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Hiya,well I have finallly decided to use the tent we brought 7 years ago!! We have booked 4 nights away next month and have decided that it would be wise to practise putting the tent up and taking it down again a few times before we go. However the instructions taht are on the bag are a bit vague and I was wondering if anyone knew of a helpful site etc to help us out a bit?

The tent we have is a Vango Venture 500 so it is quite an old one and I cant find it on the Vango site :(

Hubby is in the garden as we speak getting agitated with it pmsl

It's a lovely tent, but it's no longer made. You can get them second hand on ebay now and are still very popular.

Without being there I'm not sure what you're struggling with.

There's three poles. The two longer ones cross like an X to make the dome. There'll be 2 straps underneath which has pins at each end - which fit into the bottom of the flexipole. One side will be easy, the other needs a bit more pressure to make it into a crescent shape...and upside down U.

The third, shorter pole makes the porch.

here's a youtube vid of a similar tent

http://www.youtube.com/user/vangotents#p/u/14/1IWfcsCeyjQ

Oh forgot to mention we have NEVER put up a tent before so don't have a clue!

Vango appolo 500

look at that page and print out the pitching instructions and watch the pitching video, the tent is very similar to the VV500 so that should help a lot  

You're doing the right thing by 1) asking and 2) practising! I hope you enjoy your tent.

Woohoo hubby got it up,it looks fab and I now can't wait for our hol (going to Lakelands) Just need now to make sure we have everything we need.

Thank you all for the advise :) x