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Does anyone know if the Vango Adventure tarp would fit my tent.  Any picture I have seen the tarp is on an end door, but the Beta only has 2 side doors.

It says in the description that it "can be attached to the side or front of the tent"  but I cant see how it would go on the side of mine.  My tent comes under the category of Adventure Tent in any listing s too.

Thanks in advance

Thanks for taking the trouble to find that Henryscat

I've survived this long without a tarp (until we bought the Beta not even a living/storage area!) so I'm sure I can live without it.

You could really do with 1 or 3 extra poles to use it as a standalone shelter - 1 extra pole will give you a A line shelter, 3 will enable you to have one side raised, while the other is pegged to the ground as a wind/weather break. The latter will give you more useable space.. We use the tent's porch poles and one from an old tent. Use the different heights and even take sections out of their length to allow for different weather shedding shapes. You will need to buy additional, longer guys to do this. There are a couple of spare longer guys that come with the tarp if I remember rightly so you can use it as a freestanding A line shelter, but you will need more if you hold one or all sides up.

You can even use them at a variety of different heights if you have sufficient length guys ( tie loops in the ends of each guy and just wrap the relevant loop around the fabric guying points on the tarp and thread the guyrope back through itself, trapping the fabric guying point and any pole tip when you pull the loop tight - this means you can add the right guyrope easily for what you want at the time without having to tie and untie knots).

It won't shelter your door, but it makes a good cooking/ sunning shelter...

Have fun!

Helen