Message Forums

Hoping someone can give some advice on choosing our new tent?

Our requirements are

Room for up to 5 (3 adults, 2 kids),

2 large bedrooms, preferably well seperated.

200cm or more head height

Seen plenty of tents that tick all those boxes but we are looking for something with a large porch with a door seperating it off from the rest of the tent. A porch large enough to store all the cooking gear, shoes etc and be able to sit/cook in with a door to keep smells/smoke from the main tent.

Can anyone recommend any suitable models?

The nearest I have found yet is the Outwell Michigan L although the door inside the porch is half mesh and so will let smoke in and it is possibly a little larger than we need.

I saw a 2007 Outwell Sun Valley 6 which would have fit the bill but obviously this model is no longer available.

So......any recommendations? 5/6 berth, decent size porch and living area with a seperating door, budget around £300.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks Keely,

That Sunncamp Eden is exactly the kind of thing we are looking for, although again, possibly a little large.

 Should have made it clearer in my first post, at least 75% of the time it will just be for use by 2 adults 1 teenage daughter, this Summer an extra adult and child will be with us but they can share (1 adult 2 kids) one large bedroom as it's just a one off, if they like camping they'll be getting their own!

So for usual use it's going to be 3 (maybe 4 with one of the daughters friends but again they can share a room) so we want room for 2 double beds + some room for clothes in the bedrooms, bit of living area but not huge and a decent sized porchg with a seperating door to keep + use all the cooking gear etc in.

Having said that, with the removeable bedroom, that Sunncamp Eden looks great, can't quite tell from the pic, does it have a dividing door at the back of the porch?

Does anyone know if it is available in stock anywhere as a quick google hunt didn't turn anything up?

Anything else on the market that I should be looking at that is a similar design?

Can anyone recommend a good tent display in the Yorkshire area, to see loads of models pitched on display?

Many thanks.

Thanks for the replies so far guys, the Outdoor Revolution range look interesting and as they are local to me, I'm going to pay them a visit this week I think.

Spent the last hour or so looking at alternative options on here (what a great site!) and come across the Vango Tigris 600 with the optional tunnel extension. Any opinions on that as an option?

With the 3 bedrooms it will just manage with 5 of us and when it's just the 3 of us, the 3rd room can be removed or used for storage. Having seen a couple of threads on here with members struggling with the Vango extensions, would I be right in thinking that the "Tunnel Extension" available in Smoke (blueish) only is the one to fit the Tigris and that it goes on the side door (ie the one with the little canopy over it) so use of the optional bedroom is still available at the end?

Does anyone have a pic of one of these fitted as some of the stuff I've read on here is making me cautious. It would suit our purposes perfectly from what I can see as it would give a small kitchen area sealed from the rest of the tent if needs be. Any idea on the size of this extension?