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PersonZeelees
16/6/2011 at 8:19pm
 Location: Ashford mx
 Outfit: vango Calder 500 View Zeelees's Profile View Profile   Reply to Zeelees Reply   Quote Zeelees Quote  
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My SIL has an outwell maryland and 5 kids,loads of space but takes a bit of time to pitch...going to be a bit difficult finding a big tent with a quick pitch time...they will all take between 40 minutes and an hour...might be easier finding something to amuse the little ones whilst you pitch.....good luck and have fun choosing!

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Personblazer666_uk
17/6/2011 at 11:33am
 Location: SE London
 Outfit: Hi Gear Kalahari 10 View blazer666_uk's Profile View Profile   Reply to blazer666_uk Reply   Quote blazer666_uk Quote  
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Hi Gear Kalahari 10 there are some on eBay for £159 but with a best offer you can get them for 140 LOOK HERE really large tent and very easy to erect with your clan I would say about 30 mins with all peggs in! takes me and wife approx 45 mins to fully erect, did a test run the other day.

Thats the 4th ad I have done for that bloke, I should be on commission!


Personruboli
17/6/2011 at 5:26pm
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 Outfit: Outwell Vermont XL View ruboli's Profile View Profile   Reply to ruboli Reply   Quote ruboli Quote  
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We're novices and have just come back from our first family camping holiday. We have 3 kids - 7, 6 and 2.5. We bought an Outwell Vermont XL and I can't recommend it highly enough. It'll easily fit you and your 4 kids.

I was worried about pitching it - but it took us about an hour and a half. We followed instructions posted on one of the forums on this site. My wife and I did it together and we're still married!

We had mixed weather on a site on a clifftop in Wales and the tent stood upto everything. Some of the regulars on the site said some of the winds were the strongest they'd witnessed. On a coldnight we had 12 adults sitting in the tent. Its about 7metres by 5metres.

Only slight hitch is it took us 2 or 3 goes to get it back in the bag. Hoping that gets easier. Otherwise, it's brilliant. And it won't take up all the space in an MPV.

I was talked into the idea of camping. A week in this tent changed my mind completely. My only thought is that it might take a bit too long for short weekend breaks.


PersonZeelees
17/6/2011 at 10:08pm
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welcome to the forum ruboli....so glad you had a good time and are now a converted camper!  We have 2 outwells and neither have ever let us down,

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