Gelert Quick Pitch SS

bought this tent four weeks ago tent itself is good easy to put up but no matter which way i tried putting it down it wont work it is quite dangerous no matter what i do it keeps springing out of place my arm is now black and blue where it sprung back and hit it

have had for a year now and at first was a good tent(warm summer nights, then the condensation started and it kept getting worse, but the main thing has been the pole, one single pole that creaked and cracked from the first time I packed it away, and now after my 6th time of using has snapped(fibre glass splinters and all), emailed gelert and was given www.tentspares.com as a place to get a replacement, ha no pole on there or any other site and to my surprise I cant even buy one from the company that makes them as they have none in their warehouse, in the bin it went!. staying clear of pop-ups from now on.

A complete waste of money and very frustrating. Back to a traditional tent for me.

When it rained, it wasn't waterproof. But that was nothing compared with the difficulty of folding it up again.

I don't count myself as a stupid person but you have to be a member of MENSA to work out how to fold it up, not helped by an incompehensible, poorly drawn diagram with no accompanying text, unlike the erection details, which are simple and straightforward. Well they would be if the drawing actually reflected the design of the parts supplied, which it didn't. Anyway, back to trying to pack it up....several friends were also defeated, and in the end a plastic pole snapped leaving razor sharp plastic splinters.

Money down the drain.

I bought my Quick Pitch SS last year for Glastonbury. I'm leaving this review now because my friend was looking on the net to buy one and we came across this review site.

Quite a few people say that this tents isn't very good on here...I disagree. The Quick Pitch SS was a great little tent for me. They are supposed to be 2 man but there's probably about enough room for one person and bags. It's quick and easy to put up and simple to take down (once you get the hang of it).

I bought this Gelert Quick Pitch SS tent from tentastic.co.uk thinking it looked like really good value, and brought it to a festival. It leaked really badly on the first night when it rained. Luckily, it was really sunny the next day, so it dried out again, but then it got wet inside every night for the rest of the festival, even though it didn't rain again. It gets soaked through from condensation even when it's not raining. I brought the tent home and asked for a refund. Tentastic refused to give me a refund, as they said the tent is not supposed to be waterproof and is only supposed to be used in "clement weather". What exactly is the point in a tent that is not waterproof?? I phoned trading standards, but they've wouldn't do anything. It looks like nobody looks after the consumer these days...

Labelling on the packaging give the impression that it is "waterproof" or "water resistent". At night the Gelert Quick Pitch SS tent attracts the evening moisture and morning dew and just drips water into the tent.

Yes I said evening moisture and morning dew!!!!

If I could give a negative rating I would. If you do intend to buy this tent, only use in areas where there is no evening moisture or morning dew!!!

Gelert Quick Pitch SS gets wet when it's not raining, not enough air flaps, and it's too small. I can't stand up in it! What a load of rubbish.

opened the Gelert Quick Pitch tent in my living room to test it out and it looked great, unfortunately its a complete nightmare to get back in the bag and one of the poles broke on me, so never had a chance to test it against the elements..will be taking it back for a refund straight away.

tiny, uncomfortable, no head room, condensation makes tent sodden and sleeping bags, clothes etc. Gelert Quick Pitch SS ids the worst tent i have ever had to sleep in, giving it to the kids to play in. my friend had same tent, she left it at festival, we all came home coughing and sneezing due to sleeping in the damp.

Well i was impressed with the Gelert Quick Pitch SS i loved the style i love the colour i got it in (grey) I left it in the garden throw the day we had a massive thunder storm there were only 3 little puddles ans tbh i dont think any tent could of out stod the storm we had so i say its brilliant