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Discontinued
5 (more 5 berth tents)
11.25 KG
Ł119.99
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Fully Sewn-in
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9.4/10 from 20 reviews

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By: Cryan Reason: I own(ed) one Made in: 2009 Rating: 10 from 10

After a few years of camping with my growing boys I decided I needed a bigger but long lasting tent as an investment, having always inherited friends' cast offs! We regularly camped in the purbeck hills in Dorset and frequently jinxed the weather into gales, so we knew we needed a heavy duty tent- having seen MANY others collapse, leak or blow down in exposed conditions.

I looked at many Vango tents and decided on this one as it is large enough but still small enough to put up by myself with help from my kids. It is extremely waterproof, with fantastic quality taped seams, as it is a dome it withstands high winds and rarely even changes shape in the wind. Good guy ropes and plenty of them, only slight downfall is in cold weather it is hard to heat up all the air space in the large bedroom compartment. Comfortably sleeps 4, but would do 5 at a push. Sewn in groundsheet is good quality, well fitted and easy to pitch

Tent takes about half an hour on my own to pitch completely with bedroom compartment too. Easily big eough for a family of 4 to holiday, have spent 2 weeks in ours with ease. In rainy weather we just curl up and play games in the large bedroom, taking the dividing curtain down.

Best tent I have ever used, and never need to worry that it will let us down despite our bad luck with torrential rain and wind

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By: Sisterwend Reason: I own(ed) one Made in: 2008 Rating: 10 from 10

We bought the vango Tamor 500 as we have never camped before on our first camp trip to Scarborough in 2008 we had thunder storms and flooding and it coped very well we bought the large canopy that fits on the front and this is very handy for cooking in and with having 2 small children it gives extra room. I have read mix reviews about the canopy but it stood our 2009 camping to robin hoods bay where we had gales and heavy rain I think it’s a case of getting it put up right onto the tent. The tent it so easy to put up even in the wind and rain. We are looking for a bigger tent for longer hols but we are still going to keep the Tamor as a weekend tent all in all this is a fab tent just 1 downside to the canopy it has no hook in the middle for hanging a light.

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By: Peggybabcot Reason: I own(ed) one Made in: 2008 Rating: 8 from 10

We chose this tent from reviews on this website for our weekend/just me and the kids tent. It was chosen primarily to allow us to go away when OH is working so needed to be easy for just me to put up alone. Given I can make a pigs ear out of anything, even I managed to put this up alone and found it nice and lightweight with fibreglass poles. Even the ring and pin system didn't need a fight to get it to go in unlike our Outwell Montana 6's As has been mentioned though I was disappointed by the fact that it DOESN'T have a SIG but a bathtub groundsheet.

Even though we had purchased a footprint groundsheet it did mean water ran under the bedroom pods and if the door flaps weren't totally facing outwards the bathtub acted exactly like. Well, a bathtub, gathering rainwater. The size of the bedroom pod was excellent, holding a kingsize and a single very happily as well as the Kamping Khazi but with the benefit of hindsight a larger porch area may have been preferable.

The tent withstood a heavy downpour and seemed stable with what little wind we did have. The addition of the large canopy gave us much needed additional space to cook in and without, I think would have been too cramped for us three, let alone for five as it suggests. The quality of the tent was excellent and hopefully if I ever manage to dry it out from our latest adventure we'll be using it for many years to come. One other thing I did like about it was how generous a bag it came in so getting it back from whence it came shouldn't be an issue, unlike some other tent manufacturers bags.