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Hi everyone

I have always just went camping at festivals and the odd weekend with mates and always had the same tent, a 15 year old Eurohike 5 man tent, which has done the job perfectly.

I have now got married and have got two boys 6 yo and 4 yo.  We have done the odd weekend away in Sark but as the wife and kids like inflatable mattresses it's a bit cramped.

So it's now come to the time to purchase a family tent, maybe a 6 person tent with a a living area and either two or three bedrooms.  I have been looking on e-bay and various camping websites but not sure what to get.  I have a budget of approx £150, but I have noticed that a lot of 6 person tents are well over 20kg in weight and as I will have to carry it sometimes especially when I go to Sark I would like a tent under the 20kg mark.  Also I would like to have a tent that pitches fly first and is very waterproof .  Any suggestions.

The makes I have seen that look interesting are Outwell, Sunncamp and Skandika Jasper, I would like one with a SIG if poss which I don't believe the Skandika has.

Any help for me to make a decision would be greatly appreciated.

2007 Oregon 600 is £174, delivered, here

Hi Quong, I know I've asked this before but must have missed the answer - you always seem to have a really impressive knowledge of the Sunncamp range of tents, and often of the ones on sale at awnings.co.uk.

Do you have any particular connection with Sunncamp or just a dedicated fan? No probs either way but its just nice to know where people are coming from! Cheers. MT

I agree with M.T. that it's nice to know whose views are independent, and who is speaking from a retail perspective. If nothing else, we then know whose advice to seek on issues relating to manufacture, guarantee or customer service issues.

Hi shivadread ( great user name by the way - must come from all them years going to festies??)

You are going to struggle to find something of carry-able weight for 4 - this usually puts you into a higher price bracket for something with alloy poles like the Robens Double dreamer. If carrying- weight is an essential consideration (and camping on Sark sounds fab!) then maybe two smaller tents would be best, though you would be unlikely to have standing height with such an arrangement.

If 16kg is carry-able, then I second the Sunncamp Ventura suggestion.

Thanks for all the suggestions.  I've got my choices down to these:

Sunncamp Invader 600

Sunncamp Evolution 600 (worried about the leaking issues)

Wynnster Mallard 6

Sunncamp Ventura

Any recommendations on the above, really like the look of the Evolution 600, does anybody know whether the leaking now been sorted out on the 2007 model.