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Hi

We are returning to camping after some years, and are looking for some advice please.

On booking, when a site asks for tent size, is that the footprint size of the tent or does it need to be the  measurement including the guys ? - if inc guys how much do you allow for them ?

We have an Outwell Georgia XL, so any advice would be great.

Thanks in advance

Hi Ladyj

Welcome to the Georgia XL club (it's not as big as the Monty gang).

I have to admit that just recently we were asked to get our tent and car into a space that was really far too small, if we had smaller sized tent it would have been fine, however, luckily the people next to us didn't mind sharing their parking space.

We learnt the lesson to perhaps ask the pitch size when booking instead of just presuming that car and tent will fit into one pitch.

Hi everyone

thanks for the advice.

Dizzy, thanks for the welcome, do you have any recommendations for sites good for the Georgia XL ?

Quote: Originally posted by ladyj on 28/9/2008

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Hi everyone

thanks for the advice.

Dizzy, thanks for the welcome, do you have any recommendations for sites good for the Georgia XL ?

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I think it's just a case of asking when booking. You just need to check that the space allocated to you does not include car parking room. There are quite a few tents as big as ours and some I have seen that are much bigger, so you shouldn't have a problem.

Quote: Originally posted by ChrisSA on 28/9/2008I think there are 3 of us in the Amazon 800 club now.

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Now I thought the Amazon8 was 6 m long with porch, but the CC club guy paced ours out at closer to 8m, but 5 m width (which I'm sure is under sized...). Anyhow - we agreed it was within the pitch limit, but was told I'd have issues at a club site in the summer. Any ideas why?

I must measure the non-guy footprint next time we pitch it.