Posted: Wed Jun 07, 2006 9:49 am Post subject: STILL NOT GOT A TENT - HELP!!!
I'm starting to panic a bit now as the GT is fast approaching and I've still not got a tent!!
I really don't know where to start and have never been camping before, and all our nearby outdoors shops don't seem to have tents in store
So what should I be looking for, and any recommendations?
I don't want anything massive - probably a 4-sleeper, with room for a dog! And nothing to pricey, but thats going to last if we decide we like camping!
have you read my 'help me I need tent advice thread?
I must confess I am very happy with mine - i worked on the basis a real cheapy would cost £50 and if it was horrible we wouldnt ever be camping again. The travel lodge for the 2 nights at the GT would have been around £100 so i figured anything around that figure and I wouldnt have wasted any cash (all the more for collars and leads eh hehe) I ended up spending £150 ish but my tent is theretically an 8 berth - oh i would take the 'berth' with a pinch of salt (mind you you are skinnier than me hehe)
Also we have a queen sized blwo up mattress which we bought first so had to have bedroom bits that were big enough.
A sewn in groundsheet for the bedroom bit is a must to avoid escaping puppy syndrome - i would have loved a total sewn in groundsheet for living area too but couldnt find one.
it looks quite good, again not a fantantatic make tent and not much detail but it should be ok, also theres only 1 sleeping chamber (two would be good to shut the kids in!) and also the 2 types of cooking thing being sold, although very good for lightweight camping are difficult to use and you havent a great deal of control over the temperature of the flame. I know how to use them both but1 type (Hex cookers) are used by the army - solid block of fuel that burns and the other (trangia type) - burning methelated spirit with limitedf control favoured by senior scouts rangers hikers etc but not so much for family camping.
Anna
Nic I didn't realise you had 2 kids where have I been for the past few weeks? I thought you had just got married and were 24? Maybe I am confusing you with someone else
this one is a very good make (my first tent was a vango) and is a similar design to mine, would be a little squished is all 5 perple wanted their luggage in the sleeping bit. Also its pickup only in scottie land!
Sorry Anna, you are confusing me Why does Nic need a tent for 4 grown ups? I'm soooooo confuuuuuuuuuuusseeeeeddddddddd!!!!! (doesn't take much) I thought she just wanted a tent for her and hubby plus Joey, which is why she said a 4 person tent?
Niiiiic where are you?!?!?! I love shopping on the net for other people but I don't know what I'm looking for now Cooommeeee baaaaack - stop working and tell us what you want
in that case i would go fo a design like the vango one, thats what i'll be taking for me and chris (chris likes his creature comforts) and of course vogue pickles and richey.
Anna
I think Nic is being like most people Lucy, she wants a tent for that`ll sleep two adults and a dog comfortably!, I think the people that design these things think that sticks are going to be sleeping in them, not anly that they don`t move at all in the night!
Mines a 3 man, last year it was ideal for me an CJ, hopefully this year it`ll be ok with Cindy in it to, apart from the growling over who`s gonna sleep on mum`s head
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where have I been for the past few weeks? 
I thought you had just got married and were 24? Maybe I am confusing you with someone else 
(doesn't take much) I thought she just wanted a tent for her and hubby plus Joey, which is why she said a 4 person tent?
