Seeing as I'm training to be a psychotherapist, I have a vested interest in this post - and yes, I'm also an addict and finding it hard to control my impulses (as you may have seen from my recent posts re tent lust).
We have a fleet of four, although one of which is on the 'out' pile.
Definitely 'in' are:
Esther the Cabanon Estoril - my favourite tent. She's pretty and was purchased underhand/secondhand on ebay for £150 including the sun canopy, to which I've now added my DIY canopy with sides. We use this as our holiday home for the main two-week breaks. I love this tent.
Easycamp Planet 300 - bought new as a B&B tent. It's a tall dome so we both can stand up. Quick to pitch and dry and doesn't take up much space alongside the Cabanon in our car for the French adventures.
Raymondo - the Outlaw Monterey 4: new kid on the block. Relatively easy pitch for a weekend trip and pitches all in one with SIG. Extension usefulness TBC...
In the 'out tray':
Sunncamp Family Vario 5. Great tunnel tent purchased on ebay. This was tent No 3 for us, following a spate of buy and sell that would do a city trader proud. Beginning to show its age, but sturdy poles and moveable front panel. Would make a good beer tent.
Still have a hankering for a bit of Dutch canvas tho'.
Frogdropping - you know you really, really need another tent
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A Cabanon. Not sure which, but it looks so much like a chalet I just want it*sighs*. Unfortunately it's for sale in Lincolnshire, otherwise for the price I'd have a look at it.
Circumstances change, and needs change, so I buy a new tent, but keep the old one(s) just in case they'll be handy for such and such an occasion, and suddenly the garage is full !!
Ooops, I have 5 tents, just been counting; First one, a cheapo from Argos, bought it, to see if we like camping. Quickly learnt the disadvantages of a single skin tent.
Number 2 tent, is a Vango Oregan 400 upgrade, now retired.
number 3, Blacks Constellation 2 series, for those quick weekends away, and if I'm camping on my own.
number 4, Sigma 300 as a pup tent, when I had the Vango Oregon.
number 5, My new one is the Neveda M, replacing the Vango.
On my next trip, I will be taking the Neveda M for my Sis for a couple nights, which then I will move into when sis and niece and nephew have gone.
I will be using the Constellation with my DS. If touring Soctland at some point, it will be this tent.
heath63
------------- New Year: Hesketh Bank
Feb/March: Red Squirrel
March: lakes
June: Morecambe
Aug: Lake District(not camping camping)
October: Red Squirrel
We've got 5 at the moment-
Vango Rio- our first proper family tent
Sunncamp 6 berth joby- bought to replace the Rio as the kids didn't like sharing anymore. But I ripped the flysheet...
Pop-up tent- bought for Scout camp and the odd weekend away without the kids
2 man little dome- bought because I fancied a new tent for a Scout camp.
Vango Samara- bought to replace the Sunncamp.
I can't throw any of the them away, you never know when one might come in handy. We do use the Samara for weekend trips away and for longer trips.
I have three,
A small eurohike Kent, bought for first time camping, found after two days it was too small for longer stays than two days. Next a pro action tunnel.. a brilliant tent, but the one bedroom made poor privacy. Finally a Coleman Ridge 4 man. The kent is still being used, the pro action was the absorbent material when my boiler developed a leak i was unaware of, I will be cannibalising it for spare guys and poles. The coleman is a frequently out and about.
------------- 47 and only just learned how to work a sleeping bag
Non taken, cmes, although if you take the last griddle pan plate off the shelf, I may reconsider!!
Back on topic.....
Having recently acquired a second tent, it was our initial intention to flog the Icarus, but we've decided to keep hold of it for now, just in case the new one proves a bit over OTT for weekends. Iccy 500 is ideal for a weekend, me thinks.
I will plan for a griddle. ;-) but surely it depends what you call OTT for weekends? If you are talking a marquee for a weekend camp with fully fitted kitchen to boot. yeah..Too OTT. ;-)
I recall a family from Liverpool, they had several tents and van to transport them, 8 kids, each tent had two children give or take, along with the gazebo in the middle. I liked the plan.
------------- 47 and only just learned how to work a sleeping bag
Angie,
I totally see what you are saying, and up to this point, I couldn't see the sense of having separate tents for weekends and long-stays. However, having just purchased a tent that may well take twice as long to erect, and five times as long to dry out, if we have to strike camp in the rain, I feel it sensible, for now at least, to keep hold of the Icarus. With the extension, there is little difference in the sizes, but I can get the Icarus up in my garden, should I need to dry it. I have no chance with my new Filey.
I probably shouldn't have used the term "weekend tent" in all honesty, as I had one eye on the weather, rather than the clock.
Hopefully, I will never use the Icarus again, as first impressions with the Filey are A1, but I may have to consider the Filey more as a "fairweather tent".
I also agree that justification is unnecessary, but it's still nice to talk...... particularly on a forum, and particularly in direct response to the OP.
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