Inside the tent, with my huge camp bed sticking out of the bedroom compartment On one trip it poured heavily all night, and after a good 9 hours of non-stop rain, I awoke to find a small pool of water inside the tent, just to the left of the door, at the base of the middle AirBeam, shown below. Left: bedroom door neatly stowed away Right: Storage pockets in the bedroom 4 would be possible, but it would be a very tight squeeze indeed. Impressive though that feat was, it’s really designed to be used with an air mattress or SIMs, and will comfortably sleep 2-3 adults. On a solo camping trip to Snowdonia where I knew I was going to be out all day hiking and wanted comfort above anything else, I even managed to get my enormous folding camp bed inside the tent! Sleeping compartment with a single standard SIM inside The pictures below show the sleeping compartment with a single standard SIM inside sideways and lengthways to give you an idea of size/space. I’ve been on three camping trips so far in this tent and each time I’ve had a slightly different configuration. There’s the usual Vango storm tensioning straps inside the tent, multiple lantern hanging points as well as storage pockets inside the bedroom area and the bedroom door stows neatly away when not in use. There’s just one door on the tent on the left side, and we did note a distinct lack of bug mesh, which meant that in use, we had to keep the door closed most of the time, and were thankful we had our Insect-o-cutor bug zapper with us.Ĭlipped in groundsheet, one of the lantern hanging points and finally the gaps across the bottom of the doorĪt the front of the tent there is a good ventilation panel and again, at the rear of the tent, if you guy it out, it opens up some additional bedroom ventilation. The bedroom compartment is already clipped in, as is the clip in groundsheet that covers the front section of the tent, however this can easily be removed, if for some reason you didn’t want to use it. The first time of pitching was a little confusing, largely down to the fact the Skye Air II doesn’t have fully sewn-in groundsheets, so finding the base shape of the tent left me momentarily bamboozled, but thankfully, as soon as you pump up the beams (which takes about 30 seconds per beam) the tent pretty much pops into shape making it obvious and far easier to continue pegging down. If you’re guying it out fully and you’re doing it alone, you’ll still be fully pitched in under 10 minutes. Weather conditions were good for my first pitch, so I didn’t use every guy rope, and it took me about 5 minutes to pitch solo. The Skye Air II goes up just like any other AirBeam tent, I tend to roll the tent out, roughly peg it out at the corners, inflate the AirBeams, then finish the process of pegging out and guying. Sleeping compartment shown with my big folding camp bed inside on a solo trip Pitching the tent

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