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Here are some threads on camping with babies. Sorry if it makes the page go wide!!

Welcome to UKCS.

That's so funny teamdiablo that you had to pitch in the middle of the field- did you feel like you were on stage!!!!  I'm having a vision of everyone gathering round and staring!   

We really loved the diablo when we were shopping but we went for the colorado on price in the end which we are really happy with too.

And welcome to Helen John and Baby too!! Good luck with everything in the next couple of months and well done for wanting to camp with baby-something I wasn't brave enough to do and have waited until my youngest turned 2!!!! How sad am I!!

we have a diablo 900 xp and love it, yes its a huge tent (we are a family of 6 and my hubby is 6"2 and fits in it easily) but you have to have room to 'live' and if you are camping for a week or more you have to have room to move around each other and all the equipment. we also have the canopy, we use it to cook in if the campsite allows large pitches (takes up little space to take with you), if it's alowed it's excellent for taking bad weather off the front of the tent abd even better still, although more expence!! is the diablo windbreaks. they are high enough to to take the wnd over your tent and not into it, the down side is more guy ropes but your tent stays still in a storm!!

oh and the baby bit....i took mine from being a few weeks old, eldest one (now 21 ) was put in 'buggy muff' of his pram or slept in his padded all in one pram suite, the other 3 were/are put in folded down sleeping bags

yes the canopy fits, see my profile with it attached to a 900 xp.

a tip from my sister, by a small blow up dinghy and use this as a bed for the baby.

with the blankets inside they will be warm, wont roll out of it and should the tent collapse they will be safe due to the sides.

after all it is an airbed with walls.

Camping with a baby is so so easy

its when they start to crawl the trouble starts

LOL

have fun and welcome

8342mat,

Just checking out your gallery and the tent looks great, I have a question about your trailer.  We have the exact same on Erde 122 and we have been struggling to find room even with a trailer and we we thinking about extending the height of it somehow, you seem to have made your sides taller, did you do this yourselves or buy the bits to extend it.

Thanks.

you can't buy extra solid sides for our trailer, but there are a number of options out there, from about £75 upwards.

i played with the idea for a while and opted for a more perminant and robust method.

the sides are made from alluminium sheets and bent accordingly. they are then fastened via bolts to corner and side braces. with the sides now doubled in height i increased the load space capacity by 85%. the way i did it, i also still have use of the drop down tailgate and tipping facility.

cost will vary for the materials. i was lucky and got the sides made for me buy my neighbour, free !!!!

go to your local metal benders and speak with them.

if you want more informed details, internal pics etc, pm me your email address and i shall get round to it. 

robust but light is the key.

mat

as the diablo 600 doesn't have a rear porch/ bedroom like the 900 it wont fit on the rear.

it needs a pole to hang over.

mat