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18/7/2005 at 10:46pm
 Location: northamptonshire
 Outfit: Lunar Clubman 500 LE & Sunncamp Grange
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Help!!

At the moment we have a sunncamp grange, which is great for weeks or fortnights away, but I want something that we can just throw into the car and go off for the weekend. the grange can take a good few hours to put up and down and it just doesn't seem worth it for a weekend.

I would also like to be able to put it up my self - well with a little help from my 10 & 6 year old girls (they do eat yorkies - so they are no wimps). If theOH is working through the holidays, it would be nice for me, the girls and dog to just get up and go to some where local.

Which is the best -- it would be nice if it had a built in ground sheet and not cost much more than £150.

Thanks Lisa



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18/7/2005 at 10:49pm
 Location: Devon
 Outfit: Eurohike 3 Man
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Vango Venture 500/600DLX? Or the Coleman Bi Space 400 http://www.hccc.co.uk/acatalog/Coleman_Dome_Tents.html (or £75! usually £100+).

Any particular style you had in mind? Do you want more livng or sleeping space?


18/7/2005 at 10:53pm
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Hi

Have a look at Campus tents made by Khyam

Jen



18/7/2005 at 10:55pm
 Location: Sussex
 Outfit: Outwell Vermont M Aztec Cantera 6
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We've just had our first outing in our Aztec Cantera 6.  It has two bedrooms and a nice living area with SIG, and a good size porch.  Went up quite easily with hubby and I (both vertically challenged) with a little help from our daughter.  A little higher than your price range but may be worth a look.

http://www.worldofcamping.co.uk/shop/Detail.asp?ProductID=815

We were really pleased with it although yet to try it in the rain.

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18/7/2005 at 10:56pm
 Location: northamptonshire
 Outfit: Lunar Clubman 500 LE & Sunncamp Grange
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Cheers, I will have a look at that one.

More living space I think, and we need a bit of height as I am 5ft 9 and OH is 6ft 2, so would that be a dome tent rather than a tunnel?

 



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18/7/2005 at 11:05pm
 Location: Devon
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6ft 2" would rule the Bi Space 400 and smaller domes out.

Tunnels tend to have more gradual height reduction towards the edges than domes from the ones I have seen. The Sahara on the Millets site is good as head space is constantly high.

On a limited budget Sunncamp and Campus (Santiago, Hardvard Deluxe spring to mind) do nice spacious tents that are good VFM.


19/7/2005 at 8:06am
 Location: Surrey UK
 Outfit: Too many again! no more.
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With 10 and 7 year old kids I would still go for a tent with two seporate sleeping compartments, rather than all share one.

For £150 or less, you have lots of options, but not many with SIG.

How about a small vis-a-vis tunnel set up with the likes of the Campus Santiago, Campus Yale (with SIG), Lichfield Arapaho 6?

 



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19/7/2005 at 11:36am
 Location: northamptonshire
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Thanks guys, you have given me some good ones to look at.

Lisa



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19/7/2005 at 11:56am
 Location: chehsire
 Outfit: Campus Nevada Abbey GTS 516
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Hi I am selling my Campus Nevada at the moits a huge tunnel tent and Me and my 11 and 9 year old manage ok. Its really easy!...



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