I put the
£20 £12.99 Aldi tent up tonight, and wasn't impressed. I have one of the Argos one-man tents from a few years ago, and I suppose I was expecting a green version of that.
The Aldi tent has a fibreglass pole with steel ferrules and steel wire pegs, whereas the Argos one has Aluminium alloy poles and pegs.
The Aldi tent has a 'noisy, crumply' tarp style groundsheet, whereas the Argos one has a more 'rubbery' groundsheet.
The Aldi tent's inner is a coffin shaped groundsheet with, mostly mosquito net walls.
The main problem I have with the Aldi tent is the size. Lying in it flat on my back, my feet touched the inner and the inner sagged down at the head end almost touching my face. I think I need to do the tensioning mod for the head end shown in the second video that Nikki posted.
Being so small (the tent - not me), I find the entrance on the side is difficult to access.
This tent, sort of fills the gap between 'tarp bivi-ing' and a proper tent...
...if there is such a gap.
The only thing the Aldi tent beats the Argos tent on is lack of orangeness-ness.
