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that is a good point angie,my new khyam sherpa us great but when i came to set beds up our mats dont fit had to fold sons over as the bedroom had a kind of envelope edge at the back i never even noticed that when i was in it in the shop.

allways double check a tent has all the size and reuirements you need and who cares what anyone else thinks its your tent.

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Quote: Originally posted by ruth+wayne on 07/5/2009

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Hi.

Thanks for all the advice. We finally decided to go for the 600 after a couple of trips to Wolverhampton to see them both up (the first a waste of time as Yeomans lied about their closing time on the internet). The 800 was just so big I couldn't convince Wayne we needed that much room. The way I'm looking at it, if we need more space when another little one comes along then this can become our weekend tent and we'll just have to get another!....

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Hi Ruth. Sounds like an incredibly sensible decision making process to me! You've looked at both tents, had concerns about the bigger one, and bought the one to meet your current needs  Trying to buy a tent to meet what you think need now is hard enough without trying to work out what you might want in the future.

Back to your original question - a tent is too big when it takes more away from your trip than it adds ie the joy of all that space is outweighed by problems of storage, transport, drying, time/effort taken to put it up and take it down, trying to keep warm inside it in cold weather. So, whether a tent is too big will vary from person to person and also, potentially, from trip to trip!