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Before you buy into a weekend of self-inflicted misery, check out the range of Vango Airbeams.Ĭamping specialists Vango, launched a series of inflatable tents earlier in the year, aiming to make camping easier and less stressful. Using their new AirBeam technology, they have created a line of pole-free tents, replacing them with quick to inflate beams of air instead. Vango believe the new tents offer a ‘fantastic family camping solution’ saying the AirBeam tents can be pitched in less than five minutes with even the children able to inflate the tent. The beams are inflated at low pressure making sure the tent doesn’t flop down at night. The range of AirBeams includes tents suitable for 4,6 or 8 people.Ĭhopsy Baby reviewed the AirBeam Velocity 400. This tent features all the usual great things about a Vango. This includes: plenty of air circulation, orange ropes to stop people tripping, double entrance, a huge porch and internal pockets and storage areas in the sleeping quarters.

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The flysheet, inner and ground sheet are all Polyester and the windows PVC. The tent comes with a hand pump as standard. It is painless to use, the air beams inflate in seconds, and, there are a range of pump ends supplied meaning it can be used to inflate other items, such as an air bed. The 400, is 4.8 meters in length, 2.7 meters in width and 1.55 meters in height at its tallest central point. The sleeping quarters sleep four in a row, but there are no individual rooms, just one big sleeping section. This inner section is 2.10 by 2.5 meters.

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Of course, it’s easy to put up a tent in three minutes when you know how to do it. It’s also easy to quickly put up a tent that you don’t know how to pitch if you are a seasoned camper.ī. Have not pitched tents all regularly and/orĬ. Kind of useless at the living the great outdoors life and everything you touch falls apart, then welcome to our Chopsy Baby review.įor those who are A, B and C, the Vango AirBeam sounds like a dream. No poles and quick to pitch while the kettle boils. Setting up a stop watch and attacking the tent with the grit and determination of a Prime Minister during times of crisis, Chopsy Baby’s Jen Smith attempted to get the Vango up as advertised. Jen says: “Ten seconds into reading the instructions boredom kicked in and I just went for it. “Five minutes in, I had only just managed to get the contents of the bag.” It’s basically just flatten out, peg down and inflate. “Ten to twenty minutes later, I still had no idea which way up the tent went. It was unzipped in the bag and I was just wandering round in circles with it. I was completely stuck inside the tent looking like some kind of Scooby Doo monster and trying to find the right way up. They are already in place so no stuffing required “Thirty minutes later, while conducting a phone conversation and holding the picture of tent to try and work out which way it up goes, it starts kicking into place.ĪirBeams instead of poles. Apparently, there should have been a pressure gague on the pump to make sure the beams were not over inflated. Make sure the tent is pegged down straight and taut to avoid collapse I did not see one of these, but guessed they were fully inflated when the pump jumped off them. “The whole thing was pumped up and leaning like Pisa really quickly. The way to make sure the tent does not collapse is to have the ropes and pegs pulling it as taut as possible. I found I had to re-jig some of the pegs and ropes. “In all, pitching the Vango took an hour for one extremely novice camper to pitch.

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It took an eternity to work out which was the top and the bottom because the zip was open. But, once the tent was up, it was easy to see where each school boy error occurred and on future attempts can be so easily avoided.

It is simple to pitch if you only had a brain.

It’s light weight, no faffing around with poles, perfect for rainy weather because it is up so quickly.