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Palamos 6 pyramid tent - should I take the plunge?

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beckym8678 · 25/06/2014 12:53

Am dithering, though I know I want one... Anyone have any experience of these beautiful tents? Would it be suitable for a first tent for a family of 5 (three DS - 1, 4 & 6)? We've tried a 5m bell tent, and found it charming but a touch drafty, such a huge space to warm up on cold nights. Hope this will be a slight compromise between bell tent and less glamped-up styles...

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VivaLeBeaver · 25/06/2014 13:03

That's a good price.

Would there be enough living space for three kids on wet days?

I've got a zig bell tent and its not draughty at all. We have a bedroom compartment as well which maybe helps.

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beckym8678 · 25/06/2014 13:20

Which size do you have Viva? I imagine a bedroom compartment would indeed help - there wasn't one in the one we hired. The Palamos has a nifty moveable front wall to create extra space, which should help with rainy-day space...

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VivaLeBeaver · 25/06/2014 13:45

I've got a 5m bell tent. We've just got the quarter bedroom as its normally just me and dd. sometimes dh comes as well but you can get three in there.

So what looks like the porch on the palamos....can that be turned into the inside of the tent? We used to have an Outwell tunnel tent which could do that. To be honest we had it as inside space rather than a porch the whole time.

I guess in a bell tent you'd need two bedrooms which would probably do away with as much living space as in the Palamos, so they'd be similar then??

VivaLeBeaver · 25/06/2014 13:47

60 min pitching time though! That would put me off. Why does it take that long? I can't work out how many poles it has.

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beckym8678 · 25/06/2014 14:12

Nah that's not right, reviews I've read said more like 30-40 mins max... I think there are a lot of guys, but otherwise probably pretty similar to a bell to pitch - one central pole and two front hoops.

Yes the wall moves right to the front - am planning to take a tarp to create a new porch if we need all the interior space. Are you still glad you went for canvas? I'm convinced, but DH not sure about drying wet canvas afterwards thing..

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VivaLeBeaver · 25/06/2014 14:17

Our garden is big enough to pitch the tent up to dry out. Otherwise it would be difficult. Only problem I've had is that a wet canvas tent is 2x heavier than a dry one. Trying to get approx 60kg of wet tent into the car on my own wasnt funny.

I've actually only used it twice and then bought a caravan. I would sell the bell but my mum wants to go camping in Italy in 2016 and I'm not towing a caravan to Italy so need to hang onto the tent! But have decided I'm too old for camping!

Kmski · 25/06/2014 20:05

I really liked this tent but what puzzled me is why the inners are only 195cm long. My sims are 200cm and even though I am 183 high it is nice to have some extra space. 210 cm long would be just right.

SalomeD · 25/06/2014 22:51

Pyramids are great, we have one and a bell and although the bell is a great open space i prefer the windows and door height of thebpyramid and the bedroom makes it much cosier.

There's a Palamos on eBay - you might be able to snaffle a bargain!

ViviPru · 25/06/2014 23:14

I love this tent. It was on our shortlist. I'm sure there's a regular on this board who has one, hopefully someone will be along soon with some more insight!

NettleTea · 25/06/2014 23:14

There is one on ebay if you are near to Leeds
pyramid tent

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beckym8678 · 26/06/2014 10:43

Kmski I hadn't noticed the short inner tent issue, weird... The other (smaller) obelink pyramids have a single inner tent with a removable dividing wall, which sounds a more flexible approach. Shall prob convince myself that I'll knock up a new, better one, which will naturally never materialise.

Salome thanks for your input - our first trip may well be with my brother who has a 5m bell, desperately hoping I won't think I've made the wrong choice!

Oh that ebay one, if it stays around the £1.45 level I'd be able to pay for a cab to collect it (well nearly, Brixton's not that close...).

ViviPru what did you get in the end..?

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beckym8678 · 26/06/2014 10:46

Ah - just noticed your other thread ViviPru, looks superb, many congratulations...

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ViviPru · 26/06/2014 10:57

Thanks, I'm twitching today as apparently the Outwell shipment should be arriving at the retailer and then out for dispatch to arrive with us tomorrow.... the anticipation is driving me nuts....

I have a feeling the price of that ebay one won't rocket - you could always have it couriered down, might not be too prohibitively expensive in the scheme of things. Exciting!

I think Dutch pyramids are much better than bells

hillbilly · 26/06/2014 11:27

This is my dream tent Grin

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beckym8678 · 26/06/2014 21:15

So what do you have then hillbilly? Btw was just looking up hammocks, and saw a thread you'd started last year. We have a sturdy, canvas type for the garden (though sadly it's in the loft, as I can't work out a way to hang it in our too-small london patch!) but I'm lusting after various pack-down-smaller versions for camping. Did you get one in the end? LOVE the idea of slinging up a hammock in the woods where we'll be in a few weeks time... I suppose I could justify the boot space needed for a canvas hammock by thinking of it as a potential sun shade/windbreak. But then I wouldn't get to buy more gorgeous outdoor gear!

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Cereal0ffender · 27/06/2014 08:28

We have this tent! It is gorgeous. It is more of a faff to pitch than a bell tent but part if that is down to the fact that we always unzip the groundsheet to keep the canvas all clean and lovely. It is a monster tent so you will need a giant car or Roofbox and you definitely need to people to pitch it.

We camped at Easter in the highlands during a wild storm and it barely twitched. We had 2 glorious weeks in France last year in terrific heat. It still gets warm but less of that boil in the bag feeling from polyester tents.

The inner is big enough, you can roll up the separating bit and have one ginormous room.

The ground sheet did tear a wee big due to my enthusiastic zipping and also stupidly putting on the front after pitching.

I love it

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beckym8678 · 27/06/2014 15:19

Ah thanks Cereal, think that's clinched it. Now just have to decide whether to try and be thrifty and bid on the ebay one, or get direct from obelink... I wonder how much the canvas might have deteriorated, might depend on how they've stored it.

Interesting what you say about the inner tent, when did you get yours? They show two separate ones online now, but that might be old (or new?) stock.

Now just have to stop myself from comparing to a De Waard...

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Cereal0ffender · 27/06/2014 20:56

We got ours from oberlink after several comedy attempts at buying one in marketplatz.
We got it 2 years ago, the one on oberlink looks the same as ours

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