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Freeby... I think we are spoilt over here. I am amazed at the assortment of tents to choose from !

My other half bought me a Falco. Top quality ten cate etc but I hated it. It was way too dark in there and felt claustrophobic.

So we sold it and for a fraction of the price bought one of these . Great tent and cant wait to take  her out in April :)

All our poly tents are going, even if I have to throw them away. Cotton is the only way to go for us now and it is so cheap here it would be rude not to indulge :)

Angie

Oh sugar, that link wont work

This one does (tent at bottom of the page (Vitoria)

Linky

And check the price.. bargain!

Angie

The Base Camp - Ambato 6 deluxe looks very similar to a Bear Lake? Chicken or Egg?

Nice colour, but would probably show mud stains ...

The Ambata IS gorgeous but they didnt have one on display when we were in the store and being a nosey kind of woman, i like to see what I am buying :)

Our other cotton tent is beige and we just let the mud dry then brush it off with an old teatowel.. sorted :)

Chicken or egg? I will have a chicken and salad sarnie please lol

Angie

Rex you are darn good . I didnt even see that site was available in English

Angie :)

Quote: Originally posted by rexgrant on 04/2/2009

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Quote: Originally posted by Beccylovespurpl on 04/2/2009

At one time I would have agreed with this analysis of different tents.  However we camped on the Pembrokeshire coast late September 2007 and I must admit I got carried away by the thought of lovely views and campfires and didn't check the weather forecast before we went. We had a week of serious wind in our big fibreglass poled dome tent and it was very well behaved and undamaged.  The problem was it was so windy that we couldn't have any of the camp fires we planned and it was windy enough to make sitting outdoors looking at the views an unpleasant experience, which rather spoilt the holiday.  I will not be repeating the experience even in the best tent in the world so I think checking the weather forecast (on OHs super phone), and booking sites acccordingly, is more important than the choice of tent.

I have no doubt that frame/ canvas tents are very robust, however I think that there are more factors at play than the type of tent.  Frame tents are expensive but there are lots of cheap tunnels/ domes available with possibly poorer build quality so they are more likely to have problems as a result of the build quality rather than tent type. The cheaper end of the market is likely to be where people start out with their 1st tent whereas the investment involved in something like a Cabanon is more likely to be undertaken by experienced campers and it stands to reason that experience and knowledge of correct pitching/ checking weather etc are going to help people prevent incidents occuring. 

 

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Hi beccy
.As you say a force6
can make a holiday unpleasant when the wind whistles in the telephone wires and it blows your brolly inside out and watching those huge trees blow around. but this type of wind will not damage tents, may make a gazebo take off though.
Regards
Rex.

Post last edited on 04/02/2009 09:59:06

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Force 6 I can handle.  We were monitoring the local windspeeds on the internet and they were measuring them at 40 mph which makes it a Force 8.  When I say it was unpleasant, you couldn't have a conversation without shouting at each other to be heard. And it lasted 5 days!   I would have taken the tent down and moved inland  if I'd dared.  We were pitched in the V of a hedge and a caravan to give as much shelter as possible but managed to get away with just a broken guy rope.  I have to say that canvas tents are probably a lot less noisy in the wind. After a while the noise of the fabric was driving us round the twist.