In article , chris French
writes
In message , Lynda Thornton
writes


If you are camping in the garden just to give your young son an
experience then surely your husband can rough it for a night or two?
Your son will probably have more fun in the smallest tent you can find.

Hi Alan

The point is that we want to see how it goes in the garden first, before
going further afield later on. My husband isn't keen on small tents in
the first place, that's why I was asking!


There are quite a few tents around that will give your husband the
necessary head room - Depends partly on how big generally you want the
tent, there tends to be a bit of a relationship between floorplan size
and height.


Our Kyham would give him plenty of headroom, but it's a bit big for 3.

It's a few years old now, but the nearest model current is probably the
XXL Excelsior , but they have others :-)

http://www.khyam.co.uk/product_tent....E&type=Family/
Group

Kyham are not cheap, but of good quality, and very sturdy in windy
weather.

Ebay can be good place for tent buying, you get a lot of not used much
tents sold by people who try it once or twice then decide it' not for
them

Hi Chris

Thanks for that, very useful and I will be following up all suggestions
of specific types and models to find the best one for us.

Lynda

have you thought about a frame tent? Most are over two metres high and
traditionally have loads of head room and space. We have several tents and
will take a dome for weekends but always use the frame tent for anything
longer. After talking at length to experienced campers using dome tents it
seems that putting up one of the bigger, more complicated domes takes as
long as a frame tent. The only saving seems to be in car space as a frame
tent is about twice a big as an equivalent sized dome when packed (a big one
is anyway).

--
Hayley
(gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset)

In message , H Ryder
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have you thought about a frame tent? Most are over two metres high and
traditionally have loads of head room and space. We have several tents and
will take a dome for weekends but always use the frame tent for anything
longer. After talking at length to experienced campers using dome tents it
seems that putting up one of the bigger, more complicated domes takes as
long as a frame tent. The only saving seems to be in car space as a frame
tent is about twice a big as an equivalent sized dome when packed (a big one
is anyway).

Our Kyham isn't a dome, but it has some of the benefits of such, but it
also has some of the benefits of frame tents as the main poles are
mostly straight, so it is quite a boxy shape - and is more stable in
strong winds than most dome designs of it's size.. It's not that quick
to fully put up really - though I hurry I can have the outer up and
stable enough for shelter in about 10 minutes, but quicker than frame
tent (which I don't really like for various reasons).

Another advantage of domes etc. is the greater flexibility for
variations in designs, though given some of the crappy designs some come
up with that's a sometimes dubious benefit.
--
Chris French