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Quote: Originally posted by leothetiler on 16/9/2013

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They do look good. Do you think you can squeeze in two adults and two kids aged 8 and 5 in for a night or two?

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I am also wondering whether to replace my 4 berth pop-up with another similar or to go for a more traditional design.

However, during the 2 years we've had the Quechua pop-up, we've been relatively lucky with weather and it hasn't had to deal with particularly strong winds.

What's everyone's opinion on pop-up's ability to deal with high winds, heavy rains, storms etc vs a decent traditional dome or tunnel style tent?

Also, what about longevity - as mentioned, we've had our Quechua pop-up for about 2 years and don't get me wrong, it's had a fair bit of use and we think it's brilliant for the 90 quid we paid. But on the last trip, I found it had quite a big rip in it and you can tell it's where it's under a lot of strain - are pop-ups more likely suffer this kind of damage becuase of the force of the 'pop-upiness'?

Sorry if I've hijacked this thread for my own questions, I just didn't want to start another on the same topic as one already running - I hope my comments have in some way contributed to answering the OP's question.

Incidentally, I agree with the suggestions that you need to know how you're going to get pop-ups down before you go away - thanks to the advice on these forums, I realised this but absolutely understand why someone would be almost reduced to tears of frustraion in a camping filed - we'd never have got it down without watching the You Tube video and practicing until we'd got it right first.