Air beam tents.

[Simes205]

We're looking at buying a new tent as our current family one has done 10 years, it's used for about 6 weeks a year and too small for us.
I'm looking at air beam tents, Vango, Outwell 5/6 berth Mrs simes205 likes the idea of pegging it out, inflating it and ready in 10minutes, especially as we've got two under 3's.
Are they good? Stable?

Edited by Simes205 on Thursday 24th March 20:59

[Simes205]

We went and had a look at a few today, came across this:


http://.vango.co.uk/gb/vango-airbeam-tents/133-edo...

Was pleased it was so windy it stood up well to it; very impressed. Ticks all the boxes.

[Simes205]

We bought the Vango edorus 600xl in the end.
Bought from sk camping in Godstone, £850 with footprint and carpet, £50 cheaper than their online price. They got 3 in that morning and 2 were gone by 13:00!
It's fairly big in comparison to our previous 4 man tent......and more so in the boot of our E91!

[Simes205]

We practised pitching ours last weekend.
15minutes it was up, didn't peg it fully out but imagine another 15 or so.
Packing away wasn't too bad either.

[Simes205]

alolympic said:

Are they really that much quicker to pitch, because you still have most of the same tasks to do which are time consuming.
I thought it was just replacing the fibreglass poles with a pumped system?

You don't have to
Unpack poles
Assemble poles
Push poles through tent, avoid arguing.
Raise poles and tent, avoid tent falling over.
Shout at poles as you try and flex them into anchor position.
Then peg out and do guy lines.

Air beam tent
Peg four corners.
Pump beams up.
Push into place
Peg rest and do guy lines.

[Simes205]

Well we spent a week in our brand new edorus 600xl.
Very comfortable but one beam got punctured. Fortunately the outmost. I removed and repaired it, odd puncture.
Following our holiday I took the beam back and had it replaced immediately, free of charge.

[Simes205]

The electricpump for mine is £80.
I'm happy with the manual version, it really doesn't take long.