Who has the quarter inner tent for a bell tent?

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I'm eying up a 5m bell tent. Will probably get it from Obelink and get it sent to family in mainland Europe and then pick it up from them. BUT I am used to having the children safely zipped up in their own compartment out of sight and out of mind so I thought I might get the inner tent in case it all gets too much. I can only see the half-inner on the Obelink site so does a quarter one actually exist or have I imagined it?

Soulpad do a bijou inner here

Thank you!

I have the bijour inner from Soulpad and use it in my 4m obelink bell tent. So long as the bell tent has the little black rings around the side, and a hoop at the top of the main center pole, you can stick most sorts of inner in there. I didn't unzip them, but I recall the roll down windows in my inner matched up with the outer windows, which was great!

It was heaven having a way of containing offspring, and I was able to make the inner lots darker by draping it with thin indian style throws, as bell tents can be light at 5am in June.

Thank you, that's really helpful!

Do people who have one think it makes the sleeping bit warmer? I'm tempted to get one if I'm likely to be warmer at night.

It really does make a HUGE difference in terms of warmth, yes! Your breath and body heat collect in that much smaller space (because they don't have much headroom they are a lot smaller even than the amount of floorspace they take up when set up, if that makes sense) and have a better chance actually of warming it. Plus, you know, extra insulation and layers and stuff. I found a big difference between the inner and the rest of the tent when I decamped in the night cos DS's sleeping was annoying me at close range
My inner was draped in extra fabric throws to cut down on light, which made it hotter probably.

Much warmer. We have a half sized one in a 5m tent (as in half the tent, not quarter tent sized inner). On rainy days we unhitch half and fold it back and put out the table and chairs for colouring etc. Keeps small people off the bedding too.

I've ordered one and it will be here today so ready for the weekend. Thanks.

Is it easy to put in btw? Am guessing there is a loop that attaches to the top of the centre pole? Then how does it attach to the tent wall?

We ordered our half size one from Obelink and had it delivered this weekend to the French campsite we were staying at. It is very easy to put up if you have the black rings on the inside of your bell as you just hang the hook on the inner to the loop on the top third of your centre pole and then go round the edges of the tent hooking the fixings on the inner into the loops on your tent.

Be warned though, the half size inner does take up a lot of space - it seems to be a bit more than half the tent and, of course, it has far less headroom than the tent itself. DH was very unimpressed with ours, at least at first. I think he is getting used to it and it does create a warmer sleeping space. However, I think we will use ours mainly on colder weekends and perhaps do what No51 suggests during the day to get a bit more space.