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Having recently bought the Vango Icarus 500 on the strength of recent reviews etc. we are now looking for a hopefully matching Sun Canopy for it. We bought the Blue colour which is described as Ensign/Bluebell, however as this I guess is a fairly new tent and Vango come up with different colours all the time, we cannot find an exact matching sun canopy. I have emailed Vango to ask if they are planning to bring out a canopy with a better match than existing products and am awaiting their reply. However I wondered if anyone else has bought the Blue version of this tent recently and got a canopy to go with it as well? If so, what colour canopy did you go for? I've seen online and ebay sellers quoting large sun canopy in Lead/Marine and also Smoke but have no idea if either of these would be better suited. We've even actually considered getting the Black canopy to go with it as this should be a fairly neutral colour match (I hope!)

One other quick question - does anyone know where the lantern hanging point is supposed to be in the Icarus 500? We found a loop at the top middle near the hanging pockets by the bedrooms but this seems a pretty silly place to try and hang your lantern!!!