I have been talking crap and have fallen in love with a Royal Bordeaux 6 tent not an outwell. Am I making a mistake leaving the familiar outwell brand?

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I thought it was an outwell as it looked like one but have just realised it was not.

Does anyone have one of these tents or have heard anything about it. I am quite unsure now as we have always played it safe with outwell gear is there an alternative?

Hi twinset, have a look at ukcampsite for reviews - they seem to be quite good.

try this linkwww.ukcampsite.co.uk/tents/preview.asp?id=230

Goodluck.

We purchased an unknown make 2 years ago and it stood upto the bad winds and floods, sometimes good to try and save money

Agree try uk campsite but royal far fromunknown brand, regularlya dvertised in caravan and camping magazine and mentioned in there; I would say seem to be a reliable brand and a good one.

Thanks for that peachy

hello again! sorry didn't mean to confuse you twinset

Royal are a good make - I agree it does look like an Outwell.

No problems Lucy. I think we will get this one then. I have read one bad review about it blowing down but the others are very good.

I think in the shop it was next to some outwells as well and that confused me.

I'm just glad to see that someone else has as heavy a tent as us then (and dustystar!)

Do you have a trailer? What sort of Outwell are you trading it in for?

We have an outwell oregon 5 and 2 outwell day tents.

We dont have a trailer but have an estate and will get a roof box.

It does really looklike one though

Not like ours mind coz we had one of the last Outwell blue tents (Sun Valley 8 alst year),though despite Lucy's best efforts > we'relooking at the teepee as the long sought after weekender for our new found campsite with campsires

my best efforts?

can't do with slopey ceilings in my tents!

go on get one i wanna see the photos!

Our Oregon has slopey ceileings in the bedroom and it is a bit of a pain. The montana 6 also has slopey ceilings in the bedrooms as well - that is our other choice.

can anyone recommend a reasonably priced tent to fit 2 adults, and 2 young children (age 3 and 5), need to also fit blow up beds and have some room if weather is really bad.

It also has to be carriable (or in suitcase) as we are going on the train.

We are hoping to backpack round South West this year (for a trial before doing Europe next year), and our current 2 tents (9 berth very heavy and needs car to transport or 4 man very lightweight won't fit in blow up beds) arenot suitble for a 2 week tour.

MrsP I'd start a new thread, you might ant more specialist advice on backpack-abe tents for that. my Mum has one that would suit though- will see if I can find it for you.

Luce we will get it, but DH bought a smart car today so need to save for a bit!

MrsP- here Mum's tent, on offer

HTH

Thanks Peachy,your mum's tent looks like the one we have already, can't fit blow up beds in. One bedroom would be fine. Will post a new thread. cheers

Something like the Vango venture 500 will fir 4 airbeds across and gives room at the head/foot end for your kit.

Packs down small too so you could carry it.

Thanks Lucy,looks a good price to

Vango venture is a fab tent

Mum'stent takes 2 airbed but yes might be an issue with more.

Luce's suggestion is very much the standard of its type tbh; I seriosuly doubt you'd better it

That looks almost identical to the Montana 6 though, and that is cheaper if you gat an 08 model?

The Monty 6 is double the pack weight though which I think matters to the OP's choices, good though the Monty is.

Sorry more than double- Venture 11kg, Monty 22 canvas and 17 poles- eek LOL!

Oh hgang on am I getting confused between posts - 2 queries on one thread LOL

Yes the twotentsa resimilar and prices for 2008 modelscomp[are but the porch isnt included so I'd still go for Royal if I liked it (I really dont think there's asignificant quality difference and I do say that as an Outwell owner and lover myself)

We have a Royal tent. It is the Avignon 6 so quite similar to the one you're interested in.

It is a well made good quality tent, the zips are good and solid and the tent is very waterproof. We live and camp in France and have had some cracking thunderstorms with all night heavy rain and the tent stayed dry as a bone. For a big tent it also performed pretty well in high winds.

Only downside is that is a big tent and very heavy. It is heavy to put up as well especially in wind. This would be the case for any tent of a similar size though. Also Royal didn't send us the right number of pegs, we didn't even have half the amount we needed. Luckily we had a practice pitch before taking it on holiday the first time!

IMO Royal tents are well made and offer very good value for money.

Ah weight I am crap at things like that, I was going purely on looks.

This goes some way to explaing why dp goes a bit white and panicky when it's time to pack the car for camping, as I merrily assemble all the things we 'need', whilst assuring him 'don't worry I'm sure it will fit'!

Oh Dh ahs a set routine for apcking, i don't get involved (even thiough the one time I did it was done fr more efiently LOL). A definuite case of Not Worth It.