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Can anyone advise on the ease or difficulty of pitching the Sunncamp 400S.  Very tempted with this trailer tent but looking at diagrams of the pole assembly for the front awning, there seems to be loads of poles.

We need a tt that is relatively easy to pitch, I am getting the feeling that the 400s could be very time consuming which defeats the object of our proposed step up from a normal tent.

Mant thanks

My TT took a long time to erect, it was a trigano, not a sunncamp, but i think the basic pitching principles are the same for the awnings.

The obvious question is have you been to camperlands in northenden? I can't remember whether they have any sunncamps, they certainly always used to, but what they do have is just about every variant on how to put a TT/FC up. The 'pram hood' style models are faster. As ever a lot depends on your budget.

 I remember when i posted on here that it took me ages, loads of people said it took them nothing like so long (but i think some things depend on what you count as the start and end point). To be precise about mine it took  4 hours minimum from getting out of the car to having unhitched, positioned trailer, steadies down, tent up, ground sheet in, beds sorted, equipment in the place where it would be used, gas connected up etc. Not bad at all if you are away for a fortnight, and the space is fantastic. I think with practice, two adults who work as an effective team could get that down a lot, especially if you don't have 'kiddie clobber' to take, which i do, or need to use an airbed on top of TT mattress, which i do!

One you have done it a few times it will get lots easier, especially if you mark the poles, but I would say you still need to allow 1 1/2 - 2 hours for a full set up including pegging out and putting all the inners up.

I have to say I like the setting up part and don't like to rush - to me it's all part of the first day of the holiday but that's the beauty of a folding camper because it only takes about 10- 15 mins to get the cabin up and usable and then  the rest is extra.  

i have the 400se and at first its a real dog to put together as the diagram you get is not the best.

we have marked all of the poles depending on which sectino they form (front, middle and nearest the trailer) and they are kept in seprate bags too.

After having the trailer for 2 years it probably takes us about 1.5 maybe 2 hours to ave it all set up and we are moved in but we dont rush and like to take out time.

we have the 400 acrylic got it new this year from camperlands and yes the diagram is confusing but we had a demo off the helpful guys at camperlands which did help.

weve been out in ours twice now and have got a good system going between us as im pegging the tent the mrs is sorting out the inners. we do it in about 2 hours at the moment and reckon we can get quicker defo.

i suggest you dont get put off by the diagram of the poles , these are a good tent for the budget we like ours

Thanks for your replies.

We visited Camperlands over the weekend, and they had lots of trailer tents erected there, even a Sunncamp, possibly a 240, it was huge!  To be honest the OH has gone off the Sunncamp due to the pitching time, so looks like we need to save our pennies for a camp-let, which certainly ticks most of the boxes!

Best regards

Guilbert

dont know if this will work if not have a look at my gallery pic i saved a colour version of the pole diagram on there