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I've got the Gelert - a newish one - they don't have a SIG, it's a bathtub style so the lack of SIG doesn't necessarily mean it's old!

That said it is a large tent - and looking at the icarus online, it's a bigger tent.  With 4 poles against the 3 on the icarus it will probably take longer to set up.

On the plus side, the gelert has 2 separate bedroom pods which may or may not be better for you.

I've not as yet moved the front wall back to make a porch area, but was one of the reasons I bought it, especially for short breaks, but it doesn't look a particularly hard job moving it.

All in all it's a good tent and £100 is a good price if it's all OK.

Icarus says 465x315  

a massive size difference or not - hmmm. 

 hi. We had the Gelert Lokon Vario 5. Would definitely NOT reccommend as we had real issues with the zips! No matter how many times we pitched the damn thing there was always loads of stress on the front door zips. It looked like there just wasn't enough material and it eventually ripped!

 Maybe we were just unlucky and got a dodgy one but we ditched it and bought an Outwell. The best thing I've ever done. It was alot more expensive but is still going strong years later.

 We only paid £130 for the Gelert new, so I'm not sure either that £100 is a bargain!