Eurohike Sandringham Review

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Eurohike Sandringham
★★★★☆
3.8
64.0% of users recommend this
  • Easy to erect?

  • Durability

  • Comfort

  • Value For Money

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MartinJP's review of Eurohike Sandringham

“We bought the Eurohilke Sandringham after seeing it in...”

★★★★★

written by MartinJP on 20/08/2007

Good Points
Separate bedroom pods, walk in height living area with plenty of space, choice of entrance options, weather resistance, pole sleeves made of heavy duty material, looks really smart too. Great value for money. Permanent instructions sewn into carry case.

Bad Points
Only supplied with 6" pegs which are no good for soft, wet ground.

General Comments
We bought the Eurohilke Sandringham after seeing it in a Millets showroom and being impressed by its spaciousness. We have just come back from a week in lovely Dorset when we had, unfortunately, mostly foul weather. There was heavy rain and winds on one night strong enough to retire half of the ships taking part in the race from I.O.W. to Plymouth. We were really impressed with the weather resistance of this tent, it didn't leak at all and resisted very strong winds although this was with the aid of 10" pegs bought with the anticipation of the standard 6" ones not being up to it.

We found this tent to be a pleasure to pitch and take down the H/D" pole sleeves really are a boon. Another good point is that the stated berth is realistic, the 2 separate bedrooms will each take a double airbed with a bit of room to spare the clip in bedrooms have D shaped doors with "bathtub" type groundsheet and the usual option of full or flymesh door panel. Another nice touch is the supplied panel of pockets that hangs between the bedrooms.

The living area groundsheet clips in and does leave a small area of ground between it and the tent wall. Overall very pleased and very good value.

  • Value For Money

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Kknott's Response to MartinJP's Review

Written on: 25/06/2008

Martin, we have just bought a Sandringham from Millets so far we've been happy with the price but we've just had a go at a practice pitch and could not get past putting the pins into the poles to erect the flysheet. We managed to get them in one side absolutely fine but for some reason they just would not go in on the other. Are we doing something wrong or just being stupid...do you have any tips for us in pitching this tent as we are new to all this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Axenosher's Response to MartinJP's Review

Written on: 24/08/2009

Just bought the Sandringham - My previous experience of camping being with traditional 2-man tent. If you haven't erected a dome-type tent with pin connections before, you will not be helped much by the Sandringhams sewn-into-the-bag instructions: The small diagram illustrating the pin placement in the end of the pole suggests a snug fit but on mine the pole opening seems to be too large for the pin.
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<br/>Because the instructions lack detail, I have no way of knowing if this is correct or whether there is something missing. Millets do not seem to know.
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<br/>Probably patently obvious to those with dyed-in-the-wool experience of such things - but for this reason I would only buy this tent if you know someone who can advise on its correct assembly.

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Elenana's Response to MartinJP's Review

Written on: 18/08/2008

We bought the Sandringham (latest in green bag) recently and struggled to get the pins into the rods on the second side of tent, we did manage it once but the tent was an odd shape and their was a three inch gap all round. We took the tent back to Milletts and explained the situation, they bought out the previous Sandringham (in a black bag) and compared the lengths of the rods and the new Sandringham rods are two inches longer than the old one - but should be the same size. Milletts are recalling the new Sandringham because of the incorrect rods. We exchanged our Sandringham for the previous one (in a black bag) and put it up easily and in our opinion a far better one, it has two separate bedroom compartments.

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Bettyr's Response to MartinJP's Review

Written on: 22/07/2008

Kknott, we've had the same problem! Just can't get the pins into the flysheet. With sheer brute force eventually managed to get them in, but the tent looked weird and misshapen. Checked colour coding, I'm sure we haven't done anything wrong! It seems like a great tent, I'm so disappointed we can't get the thing up properly.<br/><br/>I wonder if there's a design issue with the newest model of this tent, or if we really are being stupid.<br/><br/>If anyone has any tips on erecting this tent please put us poor, blistered souls out of our misery.

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