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The Sunncamp Day Room is a proper tent made by a reputable tent manufacturer; it has 2 pegging points for each corner instead of one, plus the pegging point at the bottom of the legs. The poles are the same type as used in tents, not heavy steel tubing that fits together with flimsy plastic fittings. The sides are part of the tent not bits of material held together by a couple of ties, and there are 4 pegging points on each side (which gazebos do not have). It packs up smaller and is lighter to carry than a gazebo.

2 of the sides are windows with "curtains" so you can look outside or have privacy if you wish. The other 2 have flyscreens & external covers.

All in all it's an excellent piece of kit compared to a gazebo. We have one which we use instead of the camper awning as it is quicker to erect & take down, is lighter & takes up less room, and if we have to break camp in the rain it will dry out quicker.

There are others that are similar to the Sunncamp one.

Agreed on the Sunncamp day room.  We bought a cheap (35 Euro) gazebo in France to give us some shade.  We spent the entire week fiddling with the thing to persuade it to remain stable in beautiful conditions with a very slight breeze!  We added guys to it but it still became unstable at the slightest puff of wind - as far as I could see even if you pegged and guyed the thing absolutely solid you'd just buckle the poles when the wind blew!

We  bought a Sunncamp dayroom on our return and pitched it on the side of a hill in fairly strong wind the other day - the fabric of it would have made a pretty good parachute and it took four of us to hold it down it was so windy!  Once the thing was pitched it didn't move an inch the four days we were there.  In the same four days there were a large number of collapsed and broken gazebos.  I'd rather spend the money once on a day room and be able to leave it on a site with the confidence that it would still be there on our return! 

Buy a propper day room made for camping not the garden.

We ues the khyam screenhouse.. Flame retardant too

http://www.khyam.co.uk/ridgi-dome.asp?productID=74

Have just come back from buying a Day room/Tent. Following your recommendations Bordercaz,  we went for a Sunncamp.  Although more expensive than many gazebos, we think it will also be useful for OH to sleep in - he gets very hot and sticky and the idea of sleeping in the Day Tent appeals to him.  Plus he burns very easily  - he's such a joy!.  We will be trying it out very soon...

On holiday back at Whitsun, I saw several blown over by the high winds. I went to tell one person his was about to take off & was almost told to mind my own business. I don't know whos insurance you could claim off of if someones Gazebo blew away & damaged your kit. We got fed up taking ours down so we'll revert back to leaving it here in future.

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