Tents in General Reviews

Camping is great fun, I have just returned from a few days camping in Northumberland with my two teenage children. Our tent is fabulous and I just had to write a review on it. It is the Vango Diablo 600, which according to the manufacturers sleeps 6. We are a family of 4 and find it very comfortable. Specifications of the ...  Read the complete review

When I was little I remember my friend used to go camping with her family and her Dad used to get their big frame tent out to air before they went so we were allowed to play in it. I used to love the whole feel of being in the tent and having to do the zips up to get in and out and all the different compartments in the ...  Read the complete review

The tent that's more like a home away form home A BIT OF BACKGROUND TO START WITH: One spring afternoon may other half and I decided to take our first holiday. We booked for 4 days and 3 nights into a hotel in Paris. 4 days and 3 nights later we were back at our respective homes, still talking to one another, still happy ...  Read the complete review

In our search for ever more exotic forms of existence, Darlingest and I have decided that we need more holidays. Now that we have two small Nollyettes (actually called Eleanor and Rosie), holidaying can be a very expensive process. I myself cannot spare a couple of grand every summer in order to find a beach on a deserted part of the Cote ...  Read the complete review

Raclet Bermudes Trailer Tent Before we had the girls we used to pack up our tent and head for the hills every chance we got (usually on bank holidays) to enjoy the great outdoors and drink beer. Once they arrived we stopped camping, not really a conscious decision, more a no money left to go anywhere decision. Then a few years back, with ...  Read the complete review

The tent we used for Glastonbury was a two man euro hike. We also are going to use it when we go in to Spain after visiting friends in the French Pyrenees. Our tent is about 4 or 5 years old cost about £40 it is a green 2-man tent, yes it is big enough for 2 Adults and a child a bit of a squeeze but fine for a night or 2. The ...  Read the complete review

I came accross this web based shop after quite a thorough scan of sites dealing in camping equipment.Navigating the site was very easy,even for a beginner.Everything is arranged and catalogued well.Pictorial and graphical detail is excellent with no long waits for new screens opening.After comparing the various combinations and makes of tents ...  Read the complete review

Terra Nova is a manufacturer of high quality mountaineering tents. They were originally called winter gear and then wild country. To avoid confusion Wild Country still exist and still make tents, but they sold off their tent business to Terra Nova about 7 years ago and then recently started making their own tents again. I own two tents ...  Read the complete review

especially when its your first time camping with them, Callum 2 years 8 months and Lucy 10mths (fast crawler!). This was also the first time my husband had put up this Eurohike 455TS tent, and it was late and we were both tired hungry and irritable and so were the kids. Now add wind to this scene as well and me having to hold on to the ...  Read the complete review

The Vango Equinox 350 is a brilliant, versatile tunnel tent. Being very easy to pitch with the 3 colour-coded 'powerflex' poles it's useful for short or longer camping trips (I managed to ptich it the first time in 10 minutes in the pitch dark, without reading the instructions, in 3ft grass - honest!). The 350 can sleep 4 people ...  Read the complete review

Ooer missus!! No, this is not going to be any of that! This is going to be about my camping activities and my little tent in particular! A few years ago now I purchased a Eurohike 220 Dome tent for £39.99 from Milletts outdoor/camping store for the purpose of my music festival-going activities. At the time I thought I was being clever by ...  Read the complete review

I love camping (not the 'ooh, ducky' type, the tent type) Its that feeling of protection from the elements, hiding under your thin sheets of nylon. There are so many choices of tent maker, model, size, cost, style available these days. How do you pick which one is right for you? Firstly, when are you likely to go camping? ...  Read the complete review

The Mutts Nuts! These things go up & down in minutes (or at least the 2 man vector does!) stand up to all sorts of weather (I've used mine in a hailstorm in gale force winds in Biarritz!!) & they are pretty light. They also came in all shapes & sizes which are variations on the basic Dome. When new you just fix the ...  Read the complete review

The vango hydra 300 is a pricey enough tent but when it comes to buying tents you get what you pay for. The hydra 300 is a three pole geodesic tent. It is light weight and suitable for four seasons use. The hydra 300 is a three man tent but there is also the hydra 200 hundred available which is a two man tent. However I have discovered ...  Read the complete review

The Vau De Hogan is a cool little tent- a slightly squashed 2 man or a very spacious 1 man tent. The fact that is has an exo-skeleton (the pole is on the out side and the tent is actually suspended from it by bungee cord means that it is easy to put up in a hurry- I managed to do it in about 2 mins flat- in the dark while it was raining. Not a ...  Read the complete review

The Nakina 2 is a reasonably priced two man tent, with a single pole running length wise down the middle. The pole is a made of several (7) sections of fibre glass which slot together (they are connected with elastic or similar so you dont lose any). After using the tent on several occasions it has not leaked yet, and has ...  Read the complete review

Camping. It always sounds such a fun Idea doesnt it? It stays a fun Idea until one day you actually go and do it. I suggest to anyone planning a camping holiday to try it for one night first or they may be dissapointed. Anyway, on with the Tent tips. I have been camping about 10 times in my life. It does not make me a guru but I know ...  Read the complete review

As time passes by, pleasures that were once immediate and spontaneous, become less so, and need more careful preparation is required if a successful outcome is to be guaranteed. The same is true, especially when camping. After spending too many hours fighting flapping canvas and cold steel poles on a wind swept campsites, I discovered the ...  Read the complete review