Good quality and large pop up tent - recommendations?

[O'Doyle Rules]

Hi guys,

Can anyone recommend a good quality pop up tent?

Larger the better for comfort and all that jazz!

[stuartbert two hats]

How large do you need it to be?

[squirrelarmy]

3 man tent with added cooling to help with the heat we'll be experiencing.

https://www.decathlon.co.uk/2-seconds-easy-iii-freshblack-pop-up-tent-3-man-id_8357353.html

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

2 hours ago, squirrelarmy said:

3 man tent with added cooling to help with the heat we'll be experiencing.

https://www.decathlon.co.uk/2-seconds-easy-iii-freshblack-pop-up-tent-3-man-id_8357353.html

I haven't looked at tents in ages. That's tent porntastic,  and, to my mind, a great price. I've still got my 4 man pop up tent though, which has got a fair few miles in it left. My first ever tent did over 10 Glastonbury's and other camping trips. It was a sad day for me when I had to admit to myself that it had done it's time though. I put the metal tubes (yes, you read that correctly) in for recycling but had to throw away the skin of the tent. I felt like I had done something shameful after getting rid of it. I once had to witness and support my parents having to get their dog put down because it was in so much pain. The guilt of witnessing that was akin to the getting rid of my first tent. 

[dondo]

42 minutes ago, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

I haven't looked at tents in ages. That's tent porntastic,  and, to my mind, a great price. I've still got my 4 man pop up tent though, which has got a fair few miles in it left. My first ever tent did over 10 Glastonbury's and other camping trips. It was a sad day for me when I had to admit to myself that it had done it's time though. I put the metal tubes (yes, you read that correctly) in for recycling but had to throw away the skin of the tent. I felt like I had done something shameful after getting rid of it. I once had to witness and support my parents having to get their dog put down because it was in so much pain. The guilt of witnessing that was akin to the getting rid of my first tent. 

I had that one for last year's festival and it was great in a lot of ways- not least the blackout lining.  I did find with only me and all my stuff and the lack of porch a bit of a pain- especially as I am quite tall.

May monitor the price of this inflatable one and see if it goes in a sale sometime

https://www.decathlon.co.uk/air-seconds-family-4-xl-fb-id_8384154.html 

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

35 minutes ago, dondo said:

I had that one for last year's festival and it was great in a lot of ways- not least the blackout lining.  I did find with only me and all my stuff and the lack of porch a bit of a pain- especially as I am quite tall.

May monitor the price of this inflatable one and see if it goes in a sale sometime

https://www.decathlon.co.uk/air-seconds-family-4-xl-fb-id_8384154.html 

That's a lovely looking tent, but a bit pricey, so can see why you'd want to get it cheaper. Do they do sales before the end of summer?

[The Clearest Blue]

4 hours ago, squirrelarmy said:

3 man tent with added cooling to help with the heat we'll be experiencing.

https://www.decathlon.co.uk/2-seconds-easy-iii-freshblack-pop-up-tent-3-man-id_8357353.html

I've recently purchased that bad boy and I put it up over the weekend to check it out, obviously not a proper test yet, but from early impressions I bloody love it! It's really dark inside with the door closed so better make sure I remember my torch, it took minutes to put up and minutes to take down which was a nice change to the eight man tent I've previously used and the the air vents seem like they will do a great job of cooling the tent down

Edited May 22, 2017 by The Clearest Blue

[donthaveacoolname]

I got this one last year and love it, it's a little bigger than the fresh and black version, great room, easy to pitch and take down, only drawback is it can be hard to carry and as I'm on public transport this year I might have to look at an alternative,  but if I was going be car I'd not think of looking at anything else. https://www.decathlon.co.uk/2-seconds-xl-air-iii-pop-up-tent-3-man-blue-id_8347892.html

[dondo]

On 5/22/2017 at 9:21 PM, Yoghurt on a Stick said:

That's a lovely looking tent, but a bit pricey, so can see why you'd want to get it cheaper. Do they do sales before the end of summer?

Yes- they do tend to do sales as they did it with last year's model https://www.decathlon.co.uk/air-seconds-family-4-xl-freshblack-inflatable-tent-4-man-id_8357358.html but think it would probably be after the summer so will be keeping an eye out!

[Junglist1981]

Tents have definitely been getting sexier looking recently.

Maybe it's my age.