Hi,
I'm thinking of starting camping with the family, so decided to get a tent. Never camped before, so it's very hard to make any decision - not wiser even after spending hours on the Internet and reading 500 reviews, haha
Can you help to choose one, pretty please? :)
this is what we need/want:
- large tent - 2 adults, 3 kids (1,3,6)
- decent living space, so kidas can be entertained if raining
- easy to pitch
- large bedroom, so can kids can stay close night time
After researching, reading reviews and going through many deals online (we're in Ireland, so will have to rely on web shopping) I'm thinking of hi gear kalahari 8 (or 10, tempted by the bigger size, but would that mean harder to set up and less stability?)
Price with carpet, footprint and porch is around £400
(£450 for kalahari 10) - have any of you purchased/seen a decent large family tent in that price range (or lower) that you'd recommend?
i'd be grateful for any advice...
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I'm biased but have a look at the Gelert Corvus range, we have the 6+2, three bedrooms, one of them large and a lovely big living area. We started off with a tunnel tent similar to the kalahari and the thing we like better about the corvus is the nice big windows, gives you a light and airy space, even if it's raining outside.
We've not used ours yet, but the friends with camp with have one (which was why we ended up getting one!)!
Good sized bedrooms which can be configured in a few different ways, hugeliving room and built in porch for your kitchen.
Oh and the added bonus of the lights out tent pods, which keeps them dark in the daylight. We've checked out our local GO store and the pods are still very dark during the day, great bonus if you have little ones I'd expect.
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I personally would take a look at some of the Kampa tents
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the Kampa that would suit us would probably be Croyde 6, but for the same price I think I'd prefer gelert corvus 5+2 - extra bedroom might came handy one day ;)
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Quote: Originally posted by kaskas on 13/8/2012the Kampa that would suit us would probably be Croyde 6, but for the same price I think I'd prefer gelert corvus 5+2 - extra bedroom might came handy one day ;)
Plus remember you have the flexibility of not having to have that third bedroom up and having a bigger living area instead, that's what we do now my daughter doesn't come with us as often.
I bought the Hi Gear Corado 6 two weeks ago and i have been very impressed, a lot of tent for a very reasonable price you could pop in at GO and take a look at one maybe the Corado 8 would be better for you. Other than that the Kampa tents look excellent!
thanks for all your advice - I really liked the corvus outline, martisa light out pods, also looked (once again) at the Kampa range...
I wish I could find a better deal for corvus 6+2, but the best I could find with extras and shipping to Ireland was £570, comparing to Kalahari 10 for £360... so went for Kalahari - we can use only 2 pods and have bigger living area, similar to corvus.
The windows are much smaller, but just couldn't justify 200 of a difference for a bigger windows - and that leaves us with option to upgrade next year ;)
Now, I just hope kids will like camping - I think it's big enough to play football inside, but hope we'l get some nice weather and won't have to spend too much time inside (yes, I know how naive it sounds, lol)
Thanks again for all replys
oh, getting so excited :)
Call it your starter tent kaskas! We started off with Campus Indiana 8 which was similar to the kalahari and we loved it, until we decided we 'needed' to upgrade! Prepare yourself cos it happens to all of us lol.
Hope you have many happy hours in your new tent with your family, I'd put money on the kids liking it
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I have a Corvus (5+2) into its second year with us. Whilst I do really like it there are things I wish we had different. We are 2 adults and 2 kids (8 and 3). Little one sleeps with us in the bigger room and son has his own space right next door. We don't hang the third room. The living room is massive! More than we need and with the inevitable dodgy weather we have to construct a tarp at the side or front to cook under and have to transplant cooking station outside each time and it takes two of us to move it. Not ideal. With that in mind I'd say go for something with sectioned living space, medium size carpeted area that you can keep cosy in the evenings with a more open area at the front for cooking. Something like the Kampa Filey would be a good set up, though having had a truly awful Kampa table I'm really not sold on their build quality. Also, we have the carpet for our whole living space and its huge! Could do with something smaller as don't really need carpet in food areas.
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Topic: Large family tent recommendation
