But you want to know what it was like when we stayed put. Fairly civilised, in short. The tent comes with a comfortable mattress, and there are a couple of zip-close windows – and a small rain canopy, which as it were in north Wales was well used.
The obvious point of difference from an ordinary tent, though, is access, since this shelter is not pitched next to your car, but lives on top of it… So how do you get in and out? The answer is via a ladder, of course, part of the essential kit provided. Quite a fiddly ladder, in fact, as each rung needs to lock in place to use it and I never managed to get that right first time.
Once installed, though, sleeping in the lofty spot proved warm and comfortable, but there was a slight slope to it. This meant on the first night that I kept rolling over, against the small storage net in the side where the car’s key fob was and I kept unlocking the car, which, of course, turned on the headlights. Eventually, I threw the keys to my wife in the tent pitched alongside. Another solution might have been to park the car on a slight slope to compensate for the slope in the tent… but this was camping, and putting up with minor inconveniences is part of the process.
