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If you're not sure whether they will like camping, then I would suggest they hire a tent for a week, that way they are not buying all the additional gear like stoves etc.

If they do like it, then the choice is more difficult. As what suits some people won't suit others. Do you mind being under Nylon rather than Canvas, as the nylon tents don't breathe like canvas.

Personally, for a dip in the water if I had decided that I liked camping I'd get a dome tent first, with the minimum of gear, and go from there.

The trouble is of course, until you try camping in a Trailer Tent / Folding Camper, you don't know whether you will prefer it. I have both, but only use the Combi Camp for longer trips, and if it's just a weekend away. I'll normally just pack the tent.

Oooh, anything just so long as it's camping stuff! Everybody on here is nuts about all aspects of it, (we're tin tenters), so just get whatever you can afford to get out there, you lucky so and so!

Only 51 weeks to hols and counting........