Anyone bought a bell tent recently?

[Wonderstuff]

I am looking, and wondering whether one supplier is much cheaper or delivers more quickly or whatever, ther are so many!

[MinimalistMommi]

SoulPad has great customer service, why don't you give them a ring and ask exactly what they have in stock? I've heard their website isn't always a true reflection as it doesn't update quick enough.

[MummyPigsFatTummy]

The cheapest way of getting a bell tent is to buy it from Obelink in the Netherlands. Unfortunately, due to a restrictive agreement with suppliers over here, they do not ship bell tents to the UK. So to get one, you would either need to take a trip to the Netherlands, or find somewhere in mainland Europe they could ship to and collect it from there (I had them ship an inner tent to a campsite in France which worked well, but you need to agree it with the site first to make sure they will accept delivery).

If that all sounds like too much trouble, also check Canvascamp, who do ship to the UK and might be a bit cheaper than suppliers over here (I am not sure). Otherwise, as MinimalistMommi says, Soulpad have a good reputation. I think Karma Canvas too are quite popular.

[shirazplease]

Another shout for Soulpad, lovely staff v helpful. The tent I wanted was in stock when I ordered (being January and all!) and it literally arrived about 2 days later.

[MinimalistMommi]

Soulpad got my brazier to me in under 24 hrs when I said I needed at ASAP!

[zgaze]

I bought mine at the end of last season to avoid any 2013 price rises, did exhaustive research over many many weeks and ended up with a Soulpad. Zoe at Soulpad is one of the most tolerant helpful customer service people I have ever dealt with, whereas the people at Belltent never replied to a single query. I was tempted by the Karma ones as last years model had a fly sheet inner door thing which the soulpad didn't, but they were out of stock in the end.

[MinimalistMommi]

I have a Soulpad with fly sheet but they stopped doing that design unfortunately.

[Wonderstuff]

Thanks all, we went for soul pad, so excited

[MarthaS]

Baker + Bell do very reasonably priced ones, my sister got one and I can't see any difference with the Soulpad one that we bought last year.

[MinimalistMommi]

Wonder you will love it.
Get a giant groundsheet to make a footprint for underneath it. You will thank me for that tip one day...look in builders section in B&Q you can get one for around a tenner.

[NettleTea]

woo hoo another big YES for SoulPad. they are lovely lovely people