Hi weve been looking to urgrade our tent as we need more room and the wife and i keep going back to the maritsa 700 so thats what were getting in a few weeks, its for myself, wife and 2 daughters plus german shepard dog, we looked at the 500 but you can tell the difference in them space wise, were looking at the fact we have children/dog and it if it rains how much space will we need for us all to be not be under each others feet etc but also the porch area for cooking
I dont know where you live but our gooutdoors in wakefield has BOTH the 500 and 700 on display so see if you can view them both together and get a "feel" for them both , good luck
Also forgot to mention they have upgraded the maritsa for 2011 the HH is now 4000 instead of 3000 but also the sleeping pods are now "lights out" which means darker fabric so hopefully sleep longer in a morning and there seems to be more storage pockets so keep that into consideration when looking as some places still sell the 2010 model
Gareth29 can i ask have you had any problems with the pitch sizes ? have you had to pay extra as its quite big etc ? also how long did it take to pitch up 1st time ? is it fairly straight forward ?
sorry wendle i seem to be taking over with my comments
No problems with pitch sizes yet, wouldn't go to that site if they were though, plenty of other good sites without being ripped off. Pitching the first time took approx 45 mins in a very windy garden. Got it down to about 25 mins now using the pitching video from Yeomans on youtube of the Vermont instead of the silly Vango method!
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Thanks but we 've just got the maritsa 700 today as everywhere had sold out and 1 place had a couple left and no one was expecting any more until late may/early june and we needed it for june.