Does anyone have a Vango Breckenridge 600? we need to exchange our vango Killington due to faulty batch of leaking tents ours being one of them!!
Quite new to camping so was a bit upset with a wet tent. I like plenty of room and to be able to cook outside the main tent. Just wandering whether enough room in the entrace porch for cooking? Thinking of adding a large canopy as well. Also colours - saw it in bottle which looked a bit drab but not sure what the blue is like. Can anyone help?
Thanks
Tilly-tiger
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Hi, we have the breckenrige 600 in blue and its brill, it has lots of space inside. Not alot of room to cook in the entrace doorway, but if you get the vango large canopy you will be fine. from Tracey
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from my experience this summer the canopy is not a problem in windy weather.
its weakness is where it fits to the tent. it will "pop" off the front pole. vango were expecting a little to much from the elastic gripping the pole area in my opinion. they do say it is only a "sun canopy" though.
we modified ours by carefully cutting the elastic, without damaging the material, and pulled it further over the front of the tent. we also added an extra guy rope to where it meets the tent.
it now sits back about 8 - 12" and is just the ticket.
play about with it and see what works best for you.
Hi, Tilly-tiger, no we do not have a canopy but i am going to get one for next summer, and yes the sleeping pobs are a very big size. you can have all three up, are if you do not need them all you just put up what you want. from tracey
Hi Tracey, I am interested to see how your Breckenridge has faired in bad weather. There have been a few threads about leaking Breckenridges but as a Monty 6 owner I think the B600 really ticks all the boxes for us being a family of 5 where the Monty falls a little short in sleeping area.
------------- Nigel
March 2012 - Dove Meadows
6th July Moving to Hayle
Hi, Nigel, we were out in our tent about 3 weeks ago, went up to keswick, one night we have very bad rain and strong winds, it was that bad we get up alot in the night to see how the tent was doing. I must say that the tent was brill. No leaking and it stayed up, not like 2 of the tent that did not stand up to the very high winds. This was the first time in this tent and like you i had heard about the leaking B600, but i must say ours did very well and it is one ace tent. Tracey
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We have the Breckenridge 600 too & are really happy with it. Had a couple of very rainy nights in it this summer and it was fine. It's very spacious inside, and the sleeping pods are nice and big, though porch is small and I think a bit pointless - we're going to get the extra canopy for next year. We have the blue one and like it, though I guess it's a matter of taste....
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Tracey
