Berghaus Air 8 Inflatable Tunnel Design 8 Person Family Tent, Blue, One Size

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The tent and porch each comes with a pump. We got a carpet for the main tent but not the porch as we agreed the porch was going to be the main entrance for muddy shoes, cooking and eating (with two messy kids its easier to wipe a ground sheet than it is to wash a tent carpet) We have just bought and tested this weekend the Berghaus Air 8 Inflatable tent and the matching porch.

Cheapest air tent by far that I found, and the blue is a great colour! Excellent quality and would highly recommend it. It is completely enclosed with its solid windows, so it can be used even in a cold environment. Its air beams can never brake and it will perform well in windy conditions.There are several doors around, you can see their position in the floor plan shown above. The door on the porch is double wide, so you have more than 3 meters width there. The inner door under the porch and the two side doors are all with mesh and with solid panels. Solid windows are everywhere and you can see them in the picture below. Fully closable tent with solid windows. Materials The tent is also very tall as you see from the picture below, you have a stand-up height almost everywhere. The inner peak height is 206 cm. Very tall tent.

This Berghaus Telstar 8 Nightfall Air Tent is an impressive tunnel shaped structure with a modular design that includes 3 inner tents within the shell tent. The floor plan below reveals its inner structure. So you have 5 rooms plus a large porch which is on the left side in the picture. The yellow areas are the doors. The floor plan. Recently spent a few weeks researching air tents. I wanted a roomy tent as I have 3 young kids - 6,4 and 2. However, the wife isn't very keen on camping so also wanted something I could erect myself.The fabric: The flysheet material is a strong 150D polyester Oxford, and they claim it is with a 6000 mm waterproof rating. This is among the highest you can find. The floor is sewn-in and sealed. We did get a bit of wind offering an unusual strange experience. There is no flapping as such like with a poled tent, infact it just kind of bends a bit when the wind catches hold of the air beam. After having a Vango Monte Verde 900, which was a fantastic, huge tent, I decided to change it as the tent was impossible for just one or two people to put up (I'm a single parent) and weighed a ton. Females take not of this if taking the tent on your own you need a little bit of strength to pump up 4 sections. This was the first time putting up the tent (in the rain) and it took us around 30 minutes to put up the main tent and porch. It took us a bit longer as a few rookie errors were made along the way. Mostly with the porch. Getting it to lean into the tent correctly so no rain got in was a challenge. We did the best we could but properly remedied this the next day when the rain had stopped by pulling it over the main tent a little tighter with the guide ropes.

The inner tent material is a 310T polyester, and this sounds incredible. The fabric is dark and so the tent can be described as a dark-rest construction. They call this Nightfall design. This allows you to sleep longer in the morning, and if you camp with small kids they can take a nap during the day. Ventilation It was used 5 times in 2016. First time was in April, and stood up well to some very strong winds. With its 6000mm waterproof rating, we have never had any issues with rain. We’ve seen plenty of the wet stuff and stayed cosy and dry. It is generally said that fabrics with a rating of 3000mm can easily handle most British weather, so this one goes above and beyond, especially with its fully taped seams. It’s been wet, we’ve been dry- simple. Regarding the area, it is officially for 8 people. For this you have the inner floored area of 273.4 ft² (25.4 m²), plus 101.2 ft² (9.4 m²) under the porch. So these are simply incredible numbers. You will not find many tents on the market that can match this. In the living area there is a door at the front with a porch, which has a window and another window next to it. At the rear there is also a door with a window and a window next to it. After a couple of trips away with this tent, we did decided to add the Air Porch to it. Why? Because we love camping, we do quite a lot of it and intend to do a lot more. We just decided that a little bit more space would make a big difference, and we were right.

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But they have added several vents on the sides so you should have enough cross flow even if you keep the doors closed. Other features If I was to be critical the only point I would make is; the tent would benefit from additional windows, it's a tad dark, but ideal for sleeping.

Something was bugging me whilst I was writing this post. I realised that athe images being used to sell this tent don’t actually do it justice. They do not show the actual size of the middle/living section. I know from experience that we comfortably seat 5/6 people on large folding chairs in that area. The top image shows the middle section as being smaller than the bedrooms. This isn’t correct, so I created a new drawing that is more to scale. The bottom image is more accurate because that middle section is a nice large 300x330cm, which is larger than the bedrooms and gives is plenty of room for spending time together comfortably in the evenings. When choosing the right inflatable tent for you, you have similar considerations to that of buying a pole tent: how many people it sleeps, whether you can stand up inside, and whether it has mosquito netting, for example. The living area can become rather cosy, but it is not massive to feel lost, or too small to become claustrophobic. Taking it down was just a easy, and by folding it three times down the length and rolling it up, it easily fits in the slightly oversized bag first time.It was a replacement for a Vango Samara which was a good tent, but for some reason, it suffered from the wind and sometimes badly. I researched load and loads of tents as I couldn't decide which one to buy for my family (me, my wife and 3 kids). The tent pumped up like a dream (once we figured out how to set the valves) however you do need a bit of strength to pump each section fully. It starts off easy but then it gets a little harder to pump the fuller it gets. From parking up, putting down the footprint, pegging down the corners of the Air 8, pumping it up, pegging it down, and pegging the guy ropes. It took approximately 30 minutes in total on my own. The pump of the beams simply took 30 seconds per beam. I put the tent up in high winds.