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Hiya,

I want to book a site for the summer holidays but before I do they need to know if my tent will fit on a 7 square metre site, including guy ropes!  Apparantly all pitches are 10 squ metres and that is to also get your car/trailer/kitchen tents on aswell.

I have this tent and do not know if it will be ok for the plot or not, can anyone help me please?

many thanks, Elaine

Hi Elaine

Looking at the picture of your tent and the details it measures 7.6m x 7.2 metres at its widest points.  Allowing for guy ropes it will fit within the 10 sq metres but I don't know where you'd put anything else. 

My guess is that you'll need a bigger plot.

I assume you mean 7 metres square, not 7 square metres.

According to your link the tent is 7.61 metres long x 7.22 metres wide, so the answer unfortunately is no.

We have just stayed on a site where pitches were 9m x 9m and we managed to get our tent on and our car on.  We parked our car diagonally between the porch and first bedroom pod.  We don't have anything else though like a utility tent, etc.

We have a one of these http://www.jacksonscamping.com/?pc=/product/3258/

Good luck

Rach

Quote: Originally posted by Caro1 on 06/6/2008

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I wouldn't buy another tent.  We bought an Outwell Hartford XL 08 and was worried as it is 7.7m x 7.5m.  One of the sites we have booked take 7sqm tents, I explained ours is a large tent and gave the size and the campsite said that will be fine.  I do hope we won't have to complain when we get there!!  We have booked 3 sites for July/August and none of them mentioned a problem with the size.  This is our 2nd tent within a year and we are not selling the Outwell, we love it!!!

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7m x 7m is 49 sq metres.

7sq meters is about the size of two king sized beds shoved together. You'd only fit a pup tent on that!

Quote: Originally posted by Valk_scot on 07/6/2008

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7m x 7m is 49 sq metres.

7sq meters is about the size of two king sized beds shoved together. You'd only fit a pup tent on that!

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I don't know, is it 7 mtrs square that I meant then!!!  The size of my tent just laps their stated 7m pitch size but they said it's still no problem, so I am assuming they can accomodate slightly bigger tents as well!!!

I know what I meant anyway!!!!

Quote: Originally posted by Caro1 on 07/6/2008

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Quote: Originally posted by Valk_scot on 07/6/2008

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7m x 7m is 49 sq metres.

7sq meters is about the size of two king sized beds shoved together. You'd only fit a pup tent on that!

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I don't know, is it 7 mtrs square that I meant then!!!  The size of my tent just laps their stated 7m pitch size but they said it's still no problem, so I am assuming they can accomodate slightly bigger tents as well!!!

I know what I meant anyway!!!!

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Take four bits of string, one meter long each, and make a square on the ground. That's one square meter.

Do it with four bits of string two meters long and you have a square two meters square, or 4 square meters, because 2x2 =4.

Quote: Originally posted by micklaine on 07/6/2008

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I thought 7 square metres & 7 metres squared was the same thing - I can see it in my head - a square shape which measures 7m by 7m lol

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Quote: Originally posted by micklaine on 07/6/2008

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I thought 7 square metres & 7 metres squared was the same thing - I can see it in my head - a square shape which measures 7m by 7m lol

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I think most of us knew what you meant

This is the reason we are glad we have a tunnel tent, find they are much easier to get on a pitch, yet still have plenty of space.  We have a 10m x 10m pitch at Trevornick and on that we get our tunnel tent plus canopy, day tent and the car, plus plenty of space to windbreak off for a sitting/bbq area.

Quote: Originally posted by Breezeblock on 07/6/2008

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Quote:   "Take four bits of string, one meter long each, and make a square on the ground. That's one square meter.

    Do it with four bits of string two meters long and you have a square two meters square, or 4 square meters, because 2x2 =4.

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Val."


Val, I don't have any string, will pieces of spaghetti tied together into one metre lengths be just as effective?

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Absolutely! Just make sure you wash it before you eat it though.