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help please.

We are a young family looking for a 2/3 bedroom tent with a large living space that is easy to put up.  Something that would keep the spiders out would be great.  Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks Davinci

Cheers rickit, bedrooms apart preferably three, upto £300 budget

Thanks Davinci

Doing my bit to promote Wild Country tents again!!  (commission please!) We just got a Wild Country Halo 73 - great quality tent from a top notch manufacturer - the bigger Halo 104 could be just the job for you.  The new 2007 model retails at £450, but the virtually identical 2006 model is being sold off for £250 here at the moment

http://www.worldofcamping.co.uk/shop/Detail.asp?ProductID=1213

It looks complicated, and does pitch inner first, but it is surprisingly easy to pitch.  See this thread for more info on this tent.

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/chatter/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=3&TopicID=44329&PagePosition=2

Thanks.  I have heared these were good, but was worried they seemed a bit big for the average pitch.  We will keep looking  and appreciate anymore info.

Thanks again.

We have just put an order in for a Khyam Ontario 8.

It looks straightforward to put up, has SIG to keep spiders out,  large living area with excellent height and 3 good size bedrooms with enough height to stand. If you only need 2 bedrooms one pod can be left out leaving even more living space. It is a tunnel tent and so does not have a huge footprint for the size of tent. Costs £199 with a free footprint groundsheet from World of Tents.

Maybe worth taking a look at this or the slightly smaller Onterio 6.

Cheers thank you all for your reply we'll just have to spend the next 7 hours staring at the net finding out about theese tents i'll let you know how we get on and ask for more help later.

we are a family of 3 who have a Khyam Excelsior XXL.  2 bedrooms, large living space, great height, very easy to erect, pitch outer first so not a problem with getting the bedrooms wet but it doesn't have SIG so may be crawlies but other than that i thinks its a good tent.

Hi davinci,I have just got rid of my Gelert Satellite 6 because the bedrooms were a bit too small, although the living area was very big. I now have a Sunncamp Mondial 1200 which has much bigger bedrooms and an equally big living area. I have seen it for £325 on one website. It is a large tent so if you're worried about pitch sizes maybe it's not for you. I found talking to the site owner before booking and being honest about the size of your tent would alleviate any of those kind of problems.

dave