pubrunner
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What are naughty's? explain in great detail please -![]()
Would pictures help ?
What are naughty's? explain in great detail please -![]()
Pubby we bought ours last year at one of the Cotswold Outdoor tent shows. Basically they set the tents up so you can have a good look at them and they are heavily discounted.
We bought a tent for the four of us for car camping, it was a Robens Double Dreamer. This is a £430 tent that was discounted to £220 and with a bit of further haggling we got it for £180!! I was pleased as punch and it's been a great tent.
There's a list of the dates and locations of the tent shows HERE. I see there is one coming up in Bridgemere which probably isn't too far a trek from you. Happy hunting.
If you are camping in the UK I would say that you need something with a hydrostatic head of at least 2000 (waterproofness) I note the one you are listed is 1200 which imho is not enough if it pees down with rain for several days.
Then you have to take into consideration whether you want one with a sewn in groundsheet where you pitch the inner first and then they flysheet over the top or a bathtub one where the outer pitches first and then the inner one afterwards.
I'll throw this in the mix for you Pubby. Seen a few of these set up. The shear sides make this feel very roomy and the can be had online a bit cheaper. That one you originally linked to is a tadge cramped I reckon.
https://www.vango.co.uk/family/lomond-400.html
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That's an impressive tent . . . . . . . and waterproof to 10,000mm !
I really think that I need to see some of these tents in the flesh; I reckon that my main criteria for purchasing are - space, degree of waterproofing . . . . . . . and particularly, ease of setting up.
Buying tents is like buying bikes - I have about 7!
My ultimate tent is a cotton canvas dutch pyramid. It's very simple to put up, but very heavy.
My favorite tent of all ime was the Quechua 2 bedroom pop up tent, which was really quick to put up and take down , quite spacious, but the packed size was quite big.
One factor to take ino consideration (this is a bit rude) - do you want to do naughty's in the tent whilst the kids are in residence? In the decathlon tent the bedrooms were at either end of the tent, so once you're sure the kids are asleep it's safe to start the naughty's. However, our current tetn has all four sleepers in a line, seperated by a sheet in the middle, so camping naughty's are now off limits!
that blue one is nice but i find dark coloured tents make for a very dark internal space and it appears a bit gloomy. brighter colours are better, neutral greens work too.
its all personal choice i guess.
if you want to be really flash splash out on one of those pole-less tents. they have inflatable sections you pump up so require no poles whatsoever.
Thank's one and all, for the very useful ideas and suggestions; I'm going to take a close look at all the tents that you've recommended.
With regard to camping, are there any 'must have' pieces of equipment that I should get ? I anticipate that we'll eat most of our meals offsite, but presumably, I should get a small stove, so that we can make hot drinks ?