Vango Tigris 800 - Going away for the first time with your family, you want to get on with the serious business of enjoying yourself as soon as possible. The easy to pitch tunnel structure, light and airy feel, flexible bedroom configurations, storage options a plenty and headroom which makes you stand to attention will bring a whole new level of enjoyment to your camping experience.
Changes for 2010
Increased window size
Altered colourways from smoke/black to smoke/ocean
Specification Details - for Vango Tigris 800
- Capacity: 8 person
- Weight: 25.45kg
- Pack Size: 71 x 47 x 32cm
- Pitching Area: 940 x 500cm
- Fire Retardant fabrics reduces the possibility of ignition from naked flames
- Protex®3000 polyester waterproof, durable and reliable
- Taped seams for waterproof protection
- Storm skirt system waterproof, exterior skirt system
- Flysheet first pitching simple and quick to pitch, keeps inner dry
- Colour coded poles match the pole to the sleeve tab for easy pitching
Features - for Vango Tigris 800
- Powerflex® Fibreglass poles tough, sturdy and reliable
- TBS®-Tension Band System unique internal bracing system ensures tent performs in adverse weather
- Polyester inner groundsheet lightweight, waterproof & comfortable
- Sewn-in Groundsheet PE 10,000HH fully enclosed to protect against unwanted draughts and bugs
- Cable entry points and tidies zipped entry point pocket
- Side mesh door allows door to be left open for insect free ventilation
- Mesh vents allow continual airflow to enhance comfort
- Inner pockets and hanging organizers keeps those essentials close at hand
- Crystal Clear windows allows maximum light into living area
- Double zip windows flexible internal cover allowing choice between light and vent, light only or vent only
- Pelmet aesthetic addition to conceal interior attachment points
- Breathable fabric inners creates a comfortable sleeping area
- Flexible inners allows inner to be removed when not in use
- Canopy over side door ideal entry when it is raining outside
- Parallel zip doors create a canopy for sheltered entry or shaded seating/dining
- Rain gutter zip cover covers and diverts rain flow away from the zip
- Saddle bag for easy pack-and-go
- Repair Kit for that unforeseen Emergency
We purchased the Tigris as a weekend tent for a family of 5 and for a large tent I find it easy to put up and take down, my one niggle is that the inners need to come down and be packed in a separate section of the bag which means the tent takes a little longer to erect. I would have rather pitched as one and a single bag to take the whole tent.
One of the doors has a mesh cover with a rain porch over, but the second door does not have the rain porch or mesh door.
One set of bedrooms can be converted into a single large bedroom, whilst the other pair are separate bedrooms and can be fitted separately or together (so you can have three bedrooms and a larger living area rather than the fourth bedroom.
We don't have the porch for our Tigris but I can imagine it makes a great addition to the tent. We set our cooking area up in front of the second door without the rain porch, then when we cook we use the enclosed poles to make a canopy. Even with the kitchen in the main tent there is still ample room for a family of five.
The fibreglass poles seem of good quality and the TBS (Tension band system) is a reassuring supplement for combating the wind and bad weather.
For the money I would say a tent this size that can hold up to 8 people is a pretty good buy.
Massive tent for your money, lots of room with all four pods in but even more with just the two and the big door at the front open.
Stood up to very high winds and heavy rain with no problems.
Unlike many tents comes with the poles to turn your side or front door into a canopy to cook under if you haven't got the side extension.
Following the Vango video http://www.vango.co.uk/pitching-videos.html it took us 1hr 20mins for our first pitch, OH reckons with some practice we may get it down to 45mins.
Packed away in 45 mins and it all went back in the bag with no problems.
Lovely little details that you keep finding like the SIG being able to fold down flat in the day to help solve the tripping problem.
Only niggles I have is that there is only a mesh door on one side and the vents above the windows are a bit on the small side so it warms up quite quickly in there. Can be a bit of a pain reaching to the corners to toggle the pods in and not much room to un-toggle these ones either.