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Quote: Originally posted by Mikef on 06/8/2007

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Get your new tent  ; go camping and you can laugh back at that in luxury. My Campus Breckenridge cost me 250 and we love it. We have it set up in an hour.

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We've got the deluxe, paid £214 and I think it's a great tent. We went for our first camping trip the weekend before last, as we sold our van last year, and it was so easy to put up, it took us an hour to set up completely. We had heavy rain overnight on the Saturday and not one drip!!! It has lots of windows and 3 doors so you can get a good blow through too.

I can't recommend this tent enough.

Hope you find what you are looking for, but perhaps you need to spend just a bit more money. Look out for you extras in Argos etc. I must admit, I won't be taking a sleeping bag next time as I thought it was too restricting, and too hot.

Where did all these campus breckenridge tents come from??

When I got mine (ebay bargain £75) there were none around.

Make sure you have delta pegs on these big domes otherwise you might turn into a 26' kite

Hi

I know im a camping retailer so you would expect me to say this but.

I think buying tents from anywhere other than a camping store is crazy and buying a tent that you havnt seen pitched is not a great way of doing it either. 

Remember we dont sell frozen chickens, we dont sell fruit and veg and we dont sell baked beans.

We sell camping kit and thats it. If people keep buying from supermarkets and a well known shop in the town centres begining with A and ending in S we will end up like france where you will find it very hard to see a tent display.

Im sure some will say the prices are better in the above mentioned shops but thats rubbish as are most of the tents they sell.

Its very rare that i get worked up on this site as the regulars will know but if you spend £100.00 on a complete camping kit, well your going to have problems, im just glad it didnt put you of Dezzie !!! .

Regards

Gary Cross

Cross camping and leisure Ltd.

Would second Gary on this one - unfortunately the old adage of you get what you pay for really seems to come into play when camping!!  Our first tent was from A***s and was nasty, cold, leaky....... but as a "suck it and see" whether we liked camping it served its purpose.  It taught us what we did and did not like in a tent - so we went to buy ourselves a more expensive tent that fitted these requirements!!

If you love camping - get yourselves the best tent you can afford.  It will serve you well for years with no anger (well, not too much) when putting up, dry beds and clothes when its raining, and lovely trips round the country.

Hope you stick with it - you meet the best kind of people when camping!

a work friend of mine went camping in dorset and moaned because her £70 supermarket 6 man tent was crap!  I laughed and said "what do you expect when you buy a tent from a supermarket?" i said it was cheap and nasty and thats why something else broke or ripped or fell off it every day! she said "£70 isnt cheap" I said, it is for a decent tent! and left her to it!

im glad your experience didnt put you off!