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I started a seperate thread to talk about starter packages...

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/chatter/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=3&TopicID=38720&PagePosition=1&ThreadPage=1&get=last#

Ang/Ken get down to ALDI immediately and buy HUGE 6 person tent plus beds, bags, electric pump for a little over £100 - excellent value and the tent is so big you can have a party in it!  And most importantly of all - you can actuall stand up in it in more than one place!  Then go out this weekend and enjoy yourselves!  p.s. If you have an AUTOWORLD nearby there are lots of extras to be bought for cooking etc once you have tried and tested it!  M.E. X

I have a "cheap and nasty" tent bought off e-bay.    

contrary to what is being said by people who do not have any personal experience of them, they do not all leak, they do not all have missing poles and they do not all blow away if somebody f**ts.

Agreed that you do get what you pay for, I got a great tent for £100, it kept me dry in the worst of Northumberlands' weather at the end of last October.

Please be constructive with your critisism, if you don't have any experience of these cheap options, please do not put potential campers off by making false allegations. Not everybody can afford a Khyam or Vango, and I've seen these "top" makes with problems of their own. by all means give newbies advice, but it needs to be fair comment and not unsound opinion.

Oscar

Thats what we got ... I'll NEVER camp for more than a couple of nights anyway and its definately waterproof as the missus made us sleep out in it on the garden in a rainstorm one night (the pond over-flowed so it was some downpour that night!)

I think if I was a PROPER camper I'd want something I could stand up in ... but as I'm a fair weather, part timer, weekendin' kinda gal its just the thing!