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Have just tried to book a pitch for our Vango Oregon 800 at Roseview campsite in Oban, only to be told they don't take tents that large. I noticed another site in the Highlands only took up to 6 man tents. Is this likely to be a common problem as we only bought it last year?!

It depends on the site.  Some commercial sites have large pitches - they all seem to take big caravans & motorhomes.  The club sites are generally large with plenty of space so they may be a better alternative, though they do have the six metre rule - that is to say 6 metres between your unit & the next all the way around.  You could always ask for 2 pitches next to each other, the site would then want 2 lots of money.

Steve.

Sounds like we may just have been unlucky with our choice of site - just panicked a bit that we wouldn't get in anywhere! Have now got 6 nights booked at Camusdarach near Morar so just deciding which direction to go in from there.  

We had a Kyham Indiama 8 tunnel tent which came in at 7.5m x 3.7m and never had a problem although we did always phone to check first.

At every site there was always tons of space left, even with a side porch.

Sometimes the websites appear far stricter than they actually are when you give them a call.

Hope that helps

Neil

Quote: Originally posted by Rivadan on 24/5/2009

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Is it me or have tents become MASSIVE these days. Doesn't seem fair to have to pay the same for one of these as for a regular 4 person job.

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I agree that it does seem unfair that we with a large 6 berth caravan and awning are accepted on most sites without a problem but tents with a smaller footprint are not.  I don't know if i am paying more than a tent in the 1st place but as there are many caravanner's out there i very much doubt if we are paying for 2 pitches otherwise we'd be in tents too.

Before we got a caravan we had a tt that was very old and beyond repair so we looked into buying a tent but couldn't find one that would fit on a pitch at the size we would need. 

You've found that sites will and do accept you tent, which imo is not large by today's standard of tent, so you just have to look around more and spend your money with site's that are happy to take you...