Review of the Week - The Pop Up Gazebo

Now if you take your family camping space can be somewhat at a premium and often you need to take extra smaller tents to fulfil other functions, such as the obvious toilet tent (who likes slogging across a Camp site in the middle of the night to use the loo after all?). Another important consideration is where are you going to eat? A lot of the larger house type tent offer a central room that is spacious enough to put a table and chairs in and have a little kitchen area as well, but sometimes I think it is nice to keep that area as a living space and make a separate dining space outside. After all you have come camping to make the most of the fresh air and outdoor living, so why spend the whole time inside. This is where the Pop up Gazebo comes in!

The Pop up Gazebo is much like other garden Gazebos only much easier to put up and take down, water proof with a built in wind-bar and comes in many lovely sizes and colours. I have shown the images in white, but have also seen it in red, blue, black and green at least. This wonderful invention has 4 sides that you can take on and off very easily allowing you to have it as a wind-shield, a fully enclosed room if the weather does get bad or simply just as a sun shade for safe dining and playing for the kids.

As you can see from the above picture there is no fiddly messing around with poles, one tug from the middle and your Pop up Gazebo is ready for the cover to be put on! It is super easy to put both up and down and would make an ideal extra room for your family camping trip. Coming in sizes from 2x2 metres upwards you can also use this at the local beach or park, as somewhere for everyone to meet for a meal, or drinks. Take all the sides off and pop a kiddies paddling pool underneath in the back garden for a shady place for them to splash about! Even put it up over your own garden hot tub, or make it into an outdoor living space at home, the Pop up Gazebo is extremely versatile and fun!

In this picture you can see the Pop up Gazebo with no side on, showing the guy ropes that give it extra stability in the winds, but it is possible to get very heavy gazebo leg weights to stop if from blowing away if you are pitching it on very hard ground or even on your decking or patio area. It is therefore not only waterproof (shower proof - I wouldn't recommend using one of these as an actual tent, but the kids could cheerfully play in it with all the sides on during a summer shower) but also very wind resistant too.

You even get an extra free wind-bar to clip inside to prevent the canopy turning inside out like an umbrella during especially high winds!

As you can see there are many uses for this great extra room, both while camping and at home. We shall be getting one to use as a kitchen diner while we are camping, a great place to have the portable kitchen and the barbecue, the fold up table and chairs and the washing up area as well! This will leave the middle of the tent free for the inflatable chairs and sofa, fold up coffee table and places to put the stereo and work on the lap tops - nothing like getting away from it all is there? Now all I need to find is a nice reliable energy generator to power all the equipment and we are good to go!

If you have a Pop up Gazebo like this, I would love to hear what you think of it, what you use it for and how often you use it, so feel free to leave a comment!

Happy Camping,

Crystal xxx