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Subject Topic: looking for a 5 man weekend tent
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06/6/2010 at 8:21pm
 Location: Cheshire
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We have a Vango Tigris 800, but we are looking for a reasonably priced quick pitch tent for 1 or 2 night stays.

can anyone recomend one to us please.

Looking at a coleman waterfall does anyone have one of them?

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Chelle



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06/6/2010 at 8:36pm
 Location: North Yorkshire
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How many people will actually be using the tent?


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06/6/2010 at 8:42pm
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We too are looking at a weekend tent I fancy the vango icarus. It is just fror the three of us seems roomy enough


06/6/2010 at 8:55pm
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There are few five berth tents that will pitch significanly faster than a Tigris tbh.


06/6/2010 at 10:49pm
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It's for 2 adults and 3 kids.

Also looking at a Gelert Atlantis 5 & Vango Icarus

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06/6/2010 at 10:54pm
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For 5 people you ideally need to be looking at 7 berth+ for comfort.
Why not just stick with the Tigris?
We use our Ontario 8 for short 1-3 night breaks as there weren't really any suitable smaller tents that could be pitched any quicker than the Onty (takes about 30 minutes from start to finish)

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06/6/2010 at 11:21pm
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I wouldn't think the Coleman waterfall would be up to 5 people. I know it says 5 man, but who must those five men be, maybe they're all Oompa Loompas.

I don't think the Icarus 500 would be much better. I have three people to fit into my Icarus, admittedly my 12 and 13 year old boys are getting to be man sized but we barely fit in. In fact it's better when one of the boys sleeps in the little 2 man pop up outside.

There is an Icarus 600 DLX as a special edition in Outdoor world I think. It would be a quick pitch option, but it's pretty similar to what you have already so you may as well just use what you have already.



06/6/2010 at 11:23pm
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yeah, just fancy a smaller one literally to sleep in when going on a walking break or beach break etc.

We have a 3 man vando too which was fine for me plus 3 kids this week and took 10 mins to put up.

Ideal for 1 night so thought something a touch bigger but as easy as that would make us go camping on short breaks more often



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06/6/2010 at 11:35pm
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What about a couple of four man pop ups from Decathlon. Then you could get the tarp from Decathlon too to create a shelter for cooking and eating.

2 x 4 man tents at £54 each

Tarp at £20

I use my small two man pop up as a beach shelter, means we can eat sandwiches without sand in them.



07/6/2010 at 9:45am
 Location: Northants
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The most generous 5 berth tent I've seen is the Mojave from Go Outdoors. My friend bought one as his first family tent & we helped him put it up at the weekend. We're quite tempted to get one ourselves (we are also 2 adults & 3 children) as a short stay tent instead of the Sunvalley 8. Sadly, no funds at the moment! According to the website it is 380cm wide - which is wider than the Icarus 600.

Mojave 5

Not sure if it's any quicker to pitch than your existing tent but is probably a smaller & lighter to transport.


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07/6/2010 at 1:39pm
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I'd recommend the Outwell Virginia 5 (see sig). Love it!....



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