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So we have sold our Vango Maritsa 700 and are now in the market for a canvas tent to sleep 4 + a cairn terrier.

Have looked at the Cabanon Barbados and the Touareg,Palamos etc and looked at the reviews on here.

Which one is the best for our needs?

Would like a reasonable amount of room to live in which does not encroach on the sleeping area.

The kids have got cot beds but the wife and i are on the floor at the moment(did have a double kampa cot bed but found it too uncomfortable.

So we need a canvas tent easy for one person to erect with enough sleeping,living and cooking space and not feeling hemmed in like battery chickens when it is raining.

Willing to pay upto Barbados money so max £1000.

What do people with real experiences of both nylon and canvas tents reccommend??

Regards.

Never used a Polyester Tent for Family camping, and we got our first Cabanon Cotton Canvas Tent back in 1978.

They do tend to last and we upgraded in 2008, and bought a brand new Cabanon Biscaya 370 Cotton Canvas for £699.

The Biscaya took our camping experience to the next level, what with ZiG and just 5 Hoops to pitch.

Mrs Francais leaves me to pitch, whilst she goes of to scope the campsite, and to bring me some chilled beers to help with pitching.

Sadly the Biscaya 370 Cotton is no longer made, in fact it was only produced for the 2007 Season.

Then came along the Vision, similiar Tent in Cotton but SiG instead of ZiG.

And now of course the Biscaya 370 Cotton is reincarnated as the Awaya 370 Cotton with ZiG.

I would go for theTouareg with ZIG, quite roomy easy to pitch, windows and doors on both sides.

 Or Palamos.