How about combining golf and glamping?

Enjoying a glamping wedding at a golf resort is something I recommend



Yesterday I was fortunate to be invited to a memorable wedding that was held at a nice golf course by the sea with a spectacular view to the mountains.

The originality of this wedding was given by the fact thar the ceremony and the wedding party were held inside a capacious glamping tent placed on the training court what I consider a very smart idea. By using the training area the golfcourse was preserverd from any damage, while the guests to the wedding could enjoy a nice time  in that wonderful surroundings, something very different from the more traditional and common experience of participating in a weeding held inside the golf club building,



The wedding celebrated inside the glamping tents is something completely different because of the feeling of closeness to nature while celebrating the wedding.

Thinking on the nice time we had there I realized the new possibilities that open for a golf court by taking advantage of the natural spaces availables in order to use them for celebrations like weddings or other kind of events, thanks to the use of big glamping tents that create a special environment, is all what you need to enjoy a relaxing experience and to recharge the batteries at the same time you create some new memories for your family book.

I will recommend to my family and friends holding their forthcoming celebrations in a site like this and to the organizers to select the right tents that incorporate suitable thermal isolation for the improve guests’ comfort.

Canadian Rockies seen through the painter’s eyes

A Tent in the Rockies

The Rocky Mountains of Canada, Canadian Rockies, or just The Rockies, are defined in the vacation guide produced by some locals and the national parks in Canada’s Rocky Mountains website as “a vast land – filled with inspiring scenery, wildlife, a multitude of recreational activities for all ages and a lot of unique opportunities that only the people who live in this area know about”.

This remote area for many of us could have remain undiscovered if John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925) hadn’t painted his famous watercolor A Tent in the Rockies.

The traces of pencil can be discovered in the folds of the tent’s opening as Sargent used to lay out his overall compositions in many of his watercolors with careful pencil drawings.

The strong influence of his friend Claude Monet, the famous Impressionist French painter,  can be easily noticed in his brush in mixing colors and fresh beauty of a naturalism, lively mark-making, and a sense of immediacy of this nice painting. Sargent loved working “en plein air”, out of doors, as his friend and many others Impressionists did, trying to capture the fleeting moments of light and colors of nature.




Although born in Florence, CA, US, to wealthy American parents, he studied painting in France, where he enjoyed both critical acclaim and important patronage. He is considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation". He created roguhly 3,000 works mainly watercolors but also oil paintings.

He can be considered also as a precursor of modern tourism in the wild movement and modern glamping tourism trend.

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Happily not a forest fire but a scenical sunset

We can enjoy nature without harming it

One of the things I used to fear most while going out camping in the
wild was that a forest fire might occur. This is the reason because I
was always very aware and also enourage others to be. If I ever made
a camp fire I always did it in authorized places and I made sure that
the fire was completly extinguished before leaving the site even
pouring water over it till it was completely over and, of course,
leaving the place clean specially of any cristal bottle that could
easily set a fire when the sunbeams pass through it in a hot day
and a dry ambience.

Unfortunately I
have witnessed
several forest fires
along my life and
have seen how the
power of the
flames is really incredible and how a small fire can become a big
forest fire, while people have to be evcuated from a hospital or from
their homes without knowing if they are going to be able to return back or
if they will find only asses where their homes had been before. The
worst is the dark scenery after the fire has happened, the dead nature and
burnt trees, all that willdness that had been there for years or centuries
before, of course the fauna will take many years to return to live there
again in the best case or will never return.

Now it is not so easy to set a camp fire as it was twenty or thirty years before
and I understand that, because it is necessary that each one of us preserve
the nature in order to future generations can also enjoy it and the natural
balance is preserved.

I do not set camp fires any more, but I don’t mind. Now I go glamping
instead of going free camping. I have eliminated my own risk of starting
a forest fire. It is not only safer but more comfortable and it allows me
also to enjoy nature and discover remote places where I can enjoy
magnificient sunsets in the wild, lilke this one, being unconcerned
because I know this time is not a forest fire but a view offered by the
sun and the clouds at the end of a glamping day.

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7 key factors which define a luxury glamping tent

What a customer expects when buying a tent

My partner Emilio and me were a day in the office, more than 8 years ago, seated at a table with a blank paper on it and then started to think how our new tent should be.

We decided that the time had come for making a complete redesign of the ancient fashion tent concept.

First of all we tried to think as a normal user should do, what would be interesting and what not, what the tents in the market up to date didn’t have and why not. After a few months of a lot of reflexion, discussions, drafts and test pieces, we concluded that a user would expect from a tent same few and simple things, simple as a concept but, as we realized during next eigth years, what was not simple at all was to make them happend.

We conclude the user’s whising list would be something like is:

1) Easines of use: (easy transport and easy and quick assembly, easy opening to enter in and easy closing from inside or outside and minimum work to do, if any, for maintenance during either use or storage.

2) Comfortable: wide interior, luminous, views to the oudside, space enough to move around and for an adult to stand fully upright in most of its surface, no leakages under rain or after it.

3) Durable & robust: top quality materials for structure and fabrics, in order to reach a maximized lifespan; strong under adverse weather conditions, shape kept after a wind stroke, a hail storm or a snowfall.

4) Thermal isolation: reduced temperature in summer, warmer in winter, easy to heat, easy to cool, integrated systems in order to reduce visual impact.

5) Clean & safe: avoiding the mud, water, dust or sand to enter inside, easy to clean, free of insects or bugs, fresh air inside, no obstacles either inside (no poles in the middle of the cabin area) or around (no guy-lines to keep the tent shape or the fabrics tight).

6) Versatile: for semi/permanent or mobile use, adequate for any kind of terrain or soil, wide variety of sizes and accesories, easy to personalize.

7) Design: not feeling like the last row soldier inside his tent and being pride of its nice design in order to make nice pics and show off them on facebook, instagram or other social networks, a design that differentiates from any other in the market.

The truth is that while working in our tent project, that we called Ctents, we discovered that the high quality of the materials, the tons of hours of desing, the exquisite handcraft and very specilized team requiered made our tent not a simple one but a luxury tent, so we decided to focus in luxury glamping tent market where Ctents can be easily amortized, even so, we are ready to supply our tents for other uses where their extraordinary quality/price relationship is appreciated by the clients.

Along the incoming weeks I will discover some of the solutions we adopted in order to meet each of these client’s requirements.


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Going glamping may bring you close to nature, and to wild boars!

One more reason why I consider glamping

a relaxing activity

Yesterday I had the opportunity to observe very closely a family of wild boars. It was quite 

funny to see the squeakers trying to suck from their mother while she kept walking and the 

squeakers kept going after her as in a hunting chase where the wolves were the squeakers 

instead and the hunting piece their mum, not trying to eat at her this time but just her tasty milk.

I had a really good time in the company of my wife, her daughter and son in law and our two 

grandchildren that for sure were who most enjoyed the scene.

It is incredible how you can stay looking at them for so a long time, we could have spent 

hours there if the children wouldn’t get hungry. Probably the view of the squeakers finally 

reaching her tired mum who chose to lie down in order to allow her small herd to reach their 

prize, also made them hungry and we had to go back to our glamping tent where we all could 

rest and have our deserved dinner after our relaxing visual hunting day of wild videos
and photos.

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Do’s and don’ts in buying a luxury glamping tent

5 Tips for choosing the right luxury glamping tent

Is there any issue you should be specially aware when buying a luxury glamping tent for your glamping resort?

First impulse when you are thinking on starting a glamping business is to choose a tent design you like either becuase you have seen it in some glamping resort you stayed or because you have seen in a glamping magazine or in a website and it looks nice to you. Then you start to imagine how your future glampsite would look like; then you begin to look for suppliers, usually most popular ones and they easily convince you to save money and reduce the investment amount you are willing to spend, in order to make your business as much profitable as you can. But is this the right approach?

When you are planning to start a glamping business, to extend your current glampsite or to susbtitute your current not very comfortable glamping tents, you should consider something easy to say but difficult to reach, to have the customer needs on mind. What does a client need? first of all you cannot speak about luxury glamping if your tent present leakages when the rain falls, or if the tent is surrounded by dangerous obstacles as the guy-lines many tent have are. Also the tent should be protected against annoying visitors like insects or bugs with with mosquito nets in the holes and with a groundsheet that seals the inner room at bottom of the tent.

A client that is going to spend some holidays in a glamping tent would like to have an inner temperature smoother than outdoors, either in summer or in winter, something that is not really possible if the tent has not the right isolation system, of course the client would like to enjoy all that being able to stay upright inside the tent.

Remember “customer first”, think on customer and select a tent model that include all these features to ensure the users’ comfort. To invest the right money in customer satisfaction always pays off.

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Going glamping to a luxury hotel terrace?

The ultimate and most cool, going glamping in the center of the city

The latest trend followed by  Chicago’s, Denver’s, Los Angeles’, and other cities’ most luxury hotels is to diffrentiate their offer by including under sky terrace rooms in a glamping style where the traditional room has been substituted by a tent and the guest can experience an “urban glamping experience” on the most upper terrace of the hotel and enjoying the city skyline view under the stars. 

Glamping is a movement that arised in order to avoid the inconvinience of having to set up a tent when you want to enjoy nature while lodging in a comfortable tent, similar to those that ancient kings used to have or similar to those we have in mind when thinking about safaris in Africa. Luxury glamping resorts around the world have usually been placed at most attractive sites in order to offer guests a nice view and a calm stay.b Now these luxury hotels have found an innovative way of combining the best of the city with the best of glamping concept.

The hotels include with these kind of tent-rooms comfortable outer living rooms and special guest welcome packages as most expensive champaign brands.

These new urban glampings allow most luxuty hotels to make their terraces profitable and extend their offer with a new urban glamping concept only for their privileged customers who can afford it.

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Glamping with Ctents, a customer's view

Several steps ahead

Our customers are always several steps ahead of us in generating ideas of how to use our luxury glamping tents, Ctents, to create unique spaces where to relax and enjoy a deserved resting time.

This is the recreation of a resort which is being designed by a client for a tourist glamping resort in a Mexico’s island. Every tent has its own terrace where to have a drink or a siesta in a hanging hammock under the shadow of a wooden pergola.

Glamping is a growing business for a more demanding public who prefer to spend their holidays in a natural environment. Luxury has not to be something incompatible with nature.

As the first travellers into Africa did when they took into the middle of the savannah most of the luxury they could find at a nice hotel, nowadays glamping trend has made us to discover how to enjoy the luxury inside a big size tent that allows for an adult to stand fully upright and move freely without any obstacle inside or around and that is fully waterproof.

A luxury glamping tent with a kingsize bed and a wardrobe inside and with a cover terrace outside, either by the tent porch or by a custom made terrace as the one of our friends in Mexico is the best place for relaxing this summer or even to enjoy along the whole year.

Maloca Glamping open its doors with Ctents

Three Ctents have been used in this fantastic new resort

Last weekend Maloca Glamping - a new glamping resort at Guasca, Colombia - opened its doors to offer to the local and foreign public a place to stay and have an encounter with nature and with themselves.

The owners of the glamping have selected Ctents as the luxury glamping tents to equipe their resort.

They have been very careful with the environment and very respectful to the nature and they have accomplished a very attractive tourist development, completely integrated in the middle of the forest.

The three Ctents used are of model Ctents Easy Porch 450 of 10 m2. They have been installed on wodden platforms that include a nice terrace, from where to have a spectacular view of the sorrounding valley.

At the glamping site, a full service is offered, with a nice restaurant where the selected clients can have a nice dinner or lunch and they can also to have their breakfast served at their tents.

Ctents have a PVC flysheet separated about 30 cm from the inner body which protects the users against rain and keep the tent always dry inside. This configuration is ideal for the rainy place where Maloca is located.

Other impressive achievement for this fantastic resort has been the ability of their owners to develop the complete resort, from the idea in their minds to the full opening to the public, in just six months.

When night falls, a new extraordinary experience begins under the stars.

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Ctents in "LUXURY rich & famous"

An article on Ctents has just been published in "LUXURY rich & famous", the only magazine on luxury  in Romania.

The issue, corresponding to May '17, has been just released this week .

If you do not master Romanian, don't mind, find translation of the article below.

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Glamping wedding, have a great time!

How to choose the best tents to have a great glamping wedding?

Glamping wedding at lake

The human beings who lives in cities needs to recover contact with nature. This is one of the powerful reasons that are increasingly driving glamping around the world, and one of its trends, after the luxury resorts and tented music festivals with glamping areas, are glamping weddings.

Glamping wedding at the beach

It is an unstoppable trend that disrupts wedding celebrations, in which the banquet and disco had a traditional role, and at the same time begin to recover, without realizing that, the oldest tradition in which guests to the wedding spent several spare days celebrating with the bride and groom.

Glamping weddings consist of this, camping in nature, but now without giving up the comfort of a hotel accommodation.

Glamping wedding at night

This form of celebration in which the guests are housed in a tent at an attractive natural environment, allows a return to the campfire that always stimulates the lively conversations, shared experiences and  music, and facilitates the relationship between the attendees.

The glamping weddings are getting more and more presence among the preferences of the brides and grooms and therefore are emerging more and more companies offering this type of service.

Glamping suite for bride and groom

If you are thinking of organizing a glamping wedding, there are some details that you should take into account in order to make the experience of your relatives, friends and guests a memorable experience in which unforeseen accidents that coul ruin your wedding cannot arise and the comfort of the accommodation is an element of an unforgettable experience.

In all the weddings, it is quite normal for some of the guests to drink some more alcohol than it would be advisable, which leads to a less balance control, so, it is essential not to incorporate obstacles in the space destined to the celebration that could cause accidents.

Glamping wedding, family accomodation

It is well known that most tents on the market need guy ropes to keep them firmly in place. The ropes represent a double obstacle, on the one hand, it is a thin rope tramp that crosses the surrounding space around the tents, and on the other, the pegs are elements where easyly step on, if not enough attention is given, either due to distractions or to the effects of alcohol, or to both together, the fall is assured, which can turn a memorable happy celebration into a bad memory.

Glamping wedding at the forest

In addition, for the guests’ comfort, who are going to have to change their dresses during the time of celebration, what they are going to do in the interior of their glamping tents, it is imperative that the tents have the sufficient height, so that it is possible to stand in them with comfort and to move freely, without obstacles inside, so that one can feel at home, or as in the best hotel room.

Finally, a key element for the comfort of the guests is the inner temperature, always lower at night and higher in the sunlight, sometimes in excess. To achieve this, it is imperative that the chosen tents have an effective thermal insulation system that reduces the inner temperature in the summer and allows a more pleasant inner temperature during the night.

Glamping comfort at nature

To achieve a glamping wedding that all guests remember in an unforgettable way it is a must to choose high quality glamping tents that offer all these characteristics: free of obstacles inside and around, inner amplitude that allows to move freely with comfort and thermal isolation.

by Ricardo Benítez Robredo

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What to expect from a luxury glamping tent?

Craftsmanship and luxury glamping tents, something that shouldn't go separated.
When we think of luxury products we usually think of products that have been developed with care by experienced artisans, of stories of fine craftsmanship, of products which have been produced with time enough, with no hurries, products that can stand for many years to come, that can be distinguished by its high quality and that will differentiate their owners and give them a touch of distinction.

When we hear talk about luxury glamping tents it is becoming more and more common to find that quite a lot of standard tents are considered to be luxury tents only for their inner decoration or the site where they have been set up. 

But, as it happens with a luxury home, a luxury yacht or a luxury car, a standard tent can hardly be considered a luxury one, because it is not only about a fine decoration issue, it is also important to find the signs of luxury in every corner and detail of the tent.

ERebull, the  manufacturer of luxury glamping tents Ctents, has brought together several disciplines in order to produce a final product that can be appreciated for its high quality.

First of all the industrial design, Emilio Rebull who studied architecture in Canada, is the designer of Ctents. He has been working in industrial design and architecture for more than thirty years and has put to work all his knowledge on Ctents design.

The company has brought together a group of skilled workers and artisanal workshops specialized in sewing, and metal and fiberglass works like cutting, folding, mechanizing or welding.

Also the Ctents team has make a thorough selection of the materials used in the tents: fabrics, zippers, fiberglass, steel and every single component needed to produce the tent.

A care hand work, piece by piece, allows to reach the highest standards in each detail.

The result: a glamping luxury tent that can stand firmly adverse weather conditions, hundreds of assembly/dissasembly operations and last for years.

Every unit is checked before it is shipped to the customer and the experience of the clients is analized carefully in order to continuosly improve the tents design and performance.

Every detail has been thought having in mind the user's comfort; pieces that are strong and robust enough and that have been made with care and, of course, have been well designed.

A highly experienced team of craftspersons put their wisdom in every detail to reach the highest quality, so clients can be satisfied because they really get what they are paying for.

Find more at www.ctents.com and join now the exclusive club of Ctents owners.

by Ricardo Benítez Robredo

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Costs reduction for mobile safari owners

With the appropiate tent, the costs for organizing a mobile safari tented camp can be significantly reduced.

Mobile safaris are at top of luxury personalized tourism offers.

But to set up a tented camp in the middle of the African bush, 400 or 500 km away from nearest village is not an easy job.

Usually, the best lodging solution you can offer to your guests at the mobile camp involves more people having to work for preparing the camp as you want to offer a better quality experience. 

Do you want to offer them a wide space inside nice tents for them feeling really comfortable? 

 Then, if you use traditional tents, you have to think on heavier and more difficult to set up tents than if you just want to offer to your guests a place where to sleep inside with minimum space needed. And if your tents have to use guy ropes then your guest will not feel as much comfortable as they could because they will have to be aware the guy ropes to avoid running into them and falling down at night while walking around the tents.

As more people you need to transport and set up the tented camp, more food and more vehicle space are needed, not only for the staff but also to carry the usual heavy tents - what implies more fuel costs –. But these are not the most costly issues, you also will have to pay for your staff personnel entering the national parks or natural reserves. So, it seems to be clear that reducing the number of persons per square meter needed for setting up the tents and the time for assembly/disassembly them, can be valuable enough and can payback fast.

The reduction of setting up and down time, can leave more time to the staff to prepare all the other services for the guests, so they will be able to devote their time to the other issues of the service more easily appreciated by the clients, like dinner or lining, while keeping your staff untired for these other tasks.

But, is it possible to find tents that can offer a wide space inside while being lightweight and can be assembled/disassembled in a short period of time?

These features and more are now offered by newly designed Ctents. 

Mobile safari owners can enjoy now: walk-in solution mosquito net protected, with a wide space inside, incredibly fast assembly/disasembly time, fewer staff per square meter needed to set up or down the mobile tented safari camp, reduced transport space and weight, the possibility to be set up the tents on any terrain without any tool needed; all that, while offering a robust structure and a comfortable space. Also there is an added advantage: as Ctents are modular, several of them can be joined together to offer a wider space to guests and to prepare a large enough dinning room or other facilities for them.

Mobile safari owners will not have to decide anymore about the balance between comfort and the ability to pack the camp into a truck, camel or mule train and move to a new camp location, thanks to Ctents exclusive structural system. 

Just in case you decide the guest have to set up the tents, the easy "color coded" and "just by hand" assembñly system can be used as a funny competition game between them.

By using these new generation tents, you can offer to your clients one step ahead in your mobile safari service while making it easier to go deeper into the African bush and to follow the migratory herds on their annual journey through the different wild open spaces or to travel with the natural flow of the wildebeest.

Visit our website www.ctents.com now and choose your model, size and preferred colour.

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