Aldi Family Tent - 9th June - Any Good?

I put the outer tent up this evening. It was dry, but windy and I had my 16 year old son with me.
Feeding the two black poles through lengthwise plus the blue pole widthwise is tricky enough.
And it takes time and patience. Especially the first time or two, until you get the hang of it. (at least that was my experience)
I fear that several people might rush that job as rain approached (or worse, iin rain) only to shove the poles through the fabric!
another point is to make sure you have soft shoes on because to work the poles through, you will probably need to walk on the tent, especially where the blue pole crosses the two black ones (and this is where the poles have to curve most also, to give the domed effect)
It was windy here this afternoon, so the whole tent was rocking around until the guy ropes went on.

I didn't hang the inner tent, (hadn't time, to be honest) but that seemed to be more straight-forward.
You will be astounded at the sheer space inside the outer tent, though!

If you manage to get everything back inside that carrier bag, you will have done well and you must let me know how?

The Aldi tent is not for "overnight and move on" use, it's not the kind of tent to put up and take down every morning!!

As for the Lidl tent, it seems very similar to one on offer from Argos.
See their Kestrel 3 Person Tent. Argos are charging £40 Sterling (60 Euro) whereas Lidl are just 40 Euro.
The Argos one states clearly that it has an "inner" tent - I'm not sure from the "blurb" if the Lidl one has an inner tent or if it's just one skin.
If it has only one skin, then the Argos might be more waterproof and worth the extra money.

Any idea how waterproof the 3 man Lidl is with it's "Water proof 2cm "water column"??
What is regarded as a reasonable rating?
How does this "2cm water column" rate??

There will be lots of space for your mum, yourself and the two girls.
Have a great weekend, dfarry!

I bought the Aldi inflatable mattresses too, but they are still in their boxes.
Plus some camping chairs at under 10 Euro each.
And the Aldi inflater (I've noticed, however, that it's only for 240V mains power and cannot run from the car, a pity)


I then dropped into LIDL where I picked up a very nice two burner gas stove plus a gas lamp which came with TWO gas cartridges. That offer was in their Irish branches a few weeks back, but some shops may still have them in stock. Very good value.

Many thanks for your explanation of the 2cm water column reference. I now see that the Aldi instructions booklet that comes with the 6 man tent also explains a little about this unit of measurement (see Page 4)

Well then, since you say 1,500mm is considered adequate and the LIDL tent offers 2,000mm, then it looks a better buy than the Argos one.
I'll pick one up on Thursday morning, I can't imagine there being any rush after the spate of tent offers of recent weeks.

If the "summer" rain rises beyond the 2cm water column level in Ireland or the Isle of Man this "summer", I can always escape into the back of my Fiat Marea Weekender and drop the back seats for the night.

And the Aldi inflater (I've noticed, however, that it's only for 240V mains power and cannot run from the car, a pity)

We bought the inflater for the air beds from Aldi there was two versions one for car battery and one for mains..............
We also got a one ring gas cooker from The Range for £12.99 and four small gas bottles for a fiver.........have been told each gas bottle lasts 3hours....
We also seen an electric barbecue for £14.99 at The Range which had been reduced by 25% but they had no stock left..........we left our name and number and they said they will ring us when stock comes in........
Also bought electric cable from camping shop was expensive at £55 but a worthy investment we felt as it has a trip switch on it, it only had one socket on the end but we shoved a four-way extension in for our lighting,mini fridge and tele.......
Admittedly we now have the camping bug!!!