I'm 6'6" and I'm looking for a really sweet tent that I can actually truly stand up in. Ideally I'd love something with a nice screen room or at least a decent fly vestibule or add on vestibule. And I don't really rough it when I go camping and normally have a queen air mattress with me so the footprint should support that. This would be entirely car camping so weight isn't really an issue. I don't do winter extreme camping so 3 season is more than fine; hell if it wasn't for the unexpected if I had my druthers I wouldn't even camp in the rain.
Normally camping it would be two couples or myself and my two sons (8 & 6) but I definitely want spacious not cozy and 2 rooms though not absolutely mandatory if everything else was perfect is highly desirable and I'm not sure I could imagine a perfect tent without it.
Right now I have an Eddie Bauer tent I bought from target for a couple hundred dollars maybe 7 years back, it's a rectangular tent probably designed for 8 or 12 people with a zipper divider down the middle and very high ceiling (maybe 7 feet? Or more?). It's been a great tent for my needs (except the screen room part) but it's getting a little long in the tooth even with relatively minor usage (1-2 times a year) and though it sets up/breaks down fairly easily I have to imagine newer/nicer tents are even easier/quicker.
I recently borrowed my friends marmot halo 6p and it was nice but even in it I couldn't truly stand up. With a peak height of 6'3" and that only in the very center I was basically hunched over or kneeling the entire time in the tent. And to be honest I was actually really disappointed in the bag it came with; I'm guessing it was chosen for weight/backpacking but it was just a very sheer almost fly material simple bag with a drawstring that required a herculean folding effort to get the entire tent back into. My Eddie Bauer has a nice canvas bag with handles that fits the tent easily even disassembled 2 days into a festival drunk.
I don't want to say money is no object but I'm really looking for an impressive tent. I've moved to Florida and there are a number of music festivals with camping I plan on attending in the next few months and I'd love to be the guy that has "that tent" that everyone wants to hang out in because it's so sweet.
Thanks in advance for any feedback you can provide.
Normally camping it would be two couples or myself and my two sons (8 & 6) but I definitely want spacious not cozy and 2 rooms though not absolutely mandatory if everything else was perfect is highly desirable and I'm not sure I could imagine a perfect tent without it.
Right now I have an Eddie Bauer tent I bought from target for a couple hundred dollars maybe 7 years back, it's a rectangular tent probably designed for 8 or 12 people with a zipper divider down the middle and very high ceiling (maybe 7 feet? Or more?). It's been a great tent for my needs (except the screen room part) but it's getting a little long in the tooth even with relatively minor usage (1-2 times a year) and though it sets up/breaks down fairly easily I have to imagine newer/nicer tents are even easier/quicker.
I recently borrowed my friends marmot halo 6p and it was nice but even in it I couldn't truly stand up. With a peak height of 6'3" and that only in the very center I was basically hunched over or kneeling the entire time in the tent. And to be honest I was actually really disappointed in the bag it came with; I'm guessing it was chosen for weight/backpacking but it was just a very sheer almost fly material simple bag with a drawstring that required a herculean folding effort to get the entire tent back into. My Eddie Bauer has a nice canvas bag with handles that fits the tent easily even disassembled 2 days into a festival drunk.
I don't want to say money is no object but I'm really looking for an impressive tent. I've moved to Florida and there are a number of music festivals with camping I plan on attending in the next few months and I'd love to be the guy that has "that tent" that everyone wants to hang out in because it's so sweet.
Thanks in advance for any feedback you can provide.
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