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Hiya  Can anyone help, we have bought a secondhand Cabanon Atlantis DLUXE trailer tent, havent had chance to put it up yet, having our first weekend away in july, really excited about it, but are nervous about puttin up the awning, we have 2 large bags of poles and have no idea how they all fit together and dont want to look like complete novices on our first weekend away in it.  thanks....

Hi Ann N  Ian,

We too have the Atlantis deluxe. The largest bag of poles is for the main awning, and the second bag is for the porch awning. A lot of the poles are sprung loaded together, and they fit the main part of each awning. The other poles fit in off of them.

Zip the awning on first, and work outwards it is much easier that way, then you don't spend ages holding a very heavy half erected awning while your partner works out which of the other poles goes where (ask me how I know)

We put ours up for the first time this weekend, and I would say allow at least two hours to get everything up, we took two and a half and still didn't put the roof liners on, but you can get away with that for a weekend. ( It seems a long time, but it flies by)

If the previous owner colour coded the poles it should make life a little simpler for you, but take a step of some sort with you, or use a chair or something, as the awning is quite high in the middle.

Kitchen is quite heavy, but doesn't take much to move into it's place in the main awning.

The trailer is amazingly easy to move around and position into place, and I can guarantee that a lot of people will be interested in watching you, so hope you don't mind an audience!

All else I can say really is, it will take a while, you might get a little stressed, (take wine), good sleeping bags are a must, but it is totally worth it. Have fun!!

hi soaplady

thanks for your advice, decided to try putting the frame up this afternoon in the garden and found it wasn't as hard as we thought, hopefully when we get to the campsite we won't be too embarassed and all the other campers won't be laughing at us, if they are ill drink lots of wine then i wont care anyway!

HAPPY CAMPING

thankyou  x

We also have the Atlantis & are very pleased with it. Like any tent it can be a pain to erect when windy but in terms of the accomodation that it offers it really is good. A tip from the previous owner was to leave the first canvas, that includes the kitchen area, attached to the bedroom compartment permanently. This saves a lot of time and means that once the first part of the frame is assembled you simply drag this canvas over it. Make sure that you zip on the second canvas BEFORE attaching the second set of poles or it will be impossible to erect.

I do have a copy of the manual, which I could scan if it is of any use.

Gary

hi gary,

yes that would be really helpful thankyou.

anything else you can think of just let us know,

thankyou  x

Hi Gary,

We would be very grateful if we too could have a copy of the Atlantic manual. Ours didn't come with one, and we put our up by trial and error, it would be great to have some "proper information".

Thankyou.

I scanned the details last night and just need to find a way to upload them, if possible, to this article. Failing that, if you let me have your email addresses I can do it that way.

Gary

Hi Gary,  thanks for your help my e-mail is anngibson308 at btinternet.com we have booked a weekend away in july, cant wait to try the trailer tent out just hope we have good weather. Will let u know how we get on, speak soon n thank you .

Hi Gary,

We would appreciate your scanned manual very much. My email is fiona at sourlemon.co.uk,

Thanks very much.