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By: SHEPSTER Reason: I own(ed) one Made in: 2012 Rating:  Date: 18/04/2012
Just got back from our first outing with our new montana 6p, we got our tent for £540 from camping world who price matched outdoor worlds 10% off deal, delivered within 2 days, great service guys, first impressions are very good, as other reviewers have commented, the 2 bags are pretty heavy and getting the tent back into its roller holdall is a mare, much prefer a big sack! erecting the tent is straightforward, used the cross camping method of pegging down the four corners then putting the main poles seemed to work ok but needed 2 people for the initial lift.
Once the tent was up pegged out fairly quickly , all the poles fitted and tensioned nicely, the Outwell wind stabiliser system is a bit fiddly especially when taking the tent down with cold wet fingers, seems to stop the tent flapping, very little movement in a strong sea breeze. Panoramic windows and front are great, they are all zip up which is great means they can be opened as much or as little as you want, one thing though, the tinting to the windows seems to slightly distort outside images, does seem to keep the tent a bit cooler, ventilation in the tent is very good with lots of closeable vents, headroom is brilliant and the living room is very spacious, as usual, its labelled a 6 berth tent but realistically 4 would be comfortable, also the dividing wall between bedrooms is quite see through! inner bedrooms sit and fit nicely well supported by the wave hanging points.
All in all a very good quality tent, no signs of any build problems and so far no leaks in a couple of heavy showers, next step to save up for the carpet and awning at £100 and £250 respectively they are not cheap, but with them it`ll be a great package, should be able to pitch the tent in less than an hour so makes it suitable for weekends as well as longer stays, very pleased so far
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By: EstherM Reason: I own(ed) one Made in: 2010 Rating:  Date: 14/04/2012
We LOVE this tent!
We use it to sleep 2 adults and 2 young children - we un-zip and roll back the partition in the sleeping compartment so we can all bunk down together - giving us more than enough room for a large double, one single airbed and a travel cot - plus room for the small mountain of clothes you need to take for a family holiday.
Since buying out Montanna 6 we have camped several times in often awful weather and have not suffered any significant leaks or issues in high winds, driving rain and thunder storms!
We also purchased the front extension which gives us more living/cooking space and the tent carpet for that little bit of luxury. This is well worth it as it keeps the tent much warmer in cold weather. We use the side extension as our 'en-suite' loo rather than another entrance - which is probably what it was designed for, but it works for us.
Even when we have camped without the front extension, we have always had enough room for the kitchen and table and kids toys.
It's relatively easy for 2 to pitch (once you have the hang of it - watch a couple of you tube videos of how to pitch before you go out for the first time). Getting it back in the bag afterwards is more of a challenge but we find leaving the doors un-zipped before rolling it makes it a bit easier.
It's a heavy tent to transport and the poles are in a separate bag so always check you've got these before you leave home but I think for it's size and versatility it is a great buy and I am hoping to get many many more holidays out of it yet.
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By: OldEnglish Reason: I own(ed) one Made in: 2004 Rating: Date: 12/04/2012
The Monty is a great tent, we got one from the very first bunch to launch in this country – then tracking one down was hard work and we had to do a 3 hour round trip just to find somewhere with one left. Effort well spent though. We got 7 years of camping out of ours usually spending 3 weeks a year in it. We probably could have got another year out of it but the seams were starting to leak a little (even after resealing them a couple of times) and we had put a small rip in it as the fabric was beginning to weaken.
Obviously things have moved on since our model with the new “longer-life” fabrics, a porch instead of a rain-save door, electrics point, all-in-one bedroom with partition door instead of two separate bedrooms and many more improvements. Fundamentally though the tent is still the same, a really well thought out nice sized piece of kit. This tent has influenced the market massively, when we first pitched ours the market had a couple of green house-like tunnel tents and the Monty to offer, often we found we had one of the biggest tents on site. Not anymore! Walk up any site these days and you can see the Montana influence all over.
The flexibility you get with the Monty is great, the three doors mean you can pitch the tent any way round you feel, so if you want to sleep a certain way with a slope on site – or just want to point the windows toward a certain view – no problem! Just do it and use the most convenient door to come and go by. I have to say that this tent is easy to pitch and take down for two people. The vents, opening windows and no-seeums mesh on all doors and windows also give you a massive amount of choice when it comes to ventilation. Very hot days – get all the doors and windows open and the tent virtually becomes a canopy with bedrooms in it. When the weather takes a turn for the worse; having an SIG and closing all the vents, doors and windows really keeps the draught out. In our time in ours we have known it stand up to pretty strong winds blowing in and some torrential rain – or just days of rain, and it’s come through all without incident. Once we were at the low end of a campsite and a sudden torrential down pour caused a stream to form to drain the site – this ran under our tent! Thanks to the SIG (which has a HH of 10,000) we didn’t see any water inside.
We didn’t buy any of the extensions as we found the tent to be big enough at the time, though I have been in tents with these on and have been impressed with the amount of space they provide.
All in all I can really recommend this tent for the price point it is at. Have we replaced our Monty with another? Well.Err.No! The Monty did feature on the list but we have opted for the Outwell Tennessee 5, a clear descendent from that original Monty just a little bigger and with an interesting floor plan.
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By: Povy Reason: I own(ed) one Made in: 2010 Rating: Date: 29/03/2012
We chose this tent because my partner (all 6'5 of him) wanted a tent he could stand up in in the event we were confined to indoors in bad weather. He jinxed us. On first use it did amazingly well, howling gales and rain nonstop for five days/nights! I honestly thought we would take off in the night but the tent held. We bought the canopy to go with it but one of the pole snaps broke when we were taking it down. And due to the wind the roof poles had bent out of shape. On second use much better weather took two adults and three huskies, plenty of room. Because we don't use it frequently we tend to forget how it goes up but still manage to fathom it in 40 so minutes. Over all I'm really happy with it.
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By: Bayley321 Reason: I own(ed) one Made in: 2006 Rating: Date: 30/11/2011
Fantastic family tent. We use it for 4 people not 6. I think squeezing 3 people in each bedroom would be a bit too cosy. Plenty of space. We have camped in many places. The Montana 6 still stands while other tents are blowing away or ripping in the wind. Very easy to put up. On one campsite we had to turn the tent round as we had pitched to wrong way. It took us 1 hour 15mins.
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By: Intents guy Reason: I own(ed) one Made in: 2010 Rating: Date: 25/09/2011
Used in Europe on month long holidays, hence the choice of a lovely airy tent. A week of torrential rain in the black forest had no effect, 5000mm hydrostatic head seems proven. Few points of discontent for a 5' 8'' owner-can't reach very top of front entrance zips from outside. Good point, on a reasonable day I can raise tent single handed while the family walk the dog. Start with the rear pegged but nothing else, then lean successive arches forward. Once 4 arches are up ease them forward and peg the rings. Works a treat!
Packing away is easy if you are prepared to lie on the tent to expel the air. I use a sturdy rubble sack to hold the metalwork as it will soon puncture the bag otherwise. Happy camping!
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By: Old Grey Reason: I own(ed) one Made in: 2011 Rating:  Date: 13/09/2011
Wow where do I start. Rather mixed feelings sadly as this in design and use is a great tent ! However if you ever try to deal with Outwell you will end up bald. After 2 returned tents with staining and tears to fly screens and bags we were very well looked after by Go Outdoors head office who ordered us a new 2011 Montana 6 from Oase in Denmark ( the makers) With a week or so to go before a booked 10 day trip we waited for the replacement which Oase refused to send direct to us as they ' ONLY SUPPLY to retailers ' in their words. I was cc'd on all E Mails by Go so as to be kept in the loop with this replacement.
The day of delivery came 4 or 5 days before our trip .And I opened the box to see a 2010 Montana 6 without bedroom pod. Seems the guys that own this brand either cant read E Mails or don't know the difference between their products. Though they did confirm all the order details in the mails before sending goods and managed to not notice the tie on labels that stated 2010 ! So if the rating is for customer satisfaction in dealing with Oase then my score should read 0 out of 10.
However thanks to a sterling last minute effort by Go they found a replacement ' up North ' and sent it next day to my home. The tent still has a very few stains as does the Awning ( not great for a new product! ) but in use it was very roomy, well appointed and stood up to some early remnants of the American Atlantic winds. If it were to be improved there are points that let it down a little, firstly the posh colour coded pegs are great to admire but manage to bend even in quite soft grassy soil, about 40% are unusable after only one trip ! When it is windy the seal on the main tent door is not as good as it could be, why oh why make such an expensive , well appointed tent and then only place 3 small velcro patches along the bottom of the side zipping - full length door. The wind causes the door flap to lift in the gaps. They need to either make this like the Kampa Pendine doors with a higher step or add a strip of velcro along the base. The Zip up window blinds, with storage pockets below the windows to hold them when zipped down, are the nicest system I have used . But watch out for condensation from the windows running into pools in the pockets ! The storm door , though low for my 6 foot 3 inches, is a great idea when its blowing a hooley outside. This has an outer flap and an inner zipped-all-round door on the tent entry, thus allowing you to control the flow of rain and wind into the tent. Oh must add even with strongly wind driven rain it was dry all round !
All in all if Outwell can try to learn the basics of supporting their customers and quality control , address a few minor issues , this tent would be 10 out of 10.
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By: Rhubarbs Reason: I own(ed) one Made in: 2011 Rating:  Date: 04/09/2011
We purchased our Montana 6 in August 2011, we upgraded from a Montana 4 which we have had for 5 years as we now have children and needed more space. We were unable to pitch the tent before going on holiday to Devon, so imagine our disappointment to find the tent had what looked like grease marks on it, and writing on the fabric under the air vent when we pitched for the first time.
We notified the company who had sold us the tent and they said they would replace it on our return. Unfortunately they could not replace the tent as they did not have any more Monty's in stock so they refunded our money in full.
We then went to another company and purchased another Montana 6. We got the tent home and decided to pitch it to make sure all was ok. On erecting the tent we put the first ring and pin into the pole and the tent ripped on the seam. Phoned the company and they said they would replace it as this should not have happened.
Got our third Montana home and pitched it to check. This time we found a hole in the large window on the front of the tent, and another hole on the side by the door! Not only that but the waterproof tape that covers the seams on the inside of the tent looked really shoddy. All had a very jagged cut and were coming unstuck. And once again more chalk marks under all of air vents.
Having invested in an extension, carpet and foot print for the Monty we feel absolutely gutted that this has happened to us, and are seriously considering selling everything and finding a different brand.
As we have owned an Outwell tent before and have a Sliding Canopy and a Windbreak we know that Outwell is a leading name in camping equipment. So what has gone wrong with their quality control or have we just been unlucky?
If anyone else has had problems with their 2011 Montana 6 we would love to hear your story.
Having had all these problems, we still loved the tent when we were away. The size and layout is excellent, and worked really well for us as a family.
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By: Julia Dooley Reason: I own(ed) one Made in: 2010 Rating: Date: 31/08/2011
Liked the look of the tent when viewed them on other campsites. This is a robust well made piece of camping equipment we are extremely happy with our purchase. The additional carpets keep you nice and cosy, there is lots of room for a growing family. We purchased out tent from Singletons of Preston for the great price of £450.00.
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By: TheMeltonCrew Reason: I own(ed) one Made in: 2010 Rating: Date: 30/08/2011
A very spacious tent with two bedrooms. There is lots of living space too. Great organiser pockets so the tent doesn't get cluttered with bits and pieces.
It has one rain safe door which is great if the weather isn't good! The very useful porch area can be used for shoes etc.
The tent is easy to pitch and once up will survive whatever the British weather throws at it. We also bought the tent carpet to add a touch of luxury.
A great family tent!
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Manufacturer's Description
Last year we said it was hard to improve on tent perfection. But we did. This year, we’ve gone even further. Sleeping up to six in its two bedrooms the amazing Montana 6P is loved by its owners, and much-sought after by camping families everywhere! Key attractions of this three-room tunnel tent include flysheet in Outtex® 5000 that can be pitched first or all as one. The spacious living area extends into the new Panorama Front with Tinted Windows throughout as well as the Side Porch with Detachable Bathtub Groundsheet. Then there are details such as the electric cable entry point and organiser pockets. Pitching is all in one or flysheet first, and the Montana 6P boasts many, many features great and small that contribute to its number one billing. No wonder it is awarded Tent of the Year – and that’s official!
Recommendation: For families of up to six who want a perfect balance of living and sleeping space in a proven, ultimate prize-winning package.
Type of tent: Three room tunnel tent
Sleeps: 6 people
Rooms: 2 bedrooms, 1 living room
Pitching way: Flysheet first or as one
Flysheet: Outtex® 5000 (75D 100% polyester taffeta)
with taped seams
Floor: Double-coated 100% polyethylene,
10,000 mm hydrostatic head
Inner tent: Breathable 100% polyester
Pack size: Tent: 77 x 36 x 38 cm / Poles: 23 x 77 cm
Weight: Tent: 22.6 kg / Poles: 18.0 kg
Poles: Steel poles 19/22 mm, Alloy pole 9.5 mm, 2 upright steel poles
Large panorama front
Detachable bathtub groundsheet for porch area
Large tinted panorama windows with zip-up curtains
Pre-attached and adjustable
inner tents
Organiser pockets
Fully seam-sealed flysheet for maximum protection
Mesh pockets in the inner tents
Reinforcement patch on
all stress points
Adjustable pegging points
Luminous guylines
Heavy duty Outwell zips
Outwell doormat included
Repair kit included
Optional extras: Carpet and footprint
... there may be more info on their website
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