Vango SKYE 300 TENT (TREETOPS)

Very impressed with this tent for the price. Spent 3 night s in Scotland in it. Held out all the wind and rain Scotland has to offer. Good size area for sleeping and the porch bit is invaluable for all your gear. Easy to set up once you connect the ground mat to the tent correctly. I got this wrong the first time, make sure the straps go under the tent! The only annoying bit is the the flap that covers the zip to get in, it's get caught almost every time! It's packs down small for the size of the tent. For the price, you can't go wrong.

Good tent for price

Pros:- Upgrade from my old 2 man Vaude tent, for more room and able to sit on chair in porch.- One of the only tents found that had a porch groundsheet included *see below- Easy to setup.Cons:-The photos shown of item on this page are incorrect. Shows the old model. The supplied, new model, has different (black) inner sleeping area and design.- *Although has a porch ground-sheet included, it is Not a bath-tub design, like the sleeping area. It's just a flat sheet that lies on top of lower grey flysheet bottom flaps and hooks in place. So it's Not 'fully water proof' if any significant water flows under tent. It is also Not 100% bug proof as bugs crawl up through the gap in porch area sheets or from open gap between inner tent and flysheet. This also means flying bugs Can get into porch area if door closed. So the description text misleading.- The inner sleeping area has a different design to shown and advertised as Lights-Out. This slightly misleading. It is Not a full black-out fabric and although coloured black it Does let a lot of light through. Giving shade rather than blackout.- Also different to shown in item photo, the inner has a relatively large mesh window which has no zippable closure panel! (See photo). So firstly let's light in, rather reducing any effect of the blackout material! It also allows cold air to enter sleeping area more freely. (My old tents have always had a closure panel to at least contain some of the warm air. Not quite sure reasoning of this new design). It remains to be seen if would ever use this in cold weather after tried it in summer weather). I might even make myself a fabric velcro panel to stick on to see if makes any difference.- The supplied metal pegs are useless. Simply trying tent initially on my garden lawn, couple of pegs bent with simple hand pressure. Would need to buy better ones. Why do tent manufacturers always get away with supplying rubbish pegs!- It appears strange that although the back rod arch has 4 guy ropes. Two to side and two to rear on the fabric. The front large hoop only has two side ropes. Seems like it should have a central front rope/s as well (just like the 500) to prevent high wind blowing front in?I needed this tent in a rush, and might in normal circumstances have returned it as it doesn't quite meet the description spec. I will adjust my review after tried tent a few times.

Not been test propery yet but tested assembly and easy to put up. quite roomy says 3 man but we will be putting two in comfortably

We used this tent for a Scout camp, and we had heavy rain for 12 hours, and the tent leaked badly. Only it's second use.

Tent far too small, can't stand up and sleeping compartment very cramped for 3 people. Also a couple of slight rips at seams on inside. Returned 3 weeks ago and still not had any correspondence

I bought this tent as it's one of the smallest tents that you can get with: A bedroom, separate living space, can sit on a chair inside of it, nice colour scheme. It satisfies these requirements very well.--Advantages--- VERY lightweight and small when packed. Like a small holdall of medium weight. It goes in my car boot facing forwards- Nice colourful fabric- Can fit 2 camp chairs inside and a small table for rainy days- Good number of guy lines and peg points- Repair kit- Tension bands and toggles keep everything strong inside- Spaceous inside.-Windows are very clear, but cannot be covered up-Good pockets and hanging points. Toggles for the bedroom are colour-coded too.- Raised-type doorways to keep water out-Stays pretty taught, guy lines are typical for anyone with any camping experience. They also have eyelets on the end for easy pegging.Disadvantages- Groundsheet is not sewn in. The bedroom is protected from water separately but not the living space. It has skirts to keep out the water but it might get wet in there in a downpour.- The outer tent will not lay flat due to the nylon straps underneath. They can't be disconnected either. This made it very hard to put the correct pole into the correct pin. I've marked mine so I know which is 1,2 and 3 on both sides.- Slightly too short for me for sleeping, but it's enough I'm 6' 2".- The lower end of the bedroom sags down a bit. They could easily solve this with 1 more toggle so I don't know why they don't fix that.- Windows have no covers- Must separate inner and outer before packing it away- Fabric is quite thin but this is great for size and weight. It can always be sprayed for additional waterproofing

Took this to a music festival, bought last minute as it was one of the pilot festivals for covid. Very good water resistance, impressed for that. Decent sleeping size area, enough fora double airbed and a little space around.Easy to set up. The 3 poles are different sizes but 2 of them are very similar in length so make sure you have the right ones.Added a picture of the dimensions.Dan