Eurohike Sandringham

We used the tent on a very windy and rainy bank holiday at an exposed campsite in Scarborough... Many other campers gave up and went home...

We plugged in to an electrical hook up to use an electrical heater to provide some heat. The tent survived the weekend when most others didn't. The next test will be latitude festival.

The main issue with the tent was that it took a couple of hours to erect.

Easy to errect by myself as an O A P of 75, although I do have long experience of camping. It stood up well to some pretty awful weather in Cornwall this summer. It has ample space to camp in comfort and without stooping for a 6ft person (me) and family. I always work on the princaple that a 4 berth tent is good for 2 etc. The pegs were replaced with much larger ones from my own stock for all except the groundsheets. Another useful hint is to add two lightweight straight 6ft poles and guy cords to use to extend the open door out as an awning.

Bought this tent as a bigger replacement to a small two man tent which we had previously.

I would not recommend this tent to anyone for the following reasons. The sewn in instructions that come with the tent are useless, The gap between the tent skin and ground sheet is about 5 cm all round even with everything tighten properly.

On the second day of our holiday there was a slight wind and I tightened all the guy rope before leaving the tent for a day out, when we returned to the tent we found two of the poles, one of the guy ropes had snapped and the tent skin had ripped. The wind had got slightly stronger but no other campers seemed to have a problem except for another couple with the same tent.

The supplier who we bought the tent from have now removed it from their website and this tent will be getting returned.

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as mentioned before - almost impossible to put poles into eylets, too much tension. I'm used to putting up tents, but this was impossible.

Just bought the Sandringham - My previous experience of camping being with traditional 2-man tent. If you haven't erected a dome-type tent with pin connections before, you will not be helped much by the Sandringhams sewn-into-the-bag instructions: The small diagram illustrating the pin placement in the end of the pole suggests a snug fit but on mine the pole opening seems to be too large for the pin.

Because the instructions lack detail, I have no way of knowing if this is correct or whether there is something missing. Millets do not seem to know.

Probably patently obvious to those with dyed-in-the-wool experience of such things - but for this reason I would only buy this tent if you know someone who can advise on its correct assembly.

Bought this a few months ago for the bargain price of £90 in anticipation of taking a few trips in the summer. The first of which we've just been on where we setup the Eurohike Sandringham for the first time.

Setting up (definitely needs 2 people) was pretty straightforward, although the supplied guy lines did tend to loosen a little over time (I had to tighten them up at least once per day), and as others have mentioned, the pegs that come with the kit are a little short for softer ground, but wasn't an issue for us this time around.

The wife was a little cautious of camping until we set this thing up, now she can't wait to use it again! :)

we got a Eurohike Sandringham out of Millets after a bit of Haggling. we got a price reduction of 20%. I loved this Tent from the minute I put it up. its the first tent I could stand up in (I'm 6ft4). Loads of space and Pockets to store various camping bits and bobs. Best Buy I have bought in a long time. Really Impressed. It comfortably Slept myself, Wife (Double Air bed) and our 1 year boy (travel cot). Great Small Family tent with Ample Head room. decievlyling big inside.

Eurohike Sandringham is easy to erect and quick to if you have any common sense.

Good value and very spacious. A real bargain if you wait until the end of the season and buy from milletts at 50% off.

We found there to be far to much tension when putting the pins on the straps into the poles we loosened off the tension straps but still had to use great force to get them finally in (we were concerned the poles may snap) once erected there was about a 3 or 4 inch gap which was virtually impossible to close down with the tension straps. On the inner tent several of the toggles had to be left out of the hoops to reduce further tension and allow the zips to close. In our opinion we felt the poles were too long for the canvas.Had these problems not been encountered the sandringham 4 2008 model could have been our ideal tent but we decided to return it for a refund.

A good looking versatile budget tent, that is easy to put up and very spacious, and has versatile door openings and windows. Not sure if millets are still selling them, but I think it is a great tent.