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I can only answer this from the view of someone who owns a 10birth tent - the HiGear Kalahari 10.This tent has 2x3 person "rooms" and 2x2 person rooms. One of the reasons we love  it is it has so much space. We mainly use it for camping wth the cubs/scouts where pitch sizes are not an issue.

I (Dad) can normally get the footprint down and the outer tent up in 30 minutes wth the assistance of my 14 year old daughter if the wife is off chatting somewhere. We have never had an problems with leaks or poles breaking.

My one gripe about this tent is the porch which in theory is great but is difficult to fit and doesn't seem to fit properly with the tent. I understand that HiGear,who make the tent, have  now discontinued it. We are considering changing the tent for a Vango Maritsa 700 - which probably wouldn't meet your needs.

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stay well away from skandika on ebay they look massive but are very poor quality

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We have a Vango Salong 900, states 9 people but with younger 1's it would easily sleep 10+ the extra bedroom pod woul sleep 3 but on diagrams sleeps 2 due to a slight narrowing of the pod towards the back.Still huge space when all pods in use. Side porch is fixed so no extra pitching of a canopy. Took us 1.5 hrs start to finish to put up tent hubby did all guys whilst i did all inside that was for 4 of us.

Anywyas if you are thinking of buying 2nd hand we are selling ours on the free ads here.

Photos in the review section on here.

Reason for selling as we do love the tent ...we want a polycotton for next years trips.

Maddie.