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Morning,

Firstly appologies if there's a thread elsewhere for this.

Relative newbies to camping here.  Lots of enthusiasm and looking forward to the great outdoors.

We've given our tent the once over and put it up in the garden (minus guys).

What I feel we could really do with is a hour of someones time (tea and biscuits provided) to take us through the why's and wherefores of putting up our tent.  The instructions that came with the tent are as best woeful.  There's no DVD or anything on the web to show us what to do.

People are happy to give lots of advice, but I'm a visual person.  Seeing it once and asking questions will be exactly what we need.

We're based in the Midlands and am happy to travel to someone with a big enough piece of land (the tent is 7x5m) for a bit of a "how to".

Thanks in advance.

Well, if we'd have taken advice before we just "had a go" we'd have faired better.

We had a pole elastic failure, the tent ripped where it meets one of the tensioners and the footprint sheet is coming away from the eyelets.

To be fair, the customer service has been great, and they're swapping the whole thing out for us and have said we can use it until it comes.

We're having another go at the weekend now we've studied the video's and taken some additional advice.

Have a look at this vid, we found it the best as the tents are similar (thanks for the heads up to arsenaldes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJVZlLtJUA0

We also ordered the porch, so one things to be aware of is the amount of sites that will accomodate the tent without charging a lot more.

some of the most entertaining evenings while camping have been watching peeps put their tent up for the first time espacially if they are new to camping. However, like most campers if it gets to out of hand we will offer as will others.