Quote: Originally posted by picantose on 30/4/2010
Be careful with the Khyam Indiana TC, I was very interested in buying one of those new a couple of years ago - but was put off by the problem with the supplied poles not being strong enough to cope with the weight of the polycotton flysheet. Owners complained about the weight of having to lift the polycotton with the poles and reports of the poles sheering under the pressure.
Regards,
Gary
I was told this as well by a dealer and read it a few times when we were looking at various polycotton tents to buy ,the poles aren't up to holding the weight normaly never mind in bad weather.
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Stick with Outwell imo, or Cabanon. Its worth paying extra for the peace of mind that your tent will not let you down. Apologies for stating that the Bear Lake 6 was a 3 bedroom. I was looking round a Wolf Lake 7 the other week so must be getting mixed up . That is one big mother btw. I'm 5' 10" and standing on my tip toes I could barely reach the top of the tent. Theres a few nice looking Vango polycotton tents as well now, but being brand new for 2010, you will struggle to find them 2nd hand.
Regarding the Kyham, heres a review that may put you off.............
I'd love to give this a good review. It has loads of space but the tunnel poles felt a bit over-stressed. It looked good, the polycotton even felt/sounded good and you could stand up virtually everywhere, but the poles, as hinted at, were the Achilles Heel. In a light/moderate wind they broke, or rather three did. One ripped part of a sleeve. Khyam refused to replace the tent, instead insisting on a full refund. I was actually a bit disappointed, because the tent had so many good points about it. However the Khyam rep explained to me that they had severe quality issue with those poles, even though they are thicker than the the previous year's nylon based tent. I'm not an engineer, but I believe that poles with longer fibre-glass sections, and with longer metal sleeves, would have helped sort out the stress issue.
When Khyam gave us our money back we had to buy another tent. Our new Vango Yukon 800 feels like it's made from recycled supermarket shopping bags compared to the Indiana. It is very waterproof, but so is a bin-liner if worn sensibly. The Indiana definitely had a crucial extra special factor, and just loads of usable space, and I hope the company can sort out the quality of the poles, as I'm not going to fall in love with our Yukon.
We have just brought a vango zanzibar 600 for 425 quid,from j r lesuire via ebay, this is brand new tent but a leftover 2008 model, wolf lake 7 was our ideal but over budget, we have pitched the vango in the garden and to be honest the polycotton seems just as good as the outwells, i dont know the technical stuff about which is better but this seems like a fab polycotton tent for the price, colour is great sage so not to green when inside, we have down graded from a cabanon espace, so wanted something of a decent quality and not keen to go back to polyester.
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Hi all we have decided against the Khyam Indiana because of the bad press from the poles,my partner wants a tent with thicker poles not one of those you fit together with elastic,so we are gonna up our budget to about 650.00 max so we can get something we really want.
Please continue to keep your eyes out for a large family sized polly cotton tent for us.
I'd see if that NL is still for sale as well - excellent tent.
£650 is a very good budget - the Kampa ones look good but for Polycotton sitll a bit out of you price range
The Holam 6 is still around £700-£800 and you would be better going for the extra space the polzeath gives at £850 http://www.campingworld.co.uk/Models.aspx?PartnerID=1&ModelID=4601
Would you have a frame tent?
You can pick up a good Cabanon (or other canvas) for your budget.
Beware Polycotton tents are big and heavy and take up a lot of space when packing.
------------- Keely :-))
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Quote: Originally posted by dadsbeaniemad on 30/4/2010
Beware Polycotton tents are big and heavy and take up a lot of space when packing.
Good point Keely and as you have said for that sort of money the OP could pick up a really good second hand frame tent. I tend to forget that we have a van to move all our stuff around with lol.
Just a point for the OP Keely how many Cabanons have three bedrooms ,just so they know which ones to look out for (I don't have a clue when it comes to the frame tents)
The only one that would have 3 bedrooms that immediatley comes to mind is the Espace.
Though the 6 berth ones come as a 4 and 2 so really suitable for 4 with airbeds (would do 6 on self inflating mats)and the Athena/Montpelier and a couple of others have a wardrobe pole and space between the two bedrooms.
My 13 and 11 yr old are fine in the 2 bed inner and we have masses of space in the 4 now we don't take the aerobed
Quote: Originally posted by the ptaks on 30/4/2010
Thanks everyone think we are going to go with the Norfolk Lake after looking at them in detail on the net what dya think?
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