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Our Vango 500 has served us well.  Its put up with terrible weather and also some rather rough handling by kids.  The last time we took it away OH thought the living area too small.  This time we took the time to organise everything and ended up with a rather surprising amount of space.  Added to this we also "porched" the front entrance.  Infortunately, the weather changed and we faced the one problem with this tent.  Space for the kids to do things in the tent when wet!  We therefore found ourselves with a dilema.  In a nutshell:-

1. Stick with old faithful and hope we dont get too many bad trips

2. Vango Diablo 600 (only downside is pitch inside-first?)

3. Vando TBS Vista 600

4. Vango TBS Vista 800 (do we need/want the even more space)

OK, so they are all Vangos but thats what we know and trust.  Anybody have any thoughts on these models

Mike J

Hi

We use the Venture for weekends/short breaks and the Vista 800 for longer trips and have always had Vango tents. We feel the same about the Venture when the weather is wet with our 2 kids (now 13 and 11).

We looked at some Wynnster tents this weekend but didn't think the quality/style was as good as Vango's. Nobody seems to give as good bedroom space as we like except Vango Did like the Wynnster Pegasus but bedroooms were too low,. Saw some Outwell's that we quite liked but again bedrooms were so small and we prefer not to have SIG. Liked the ZIG used in the Bear Lake etc and hope that maybe other manufacturers wll take note.

So for time being we are sticking with what we have got until we find anything to better it! The Vista is a great tent except ours doesn't have mud flaps around one bedroom (end) and rain can get blown under the flysheet and sits under the bedroom inner, but now that we know that happens we just lift the inner and dry it out.

Good luck with your decision.

Hi,

Have you looked at the Aztec Cantera 12? (There do smaller models with fewer bedrooms) The living area is huge, it has a bath tub groundsheet and has 4 pods and 2 porches. We need the size because we go with our 5 children ranging in age from 7 to 17. The downside is that it is pitched inner first. As yet we've not had to put it up in the rain and I did say as we drove through a shower on our way to the campsite that I would turn back or go in to B and B rather than pitch it in the rain. That aside, normally when we camp I always see the tent I wish we had bought, but since we bought the Cantera 2 years ago when it first came out I've not seen anything to better this one given that with our family size we need 4 separate pods. The bedrooms are intended for 3 but you'd need to be very keen on each other.They're very comfortable for 2 be it adults or children. Its absolutely waterproof and stood up very well in howling wind in Wales this summer. Its also very competitively priced.

I've recently checked out the new Kyham range with a sewn in g'sheet and they look promising. You can view a video of the tent being put up on the website. It is flysheet first.

Ruth