url]
I have a kyham and have to disagree with the other comment about breaking in a breeze , took it to the south coast last year on the first night we had a gale and torrential rain, in the morning all I had to do was put one peg back in .
Tentipi.
Awesome
Damned easy to pitch. Really it's a piece cake.
Looks cool
Have a fire inside
Can handle snow.
Outragously expensive, but my favourite possession by a mile.
http://www.tentipi.com/index.php?id=35
Kampa tents are great.
Check out web site ukcampsite.co.uk .Hugh number of reviews of tents and equipment. Best campsite list.
Forum full of friendly ,helpful people. Just like on here.
I have had a Kyham, Rigidome XL I think it was. Great tent and went up easy enough. It stood up to the strong winds straight in off the north sea fine. We moved as it was the noise of the wind that was keeping us up at night. Tent was fine. No idea what the build quality is like these days. Now have a Vango, Oregon 600 I think. One of the poles snapped at the weekend in the wind at Fort bill when we put it up. Despite this it stayed up okay for the rest of the weekend. The Glencoe DH was cancelled due to weather so it was a bit extreme, and wet.
My advice would be look for something with a porch. Also think about where the water will run when you open the door. The Vango runs off the roof into the tent when we open it.
The tents at Decathlon look very good and quick and easy to put up but I am not sure how stable they will be in the wind. They have quite a bit of pop up tent technology in them.
Is this just a summer tent or are you going to want to use it early and late season. Summer tent can be less robust as in theory the weather should be better.
Monty 6.
The Khyam Rigidome was indeed a great tent a few years back. I had one and swore by them in bad, windy weather. So impressed was I that I recommended them to several friends and a Scout leader who promptly bought 6. I bought a new one at the same time to get a bulk discount and my brother took one also. That was 8 Rigidomes bought at the same time. None of them saw the summer through without breaking something somewhere. The main issue being the plastic 'elbow' joints which broke on most of them plus poles which bent too easily.
Now this could of course have been a bad batch of tents but the flysheets were also lighter and the build quality generally down on previous versions. If you've got an old Rigidome, hang on to it - great tent!
Also think about where the water will run when you open the door. The Vango runs off the roof into the tent when we open it
I've got a Vango Orchy 600 & this is a bit of a pain. The curvature of the roof means that if it's raining the water pours off the door as you open and onto the groundsheet, unless you are very careful when you open it.
Apart from that it is a great tent. We also bought the footprint groundsheet for it & the large canopy, which gives you a decent bit of extra space and somewhat gets around the problem with rain running off the side door as with the canopy up, we only use the front door.
I am not sure it would be very easy to put up with just one person, due to the amount of curvature you need to get into the main poles.
Wild Country +1.
Doesn't budge in gale force winds. Expensive but you get what you pay for.
Another +1 for Wild Country. I think ours is a Halo 104. It's massive (4 bedrooms, a living area that I can't touch the ceiling in, plus a proper stand up porch) and I can put it up on my own in a reasonable amount of time. Does weigh 40kg though. So I can recommend checking them out. It's slight overkill for the size of our family but it was a good secondhand bargain and is a fantastic tent.
Ours'll be at Mayhem if you want to have a nosey.
any one tried the [url= http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/hi-gear-zenobia-6-p148235 ]Hi Gear Zenobia 6[/url]
Seconded Tentipi, brilliant, had a loan of one last summer and loved it. Practical and quirky and easy and quick to put up and beautiful, all at the same time. But really expensive.
Or, for ease of erection, fnar, Vango's new AirBeam tents are ace - pitch all in one, no poles at all, all you do is pump air with a sort of stumpy track pump into some inner tube-type things and whoomph, it's up. They have the bonus of being nigh on unbreakable since the air beams just bend then spring back rather than snapping.
Outwell Montana 6 for practicality, but it will fill the boot on a medium car. There's a reason they are so popular & its because they are excellent tents for a family. Build wise, Coleman have it in my opinion, but they can be quite dark inside. We have an old(ish) Tri-Space & it has the thickest groundsheet I've ever seen. Not sewn-in though, & thats the big plus point with the Montana. We've used ours in single digit temps, & run a 1kw fan heater off a hook-up. Tent stayed lovely & warm. Sadly, we've a caravan now, but dusting off the tent for a couple of camping weekends soon.
what about [url= http://www.campingworld.co.uk/Models.aspx?ModelID=7343 ]outwell Iowa 6[/url]
Or, for ease of erection, fnar, Vango's new AirBeam tents are ace - pitch all in one, no poles at all, all you do is pump air with a sort of stumpy track pump into some inner tube-type things and whoomph, it's up. They have the bonus of being nigh on unbreakable since the air beams just bend then spring back rather than snapping.
Getting a puncture in your tent isn't great though 🙁
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what happened? I was thinking of getting one.
Is the 'boss' thinking of carrying all this on the buggy with the boogy board on? ❓
need a tent that even she can put up! check out Vango's new AirBeam tents. How's the bus looking? You got some wheels?
Paul says just go to Tesco's and get a £40 all in airbeds mats chairs and tent. PS has she passed her car test yet?
I say, who is Rach going with ? A lot of these family tents are massive when packed away so someone will need a massive car or van..... NO!!!!!!!
wind in Northumberland earlier in week 50mph gusts i'd say
Lots of Outwell's on campsite all looked fine and dandy
We have a Gelert Horizon (with an added side canopy) which I'd say is almost identical to
and we broke a couple of poles (stayed up though) possibly because of past abuses in bad weather coupled with putting any tent up with bendy fibreglass poles is pretty much impossible on your own, though i do it but it puts a lot of stress (too much?) on the poles as you lift them into positionany one tried the Hi Gear Zenobia 6
Some Vango's didn't make the grade
fitted ground sheets are a must.
We've just bought a 5m canvas bell tent for something with a bit more style 8)
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+1 Wild Country Homestead 5/7
We bought one as our MTBing tent, pretty heavy but very sturdy and if you've 2 adults goes up in a storm if needed.
A good +3 season option.
That's it, seen it all now
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What's the betting CFH want's/has one, assuming he stoops low enough to camp away from his council flat in wapping 😉
