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Hubby promised could have a new tent this year as growing family means our current one is getting a bit snug !!

Really like look of Vango Samara 600 as like 3 bedrooms (we are family of 4 and would use one to keep stuff in).  Have also come across Vango Athena 600 at Go Outdoors - is that the same as the Samara does anyone know ?

Any opinions / advice or should i just go for it ?

Thanks

Allison

There are still a few new Vango Columbia 600s around (£250 for a £450 2009 tent. Would be over £600 now). Steel poles, 5000HH, same design as the Sungari (on which the Samara is based) but with enclosed side porch, TBSII, 2/3 bedrooms, full or part opening front, 75 denier flysheet, flymesh on one side door, low level vents for excellent ventilation. Very similar to Outwell's popular Monty but a bit wider and with a 3 bedroom option. The Samara canopy will fit, but you'd have to be creative with a carpet and footprint (cut down or sew together 2).

There are still a few around as the retailers use a pre-production image with fibreglass poles rather than the steel poles it comes with. Read the reviews, it is an excellent tent that was in Vango's Premium tent range and has a top end spec.

We actually have 2 of them - one as a spare for when the first ultimately gives up. The robust, spatious, flexible and wind sheading design means that it is a fab tent.

Quote: Originally posted by TheBobbins on 09/5/2012.

Mand2005 - I would be really interested to hear if you bought the Tigris 600 side canopy for it; does it fit ok???

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    Hi

 I would also like to know if the Tigris canopy fits?

I just won a Samara 600 off ebay and waiting for it to be delivered :) I wouldn't need a large extention, so a side porch would be idea for cooking and keeping wet gear in

tas67 Our friends have a Tigris 600 with the side canopy and have to say that the canopy is huge and not just a small porch, infact we call it their conservatory.

We have the Samara 400 complete with front extension which virtually doubles the size of the tent, if  Vango made a small side extension it would be ideal as you say for cooking and wet gear.

What we have for weekend camping is a double outhouse utility tent which makes an ideal kitchen.

We bought the Outhouse Double utility tent last month and used it for the first time last weekend as our kitchen tent, it was plenty big enough to take our kitchen stand which is the Argos double stand with cupboard underneath, it worked really well and kept OH dry while cooking breakfast.

The tent itself measures 2m x 1.5m and comes complete with seperate ground sheet, the only criticism I would have is it could do with more pegging points round the bottom other than that it's a great piece of kit.

We have never had to pay extra when we have used the front extension on our Samara 400 but I think that's because we use small non commercial sites, I think we would more than likely be charged extra on the bigger commercial sites.