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The cabanons I have seen have been made well from high quality canvas and good strong poles, so if it's the right tent for you, then I'm sure you will love it.
A couple of things you might like to consider.
The cabanon has a more traditional folding mechanism which it shares with Sunncamp, where the frame folds out seperately from the beds. This has the advantage that it can be folded wet more easily without staining inner tents or mattresses, but the disadvantage that it is an absolute swine to put up on your own. It is also slower then other makes even with two, and if it is raining when you erect the tent, it's very difficult to stop your beds/inner tents getting wet. Other manufacturers like trigano, raclet and jamet have the more modern erection system where the canvas and frame comes out with the beds.
The legendary build quality of the cabanon applies to the canvas and the frame, but not alas to the finish within the trailer, which looks to me a little like an explosion at an MFI factory. It has to be said that very few other manufacturers are any better, with the exception of Trigano and Camp-Let, and it has to be said I was unimpressed with the Trigano build quality.
Cabanons are astonishingly expensive for what they are. If you have a look at, for example, a Raclet Flores 480 you will see you can get one for £2100 rather then the £3k minimum you would have to pay for a Jupiter, and the Raclet is bigger inside, and uses heavier weight canvas.
Also bear in mind that the Jupiter has an awning permanently attached, so even for overnight stops you have 40+ pegs to put in and a frame to erect, which is perhaps why it has now been replaced in the Cabanon lineup.
I don't want you to think I have a downer on Cabanons - as I said, if they are the right tent for you, then nothing else will do. They are beautifully built in all respects that matter, the customer service is excellent and I'm sure many people on this forum will testify to being delighted with their tents.
But don't buy one without checking out the competition!
Good luck!
Charlie
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