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Fez909 is absolutely correct, sparklefish. The tent you're looking for doesn't exist :D You're basically looking for a two man tent with a stand up porch. It would have to be small but tall. Ime the best festival tents are 2/3 person jobs with an inner tent & a porch that doesn't have a built in groundsheet. You won't be standing up in it but you can take your boots/clothes off undercover and get in your bedroom with the minimum of shit transferral occurring.
 
Sweet FA said:
Fez909 is absolutely correct, sparklefish. The tent you're looking for doesn't exist :D You're basically looking for a two man tent with a stand up porch. It would have to be small but tall. Ime the best festival tents are 2/3 person jobs with an inner tent & a porch that doesn't have a built in groundsheet. You won't be standing up in it but you can take your boots/clothes off undercover and get in your bedroom with the minimum of shit transferral occurring.
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It does, I've already posted it. I just don't want to spend that much!
 
sparklefish said:
It does, I've already posted it. I just don't want to spend that much!
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Oh yeah, so it does; sorry missed it. It does look odd though; too tall for it's size or something :D I've had about a half a dozen snapped poles from wind over the last few years so I was thinking something lower and wider - more stable and windproof.
 
Go to another festival before and see what gets left?

Corax said:
The best sex I've ever had has been under canvas.


It was in tents.
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In favour of stand up porches: I sneaked into someone's stand up porch when I was at Boomtown with the ex and we proceeded to cover the groundsheet in their porch with lady-juices. I'm massively in favour of these porches now, and think every tent should have one. My knickers were so wet I had to chuck them away. :cool:
 
stuff_it said:
Go to another festival before and see what gets left?



In favour of stand up porches: I sneaked into someone's stand up porch when I was at Boomtown with the ex and we proceeded to cover the groundsheet in their porch with lady-juices. I'm massively in favour of these porches now, and think every tent should have one. My knickers were so wet I had to chuck them away. :cool:
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Um, nice. I'm sure the owner of the tent would be delighted.

I'll stick to buying a tent not relying on tatting one ta.
 
sparklefish said:
I'll stick to buying a tent not relying on tatting one ta.
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Actually she does have a point in that a lot of tents are left behind at the end, many of them brand new. I have a particularly lazy friend who buys a new one for each festival because he can't be bothered to carry it back to the cars.
 
stuff_it said:
In favour of stand up porches: I sneaked into someone's stand up porch when I was at Boomtown with the ex and we proceeded to cover the groundsheet in their porch with lady-juices. I'm massively in favour of these porches now, and think every tent should have one. My knickers were so wet I had to chuck them away. :cool:
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Yeah, pretty bleak but it could be worse. Those really big porches do seem to attract people who cant be bothered to mission it to the portaloo. On the balance I think I'd prefer sexy time stuff, but only just.
 
Teaboy said:
Actually she does have a point in that a lot of tents are left behind at the end, many of them brand new. I have a particularly lazy friend who buys a new one for each festival because he can't be bothered to carry it back to the cars.
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I got a red 3-man Quechua last fessie, next time I hope to upgrade to one with side vents. If you learn the secret art of folding up a pop-up tent the world will be your slightly grizzled looking mollusc as many are left behind due to lack of skill with putting them down.
 
Teaboy said:
Actually she does have a point in that a lot of tents are left behind at the end, many of them brand new. I have a particularly lazy friend who buys a new one for each festival because he can't be bothered to carry it back to the cars.
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Yeah but I don't do that, I've had 4 tents in 17 years and one of those was sent back as it was shit.

People who dump perfectly good tents and other stuff are dicks.
 
Teaboy said:
You'll get no arguments from me on that one.

Anyway back to the tent search, I've had a dig around and it is quite an unusual style you're after, apart from the one you found on Argos there is this one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gelert-Caba...&qid=1395225389&sr=8-147&keywords=tents+2+man

Its a bit cheaper, but still not cheap per se. The porch looks a bit shit as well.
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Ooh cheers.

Fucking ugly aren't they? :D

Think I'll go to Go Outdoors at the weekend and have a look.
 
Ok, I've found a few tents I like the look of. The favourite is the Vango Aura 200.

It has the head height but now I'm worried it'll be too tall and I'll blow away. :D

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0056STTHG?pc_redir=1395978544&robot_redir=1

The other options are the Ark

http://www.vango.co.uk/gb/3-person-tent/56-ark-300.html

Or the Beta 350 which is too big I think.

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/tents/p/Vango-Beta-350/541

Anyone got any experience of any of these. They're all Vango but that's not intentional.
 
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I think the Ark is the new version of the tent we were using last year if you remember it? It's a nice size for 2 and would be loads of space for just you. You can't quite stand up but it's still pretty roomy. They all look fine though.
 
colacubes said:
I think the Ark is the new version of the tent we were using last year if you remember it? It's a nice size for 2 and would be loads of space for just you. You can't quite stand up but it's still pretty roomy. They all look fine though.
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I just went to look at the Ark at Go Outdoors, it was very low and I had to get out. :D

I can't remember how tall your tent was last year. Everything looks small against ours but I don't remember it being that low.
 
I just measured out that Aura, it's fucking enormous. I checked the measurements on 3 websites. I think it's got a bigger footprint than our uberdome because of the massive porch.


Aaaarrrrgghhhh!
 
sparklefish said:
I just went to look at the Ark at Go Outdoors, it was very low and I had to get out. :D

I can't remember how tall your tent was last year. Everything looks small against ours but I don't remember it being that low.
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Oh dear :facepalm::D It is a fair bit lower - we've got another tent more like the size of your one but we tend to use that for proper camping rather than festivals.
 
hate to say it but i think the small footprint/full head height is just an unnatural shape for a tent, unless you get a kitchen/loo tent :ducks:
 
wayward bob said:
hate to say it but i think the small footprint/full head height is just an unnatural shape for a tent, unless you get a kitchen/loo tent :ducks:
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I know! :D I don't even need full head height, just not a nylon coffin.

Between a dodgy knee and hating enclosed spaces, I can't have anything too low.
 
colacubes said:
Oh dear :facepalm::D It is a fair bit lower - we've got another tent more like the size of your one but we tend to use that for proper camping rather than festivals.
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I don't want anything as big as mine but even the two man Quechua pop ups are pretty big.

I might pop to decathlon at the weekend for a look.
 
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