Vango Casa Lux 7 Person Family Tent (green)

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The living space is tall enough to stand in and it also features three (yep, three!) doors – two side doors and a huge front door which can be fully opened – so there are plenty of configuration options available and it also feels very spacious and airy. The bedrooms were great even allowing for them not being as dark as I had hoped – we had the rooms split 70/30 which gave us plenty of bedroom space for camp beds and getting dressed without a squeeze plus a junk/storage room for our hiking gear and storage of equipment boxes and with the addition of the useful front room as a galley it left the lounge area free for lounging, dining, laying out maps etc.

Despite the omission of the flyscreen we still found it a useful addition as it provides a nice covered space for cooking which is better than in a conventional open porch as you are completely out of the elements. Due care please people for gas/electrical safety in this kind of environment. The tent comprises 5 fibreglass ‘Powerflex ‘poles, flysheet with sewn in groundsheet and a separate groundsheet for the covered element of the porch which is attached using toggles. Pitching was fairly straightforward and took two of us around 60 minutes to set up on both attempts to date. The first was something of a learning experience with a tent of this size and the second attempt we were working with a gusty wind which made pitching a bit awkward. After first pitch we left the bedroom inner installed so we can pitch it in one go. If your family is larger, or you’re planning a longer trip and would like some more space, take a look at the Adhara 700 Nightfall Tent too, which has many of the same great features, plus an extra 2-man sleeping pod and extended living area. Tents are categorised by how many people they sleep. However, a family of four shouldn’t necessarily opt for a tent that sleeps four, as you’ll need to consider room for storage and living space too. A good rule of thumb is to choose a tent with one extra sleeping berth, so you always have a bit of wiggle room. Zipped mesh entrance door and part mesh inner door – allows ventilation at the same time as keeping bugs outWe bought the Vango Casa footprint for the tent. It’s a weird thing with one large decent quality footprint for the main tent plus a strange lower quality thing for the front porch areas which seemed extremely badly thought out. It runs the full width of the tent which would create a footprint into the open part of the porch – perfect for funnelling water into the non-sewn in groundsheet area of the front room/enclosed area. Further if this were rolled out to the full width the of then it would provide no openings for some of the tent pegs in the porch area. We just folded it in half and put it under the enclosed part of the porch groundsheet but it seemed a bit of a botch. Its not the end of the world by any means but just very strangely/badly thought out. Created by reliable British brand, Berghaus, this incredible family tent will be used all summer long (and beyond). The colour-coded tent poles and sewn-in groundsheet mean this tent is fantastically straightforward to put up – so, more time for toasting marshmallows around the campfire.

Many serious camping families have a few different tent options, depending on the type of holiday they are planning. What to look for when choosing a family tent There are lots of tent configurations, available so look at what might work best for you and how it’ll grow with your family too. Like the rest of the tent it has two large full sized windows for light and these would work well – we had them closed most of the time as it was so hot.When choosing a family tent, there are a few different things to consider. Firstly, how much space you’ll need so that all your clan can all be comfortable. If you have younger children, you may be bringing a travel cot and prefer to share a sleeping space so you can keep an eye on them, whereas older kids may want their own bedroom. Even after first pitch the tent was pretty much ok – all the doors opened without problems and there was nothing much wrong that a little bit of adjusting later on wouldn’t sort out. It follows a fairly straightforward, peg, pole and clip system to put it up, but details such as reinforced peg points and lightweight alloy poles should mean it will last through many years of summer camping weekends. We found the tent roomy enough and would easily accommodate 4-6 adults if need be. Personally I always think tent manufacturers, much like boat builders and airlines over egg the claims on capacity. You could get probably 30 in the Casa at least if you didn’t mind a crush. Vango state 7 which would be believable and would work but it would seem crowded. We like our space so its just for the two of us and its great. With so much space on offer it meant we weren’t elbowing each other all the time and gave us space to stretch out and read a book, make a cup of tea and toast, fiddle with equipment and generally mess about without getting in each others way all the time.