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we've just purchased a 13', 2 berth caravan and awning, with a 2 berth bed tent included.

The 2 kids slept in this but it was barely large enough for their airbeds, and my 10 yr old doesn't like sharing with her brother.

I've seen a suggestion for pop-up tents in the awning, but was worried they would

a) take up too much room

b) suffer from condensation problems

c) be a b***er to put down.

Anyone out there got any experience with this? should I just get a 3 berth inner tent, or would an annexe work better?

I am confused.com!!

Why don't you go and have a look at a Decathlon store? There they have  1 person pop-ups for £19.99 which have a groundsheet and a bedroom inner. They are 100cm [39,1/2 inches ] wide. so if your awning is at least 2 mtrs wide you could fit them both side by side, they have 3 vents  and if inside the awning anyway you do not need to completely close both zip doors plus they only take seconds to fold away, [i know,  i have some, - after a bit of practise. ]  The big plus is; as kids are probably  better at pitching and folding these than adults, they do most of the work.       

Look on-line here ;- http://www.decathlon.co.uk/EN/1-second-simple-34693170/

Hi

We started off with a 2 berth 13ft caravan too :)

We bought a 3 berth inner tent which took up at least half of the awning lol.

With that you could probably sew an old sheet into it to divide it up to make 2 seperate bedrooms for single airbeds as there was plenty of room left over after the double airbed was put in.

We soon moved on to a larger caravan but son didn't want to share with his sisters so we let him sleep in the awning but the inner tent took up too much room so we got him a cheap tent from Tesco and as that had air vents in the top it didn't suffer from condensation though the bed did get wet so we got him a pop up tent.  It is only big enough for a single airbed even though it's meant to be a 2 berth.  That really did suffer from condensation though so you would need to leave the zip a little undone to get some air into it overnight.

hth

wow - thanks everyone!

I realise that the zips on popups will need to be lowered as I slept in a single skin tent at Guide camp and got drenched!!

didn't realise the gelerts had no ground sheet sewn in - bit odd that!!

Am still weighing up the poss of a 3 bed 'room' poss in an annex, but having just found more damp in the 'van today, I may have to put spending on hold, and just keep thinking.

Am about to look at the decathlon site, to, for a bit of 'half term therapy' while my son and his freinds use the 'van as a den!!!

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didn't realise the gelerts had no ground sheet sewn in - bit odd that!!

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Tent,s in awning ,and condensation ,all depends on the weather ,out side for me the inner bedroom tent is less likely to suffer condensation ,,

i have recently done just what our asking. i had 2 innertents that took pretty much all the spare room (but we didnt mind as thats what the awning is for,for us that is) neither of the kids liked the inner tents said they were to big and prefered to use there pop up tents as there body heat warmed them alot quicker,only problem was there double air beds didnt fit.

as for space they took up simular room but a quick twist/push/wrestle and the tents were back in the bags for the day and there bedding was stored in boot of car or under seats in caravan