The World’s Top 10 Most Amazing Tents
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FULLY BOOKED
Whether you’re a happy camper, a dedicated festival nut, or just the
sort of person who likes to prepare for any eventuality, choosing the
right tent can be a long, bewildering process. So we’ve decided to do it
for you: below you’ll find our list of the 10 most amazing tents under
the sun. From the safest, to the strangest and the most-inventive, we’ve
got everything to keep even the most-alternative camper fully
satisfied…
The World’s Top 10 Most Amazing Tents
Tentsile Stingray suspended tent
10 – Tentsile Stingray Tent
Designed to be suspended above the ground from the branches of trees,
giving the impression of levitation, the Tentsile Stingray is bizarre,
impressive and bizarrely-useful. Ideal for those planning to camp in
bear-country, the tent also looks aesthetically wonderful to boot.
Solar Powered Tent
9 – Orange Solar Tent
It sounds like a prop from a Monsieur Hulot film, but in 2009 Orange
made their solar-powered tent a reality. With a wireless control hub,
internal heating and a strange mechanism that makes the tent glow orange
by simply sending a text (in case you should ever misplace it), the
Orange Solar tent wins both our ‘greenest’ and ‘most unusual’ awards.
Gelert Quick pitch camping tent
8 – Gelert Quickpitch
Are you exceptionally lazy? Is erecting a tent the absolute last
thing you want to be bothered with while camping? Then the Gelert
Quickpitch is for you: simply chuck it on the floor and it self-inflates
in seconds, allowing you to sit back and relax while your friends
struggle to get their regular tent up. Winner of our: ‘best option for
lazy people’ award.
I-gloobox
7 – I-gloobox
Somewhere between an igloo and a puffy football, the i-gloobox is an
easily-constructed super-tent designed to keep you warm in even the
harshest of winters. Perfect for those considering an Arctic trek or
expecting to be caught short in frozen conditions; this offering is
perfect for hardy adventurers and Inuit alike.
Urban Escape Atago 5 Man Tent
6 – Atago 5-man Tent
For those who want to take a house on holiday, the Atago 5-man tent
is easily the best option. Bigger and more-exclusive than even the vast
Colonial tents of Victorian generals, the Atago 5-man could easily fit 5
men and all their friends and relations if it had to. With two separate
‘bunkrooms’, a living-area and a spacious porch, this is for those who
like their home comforts even in the depths of the forest.
The Wedge Tent
5 – The Wedge
Heading somewhere windy? The Wedge is a specially-streamlined tent
designed to divert anything from a light breeze to howling hurricane and
improve your mountaintop survival chances to boot. Possibly the safest
tent to use at altitude, it’s also superbly easy to assemble and
frighteningly durable in most conditions.
FULLY BOOKED
4 – Fully Booked by FieldCandy
A tent shaped like a book? Oh yes, if your primary camping aim is to
proudly display your oddness to the world at large, look no further.
Available in a veritable library of designs, Fully Booked is destined to
be this year’s novelty tent of choice – which may well defeat the point
of owning a novelty tent, but doesn’t detract from its basic
awesomeness.
Crystal Bubble Tent
3 – Bubble Lodge
Not one for those who like throwing stones, the Bubble Tree tent is a
completely transparent, well, bubble designed to house two people in
the great outdoors. Wonderful if you want to enjoy a 360 degree,
unimpeded view of the surrounding countryside; less so if you want to
get undressed or shake the feeling that you’re in a giant alien zoo, the
Bubble Tree nonetheless stands out as the most-iconic of all our
options.
Endemic Synthetic Temporary Shelter
2 – Endemic Synthetic by Strawn.Sierralta
Made from recycled PVC pipes and designed to keep the cool air
flowing even in the heart of the Mojave Desert, this concept-offering
loses points for practicality, but gains them for thinking outside the
box. Displayed only once, in 2004 and then shelved indefinitely, it
nonetheless remains a fine example of the sheer imagination designers
can put into tents.
AUSTRALIA: RETREAT 60 TENT
1 – Retreat 60
Finally, a sturdy all-rounder to end on; the Retreat 60 is compact,
cheap, comfortable and capable of housing up to three people with little
hassle. While it may lack the extravagancies of some of our other
selections, it does the job and does it well: a low-key winner.
