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Topic: Quechua pop up & base

KewGardener

19/8/2009 at 10:17am
Location: London
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Has anyone else with a pop up and base combo been charged extra (eg having the small tent charged as a pup or the base as a day tent) or have all sites just accepted them as one unit.

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19/8/2009 at 12:27pm
Location: Caerphilly South Wales
Outfit: Montana 6 Napoli 500 OutwellJersey M

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We have the base which we use as a kitchen tent with our pop up attached which we use for storage. We have been to a few sites with this set up and only CCC gave us grief because of the 6 metre rule. Most commercial site staff wouldnt know that the pop up and base are separate so keep quiet and hopefully they will not notice.

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KewGardener

19/8/2009 at 2:58pm
Location: London
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Ahh - the 6 metre rule, I hadn't event thought of that! What was the outcome, did you have to move them apart and pay for 2 pitches or did they allow it after some grumbling?

HelenaB

19/8/2009 at 4:19pm
Location: None Entered
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We've been told that we would be charged as though they were all separate tents - that was in France. Don't know if they're more reasonable here...

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Tunstallwood

19/8/2009 at 5:27pm
Location: Stoke-on-Trent
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We weren't charged for them separately. Depends on the site I guess, best thing to do is ask and not go if they want to charge extra or don't ask and try it and see if you get away with it?

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19/8/2009 at 10:58pm
Location: North Wales
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I've just bought a Base Seconds Full to pop onto the front of my Base 4.2
The way I see it, using them in this manner is no different to someone with (eg) a Monty 6, with an extension.
I can see that a smaller pop up tent poking out the side of the Base Full would look like a 'pup tent' and may be charged accordingly, but at the end of the day the entire floor space taken up by all of those is still a fraction of some of the larger tents out there.

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