Even if going just for the weekend, it is worth getting the carpet in our opinion. We found this a decent carpet and insulated the tent well. You can get a carpet for the Ravello 500: the Vango Universal Carpet 240x300cm. This side door is great if the weather changes and it starts to rain, as you should get less water in the tent using this door. I expect that most families would use the tent with the divider and two double bedrooms.Īs well as the big entrance at the front of the tent, there’s a side door with a small porch. Technically the bedrooms can take five people, though you have to remove the divider for that. The bedrooms are at the back of the tent. You have a small living space, which will give you space for your bags, and enough space if you need to spend some time ‘indoors’. The pump locks onto the valve and also has a pressure gauge.īeing a smaller size the some of the larger family tents, the Vango Ravello is easy and quick to inflate. Anchor the corners with the supplied pegs, and inflate each AirBeam tube. Vango sent us one over so we could get a closer look at this tent. What’s more, as it is an AirBeam tent, it’s inflatable. It is like a smaller version of Vango’s big family holiday AirBeam tents. The Vango Ravello 500 Tent is such a tent I would class as a great tent to take away at the weekend. Suddenly, the ability to check the weekend weather on Friday and decide to take the kids camping becomes a real possibility.Īfter all, in the UK, we have to grab what good weather we have when we can. Yes, you might be ‘roughing it’ compared to your main tent set-up, but for just a night or two, you will find it no problem. Again, this helps reduce the time required for packing and setting up, and then packing away again afterwards.
They are smaller and easier to pack so that you can get away quicker at the weekend.Īs a weekend tent is smaller than your large holiday tent, you take less furniture. Yes, the idea of getting a smaller tent just for the weekend may at first appear excessive, but a lot of family campers have two (or more) tents. Not impossible, but a lot of effort.įortunately, there’s a simple alternative: get a smaller tent for the weekend. If you have a big family tent, taking it just for a single night at the weekend can be a lot of effort. You soon find that you spent a lot of the weekend setting up or packing away. However, the effort in packing the car, putting up the tent, fitting it out, only to do it all again in reverse the next day as you pack it away. Why? Well, there’s nothing wrong with the tent. Only this time things don’t go as well as when you took it on holiday last summer. Now, with the weather improving, you book a campsite for the weekend and take it away again. Perhaps you had a great family holiday in it last summer?
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