Help finding a tent for next years shows

**Ralphwells1967** · 14th December 2011, 20:57

Been looking at tents for attending the weekend shows next year, found this 1 is it any good ? need a bit of help as im in the dark with this

COLEMAN LAKESIDE 4 PERSON/BERTH/MAN DELUXE TENT/CAMPING

**plasma** · 14th December 2011, 21:03

Camping for one or two ralph?

**Ralphwells1967** · 14th December 2011, 21:20

Well mrs recon's she's coming camping with me too

i dont want a small 1 at least 4 birth

**bigmac** · 14th December 2011, 21:33

Should get one like steve's and bloke one

they have enough room for a party

**andrew e** · 14th December 2011, 21:37

That looks a useful tent, Coleman stuff is pretty good quality, I reckon that would be all you need Ralph. As your taking your Mrs, get one you can stand up in... Or shelter/cook in. Best go to a camping shop that has 20/30 on display so you can have a mooch about, try all the chairs for size too, those collapsable bag jobs are ****** awful - but my wife loves them! Get a decent mattress too.

Myself I have a Vango Tigris, been used quite extensively the last 2 years ( 2 week stints in a wet Loire valley, a scorching Biarritz, boring old England!) its main benefit is you can get up pretty quickly. The porch is pretty handy if it ****es down.

http://www.vango.co.uk/tents/tigris-400.html But about £150 if you shop about.

The Kyham quick errect

tents (go up like an umbrella ) are heavy but easy to put up.
http://www.khyam.co.uk/detail.asp?p=...ct=Nevis%20300

One thing to note, try to get a Outer (flyscreen) pitch tent first, rather than an inner pitch first - quite a difference if your pitching as the rain comes down... and buy 2 mallets and an extra 20 pegs...