BS: Pop up tents

Subject: RE: BS: Pop up tents
From: Gurney
Date: 28 Jul 07 - 10:11 PM

Yes, Topsie, I've been to festivals like those, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Pop up tents
From: JulieF
Date: 31 Jul 07 - 03:58 AM

Update

Bought the pop up tent but didn't get round to trying it out before I went ( two days sat about in shock because someone was actually going to sell me their house ).

Went off to Dulverton ( see thread above).   Tent easy to transport on the 5 buses .   Popped up without any trouble.   One mild night, one very wet night, one cold night. I had a foam mat and a separate groundsheet ( which I didn't use).   No Probs at all but would be concerned if there was a high wind.   Managed to fold tent back up without too much hastle and made it back to sheffield ( 4 buses and a taxi).

Certainly can recomend it for this type of event.

Thanks for all the advice
J

Subject: RE: BS: Pop up tents
From: Grab
Date: 31 Jul 07 - 05:42 AM

We've got a 3-man Vaude tent (really 2-man when you've got stuff and you want to stretch out, as per usual). We also have a Vango tunnel tent which is lovely, but the Vaude has the big advantage that one person can get it from bag to fully pitched in under 2 minutes given sufficient motivation (even when chilling out with a beer in summer whilst pitching it, it's never taken longer than 5 minutes), and at no point during that time is the inner exposed to rain.

Only my old Jack Wolfskin was faster, which was mainly because it was smaller, and the JW had a nasty design flaw that the poles flexed and collapsed the tent in high winds. (This I found out about the hard way on the very first night I used it!)

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: Pop up tents
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Aug 07 - 02:30 AM

Hello everyone, my mom just got us this HUGE 10 person popup dome tent which was really easy to open (it just popped up all by itself actually)

Now we are stuck packing it up agiain, we tried everyway to put it back it it's small bag again to no avail, is there a website like How to pack a pop up tent for dummies somewhere, thanks..

Jill

Subject: RE: BS: Pop up tents
From: GUEST,sinky
Date: 02 Aug 07 - 06:21 PM

does any lady wish to try my pop up tent,on show every morning at about 9.00 am.May need wash before use

Subject: RE: BS: Pop up tents
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 03:13 AM

Hi Jill. Tents often come with instructions. Try those.

Subject: RE: BS: Pop up tents
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Aug 07 - 11:34 PM

Richard, wow, couldn't get any smarter then that ;)

I don't have any instructions for this tent, hence writing here.

Jill