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04/3/2013 at 12:17pm
Location: Manchester Outfit: Pennine Countryman
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This is a bit epic, but I hope it's helpful, although it might just confuse you more!
Our son is almost 17 our daughter is almost 15 and we've been camping since they were small, first in tents and then quick erect trailer tents. We will be on our third this summer. We didn't want to use a pup tent, lots of people do quite happily but here the very mention causes a domestic, so our unit has had to accommodate all of us. Like you we can't go as big as a folding camper.
We started with a Camplet and the kids sharing and bought the annex for when we needed to seperate them. It's small, light and easy to pitch, and at first fitted us well. Although there is plenty of storage in the trailer it does have to be packed just so, and we found we utilised it less and less, because it was easier to fill up the car. Once we added the annex though we had problems with water coming in, and after a fairly spectacular flood decided to change unit.
We switched to a Jamet Jametic, which is very similar to the Trigano Odyssee. More space, more comfortable beds, an underbed tent instead of an annex, a higher sturdier kitchen, ZIG and exceptional storage. However it is a lot bigger, a lot heavier generally, the kitchen has to be moved and weighs a ton, and if the children had been small the extra height of the beds would be an issue.
This year we'll be using a Combi Camp with one king size bed, a rear awning, and side annex. We decided it was time to switch to something more modular, that we would be able to manage without our son when necessary. It is the biggest unit we can have, the Trigano
Alpha is similar but a bit bigger.
The Holtkampers are beautiful, but a lot of money, and don't actually fit our needs as well as the Combi Camp at the moment. We need seperate sleeping areas for our teenage children, and that's actually surprisingly difficult to achieve, although I did consider making a divider for their Adventure Tent. The Flyer with an Adventure Tent can provide two rooms, but one is accessed via the other, so which little treasure would I put in there?!
Happy hunting!
------------- All the best,
Alison
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