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Personfestivalmummy
18/8/2015 at 1:58pm
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Hello!
I have just returned from a festival and realise I need some serious kit upgrades. 😖.
I have a great bell tent and it has done me proud for 5 years of festival going with kids. This year I went to a different festival to the one I usually attend and it was a massively different affair. No nice flood lights near campsite and up hill struggles with buggy 😞. Also, this year was the year I thought we would cook!! I packed beans, beans and then more beans. How rubbish! Woman next to us was eating stew for tea and pancakes for breakfast! I'm such a novice, could barely light a fire. So I'm looking for advice on what double burner to get? also going to get a fire pit as most people had them and they gave a lot of heat. and I'm going to make a rocket fire next year! Patio slab and 12 bricks and you have smokeless cooking you can use beneath shelter! ....which brings me to shelters...I want one!! We got soaked and I was so. Wishing I'd committed to a gazebo/ shelter. They are dear and seem quite large but a must if the earthier is awful. Any recommendations of bargains? Like the Coleman event and they also do a quick pitch but it is same price as event shelter and both are dear. Need cheap as poss.
Last but not least, chairs... I bought a quest elite moon chair years ago and love, love, love it! Can't afford to buy another 5 to fit my family though so was mooching at gelert beech double. Like the idea of a double seat looks cozy. Any advice please?? Thanks in advance!!


PersonTynxuk
18/8/2015 at 2:25pm
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You say this is all for festival camping? a patio slab and 12 bricks aren't going to be light weight .

Plenty of bargains to be had at Halfords, they have moon chairs for £15 each and much more than on the website in my local store.

Rather than a gazebo a tarp can be versatile and packs much smaller, plenty to suit all budgets out there. We have a German cotton canvas one which needed fabsilling as leaked like a sieve and I would advise doing both sides of the seams to prevent mold after my recent disaster


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I do 2 festivals a year with the kids, the second one allows us to camp for a full week for the price of a weekend ticket do it's nice to be well stocked!!
I have had cheaper camping chairs before, got one from blacks which actually wasn't that 'cheap' but stitching went on first weekend of use! 😕 That's why I researched and got the quest, got it on eBay so was cheap but well worth it.
Need to fabsil my tent soon, but to be fair no rain got it in this time and it got quite a hammering!! Will have a think about tarp, just want something use and sturdy.
Re. Fire, I know the slab and bricks sound excessive but you can cook with a hand full of pine cones and it goes for ages! Also, after 6 days of eye watering smoke the rocket fire really impressed me!! Making one at home I'm so impressed.


PersonTynxuk
18/8/2015 at 7:04pm
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I'm sure others will back me up when I say a well erected tarp can withstand more than most gazebos. Admittedly ours is a cotton tarp so not that cheap but I'm sure a cheap poly one with clingons rather than relying on the eyelets would be nearly as sturdy.

This was ours at the beginning of the month and it stood for 10 days in windy wales:


PersonMack84
18/8/2015 at 7:25pm
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Halfords also do their own version off the Coleman event shelter, know its on offer at the moment.
Can be pegged down ( good for windy conditions) and only problem we had with ours that some off the sides took a bit off a battering but it was very windy. Can be fixed as its only the elastic that hold the click on has been stretched so could just buy some new elastic and sow in. But as the sides for it a that moment is only £5 just bought a couple off new ones


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Personfestivalmummy
18/8/2015 at 9:25pm
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Cool thanks, will check halfords in a min Mack84 😊.
Tynxuk, this looks ace, is it a proper tarp kit made to fit next to your tent??


PersonTynxuk
19/8/2015 at 11:50am
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This is the halfords shelter that Mack84 mentioned above, after buying all the bits our tarp cost a little more but IMO was so worth it. There is another member here who uses the same tarp with their 5m bell tent .

2x6m tarp was £56.44 (no longer for sale in this size but other sizes available here), clingons £6.50, 10x ball bungees £3.79 and we already had a couple of king poles and guy ropes but these would cost £15.75 then after finding it wasn't waterproof I had to buy 5l fabsil and spend a few hours in the garden painting it onto the tarp and only about 1/4 of the can is left.

I clipped the clingons on the tarp in line with the spokes on top of the tent then adjusted the front ones to how I wanted them, a little water got in between the tent and tarp as the clingons aren't flush with the edge of the tarp so will probably add reinforced eyelets on that side at some point.



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