After a bit of advice if possible please.I know there has been quite a few previous posts about these kind of tents and it is apparent that both the Quechua and Outwell ones are well liked and recommended. Does anybody have any experience of the Eurohike Flash Mach II Blackout Tent, its currently shown on the Millets website. It is listed as being double skin design which seems to one of the major advantages of the Quechua and Outwell over some of the other ones available. Ideally I would have liked to have gone to one of the Decathlon Stores and have a look at the Quechua range (due to the positive responses on here), but like a lot of people I live nowhere near a store and would prefer to see the range of products before buying one.
I only planning on using this tent when staying somewhere for 1 or 2 nights instead of dragging the bigger Vango with me.
Any advice gratefully received .
Thanks
Mike
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We're also looking for a small overnighter tent. I've not seen a flash mach but if it's a pop-up (you've perhaps already read this too) I've heard that (in particular the Gelert twister) they can be a really major handful to squease back and pack. We're having the same trouble as you in not being able to view what we're interested in.
We've got the Quechua 3 sec air and it's a great tent,0ne of the bigger pop up tents it's around a metre when you get it in it's bag lol, A few F's and Jeff's or kung fu lessons works wonders. It's worth it for the speed it goes up, you get 9 pegs and one of them is a spare, great over nighter or weekender.
If the Millets' tent is the one I was looking at a few weeks ago, the advantage over the other brands is that it has an extension over the porch so that the rain doesn't pour in when you open the sloping door.
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Must say if ours had a extension fitted it would be brill, the first couple of times we used it we did'nt have anything sorted, but after that i sorted a tarp out, NO rain or drips inside,
I've got the three man eurohike popup from Millets.
Bought the 2 man first for my 5 year old daughter and I. Too small. Sorry but I need some headroom. Thankfully the zip stuck and the very nice store assistant agreed to exchange it for the larger model.
I made a deal with the store assistant that if she could show me how to pack it up, in the 'promised' ten seconds, I'd buy it. She did, and I'm not disappointed.
Good build quality, and the first two occasions we've used it, it's pelted down with rain and we've had high winds (not us... the weather... you get me?). One other person's tent was blown away, it was too windy to keep a flame alight to cook, but the tent stood up to the punishment beautifully, and no leaks (not the vegetables... well not them either, but no damp inside the tent!).
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i am a huge fan of quechua pop ups but i was impressed with the design of the millets tent and it is presumably easier to buy if you don't live near a decathlon shop.
We have an Outwell Jersey M which is significally larger than the Jersey S and gives us plenty of storage room when me and my other half go for weekend break and my mother in law has a Quechua 3 seconds light which is of a similiar size, great for two with room to spare for their gear. Would recommend both, we got our Outwell from Yeomans and they got their Quechua from ebay.
We used our Outwell in March at a CCC Club site when it was emptying down for 24 hours and it wasnt too bad at all as the door opens outwards and so the rain falls onto the grass in front of the tent (and my other half being the gent he is went out first and held the door open for me to get out), the only issue we had was what to do with our shoes so we put a little mat just inside the door that we stepped onto and left our shoes on to stop the inside and our bedding getting muddy.
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It really isn't a big issue and if you are young and nimble you can open it from the bottom and nip in and out. (which was my son's answer when i was worried about it).
As i get older and more creaky it get's a bit more difficult and having exposed my bum to some poor unsuspecting young men last time i tried to crawl out of ours, i am really pleased you can get a special pop up room to crawl out into, if needs be
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