Can i just show off my new pop up tent as i finally have photos!

[4andnotout]

My dream tent

My kitchen set up as modelled by my dad

Damn can't see photos!!

My friends have the square 'living quarters' bit and the sleeping pod bit attached. Very nice!!

BR

Makes sense MrsT, as we don't get respite we find the walking - walking thing better than trashing the house all day but atm i think we're at a stage where we'd be doing that anyway with ds4.

ds2 is far better when out and about, ds3 is OK atm. We shall see how things evolve there.

Cool pop up! We stood and watched on Sunday while the whole of Decathlon came to a standtill when the demonstration guy was pitching and striking that tent. He really knew what he was doing. I do ours when nobody is watching in case it pops up and smacks me in the face

I wonder why the photos work for some but not others?

I don't know - I click the link and it goes to the but it won't load.

Saying that, my facebook is not working either??

It's this tent If you click on demo then it shows it being put up - utterly terrifying .
We have 2 of these and they can be vicious

sorry it's my laptop - for some reason it won't load facebook, but i can get it on my desktop.

dead jealous though looks fab.

we're just about to buy a tent and showed dh the video [fingers crossed]

Oh I am so tempted to get the base tent, it looks ideal as gzebo and as a alternative to the bastard awning I have to go with my camping van, oh the temptation, its only £79 plus £9.95 for the groundsheet, sleep in van but nee a cooking and sitting area.

Can't see you tube as at work but can see the demo site. Hadn't seeen the big 4 man tent. WOW!!! Fantastic. Now if they did a 6 man I'd be first in line!!!

BR

But Bunnyrabbit you could buy a another pod to go on the back!

Oh I see, is this just the base tent with two pods?

But my friend has a pod and a base tent and there is definitely a sort of gap between the two. There is a canopy from the base to the bedroom pod but it's not completely closed in like the one in this picture.

I think I'm probably being a bit dense, but it's difficult to visualise.

OK have looked properly now. So this is just the conversion that goes over/zips on to the Seconds base to make it into a 4 man tent. So you could add an extra pod at the back, but it wouldn't be connected in the same way. It would have the gap.

mmmm

looky here (click on teeny tiny photo.

You can zip on another module to the back

OMG Fantastic. It's like a tent city!!

Do you need a Seconds base to go inside the Seconds base 4.2?

I wonder how much this lot would cost?

1 Seconds Base 4.2: £149.95
1 Seconds Base Full: £129.00
1 2 seconds Air II: £59.95

Total (without any accessories) £338.90
Not as bad as I thought, unless you do need another Base inside the base 4.2.

Now I just have to convince DH that our gourgeous 2 year old Vango Oregon 800 is out of date!!

BR

oh so is that photo of a seconds base 4.2 (4 man) plus seconds base full - pod bit, then seconds air ii

So how long does that take to put up?

Not sure but I'm still trying to work out if you have to put a base inside the 4.2, as in the blurb it says it convert a seconds base into a 4 man tent.

That would work out a bit pricey but still... probably only takes minutes to put up.

BR

The 4.2 seconds base which i have can't have extra pods added as it is all in one piece, it has the middle section and then 2 joined on bed sections.

so the photo is a base seconds full?? but you can't see the gaps (lack of gaps important to me because of severely autistic child who runs off).

Ah 4andnotout I think that answers part of my question.

Is it basically a 4 man tent with detachable bedrooms then?

Oh i see now I missed that little photo, i would have thought there are still gaps though as the porch only pops out a little way, there is nothing to fix the two together really.

Mine doesn't have any detachable bits it is all in one piece.

So the 4.2 is basically a 4 man pop up tent with no gaps or detachable bits?

Yes, the green and beige one, 4.2 seconds base.

I have probably confused everyone now

No not at all. Makes things much clearer than the website.

Sooo how come they managed to attach another base to theirs? Or do you think its not attached, just shoved under the canopy?

Oh damn, look a the time, must be off. Catch up on this thread tomorrow.

BR

I was under the impression (and I have no idea) because the write up says 'we connected it up to a full seconds base' that they could zip together.

The other pods seem to be able to do that so I assumed that they had done that with the 4.2