I am preparing for our annual Christmas camping holiday and remembering the good times we have had with our family touring tent which we bought from you 4 years ago. We have taken it to Western Australia and back and could put that tent up in 2 minutes while others in the camping ground struggled with their tents, which were the same size as ours.
Last year we had Christmas near Cooma at the Tuross Falls. The rain bucketed down. Fortunately we had also bought the tarpaulin made from the tent material and this provided an outside room. We sat under there for hours and not a drop came through. My sister who also has a Freedom tent went to check that the baby was OK and realised the tent was sitting in 4 inches of water. She said it was like a waterbed. We dug trenches but the tent remained dry despite sitting in the middle of a small stream. The next morning we spoke to the others at the campsite. They all left as the rain had come through their tents.
We moved on to camp below Thredbo on Mt Kosciusko. The camping ground was almost full. We pitched our tent well that night because it looked like rain. We slept like logs and didn't get up until 11.00am. When we climbed out of the tent we saw that the camping ground had totally emptied. Our tent and a small hiking tent were the only ones left. We spoke to a family with 4 kids who had had to abandon their tent in the middle of the night and move into the hotel at Thredbo. Everything in their tent was drenched and they stayed in the hotel for days as their tent and belongings dried out.
It is a great tent, it's so easy to put up, it breathes and it is very sturdy, and because we got the slightly bigger one we can put all our belongings inside if we need to. So thanks for our tent we really enjoy it. Have a great Christmas.
