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https://www.aldi.co.uk/adventuridge-2-m ... 1580104800

£29.99 2 person so effectively for one.

I have no idea how good it is, but it does seem to have ally poles.

posted for info only, I don't need another tent.

I had a similar one once from Aldi.
OK for settled weather conditions but on Benbecula the rain was blown under the flysheet and it was a problem to keep it down far enough and I ended up with a wet sleeping bag. Managed to get it dry the following day.
Later camping behind the toilet building at Lochboisdale I wakened again in a pool of water after a rainy and windy night.
I was going for the early ferry off so managed to get myself dry on the ferry but the tent got dumped soon after.

No shortage of okay for nothing-too-stern tents from the likes of Decathlon for very little money. While "proper" tents will have alloy rather than plastic/glass fibre poles, note that you can get rubbish alloy poles as well as good ones and no shortage of folk doing just fine using glass poles if all they're doing is benign camping

I think Decathlon are the go-to for this end of the market with a reputation for good basic products at low prices.

Pete.

ambodach wrote: ↑7 Sep 2022, 5:37pm I had a similar one once from Aldi.

Similar is the appropriate word and it defines the gamble that is buying any of these short stock items from the likes of Aldi.
it might be a fantastic product or complete junk, it isn't in stock long enough to gain any meaningful reviews and the next batch, quite possibly with the same name and description, might come from another supplier and have enough differences to make any previous reviews irrelevant. People tend to buy such stuff on the basis that if it's no good they'll bin it and not much lost, I disagree.
As Pete says, you don't have to spend a lot to buy something which will be much more of a known quality.

Or this?
Pity about the colour.

https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/Z2PDTENT/ ... erson-tent

The Decathlon 2 Man basic tent is on the heavy side, but survived torrential storms without letting in a drop.
https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/camping-t ... 471&c=GREY

MarcusT wrote: ↑14 Sep 2022, 5:55am The Decathlon 2 Man basic tent is on the heavy side, but survived torrential storms without letting in a drop.
https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/camping-t ... 471&c=GREY

Glass fibre poles though.

Sweep wrote: ↑14 Sep 2022, 11:59am

MarcusT wrote: ↑14 Sep 2022, 5:55am The Decathlon 2 Man basic tent is on the heavy side, but survived torrential storms without letting in a drop.
https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/camping-t ... 471&c=GREY

Glass fibre poles though.

They must have changed. The tent I have has Aluminum poles.

OP Tent now discounted to £ 7.99

EDIT: In my local Aldi.

MarcusT wrote: ↑14 Sep 2022, 4:25pm

Sweep wrote: ↑14 Sep 2022, 11:59am

MarcusT wrote: ↑14 Sep 2022, 5:55am The Decathlon 2 Man basic tent is on the heavy side, but survived torrential storms without letting in a drop.
https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/camping-t ... 471&c=GREY

They must have changed. The tent I have has Aluminum poles.

Its a pity decathlon don,t even offer olive green as an option over their ubiquitous grey, and a pity now fibreglass poles.
Glass fibre poles though.

I have one of those Adventuridge tents from Aldi, and it serves me well. I go camping all year round, and have camped mid-winter on Dartmoor in it.