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Finally got the nod today for refund of the airbeam, loved the concept of the tent but not the paddling pool effect!!

We've decided to go for a vango marista 700 as we liked the idea of the porch for drying the dogs before entering the main area of the tent, the kids not sure about the rooms being in one line, as they always liked the pods at opposite ends but it is only for sleeping!

I did like the Kampas as well but the porch did it for us on the marista, fingers crossed all good with this one, as the old tent is wrecked and not sure it's up for another summer..

We also brought the tent from Yeomans Hamster2 but we had to wait while they sent it for testing and then when we went to their tent displays, the chap there said 'I would just have refunded you & not sent it back for testing' how strange that they have different views on returns!! It got sorted it the end & thats what counts.

The only good Airbeams seem to be the 600 but there must be some 800 that are good uns out there somewhere??!!

We finally have our Marista 700, instead of getting a full refund on the Airbeam we agreed a price with Yeomans for the Marista, full package it should have been with them by the Saturday16th July so a 2 week wait, we could cope with that! Anyway it didn't arrive and I found out by having to phone them again that they didn't even have any in the warehouse so would probably be in for a long wait, so over we went and got a full refund, they had my money long enough..

The good news is I found it on the net with Outdoor World Direct, very helpful, ordered it by phone on Monday, they phoned me yesterday to check if I would be happy with green tent/carpet as they had no blue carpets left and it was delivered today and it was cheaper then the deal we originally had.

Camping locally on sat to test & check over properly, whoopeee

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Very nice tent, loads of space. We were in gales of 45-50mph and the tent didnt move. WELL PLEASED. Best tent ever so far.