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those khyam ones are gr8 very pricey!! and on our last trip even one of those were victim to the wind!! i think maybe it was erected wrong!!

our argos cheapie is left up all day and night,and there was no problem at all :) as for banning gazebos from sites that would be stubid cos campers really do rely on them,like us :) i really think its down to the erection just making sure the feet are all square and pegged down also guyed out correctly.................

My cheap white plastic one stood up to some fair winds & rain for a week on the side of a hill in North Yorkshire last year, but then I did peg it & guy it properly. Was amazed last week how lax some campers are in their pitching of gazebos, also of tents in some cases. I find it quick & easy to put up on my own but do not think I could manage one of the quick-erect ones that have concertina'd struts as they are quite heavy & need to be pulled out from both sides at once.

I think gazebos are made too high - they stick out above the tents & are therefore exposed to the wind. Am thinking of shortening mine by about half a metre. Don't usually stand underneath it anyway, sit down to do the cooking.

WE have a khyam garden shelter (has sides that roll up and the external frame like the ridgi pod type tents) and it was bril in the gales in cornwall. Cost £99 from CCC outdoors, but by the time you have the gazebo and the sides if you buy separate ones the total is about the same, and I think this is more weather proof.

No leaks, or worries re stability and we even cooked in it (using the Cobb).