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Subject Topic: Skandika Daytona XXL tent-help please!!! Post Reply Post New Topic
Persontequilamockingbird
07/4/2011 at 5:42am
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We bought our Skandika Daytona XXL tent from eBay, but failed miserably to get it put up last weekend.

As mentioned by others, the Skandika range comes with useless 3 stage pictorial info that is NO help at all.
We watched the video on Youtube of another tent in the range, but to no avail.

    Has anyone got any ideas?
    Have you put one of these up?
    Any links etc. would be very gratefully received.


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Personarsenaldes
08/4/2011 at 6:16pm
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Keep practising until you find an easy way to put it up

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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody ever listens we have to keep going back and saying it all over again and again and again


Personvictoria1
08/4/2011 at 9:33pm
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Did you do a search on Skandika tents? Maybe you can return it.

Love your username btw, Still Crazy anyway.

Post last edited on 08/04/2011 23:07:44


Personrochford6
08/4/2011 at 10:27pm
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I second what Victoria1 said, Skandika do not have the best of reputations, had one pitched next to us last year and to cut a long story short it ended up getting thrown in the bin, poor family spent half the night sitting up trying to stop the roof collapsing in on them.

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PersonFrancophile1947
09/4/2011 at 12:20pm
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Quote: Originally posted by rochford6 on 08/4/2011
I second what Victoria1 said, Skandika do not have the best of reputations, had one pitched next to us last year and to cut a long story short it ended up getting thrown in the bin, poor family spent half the night sitting up trying to stop the roof collapsing in on them.
I thought that was a Skankydik - or maybe I just misheard

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Persontequilamockingbird
10/4/2011 at 6:08pm
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We have tried - unsuccessfully. And there is a strap missing from one of the internal rooms. Can anyone recommend a GOOD large family tent (with 3 separate rooms preferably) that is EASY for 2 people to put up?


PersonLewLincs3
10/4/2011 at 6:15pm
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I can- the Gelert Horizon 8, see my post and pics about it (I'll do a link in a mo) It's huge! It's our first tent and it took us about an hour putting it up for the first time the other day, so I would imagine with practice we'll be able to get that down to 40 mins or even less :)



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March - Pooley Bridge (Pod booked!)
May - Spiers House, Pickering
June - La Garangeoire, Vendee, France
Aug - The Cotswolds?


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PersonLewLincs3
10/4/2011 at 6:16pm
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Here it is (sorry, I don't know how do do hyperlinks!)

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/chatter/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=32&TopicID=242784&PagePosition=1

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May - Spiers House, Pickering
June - La Garangeoire, Vendee, France
Aug - The Cotswolds?


Persontequilamockingbird
10/4/2011 at 6:21pm
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Strangely enough, I was gazing in adoration at your tent...! Looks just the thing for us. How easy was it really?


PersonLewLincs3
10/4/2011 at 9:19pm
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I've just replied to you on my thread - but in a nutshell - it was a doddle, much easier than the much smaller Outwell tent we borrowed last summer as it didn't need 'walking out' if you know what I mean

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May - Spiers House, Pickering
June - La Garangeoire, Vendee, France
Aug - The Cotswolds?



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