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we went to our local ccc outdoors today and stood n drooled over the Montanna. we have been thinking about caravans trailer tents and folding campers (cant afford any) so we looked at frame tents but we like SIGs.

Outwell bearlake and norfolk lake are too big, anyway to come back to my thread, we picked up a Vango book and found one that Vango are doing like the Monty but the sleeping compartments are seperate ideal as our daughter will be 10 next year and wants to take a friend thinking privacy. its called Breckenridge. Anybody got one?

And have found it on ebay new for £240 with £15 pp  or for £295 with 2 free vango relaxer chairs free and £5 pp. the thing is do we pay more cos they are only in Hudderfied which is only about 8 miles away from us and if we have any probs we can take it right back to them or do we pay £50 less and get it from London?

I am tempted to pay more and get it from down the road. its all internet sales.

thanks for any advice.x

I second what matshan has said.

To add I would never buy a tent off ebay due to the returning factor etc;

Shopping locally keeps your local stores open too

Best of luck

Kitten x

hi Matshan thanks for the info. I put the details into the search and all i could find was one post for it saying they would not like to put it up in winds due to all the poles but then no tent is good to put up in winds!! lol    will prob get one from huddersfield off the web if we decide to get it.

thanks again

Have a look here and here

Sorry just noticed some of those aren't the Vango but there's enough there to give you an idea.

Thanks matshan. dont know where i was looking lol.  it seems some like and some dont which is the norm i suppose on all tents. hmmmm decisions decisions.

thanks again

I know that some retailers say that Vango trail behind Outwell a little in the specific area of the big family tents, because Outwell have really focused on that market for the last few years. On the other hand Vango built up their reputation via their mountaineering/backpacking tents, which are superb. However, when you look at the problems reported with some Outwell models this year, I am not sure that there is much to choose between them. What  I have always noted on these boards though, is that Vango have rarely, if ever, been criticised for their customer care.

I guess whatever maker or model you are asking about, there will be a range of different experiences amongst UKCS members. For example, our main 6 berth tent is a Vango Quest 600 (no longer made now) which is a family sized tent but made with their mountain range of materials (alloy poles, HH6000 fabric) and we have been extremely pleased with it, but our friends had a very saggy bedroom problem with a Vango Diablo 600.

Quote: Originally posted by etive on 03/9/2007

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was in a diablo at my local dealer yesterday,and as i have two vango,s at the moment i  was just about swayed to purchase this one,but it looked a b,,,,,r to put up,it was nice though except for those door straps that i tripped over twice,the other thing that put me of is the .pitch inner first and as i mainly camp in the rain,(always seems that way)i decided against it,so im waiting patiently for a 2008 monty 6

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the killington range was meant to cure the diablo problem of pitching inner first but they had quality issues with the 2007 models  

the killington range was meant to cure the diablo problem of pitching inner first but they had quality issues with the 2007 models  

Quote: Originally posted by force ten on 03/9/2007

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the killington range was meant to cure the diablo problem of pitching inner first but they had quality issues with the 2007 models  

 

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Quote: Originally posted by etive on 03/9/2007

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Quote: Originally posted by force ten on 03/9/2007

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the killington range was meant to cure the diablo problem of pitching inner first but they had quality issues with the 2007 models  

 

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i know, and to give them their there dues they admitted it,,

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