Hi there.
Want to experience camping, so booked a camp site. Never did camping before.
While shopping around for tents, particularly Instant/PopUp Tents and came across BigW's Hinterland 10P pop-up tent
Kindly advise if this is reliable or not!
Kind regards.
Yes to start with… i booked a camp site in a resort…
How many people?
2 Adults 2 Kids
I was looking particularly for Pop-Up Tent.
This seems really good deal but not Instant though!
Just remember the big one, useful for everything: You get what you pay for. BigW stuff is a bit cheaper, because it is built cheaper.
1st trip: you don’t need to buy ‘everything’. You might find you’ve spent a bundle and not use it again. Buying second hand is good. Plenty of campers regularly upgrade so sell off their older stuff.
Get:
something to stay in (tent),
something to sleep in and on (sheets and blanket/sleeping bags.
Something to eat off
Something to store cool food.
Something to sit on.
Make use of the camp kitchen for cooking and washing up if you can, helps cut down what you need to take.
Thank you for tips. Haven't bought much. Just camping chairs and sleeping bags.
This tent i refferred to was put on sale for $100. Its good price, but if do not be of any help no point.. thought of getting advice from experienced campers like you 🙏.
Thank you 🙏
I'm sceptical of the tent you've listed.
It's important to understand that tents generally have 2 layers, the inner section with zips to keep bugs out, and the outer fly which keeps rain out. The photos of that tent show the fly not covering the whole tent which will seriously affect the waterproofing.
What happens is when it rains the water lands on the fly which gets wet and then channels the water away from the inner layer keeping it dry. If you don't have a fly that covers the whole inner then the water will drip off the edge and land on the inner layer making it wet too. If you don't touch the fabric of the inner the floor will still stay dry but this means you can put anything up against the edge dramatically reducing the space available (also causes if you roll over while sleeping and your sleeping bag touches the edge, wet sleeping bags are not fun).
I wouldn't prioritise the "instant up" aspect of a tent over more impoirtant things like the waterproofing and the size and shape of the space. Setting up a tent is not hard at all, only needs to be done once per trip and even with an instant up tent you still need to put pegs and guy ropes into the ground (infact it looks like the fly on that tent will use lots of ropes to stay in place).
I'd look at something like this instead https://www.bcf.com.au/p/wanderer-overland-dome-tent-10-pers… or this https://www.bcf.com.au/p/wanderer-magnitude-4v-plus-dome-ten…
Thank you for all the tips 🙏
After last night a touch more advice: don’t camp under one of those 3x3 gazebos if rain is around. We had plenty of rain last night and probably half of them in this park collapsed, including ours.
Hi.. thank you for the advice and sorry for your trouble.. I will be using a tent for dure and had to decide beteeen Oztrail 10p (4.4mX3m) tent from Anaconda or Wanderer 10p (4mX2.4m) from BCF…
Any advice to choose is highly appreciated..
Quite a few people had small tents and swags set up under the gazebos. They are ok if you make sure to empty any pooled water on them, but when it rained heavily overnight we were all tucked up in bed and didn’t get up to drain the water out.
If you are going to a typical 'drive in and camp next to your car' type camp-site and it's not going to rain heavily or be super windy, this will do the job.
Top tip, put the tent up at least once at home before you actually go and camp to ensure:
A) all the pieces are there
B) you know how to put it up once you get to the camp-site