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Hi,

I am hoping someone will be better with maths and measurements and twnts than me.

We own a diablo 900 and would like to go to Lincoln Farm, Witney but their pitches are only 7m by 7m.  I have spoken to someone who owned the same tent and she told me that she never had a problem anywhere if she pegged the tent out with the pods in each corner, rather than on each side and front and back. 

My calculations (and these are only on paper plans drawn to scale ish) imply that the pitch corner to corner will be about 10m and I need just over 8m to peg the tent out.  The rest of the tent will then fit into the 7m sides.

Please can somebody tell me if I am completely stupid or if this will work?

Thanks

Kerry

Hi,

I have spoken to the site and they are happy as long as it fits in the square, so to speak.  Think I will be getting some rope out and try a 7x7 square around it whilst it is pitched in the garden.  At least I will know for sure.

Thanks

Kerry

Success.  After many a 'discussion' with OH and father-in-law, I proved them both wrong; a 8.2m tent will fit into 7m pitch. 

We managed to pitch our diablo 900 in a 7m square pitch with the entrance at one of the corners.  3 of the Guys will go slightly over the 7m but only by about 5cm, and I think with one more little shuffle we could have got them in too .I have spoken to people at Lincoln Farm, Oxfordhire and they said that is fine as some of the pitches are bigger than that anyway and they still allow room to eat/sit outside and also room for the car. 

I am so excited, I cant wait, I am worse than a kid.  I have booked the pool so we know we can have that on our own as well as using the public sesions, all i need to do now is have a look into what we can do in the area with a 2 and a 4 year old and wait for 25th June to come round.

Quote: Originally posted by VangoMan02 on 04/6/2007

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Likewise,we are booked from 25th June - 2nd July,400 mile drive but feel it will be worth the effort as this site has brilliant reviews...We have a Vango Colorado 600 with a blue Coleman add on porch awning....hard to miss...........regards

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I will look out for you, i am guessing we will be the only diablo 900 so we will be hard to miss also.  Do you klnow what pitch number you have been allocated - we are 81.

Quote: Originally posted by scatternobrains on 04/6/2007

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 all i need to do now is have a look into what we can do in the area with a 2 and a 4 year old and wait for 25th June to come round.

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Quote: Originally posted by VangoMan02 on 04/6/2007

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Well there in lies a tale....when we booked we were told that they had no tent pitches left

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After a number of phone calls about pitch sizes etc, I rang to pay my deposit and was told no pitches left, despite 2 hours earlier I was told there was plenty.  It turned out she thought I said for the weekend - we are only going Monday - Thursday.  The tent pitches are fully booked for the Satuday and Sunday only so we have got ours that way - they are still quiet during the week.  I did mention to OH about staying a week but he too was worried about our sig so we are playing the safe option.

Kerry