Advantages: Breathable fabric keeps cool in the heat and warm when it is cooler Disadvantages: It is quite weighty and quite expensive
unlikely to be going anywhere where a flight is involved, but we didn?t feel this was a downside as we would choose to travel to Northern Europe using our own car.
It is never a good idea to go camping without having erected the tent at home first, or you could find yourself trying to erect the tent for the first time in the pouring rain and quickly falling out with each other. There is a downloadable video to help you visualise how to pitch although the other half is quite adept at tackling this sort of thing on his own. The tent is pitched as flysheet first, and as it is a tunneltent, this is a matter of threading the sets of curved poles through the outer loops, standing each pole vertically and securing in rough position, before threading through the straight poles in the other direction, which give the tent rigidity, before zipping in ...
Advantages: Lots of space for everyone. Disadvantages: No longer made.
The Khyam Michigan 12 was only made in 2007 so can be hard to come by now. But if you are after a large, well set out tent, and you find one of these then grab it whilst you can.
The tent is an outer pitch first, or all in one. Personally we leave the inners in place which reduces the pitching time.
The tent itself is large and can be difficult and heavy to put up. Saying that I am under 5ft and have limited mobility so if me and hubby can put it up between us then I'm sure others could easily. We have reduced the pitching time to around 30 - 45 minutes now, which is not bad considering. One good thing though, is that although the tent is large it still fits on most pitches so no extra charges.
The tent has 3 inners. All or some can be removed if wanted. The largest is 6 berth. This is used by our 4 children and is just big enough ...
Advantages: Size, waterproof - quick to erect for size - smaller to carry/load compaired to others. Disadvantages: Pole ropes dodgy(?), tricky to shut zip without adjusting pegs, need to tether v. well.
This is our second Khyam tent as we loved the quick-erect system.
Generally we are pleased with it due to its size (family of four) - if the weather is rainy there is plenty of room. We used it last summer when the floods happened and it was also quite windy. It witheld the rain excellently - it is highly rainproof - another reason why we bought it.
On the negative side we have had the inner cables (ropes) go twice on the main poles. You can fix these fairly easily and Khyam replaced the ropes with no hassle and no expense but I query if there is a weakness here. It can also be quite tricky to set up perfectly to ensure the zip closes on the front door again due to its size - this gets easier with practise.
The only other comment is that when we used it in some quite high winds (floods again!) you need to tether it very well ...
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Product details
Type
Camping Tent
Genre
Tunnel Tents
Sleeping Capacity
6-8 Person
Manufacturer
Easy Camp
Manufacturer's product description
Every manufacturer seems to be producing a classic 8-berth tunnel tent with vis-a vis bedroom arrangement for 2006 and this is Easy Camp's version. It features two large divisible 4-berth bedroom inners split by a 2.8m x 3.5m living area. The inners have D-shaped doors with no-see-um mesh as well as good ventilation at the ends. The living area also benefits from having no less that 4 doors and there is also a fifth door behind one of the inners should you decide not to hang it and maximize your living space instead. The tent features a detachable living area groundsheet and mud valance (the old Dodge City gunslinger). The flysheet is 185T PU coated polyester giving 2000mm HH of waterproofing, the poles are 11mm and 12.7mm fiberglass, and there are two steel sun canopy poles. Pitched flysheet first or as one.
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