i have read most of the posts on this sit regarding which tent is best but all i have learnt is do not buy outwell as they are prone to leak, i am a toal camping newbie and looking to buy a tent at min choice between vango aspen 700dlx or the suncamp vario 9 can some one please advice as there is just so much info, i want a tent which will keep me and my family dry is sturdy has good size rooms, there is 4 of us, money not really isuue as i would rather get it right first time around
SOME ONE PLEASE HELP !!!!!!! wife and children crazing me to buy but just do not know what to do
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Welcome to the site........no not all outwells are prone to leak you only read about the bad ones. If you did a straw poll on here on people with outwell it would probably come out 95% of tents not leaking. You say you are looking at vango's. Look at posts on here and they show that vango are having more reports of leaks than outwell this year..
My favouries this year are the Royal pescara(outwell nebraska), Sunncamp global,outwell bearlake, khyam ontario/kansas 8, vango brekenridge.........and of course my indiana 6...not one report of a leak on them and mine has been severley tested last week in scotland...
good luck with your search, give us a bit more info on prefs.....i.e sig or not,canopy,tunnel,dome etc
thanks for the reply janso , think would prefer SIG and as to tunnel or dome the one with the most head room and space , i suppose want space for at least 8 this is double my family size so would give me lots of room, i know a tent is not like a house but want as close to it as you can get (caravans to expensive).it must be able to withstand the good old blighty weather i have a budget for the tent of £550 , basically i donot want to sound a snob but i want the best tent on the market at moment, the trouble is i thourght i knew what i wanted and was steering towards the vang aspen 700dlx but now if u say these have had problems i am lost agian, i did not realise there were so many tents out there but any more advice or help would be gratefull, i just have visions of a downpour and the family floating out of the tent on inflatable mattresess ,
thanks darren
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we have an outwell indiana 8 berth tent and i can,t recommend it enough! we have just returned from a week in north devon where the weather was truely horrendous added to that the fact the site we were on was on top of a cliff with no shelter what so ever yet our tent did not leak as all in fact we were the last ones standing. we have tried several tents before including a vango but the outwell certainly out shines the rest.This tent is very comfortable there was three adults and three children sleeping in our tent yet there was plenty of room so much so that our friends who came with us often had to spend the evenings with us along with their two kids, as their tent was unable to stand up to the high winds.Hope this is some help. i'm so pleased with this tent i wish i could lend it you i'm that convinced you'd buy one. buy the way our friends went and bought one the day we came back.
We have the vario 900. Loads of space. Added advantage that you can take the annexe for a longer holiday or leave it at home for the weekend. Plenty of height aswell.
Very easy to pitch. Takes us about 30 minutes with the annexe. One thing which surprised me, when we pitched it in the back garden in April for practice and went in the following morning at about 9.30 it was really quite warm in there.
Plenty of light aswell and ventilation on all the windows.
Thing is, there is no perfect manufacturer - no 100% success rate. Some have very bad reputations, but even the good ones have bad years or trouble-prone models. Khyam have come in for some grumbling too in the last year or so. Everyone has at some time. Even with trouble prone models, some people get ones that are fine, because the model design isn't so tricky that it's impossible for them to assemble it right, just more difficult than other models.
Pick your model on features, with some but not overriding regard to company reputation (like, I think most people on here would run a country mile from a Rage, but still consider Outwells) and then when you get it, put it up and hose it for a good while. If it leaks, take it back. Until you have the tent in your hands and test it, you won't really know for 100% sure. All you do in picking your brand is reduce the chances that oyu'll be sending something back to a hopefully tiny minimum.
We has a Coleman vis-a-vis style dome, still use it for short trips, but for headroom and space we opted for an Outwell Colorado 8 for the four of us. The tunnel gives great height throughout, no leakage problems as yet, me and my 12 y.o. can put it up in half an hour. No SIG, but I'm not a fan anyway, all that faff with keeping clean. And we get to have a good bit of space between us and the kids but in a tidy footprint, rather than "the mothership has landed". (Sorry, that's just what the huge dome-and-pod tents look like to me. I expect ramps and flashing lights!)
i have read most of the posts on this sit regarding which tent is best but all i have learnt is do not buy outwell as they are prone to leak,
Not all of them leak. There have been some issues with the more one piece designs such as the Nebrasaka/Monty/Vermont ranges.
We have the Outwell Georgia XL that withstood everything nature has thrown at it, particularly last weekend. It stood firm whilst some others were flapping around.
thanks to everyone who has left advice, did not realise our country still had so many friendly and helpful people , it has restored some of my faith in human nature, so i think its down to 3
Outwell Georgia XL
outwell indiana 8
vango aspen 700dlx
if i could have peoples opinions on these 3 who have them it would be greatly appreciated
Hi 26daze. I have just bought an Indiana 8 and pitched it today at a local campsite just to try it out. It is a great tent with loads of space, loads of light and a very practical design. Took 2 of us over an hour, but we weren't rushing and it was the first time we had pitched it. It was very straightforward to get it up and was very stable in some quite strong winds. The bedrooms were already attached which makes life easier. It has some nice touches such as velcro straping to keep electric cables tidy, a hanging loop for a lantern and lots of storage compartments. My only concern is that there is no ventialtion to the smaller bedroom, although the door has a mesh inner.It came down just as easily as it went up and we got it back into the bag first time. It is a heavy tent, but bag has wheels which makes life easier, the bags have a separate bag and are very heavy
Hi 26daze, not all Outwells are prone to leak. We brought a 2007 Montana and its completely leak free. Outwell outsell most other brands so you will always here more about the negatives.
You should make you own list up of your families needs from a tent, visit a few displays and make a shortlist of the tents that fulfill your personal needs. Then from this Shortlist make your choice.
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