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I have never had any trouble in France with my frame tent which is about 5.6m long and 4.5m wide. I have always had room to park my car on the pitch to the side of the tent so there is room to spare

Tim

Wow! its huge isn't it? I've just had a look at the specs. 7.85 m width and 7m length or thereabouts. Our tent is 7 metres long by 4 wide and have a vehicle also 7 m long and 3.5 wide and have had not much hassle finding pitches large enough (although we have been warned that we may have to park the vehicle nearby rather than beside the tent)

I'm sure you'll be OK with the Outwell Montana.

I wonder if the problem with the Nebraska is the legal distance required between tents for fire safety?

Pippa

Yes Pippa our XXL is huge, but it`s one wonderful tent and we are totally in love with it. It`s our home from home and we are so pleased with it we would prefer to keep to Outwell tents, hence the Montana 6. We like to have plenty of space in the living area and both tents have that.

We had a good look around other tents, but decided that the Montana 6 was THE one we could see ourselves living comfortably in for a couple of weeks. It`s head height throughout and has a large living area with plenty of windows for light. We are just hoping it`s not too big for abroad as we have fallen in love with it and it would make an ideal second/weekend tent for those sites that can`t accomodate our XXL.

Has anyone out there ever camped abroad in this tent or one of the same size?

Hi David,

thanks for that. Unfortunately I am not that good with figures, so does that mean our XXL at 7.85mL x 7mW would be too big as we have been told or not?

Our tent is 8m x 5m and we have had no trouble booking in France. The site we are going to in the Dordogne this year has an average pitch size of 150m2. Out tent is 40m2. Your tent is 56m2 (ish) so you would still have bags of room. The site in question does pitches up to 200m2.

This is it: http://www.belombrage.com/index_gb.htm The owner Michelle is very friendly. Site is near Sarlat in the Perigord.

Amanda x

Cheers for that folks. We met a couple at a campsite in Allonby and mentioned we were hoping to go to France camping. This couple, who had  Vango Diablo 900 although we don`t know if that is the one they use abroad, said we wouldn`t be able to use our XXL abroad as it is WAY too big . As this couple told us they have camped in France, Italy, Spain, Austria etc, we took them to be well informed and so assumed thay were right and our beloved tent would be too big.

After all the information I have got off this post (Thanks folks ) I will now have a good search for sites we would like to visit and just mail or `phone and ask if they will take our XXL. Nothing ventured, nothing gained and if it means we can take our lovely XXL and not have to fork out more for another tent (even though I have now fell in love with the Monty 6 and may get it eventually for a second/weekend tent) then the cost of the `phone calls will be worth it.

It just goes to show you shouldn`t believe everything you are told!

Essexmum that campsite looks lovely, can you let us know how you get on there

Kate

Quote: Originally posted by kate w on 10/7/2006

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Essexmum that campsite looks lovely, can you let us know how you get on there

Kate

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Yes will do. It ticked all the boxes for what we wanted so we hope we like it. Not going until the 15th August so will have to wait a while for the report!!

Amanda x

we have just decided to buy either an outwell indiana 8 or possibly the 6 and we live in switzerland.  at the camping shop here they didn't reckon there'd be any problem with the size of either model so just to echo what others have said, phone some places to find out if your *BIG* tent will fit maybe?

Esther