Hi.
After advice on behalf of my brother.
We holiday in caravan and after a couple of trips kipping in our awning. My brother has decided to invest in a tent and become independant.
He has been looking at 2 berth tents in particular air models. Only prob is not many high enough to stand up in.
Any single campers our there to recommend what they use.
Ideally v.quick/easy to put up. And big enough for wkends and weeks away.
Regards
milly
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Perhaps your price range will help or the UKCS millionaires will recommend tents at huge prices.
I agree with Bernie in that space and height make all the difference...leave the crawling on hands and knees to boy scouts. I am a solo camper with a 6 man tent which cost me £35 on ebay. It can be erected by somebody who is young and healthy in about 20 minutes...takes me a little longer!
I would suggest either an ex display tent...preferably one displayed indoors or a second hand tent advertised as 'only used once' etc.
It depends how often you go camping but why spend a fortune just for two or three camps a year?
I'm not in a position to recommend a specific tent, but I'd certainly go along with the "bigger is better" mandate. Bob's reference to boy scouts also rings true, imo. The only reason to have a low, small tent, is if you are carrying it on your back. If going by car, then a full height tent makes sense to me. I guess there may be the odd full height 3 berth, but there's certainly plenty of 4 berths. Plus, if he's struck on inflatables, I would imagine a 6 berth takes less than 1 minute more than a 4 berth to erect, due to an extra few pegs?
Personally, unless he's going camping regularly, at least 6-8 times a year, I'd think inflatable is overkill anyway. Most, or certainly many, 4 berth, full height tents with "normal poles", can be put up alone in around 12 to 20 minutes, fully erected and guyed out, once he has "the knack".
I'd be looking along those lines.
Look for sewn in groundsheet (SIG). "Tunnel tent" design. The bedroom would be double skin. It may split in two, so half bedroom, half "junk room"! Leaving a tidy and reasonably spacious living area.
Maybe consider a tarp, if he wants a kitchen set up outside of the main tent?
If no tarp, one thing I would advise... and this is just a personal thing... is to avoid an exposed sloping main entrance, as the rain follows you in the door when entering/egressing the tent! So I'd consider some sort of canopy over the door... but then you have to give even more consideration to high wind!!
One thing's for certain... he'll get plenty of advice and opinions on here. The hard part is to work out what will suit him personally.
First bit of advice would be to warn him it's doubtful he'll get it right first time, so once he knows how he likes to camp, he'll probably change his first tent for something "more suitable"! Just make him aware of that "fact"... and tell hime it's perfectly normal!!
I second the Khyam Freelander - mine served me well except in very windy conditions.
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Have a look at the Coleman Instant Tourer. We have had this tent for a few years now and it does not disappoint. Pitches in a few minutes and stands up to some awful weather conditions. High enough to stand up in too!
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Quote: Originally posted by Bernie47 on 10/1/2015
I am a single camper and I use 3 and 4 berth tents.
The 4 berth is more practical. One room to sleep in, one room to store everything and a decent sized living area.
Same here. I have a Vango Midas 400 for myself and two small dogs - two decent-sized bedrooms, one for me and one for storage and the dogs, a decent-sized living area and a good head height.
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I am a single camper and I prefer a four or five person tent that I can stand up in. My current favourite is a Gelert Cabana 4 which is a tepee style tent. There is a two person version going cheap on the Sports Direct website at the moment.
If I was in the market for a new tent I would look at the Vango Kalu V which is something a bit different.
I have not considered the airbeam style tents in the smaller size because of the price and I think it is unnecessary to go to the expense when its barely any more hassle to thread a pole through a sleeve of a smaller tent than it is to blow one up. I can see in a big 6+ berth tent an air beam is much more practicable.
However one exception to my preference for poles on smaller tents is the Karsten Range - they are an investment buy but they appear to be the bees knees and of course they have that air chamber.
Wild card tent, there is a stand up height two person tent called the Sunncamp silhouette 200 and at SK Camping it is reduced at the moment to £139 excluding postage.
Post last edited on 11/01/2015 17:20:53
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Topic: Tent for single camper
. Might be suitable for your brother and the price is good. 
