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Quote: Originally posted by The-Honest on 07/8/2014Hi,

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We're looking to buy a new tent.

Priorities are 5 birth, ease of pitch, pack size, and quality.

Initially I was thinking keep our 4m Bell tent for 1 or 2 night trips, and get a Cabanon Awaya 370 for longer trips.

My current thoughts are sell the Bell, and get a Falco Havik 4000.
Falco Havik 4000
It is modular, so could be used without porch for quick trips, and with porch for longer trips. Overall it is slightly larger than the Awaya too.

A Cabanon Awaya/Biscaya 440 a possibility, but we would have to keep the Bell for quick trips, which doubles the space required for storage. Not so keen.

I did look at Karsten, but price is going in the wrong direction. I also think with large inflatables, the volume of air required is so great that you'd be just as quick (if not quicker) with the zip in pole system. I don't think they're the tent for us.

So can anyone suggest a good quality modular tent?

Thanks,
The Honest.

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Quote: Originally posted by The-Honest on 10/8/2014Duffs, Achy and Wiggy,This has made me look at Karsten again with fresh eyes.

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Ian, you have a very good point about doing something else whilst the pump is doing its job.

I'm still not sold on them to though. The Falco is dear enough, but a Karsten setup for five will cost more. To be fair, I did compare are the prices to the Baco tent prices (Baco is Falcos cotton twin).
The Karsten sleep pod only sleeps four.

It has made realise that modular (Karsten style) isn't a priority, but the ability to use the tent with or without an awning/porch is.

Thanks,
The Honest.

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Quote: Originally posted by Kang on 09/7/2014Okay, so for those interested, some pics of the Karsten 3600.

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From this:



To this, in not long at all.



Their video on YouTube didn't help so much. Being the bigger size (3600 as opposed to 2800), sleeving all the poles before putting it up (as in the video) didn't seem, for us at least, to work. We favoured sleeving the front, pulling it up and loosely guying out, before sleeving poles behind, one at a time.

Curiously, unless I'm missing something, the guys to the rear didn't have carabiners. This meant that the guys would have to be undone, threaded and then done up again each time you put the tent up and took it down - unless of course, you put the tent away with the guys attached. We didn't fancy that, so I bought some cheap carabiners and they did the trick.



Window cover up!



Through front into sleeping pods:



Have to say, even the dividers are lovely quality and can be configured different ways depending on needs. It's a fine tent, even when pitched on a slope!

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