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By: Mr Bluesky Reason: I own(ed) one Made in: 2008 Rating: 7 from 10

Like Treehugger, I did a lot of deliberating before choosing the Evolva, after a bad previous experience with a cheap and nasty off ebay.

I bought mine from Go Outdoors and although I got it nice & cheap thanks to their price match - 10% offer, I have certainly earned my discounted price. I would not buy from Go Outdoors again.

The full tent package comes in three separate bags: Main tent + 1 bedroom in main canvas carry bag + 1 bedroom in separate nylon bag + 1 chef annexe in separate nylon bag. This in itself is a minus for the tent. It's a gigantic package size for a tent of its size. And no wheeled carry cases here! I've just had to buy the mother of all top boxes to carry all our camping gear because the tent's going to fill my boot.

The first delivery from Go Outdoors brought me only one package (the main tent). They forgot to send the extra bedroom and chef annexe. Then when I opened the main tent, I discovered that the shock cord joining the main pole sections was snapped on one of the poles and severely frayed on the others.

After a total of about an hour and a half trying to get through to Go Outdoors, they eventually replaced the whole tent.

The replacement arrived (all three packages this time) and , you guessed it, the shock cord was badly frayed again.

Go Outdoors were willing to replace the poles again, but were not keen when I suggested that this was a manufacturing fault and we should get Coleman involved. I didn't want to go through the mess of waiting for more replacements, so agreed for Go Outdoors to send me new cord and I will replace it myself. Shouldn't have to do this on a �430 tent!

Anyway, having test erected the tent on the open ground in front of our house, I am very impressed with the quality of the rest of the tent.

The headroom is fantastic. It makes the tent look and feel much bigger than its 7 ish metre footprint. I have to say I've never seen a tent with so many zips! The bedrooms and chef annexe zip on really easily and the zips look to be good quality (although the demo tent at Go Outdoors in Loughborough had a broken zip, which did put me off a bit).

The headroom comes from the 'cathedral arch' design of support poles, which instead of being single-piece semi-cirular arches, have a rigid plastic (or some other resin-type material) joint piece at the top. This gives an apex at the top. I found getting the poles into some of the joint pieces a bit difficult in places, but I think that will become easier with practice.

Practice is definitely needed, since the erection instructions included with the tent consist of a plastic printed sheet sewn to the inside of the bag. The instructions are pants! However, between three of us, we managed wot work it out eventually.

The main reason for choosing this tent was the ability to configure different layouts, according to the pitch size and shape and the duration of the camp. Can't wait to try the tent out in anger.

The chef annexe can be used standalone and this in itself is an advantage. The ventilation looks to be really good, with side vents in the bedroom fly sheet to give airflow through the bedrooms.

Loads of clear windows and the light grey canvas colour make this a very light and airy feeling tent inside.

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

Not sure where to start, so first off best to say we are newbies to the tenting world, never thought I would ever go camping, now cant wait for our first trip, 6 weeks and counting!

So to the Evolva - We had a good look round before purchasing this fairly big tent! since getting it home we have had it up twice, Mr Bean would of been proud!

I should add at this point it a bit misleading to say its a 3 berth, its actually a 3 to 9 berth, it initially comes packed with the main living area and a separate 3 berth, the package we bought also came with an additional 3 berth and a Chef Annexe.

Basically with the little knowledge I have its a big dome tent, head height is excellent all round, you actually pitch the centre 4 sided section first 5m x 2.5m, then you choose where you want to put the add ons, add ons being the bedrooms and chef annexe, any combination is good, you could just have the single bedroom attached or the whole sherbang!

Having never erected a tent in my life I found it to be ok, some more directions would of been nice instead a 6' by 6' plastic slip with some pictures was as good as it gets.

Once up it seemed very light with lots of windows, the annexe has a big zip off window and full length hanging rail (walk in wardrobe if you like), only one door way officially although if you choose not to join all bedrooms on you are then free to open another doorway.

All in all it seemed good quality but then it was not cheap, �400 which was for 6 berths and the chef annexe as well.

Will report again once we have actually slept in it.

Hope the above was not to newbie and some of it made sense to the more experienced amongst you.

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Manufacturer's Description

Specious tent including central shelter and a separate inner room for 3 persons. Modularity is key on this tent as the inner room can be zipped on any of the 3 vertical sides ; Ideal for a week end or short stay camping stay, no sites are a problem for this tent since you can set it up according to your needs. Central shelter can be used by itself (without inner room) as a summer configuration. Fully insect proof thanks to the mesh doors.

� Flysheet fabric: Polyester, 6 000 mm PU coated, taped seams
� Inner tent fabric: Polyester breathable and no-see-um mesh
� Inner room groundsheet: PE 110 g/m�, welded
� Living area groundsheet: PE 140 g/m�, welded fully integrated
� Poles: Wrapflex�
� Carry bag type: Modular carry bag
� Carry bag dimensions: 65 x 50 x 45 cm
� Headroom: 235 cm
� Cool Air� Port
� Entrance mat and wings
� 1 set of awning poles included

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