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Anyone into this tent lark? Apart from getting the thing erect. What should i be looking for/asking when a potential purchase is immanent.

 

Saw one at Decathlon for £399. Looked the business but could be a bag of shite if you know what you are looking for.

They have a guarantee type thing do Decathalon, I think you can take them back if you're not satisfied...

 

A fri...an acquaintance of mine was talking about buying one for a jaunt around the Balkans, then taking it back for a refund when he's done, saying it's shite and it leaks.

 

He makes me look like Charlie Potatoes.

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400 quid for a fucking tent, are you mad!? How many people do you need it for?

Anyone camping in the UK wants their head feeling - the ground is never properly dry here, you wake up with that wet grass smell every morning, feeling scummy as fuck...

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400 quid for a fucking tent, are you mad!? How many people do you need it for?

400 quid for a fucking tent, are you mad!? How many people do you need it for?

We're swingers. But yes, 400 quid is a lot.

Going to Birkenhead watching Athy Colls, next week, see what the pikeys are charging for a tent, and will let you know in due course.

Ring up Michael Eavis. He must have hundreds going cheap after Glastonbury.

Leave it until later in the year for a bargain. Now is the winter of our discount tents.

Outwell are good

 

Go for an HH rating of above 3000 (water proofing)

£400 is pretty extravagant. We got a 6 man tent off Black's (sickened) for about £160 and it's served us really well. Another £30 for a groundsheet that has the same footprint as the tent and you're laughing. You can spend the other £210 on pear cider!

I've got Coleman Waterfal , it is a cracking tent seperate sitting area and two curtained off bed room / spaces easy big enough for a trip away, room for table and chairs inside and a porch flap either side of it two mins to put up colour coded poles beltin !

 

Castlecroft caravan and camping is your place in Radcliffe passed the car auction left at the railway bridge 200 yards on the left

Get yourself to Go Outdoors. Most of Decathlons tent have separate groundsheets. You want an all in one job, less pissing about putting up and taking down.

That Icarus 500 on the link Burnden supplied is a belting tent. It's got 2 seperate bedrooms and a living room/porch type thing at the front. Plus it's big enough for me to stand up in and I'm 6 foot.

 

Plus I can vouch from experience that it's good in the rain. Has a built in groundsheet but I'd still by the extra one to protect the bottom of your tent.

 

HH rating is 10,000 btw!

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Best place round here is outdoor world on winwick lane warrington.

 

For normal use (eg weekend away in the lakes and not taking up Everest) you can pick up something decent for less than £200.

It's shut, I think they still trade on line though.

Get yourself to Go Outdoors. Most of Decathlons tent have separate groundsheets. You want an all in one job, less pissing about putting up and taking down.

 

He's reet

Undies

I'll lend you all you need for 2 or 3 nights away

3 bedrooms so sleeps 6 and a living area n porch

If you like it, you can have it for less than 200

Gas stove bottle etc

We used it 3 or 4 times over 2 summers and its not a bad do

Nice site at pooleybridge for a tent and a few dozen bottles

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This reminds me, I've got a 4 man pop up Coleman one I never use & really should. Do they get moth holes & shit when they've been stored in a cupboard for years or do they keep alright?

This reminds me, I've got a 4 man pop up Coleman one I never use & really should. Do they get moth holes & shit when they've been stored in a cupboard for years or do they keep alright?

 

Mine gets dragged out once a year. Still looks brand new.

 

We are still talking tents right?

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Mine gets dragged out once a year. Still looks brand new.

 

We are still talking tents right?

:). Reet, I'm going to put it up one night & see if it still works, ta. In this weather it could be fun for a weekend. What's the worst that can happen?

The 'yoof' on back on bobsy sat'day nights now the holidays are here.

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