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I've seen the commanchee on site and it looked very nice from outside, I thought it didn't have a sig though ? maybe i'm wrong and it was an older model?

LOL I think the OH will have a fit when I suggest doing a Makro - JR leisure Leicester tour tomorrow (30mins round trip + deliberating time).

Have you been to the Yeomans exhibition in Notts? Is that worth doing?

Debbie - that is one of the disadvantages. No SIG. split 4+4 bedroom (no 2+2 option). It is also only 2000HH.

BUT it is less that £170....decision will now come down to price I think.

The vango oregon has sig and is still available for  £175 here

Personally I'd go for a sig for the extra few pounds.

There's someone selling Commanches on Ebay for £159.95.

I was considering this tent at one point but eventually decided on something smaller that I could handle solo. Lichfield are a good brand and come under the AMG company label, same as Vango. They are the budget leisure brand but they do this by using the same design features as vango, but a couple of years on. Vango has the cutting edge new designs, then two years later the same tent turns up as a Lichfield. The build quality is the same though.

If you want SIG, look for the Vango Oregon and the Yukon, which are basically the forerunners of the Tigris. They just tweak the design/colour each year and rename it.

TY guys. I am deinately honing in.

You are right though I would buy the Oregon over the Commanche for teh SIG (£180 inc P&P).

Second choice would probably be Horizon 8 (£220 at Family camping supplies online).

I do still quite like the Tigris which has a couple of nice features I like (drop down groundsheet at the doors (stop my 3yo going flat on her face every time she enters) TBS and the brow over the door). I have heard that the Horizon door is not the best designed when it rains.

I like all of them, yes there are compromises - but I was perhaps being unrealistic to get all the features for less than £200. If money was no issue would rank them in the same order as price so it now comes down to how much money I can convince the OH to part with

I think I may have found something that ticks all boxes, the Yukon 800 suggested here.

£200 at Yeomans
3 doors
SIG
5000HH
plenty of living space

the only thing I can't confirm is the inner tent arrangement. Some websites suggest 4+4 some suggest 4+2+2.

No , I wouldn't have gone for you, but it would have been an excuse to get out of this madhouse. Nothing worse than nurses when hey are ill!! The sleeping arrangements are two pods with dividers / doors , so best of both really. This was the Tigris predecessor , but with superior fabric . This is a bit of a yo-yo as regards price , and must have recently come back down to £199. I was considering this myself earlier this year , as I loathe to part with money , so I think this ticks all the boxes. Might be worth ringing round local Yeomans to see if any carry stock , or if they can contact anyone at the exhibition as it may well be carried there to clear.

Quote: Originally posted by SlightlyMad on 30/5/2009

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so will it be cheaper at the exhibition if they are displaying it?

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