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We've recently got the camping bug, and having spent our first camping trip away in our Coleman Coastline, the only real flaw was the lack of hanging options inside the tent.

We both remembered camping as kids in frame tents where there was plenty of hanging opportunities for lights, hangers and anything with a hook.  In the end we resorted to a complecated system of paracord lengths and knots to hang a lamp from the inner bedroom fixing points. Is this always the way with tunnnel tents where poles are on the outside?

Just wondered what everone else did in case I was missing a trick!

In our tunnel we have pods either end.

And there are little hanging loops to hang a light on in the pods. And for the main area we either use two UFO lights and i just tie then onto the outside of the pods. I tie them onto the toggle points, they're light enough not to be a problem.

We have in the past run a cord from one pod to another and hung the light from that, but tbh it wasn't the best solution. The light swang around and hung a bit low, hence the reason we went and got another.

When we use EHU we have one main light, which again is tied on to a toggle point outside one pod. However this light is heavier so I used a piece of cord and used two toggle points to spread the weight. Think it would probably rip if it relied on just one toggle point.

I got a 2010 Vango Icarus and there was supposed to be a lantern hanging point but I've never found it! I think the factory forgot to sew them in.

I've hung the UFO led lights off the toggle points too, the ones that are for holding up the front door.

I've also got a light with a clamp on it so it gets attached to the back of a chair or hung off one of the toggle points at the window.

I have an Ikea solar powered lamp, which has a long neck like a desk lamp. The solar cell is removable and if I remember I put it on the dashboard of the car to power up through the day. I just put it on a table and it's bright enough to play cards by.

In our bedroom pod we've never bothered with lights. I'll have a torch incase of night time visits to the loo, and if I need to find my watch or my mobile phone I'll use the torch instead. Actually the phone itself emits enough light just to get into my sleeping bag.

Quote: Originally posted by 4princesses on 19/5/2011

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I have got a 3ft long led strip light that I am unsure how to attach to our vango tigris 800, so any tips for that would be appreciated too!

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What about up the cable tidy velcro loops and then draped between the inner tent suspension points?

Quote: Originally posted by Chunksta on 20/5/2011

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I've had many tents, and have never found the loops to hang the 50" plasma

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