I need some help quite urgently. My hubby and I and the 2 kids (2+4) want to go camping for the may bank holiday. However our tent was absolutely wrecked in the awful wind and rain of last summer, so we don't have a tent. This year we want to buy two tents, one for weekends, and one for longer summer breaks. I thought we'd settled on the Sunncamp evolution 600 for a weekend tent, but have only just realised it has two separate inner sleeping pods. We would ideally like on that has a curtain/no separation between pods so we have easy access to the kids in the night.
Any ideas of tents similar in size and layout to the evo, but with all in one sleeping? our budget is £200, new or SH we don't mind but we'd go higher for the perfect tent.
Help please!
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We (us and 2 kids 9 and 5) have just bought a 2nd hand Outwell Minnesota 4 for £135 via Ebay.
Bedroom has a divider, living area is big enough for us to fit in a table and seating if necessary. Steel poles so will be sturdy in windy weather. Our Khyam Sun Porch will fir over the front to give enough of a sheltered area for cooking if we need it. Or we can rig up the tarp.
We think it will do us just fine as a weekender.
Alternatively, friend of ours have bought the very similar Yeoman's exclusive Outwell Virginia 5 £160. Basically the same sort of design but with fibreglass poles.
Outwell Nevada M. Really quick to throw it up, can do it with one person with practice. Carbon poles so very light, Outwell so it's quality! Lots of room, pod divider rolls up to make one big bedroom.
At the moment the Icarus is the No1 choice of weekender tent. And deservedly so. The 500 is around £149, the 600 around £170. Light, compact in the car and on pitch, easy to put up, plenty of room for two adults and two small people and it has the big pod you want. You could buy a 600 and the extension as above for it and it might well be big enough for long stays, depending on how much kit you like to take.
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Topic: Weekend tent - urgent help needed!
