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Hi ,

im relativley new to camping and jumped in and bought the first tent i thought would do the job, i now regret it not happy with it and have it up for sale looking at new alternatives. so where is best place to buy? any advice greatly accepted, any body used the ebay shops ?  anybody used the reconditioned tents? also any manufacturers i should avoid any advice at all ... also is there a website for sunncamp cant seem to find it. thanks in advance

Hundreds of tents listed on this website, most with visitor reviews too

Cheers  Ratty

Hello Gaz and welcome to UKCS. I have read your review of your Gelert Olympus 8 and note that much of your compaint is about the size of the sleeping pods. Unfortunately all tents seem to exaggerate the number of people they will sleep. I think this is because they all take their sizings from sleeping mats rather than airbeds which are much larger.

It is usually suggested that if you need to accomodate 4 people then you need to buy at least a 6 man and probably an 8 man tent. In your case if you need to accomodate 8 people in comfort then you will be struggling to find any tent large enough and it may be wise to buy two tents and use two pitches. Expensive I know but then camping for large groups isn't cheap these days.

Gelert are a good manufacturer and have been making tents for years but they do tend to make tents for the cheaper end of the market and to do that, the quality, although perfectly adequate, may not seem quite so good as the more expensive brands when compared. 

Try the Kampa range, we've just bought Pendine 8, which is for 5 of us, granny in one room, 2 kids in other, me and OH in other with en-suite facilites in other. Large  enough living area to entertain each other in the rain and add on porch for shoes, cooking etc.

Good quality tent at a good price.  I would avoid Hi-Gear (sorry Higear owners) but I've had 3 different models and all went back to store. Best models would be Outwell, Vango and Kampa that I know.

Use the search facilty on here and try to view as many as you can, then shop around to see best deal around.

  thanks guys,

we are a family of 4 not 8 only need one tent, im starting to see that gelert are more at the cheaper end of the market. i did mention that my tent advertised as an 8 man is rediculous but we are 4 and the bedrooms are fine its the living space that im realy disappointed with.. i suppose its the same as everything else you get what you pay for but i did pay 250 quid for it mind .............

well ill just have to bite the bullet and look at the best manufacturer's outwell, vango is mentioned any thoughts on sunncamp