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CoolCabana 5 (Large Beach Shade) $186.75 Shipped (Was $249) @ CoolCabanas
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TheCandyMan2020 on 17/03/2023 - 14:40 coolcabanas.com.au (3760 clicks)
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I havent tried it but wouldnt any tend peg work?
The center pole is different, the corner pegs yes any normal tent peg
We got a grass kit but managed to lose it before we even got to use it.
I think it was essentially a bit of a steel fence post but I havent tried to make my own.Huh?
It goes into grass fine. Ive set one up and it just stakes in.
Put rocks in the sides.
The grass kit is because the spike that goes into the sand is much longer than necessary, due to sand being soft.
Using the sand spike?
Yeah
Don't need it to be honest.
Use normal tent pegs and just have to drive the default centre spike in further. Or go to bunnings and put together something shorter.Yeah was seeing is anyone had specific part from bunnings for the centre pole
Yes I have this set up on my backyard tiles. I bought the cheapest umbrella stand from Bunnings which was $20 and gently tighten the screw onto the centre pole. Sand in plastic bags for the corners.
@impoze: https://www.bunnings.com.au/marquee-15kg-concrete-umbrella-b…
This was it. Works well, not that heavy to pack up when required.
Awesome
I'm surprised they still have any to sell, given the number on the beaches this year.
That's literally theft. If you don't own it, you are not entitled to take it, just because it is unattended. Like if someone leaves their wallet, you don't have a right to it.
it was a poor joke in response to the stories about people setting up their cabanas in the small hours to reserve their spot at the beach, then coming back many hours later (often 6 hours or more).
Lol, can you let me know your address?
I feel like I'm entitled to your car when it's unattended ;)
Let me when you go on holiday. I'd a free house….I promise….I will ask everyone local around if they own the house and if they can't prove it I'll stake claim to the house….sweet!!
Difference is: the house is in private property.
Should've waited till night time.
is this good for a music festival
It works better on the beach unless you have a grass kit accessory.
Also people sitting behind you at the festival may not appreciate your cabana blocking their view. If lots of people are using cabanas and umbrellas not an issue, but if you are the lone ranger might not go down well….
I doubt the entry security Nazis will even let you into a music festival with one
if there's anything to be nazi about, it's these bloody cabanas blocking the view at a paid festival lol
Some heroes don't wear capes. Thank you festival security.
Thank you ❤️
For a campsite, go a Coleman Event 14. Far far better shade and is built for being set up on grass.
The main benefit of these is the quick set up time but that doesn’t matter as much if you’re going to be there a few days.
Get the premium model. My Event 14 basic disintegrated after a couple of uses.
That's better than this deal, having a wall on one side. A simple tarp is even better and cheaper though. ;-p
Thank you so much
Only if it's recently tuned by a professional.
Found it doesnt provide sufficient shade unless sun is directly above.. and the ppl setting up next to you gets most of your cabana shade! good design to withstand windy conditions tho..
setup next to another cabana to get their shade while you wait for yours.
Or follow the shade like people had to do in the old days and even modern days when people don't bother surrounding their cabana with more cabanas to maximise shade.so essentially one would need to get 4 of these, square them up together to get a nice shade (and get head turns from other cabana owners, who wish they also bought an extra 3)
I agree with @zer0Cash. Particularly for those long days at the height of summer, there are times when the sun is low in the sky and the shade this provides is almost useless, no matter how much you chase it.
Who needs a shade when the sun is low in the sky??
I've always wondered about this too. I see people at the beach sitting outside of the covered area because the angle of the sun has shifted the shade so far left or right. Didn't seem right to me. Will stick with my tent sun shade for now.
thank you OP, always wanted to get this one since every man and his dog has it
It is double the price of the imitators, but it does seem to be decent quality
The Kmart and Big W knockoffs dont seem to be as well made or as durable.
These are excellent
Thanks OP, will come in handy for Melbourne's hot weather
Melbourne and Hot - not sure if they go together?
Oh melbourne summer is HOT.. melbourne winter is COLD..
melbourne summer is HOT..
..for all 2 days of summer an year..
You also have to put up with Melbourne voters suffering Stockholm Syndrome.
Used mine at the beach a few times.
They are ridiculously easy to set up and pack down, even with one person.
Theyre quite low though so if you sit on chairs under them youll barely be able to see out.
I'd sit on the sand on a towel instead.
Free melanoma
My personal favourite is the dark blue
https://coolcabanas.com.au/products/coolcabana?variant=40668…Some of the colours are pretty ordinary IMHO
I would love custom designs a bit like The Starship from the 1970's. I would pay extra for a Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin or GnR version….
Eww no, that's bland and not very beachy. The blue and white stripes look better… In photo anyway!
You missed his joke. That building is one of Jeffrey Epstein's rape caves on his private island.
The list isnt released yet, so weird
The Clinton Cabana.
Can't go to a beach in Sydney without everyone just setting their own little 4sqm private property until there's no room on the beach. Most of people with families are empty as the parents are down at the shoreline minding the kids, and the ones that are in their tents would be a couple.
Anyone with a small umbrella or nothing get muscled out by these things or pushed to the far outskirts.
So a beach towel doesnt occupy space when spread out on the beach?
Perhaps not all of us want to mix with the great unwashed.
I'd rather a bit more personal space when at the beach, but I'm not sure 4sqm gives me that. I would like to listen to music but in such close quarters I'm not sure my beach neighbours would appreciate my taste in music.
If I want my own isolated beach or one with a few souls, which I do, then we hop in a plane and fly to Southern Europe. Mostly pebbles, no bluebottles, and calm, and some pretty good snorkeling.
I can't afford to pay someone to carry an umbrella for me.
There is also an assumption in your original comment about them being anti-social that being anti-social is a bad thing. Not sure it is….
Cry me a river sweetie. I guess you can’t afford one?
I'm glad I don't live somewhere like Syd/Mel… packed on the beach like sardines and always some fool who needs the radio on like it's their life support machine. (The music is bad enough but the little news breaks and ads are also full of crap, pushing government tin foil hat conspiracy theories and propaganda… ugh!) I live in a tourist area that can get like that in peak summer holiday time but you just walk 2 minutes past the flags to have no-one around you again.
Imagine choosing to go to a busy beach then complain about how packed it is
Our local beach is little bay which is good for the kids but gets packed from about 11am. We get there early and leave before lunch. Upon leaving the beach is full of these tents.
I'm not sure about the other beaches in Sydney as we only go to this one as it's kid friendly (calm) and it's so close.
buy one and live rent free on the beach
Rent it out for $500 a week advertising water views.
Unfortunately government has made
breathingcamping on beaches illegal.
Much prefer the fabric/material used with my 2018 'pineapples' cabana, versus what was provided with the 2022 yellow glen 'gingham' cabana
Thanks mate, got one.
Been looking at these for ages. Thanks OP, pulled the trigger.
Can anyone share their experience of the lounger? Worth it or just just beach towel?
I live near a beach, see these often, and don't see the point. Even their own photos show the problem. Because the roof is high and no wall on at least one side, you get only a narrow piece of shade. That would be ok if we stood up the entire time, but instead we either sit on the sand or on a chair. Because we are low to the ground now with the sun at an angle most of the day, you get only a narrow bit of shade on only your feet/legs and which constantly changes, meaning we have to keep shifting position and the sun will still be on your face/head meaning everyone under one has to… wear a hat lol! (May as well forget this and just use the hat/glasses.)
Most of the small ones people sit underneath are a waste of time too leaving their legs sticking out burning like red lobster claws.
I just take a tarp, 2x aluminium tent poles, 4x white nylon tent ropes, and 4x clothesline/peg-sized plastic buckets. You fill the buckets with sand, tie the strings on, and bury them. The poles stand upright at only one end of the tarp tied down to 2x buried buckets. The other end of the tarp gets tied to the other two buckets but at close to ground level leaving a gap say about 20cm for airflow. Do it so the sun is behind most of the tarp and you'll have a huge block of shade for most of the day instead of the sun glaring in your face. You'll also have a real barrier instead the sun passing through thin fabric. If the sun position means you start to lose your block of shade as midday passes just spend a few minutes readjusting.
MS paint diagram?
Sure, feel free lol.
I agree 100%, I walk past swarms of families that have these up, they still have sunnies on and look like they're sweating and they're covering their faces because the sun is still hitting them.
It's almost become a fashion thing rather than something that actually does something.
I've read your instructions for 10 mins but still can't quite work it out. Any chance you could kindly clarify your method?
Who me? Everyone will do it differently but the idea is to have the tarp sloping down so when viewing it from the side it looks like a triangle, with the "back" of the tarp close to the ground (the tarp end that is between your back and the sun), and the "front" end up higher just above head height.
You tie the 2x "back" tarp corners through the corner holes then down to the handles of two buckets you fill with sand and bury - say twice as deep as the bucket height (depending on the level of breeze). i.e. If it's more windy just dig them down deeper so the flapping tarp can't pull them out.
So the 2x "front" corners of the tarp that are at just above head height, their corner holes are placed on/over the spikes of two of those collapsible aluminium poles that come with a lot of tents - the type that get pulled apart, placed next to each other, and the tent rolled up around the poles and put into a bag. (The kind of tent poles where 4 or 5 aluminium pieces slot together to make one pole with a spike at one end.) I got ours from a shredded tent that was left on the side of the road in a local council cleanup.
A second pair of ropes go from the spikes of those 2x front poles down and tied onto another 2x buried buckets of sand. (So one bucket of sand for each tarp corner.)
The 4x ropes I use are the white nylon ropes/strings that come with the same kind of tent as the collapsible aluminium poles.
So it looks like the picture you see before clicking play on this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIjClkJGhg4. If you watch the first part of that video you'll see a similar sand idea to hold the corners (buckets are obviously better), and she also uses the type of poles I use.
It's basically the same as having a tarp "roof" with 1x pole at all 4x corners, but using only 2x poles instead means you can do away with 2x of the poles and slope the tarp to create more shade between your back and the sun. You can see this effect of creating more shade at about 1m17s in the video.
is this the same as the 5 at bcf & rebel?
https://www.bcf.com.au/p/coolcabanas-beach-shelter-2m/584351…
190.00 normal price.Yeah and its quite easy to get 5% off BCF via gift cards.
NO
A 2m x 2m Coolcabana is the medium they sell for $189 directly (no stock)
A large is 2.4m x 2.4m and offers 45% more shade than a medium. I wouldn't recommend the 2m version
So you are paying more at Rebel/BCF for 45% less shade and no free delivery…
Anybody who tells you the Rebel/BCF is the same as the Cool Cabana 5 Large needs to goto OPSM….
thx .. good for those who dont read :D. just went back to check the sizes.
Can't use the discount on apple pay..
As I said earlier… taking too many breaths close together will eventually be banned.
These things don't provide much shade anyway, but "ruining the view" !? Of what… 5318008 on an upturned calculator!? I don't go to the beach to look at other people… I'm either lying down with my eyes closed, looking forward and down the sloping sand out and across the water, or in the water where there are none… not looking upward at something above my head. So what exactly are the pervs whining about being unable to see?
If anything, having more of these side-by-side means the shade aspect would actually work, making a day at the beach more pleasant and comfortable (the breeze would now pass over a mass of shaded sand) and result in less skin cancers. If council doesn't want them on the beach (temporarily… gasp… however will they cope!) - then spend millions sinking poles to install poles and shade sails so no one needs bring them.
Typical. Warning about skin cancer out of one side of their mouth, saying you should only spend 20 minutes in the sun, but then banning shade creating devices out the other the moment some toxic Karen screeches. Karens and government pen pushers just can't help themselves… Always looking for ways to interfere, make other peoples' lives miserable with onerous illogical rules to appease a screeching minority and justify their soulless jobs.
If "their view" is really affected that much they can nick off to a less populated beach, move further down to a less packed area, or sit closer to the water with the shades to their back.
As for that second article: "Council Rangers will use their discretion around the use of portable gas burners as long as they aren’t used on the beach and a total fire ban is not in place." Seriously!? I use a Coleman gas stove on the beach. So I'm supposed to be getting hassled or fined for using my own stove to cook real food, but the disgusting council BBQs meters away covered with cockroaches and seagull and rat urine and faeces, or the nutritionally-void and expensive garbage from the council-owned grease trap are a-ok!? PULL YOUR HEADS IN GOVERNMENT… I'm not bringing boring sweaty tomato and cheese sandwiches that go stale in seconds upon hitting the open air, just to appease your toxic Karen mentality.
And how are gas burners a danger whether or not it's a total fire ban AND on a SANDY BEACH!? If that were the case we wouldn't be permitted to use backyard gas BBQs either where there's far more flammable stuff like grass. Or have they banned those now too?
Company is making a fortune over this fad to look cool. Rediculous price for what it is and so many suckered in to look part of the crowd.
They certainly are fashionable, but to be fair they've been around since at least 2018. They have lasted a lot longer than most fads.
Also most owners are very very happy with them - specifically their wind resistance.
They are the best of their kind. I guess the price premium is a bit like why you pay more for Mercedes than you do for Kia?
I've had my original medium size pineapple one since 2018 and have given it a few home repairs over the years to keep it operational. Not once has it blown over. It provides sufficient shade to family for those that want it. It provides pockets in each leg to stash keys and sunglasses when going in the water. It sets up in a couple of minutes. It doesn't block the view of people seated on sand behind or to the side as they can see straight through. What is not to like?
The new large size one though in my opinion consume too much area unless you are going to the beach with a family of 5+ and plan to spend majority of time together under the shade.
Let's think abou this - these are super expensive for what they are man..
Has anyone received their order? Oddly mine was "returned to sender" while still in transit (according to AusPost) and CoolCabana has not been responsive over email or Facebook chat.
Mine has been shipped but not yet received.
Took them almost a week to ship it.
Still valid?
Not working for me.
Not sure if I'm picking ineligible product or code expired.
Game over babe. I think it was for Afterpay week
hm still no grass kit available.
has anyone had success making their own spike?