Windbreak - posh tent one or cheapo beach one ?

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We have decided we need one for shelter whilst cooking but do we go for a tent type one (me thinks guy ropes would get in the way ??) or a beach type one (me thinks you wouldn't be able to hit stakes into hard ground??)

What's the recommendation ?

We have both and the posh one is good as it packs up really small but tbh its not much cop if you get any kind of stronger wind. I'd go for a cheap beach one - but be careful as some of them are really long (I mean the length of the poles) and this can make them difficult to get in the car. Argos do them in various sizes.

Beach one

Hammering the stakes with a mallet worked well (i learnt from the previous year that flip flops dont work well...)

As long as you dont set up a windbreak enclosure! Were we were recently, people used them to 'fence off' their land!

I meant to add that the beach ones stand up to much tougher winds The posh ones are really privacy things I think.

Yes, I'd gathered that 'fencing' off was frowned on - so you can actually hit the wooden poles in enough then to get it to stand up?

Unless the ground is rock hard then they go in without too much trouble

Hi we have always had the beach kind and last year bought one with guy ropes and everytnihg, it was so much easier to out up in hard ground and packs away smaller and had a clear panel for visibilty. Altogether a huge success - plus it really came into it's own when we had to make a temporary roof to have a covered area in the pouring rain using a ground sheet on top of the poles. Ours looks a bit like the first one here

wind break

We just have a beach type one too. When we were away last bank holiday (you know the one with all of the wind and the rain) ours was still standing while some of the 'posher' ones with guy ropes on were falling over.
We have a canopy on the front of our tent and so we put it along the front of it and round one side and do our cooking there and it is fine. Never had any probs knocking it into the ground (or should I say dh hasn't .