Tent Help/advice please?

[Ivan...]

Hi the parents and outlaws have clubbed together and going to give us a £200.00 Go outdoors voucher for Christmas so we have decided to get a decent tent, quite happy to put a bit to it, so question is, whats the best deal/value for the money?

I don't want something you need a degree to erect!

It must be totally waterproof and not sweat!

Enough room for me and partner and gear!

Oh and not too heavy!

Thanks in advance.

Ivan...

If i am expecting too much for about £300.00 in total, tell me i am being silly and i will buy something else!

 

[BearInTheWoods]

On the face of it: http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/vaude-taurus-3p-tent-p261658

HOWEVER, it seems suspiciously cheap for a VauDe, so if I were you I'd check first that they haven't gone down the Vango 'have everything made in China for tuppence three-farthings and then punt them out by trading on your formerly good name' route. When I bought my VauDe Space 3 20 years ago, it was more than they're now asking for that.

 

[ex-member BareThrills]

id get the cash and buy this ivan

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112347

 

[SimonM]

Is there a reason why you are restricting yourself to Go Outdoors?

Why not identify a tent that you want, then shop around for the best price?

Simon

 

[Ivan...]

Cheers Bear, sounds a little too good to be true! May have to investigate, hopefully they have one erected at their Exeter store, so i can have a good old nose round.

Just as an added requirement for my money, i can't have anything but green! How fussy am i?

Thanks mate.

Ivan...

 

[BearInTheWoods]

id get the cash and buy this ivan

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112347

Seconded.

ten letters.

 

[Ivan...]

Is there a reason why you are restricting yourself to Go Outdoors?

Why not identify a tent that you want, then shop around for the best price?

Simon

Thats where they have got the voucher from, and anything was better than pa in law saying "got you a lovely tent" If you know what i mean

Ivan...

 

[Ivan...]

id get the cash and buy this ivan

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112347

Whooo! Big chat with SWMBO, at lunchtime methinks, it may be a cash issue, also being very rude and untrustworthy, if i were to come to a deal with the advertiser hand over my money, do i have any guarantee that my tent will turn up and is in the condition advertised, and if not do i have any recourse?

Sorry to anyone tutting especially the gent selling, but i have been caught before, on here.

Ivan...

 

[ex-member BareThrills]

pay with paypal and you have a full refund if there is a problem

 

[Chilliphil]

May have to investigate, hopefully they have one erected at their Exeter store, so i can have a good old nose round.

I'll be surprised if they still have much up. All they have up at Southampton now are the damaged / reduced ones. If you can wait until spring is approaching they should have them all back out again.

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[Eragon21]

What about one of these http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/vango-banshee-300-tent-p140013

 

[Ivan...]

Thanks for the help/advice and links, i fancy the Terra, but we will have to see if funds can stretch with the C word coming up and convince my other half it's a good buy.

Got a feeling it's going to be easier to get her to spend a voucher, to be honest, but you never know!

Ivan...

 

[BearInTheWoods]

The thing to do is to spend a couple of days trying to convince her that the PowerLizard or Nitro Lite 200 are the only sensible options. Eventually you can grudgingly admit you suppose that you can make do with a less expensive model.

 

[dwardo]

You would not be disappointed with the terra-nova bud. The build quality is far superior to any other tent I have ever used in any weather.

 

[Savagewolfrm]

i can do you a great deal. for only 150 quid cash i can supply you with 4 stirdy sticks and an 8ft x 8ft piece of green tarp. cheap at half the price and easy to carry.let me knowyour cockney mateRegards dave

 

[Mouse040]

i can do you a great deal. for only 150 quid cash i can supply you with 4 stirdy sticks and an 8ft x 8ft piece of green tarp. cheap at half the price and easy to carry.let me knowyour cockney mateRegards dave

And with the remaining £50 I will supply pegs

Regards Dave

 

[Ivan...]

i can do you a great deal. for only 150 quid cash i can supply you with 4 stirdy sticks and an 8ft x 8ft piece of green tarp. cheap at half the price and easy to carry.let me knowyour cockney mateRegards dave

Blooming typical, one has a sensible moment, to ask a perfectly sane question, and the Chuckle Brothers come along!

If that is all the thanks i get for nurse maiding you two amateurs through the rigours of bushcraft, then the world is a mucked up place.

I would kindly ask that you two comedians refrain from any further comment, on what up until now has been a sensible thread.

I am having a difficult enough job convincing my better half that £200.00 ish is a good price for a quality bit of kit, then Tweedle Dee (cockney branch) And Tweedle Dum come along and nearly ruin all chance i have, so i expect a full apology by PM, from both of you, now GROW UP!!

Ivan...

 

[Mouse040]

Blooming typical, one has a sensible moment, to ask a perfectly sane question, and the Chuckle Brothers come along!

If that is all the thanks i get for nurse maiding you two amateurs through the rigours of bushcraft, then the world is a mucked up place.

I would kindly ask that you two comedians refrain from any further comment, on what up until now has been a sensible thread.

I am having a difficult enough job convincing my better half that £200.00 ish is a good price for a quality bit of kit, then Tweedle Dee (cockney branch) And Tweedle Dum come along and nearly ruin all chance i have, so i expect a full apology by PM, from both of you, now GROW UP!!

Ivan...

I'm sorry Ivan .........."............I'm sorry you are a girl who needs a pop up tent that is


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[decorum]

Had the Wild Country version. It was absolutely bombproof ~ only sold it on to fund a lightweight tent (which ended up as my all time favourite ). Does anyone know whether TN kept with the WC ethos of each section that you can see was replaceable? (so, in the event of severe damage, each pole sleeve and each fabric section could be replaced instead of scrapping the whole shebang )

 

[Headshed]

You could try the Lightwave G30, Go Outdoors were doing that for £230 recently, excellent tents and a decent weight to.