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Hey guys,

been a while since I've been on here - been busy with a new job!

Hope everyone's well!

I have a problem which is that in a morning when we go on holiday (which is in a couple of weeks) when the sun rises it shines on the tent and makes it like an oven - as you will all probably know!  My Fiancé just carries on sleeping, but I always end up getting up about 7am as I find it too hot to sleep (I open all the doors onto the mesh to let air in) and it means I'm quite tired.  This year I could do with more sleep cos I have a new job that requires me to start at 7am most mornings!

Has anyone found a solution to this problem if they've had it?  We have windbreaks up on the side where the sun rises, but it just shines through these/rises above them.  Short of putting a white sheet on that side of the tent I don't know if there is anything I can do!?

lol hope someone can shed some light (doh!) on this! :D

Charlotte x

If you had a canvas tent you wouldn't be as bothered by the sun. They regulate the temperature better, tend to be a bit darker too. If you're ever in the Market for getting another tent, go for canvas for sure!

Another suggestion is when you have the luxury of choosing a pitch, choose one agains't the boundary to the east of the site (against the hedge, the trees or whatever) and that way you'll have the best of all worlds, a sleep in, plus extended evening sunshine right into the front of your tent.

We have just got back from a few days in Somerset and had just this problem. There was no shade at all on the site and by 7 am we were awake because we were too hot. Opening all the doors did help to get a breeze through the tent but it was still too warm to feel comfortable in a sleeping bag or under a cover.( But at night it was really chilly and we needed thick sleeping bags) We just dozed for a while longer with just a sheet, but we were up and about before 8 am. The tarp idea could help, we did lie in bed thinking up how we could rig a tarp over the top, but it would need fairly tall poles and as it was breezy, I am not sure it would have stayed put.

I agree with Frome here, we always find out when we check in where the sun rises and falls for exactly this reason, we normally try to pitch with hedges or trees blocking the morning sun, then open space for the evening sun. This has improved since buying Canvas TT

the other option of course and more likley than above, is to go on holiday when it is not sunny this is normally what happens in the UK

i once asked the same question, our nevada m is horrible on a warm day, we have tried pitching in the shade and we actually found that to cold in the morning, and on the day we was leaving it was impossible to dry the tent out because we was in the shade, we ended up leaving a couple of hours later then i had hoped.

thanks for all the replies guys...there isn't really a lot of shade to use and where there is most people in caravans tend to get there first as it's out of the way - furthest from the water points and the toilets! 

I do tend to get up and open the vents (if not done so the night before), and I open the doors to the flysheets and try to go back to bed.  I might try and put something over the innner bedroom tent to kinda of reflect the light maybe....still it's not so bad getting up that early if I'm gonna do something, but like I said more often that not the OH is still asleep!! lol

If you have EHU maybe a small electric fan will help.

We take our fan heater in summer as you can turn off the heat and just use it to provide a cooling breeze.

Quote: Originally posted by nutgone on 07/7/2010

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Someone else on here was going to try taping together some of those foil blankets, like the ones survivalists & marathon runners use. They're quite cheap & could be placed between inner & outer to avoid them blowing away. Not sure how effective they would be though, but they've got to be the thinnest & lightest material that won't let the sun's rays through.

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