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Hiya Go Outdoors have this tent for £80, might be worth spending the extra £20 for peace of mind, having said that Aldi are offering a 3 yr warranty on the tent if its crap you could always take it back, looks ok and has a 3000mm h/h which is good as well. Me personally I would take the chance as numbersix said for £60 can you really go wrong?

Jubilee TBA-
July - Blue Dolphin

Quote: Originally posted by star1234 on 08/6/2009

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Hiya Go Outdoors have this tent for £80, might be worth spending the extra £20 for peace of mind, having said that Aldi are offering a 3 yr warranty on the tent if its crap you could always take it back, looks ok and has a 3000mm h/h which is good as well. Me personally I would take the chance as numbersix said for £60 can you really go wrong?

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Yep, I was in the same boat (wife that didn't like the idea of camping) - she's fine with it now - but demands a little of those home comforts :-)  And in fact - she's suggested we upgrade the tent now (small cheer).

So anyways, I looked everywhere I could think off to find a review on the Khyam and couldn't find any.  I also couldn't find any for this http://www.campingworld.co.uk/Models.aspx?ModelID=2089 << it's a 5er more and same design as the Khyam but comes with an extra groundsheet for the bit between the bedrooms.  I believe (and there are plenty of people here who can put me right if I'm wrong) Wynnster are a fairly good make.

As for HH values - as far as I'm aware (and I'm no expert) 2000HH is good for prolonged showers.  I've had a couple of 2000HH tents that have had to put up with all night heavy rain (May 2008 comes to mind - all night thunderstorm 2 nights in a row), and neither of them leaked into the bedroom areas.  Had a puddle or two in the "living area" but these were budget tents, and 10 seconds with a towel sorted that.

One thing I have noticed though with the cheaper tents is that they seem to suffer from pretty bad condensation - could just be me though.  Polyester tents do need good ventilation to prevent that and the more expensive tents have better airflow designs.

Hope that helps.

I bought last years aldi offering, which is pretty much the same as this years offering.  Dear husband had failed to get the Vail sorted(actually he has not made any progress on that yet) and I thought it would be a good, easy to erect weekend tent.  I am, in hindsight..an idiot.  The position of some of the poles has changed and last years had 1+2+1 bedroom pods.  But it leaked like a sieve, woke in the mornings with our own indoor swimming pool.  The downfall was the quality of manufacture, someone needs a bit of practise sewing in zips.  I suspect the ease with which they took it back and refunded the money came with practise.  Anyway I replaced it with a Vango Oregon 600 and I really like it, I will never be seduced by cheap supermarket tents again. 

susan

We bought one of these and will be using it for the first time tomorrow.  We are doing a one nighter close to home so if we run into trouble can get home in about 20 mins.  If I get the chance will come back and review and post some pictures.  We spent a lot of time looking at what we could get for somewhere near the price and this seemed the best for us, reasons below.

1 We have a 3yr old and liked the idea of one large bedroom rather than a seperate sleeping pod for him.

2 The wife wanted to be able to stand up in it, which to her was the most important thing.

3 We are new to camping and a bit undecided whether it is for us or not, so this was enough to spend for a few trial weekends and then spend real money later if it's a thing we will do regularly.

So wish us luck and see you Friday.

Steve

Hi

As with a lot of the Aldi/Lidl tents you may find first time they leak at the seams so you may need to seam seal with seam sealant but make sure you do not fold it away until the seam sealant has set or the tent will stick together.I bought one last year and once the seams had been sealed we have not had a problem with it.

cheers

steve