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RIGHT all done ordered & paid today for the Cantera9 will let you all know how i get on with it at the weekend when ill be puttin it up  any hints/tips that may help me much appricated.also i got everything i think i need

sleeping bags/airbeds/sleepnig bags/lantern/torch/cups etc however i do need a decent stove etc ??? any good deal on at the min

hi matthew,

great choice :) you asked for hints and tips, this is only the first year with such a big tent, and my advice could well be wrong ( i am willing to be corrected) , but we found that when we were pitching the tent for the first time down windy Western super mare, we almost took off like a parachute, luckily two men helped us, so  the next time we pitched it ( still at windy western) we pegged the cental living area down, then put in the poles and it went up so much easier and quicker, oh and one more thing, all the doors are equally spaced thus enabling any entrance to be used as the porch entrance (so don't spend 20 mins in the wind looking for a sign telling you which entrance to put the porch on ( like my hubby did...duh)

enjoy your aztec

Gill

i got it last night.im going to try and attempt to put it up on sunday weather permitting

i was thinking about getting a GAZEBO too but there is loads of them out there can any1 recommend one or advise me otherwise ??

as kaiser chiefs once said "OH MY GOD"

WHAT a day we had started off ok with a cup of tea opened up the case took both inner and outers out of case then noticed the fly sheet had a rip in the top of it ,it did not go down to well with the wife.. it took us quiet sometime to get started as the instuctions were VERY basic indeed we than started with the poles on the inner tent then we could not figure out where they went ie to keep them in place but we guessed they went into the little metal I shaped prongs(are we right?????) ;( 

Then I noticed that one of the things you hammer into the ground on one of the bedrooms (material) was missing and it has come off the tent completely (it did not go down  well with the wife AGAIN) then go started to try and see how it was meant to look we did not hammer the strings from the outer into the ground as im going to send it back to the shop ???however it was the last one they had and I need a tent for next week when we go camping ??? what shall I do.???the wife is now saying that we cannot handle it with  just the 2 of us putting it up on our own ??? I think the only real struggle was putting the fly sheet on  it was high for even me and im about 6ft 2in tall and that it was damaged/broken really put my thoughts down in the dumps for today.i know im a beginner at camping so I need to know what you other members  would do ???????????????????????????????