What is a luxury tent?

Luxury tents are more what they have not than what really they have.

What do we expect when we think about a luxury tent?

First of all, surely we can agree that we want free space without any obstacle to move freely inside, without any concern... more luxury implies less tent existing where we want to have space enough, i.e., we expect not to find any piece or any element of the tent where we want to find free space. 

We do not refer only to obstacles like poles or guy-ropes but also the tent fabric itself all we like to stand freely without touching with our head the inner ceiling of the tent. Not only in the middle of the tent, but also at the outermost sides of the tent. We like to walk comfortably not to bow more and more as we approach to the tent sides... once again the luxury is not to find the inner fabric of the tent touching our head or obliging us to bow in order to avoid that uncomfortable touch.

The same happens for the outer space of the tent. When we think about free space we want to have a free space without any obstacle. Nothing to disturb our free walk around the tent... again more luxury means less tent elements in our path.






What about the light?

For me, this is the second luxurious feature. We want to be able to see easily inside the tent. Many of them are as dark as a coal mine and it is not possible to see anything inside without a lamp even at the middle of the most sunny day. To have luminosity inside, again, the tent need not to be. Not to have thick fabrics that don't allow light inside. Best tent is the one that disturb less the daylight coming inside at the same time that avoids sun blinding.

And then, have you thought about odor?

Of course!, if I am inside a luxury tent I want not any annoying smell, I really want this another "not have" in my tent. But unfortunately the majority of the tents are very badly ventilated so they keep inside the body odor of the users mixed with the reheated synthetic fabrics odor or with the wet fabrics odor. Something that for sure is going to disturb our stay in that tent.

This is for me the third important feature of the luxury.

I could continue with a lot of characteristic aspects of a luxury tent, but I will finish with a fourth feature. The thermal isolation, something very rare to find in a tent. Again something we expect a tent not to have, we do consider a luxury tent that one that has not a good thermal transmission because that means the heat outside is coming inside as hot as it is and the same happens for the cold.

To summarize, what we expect for a luxury tent not to have:

- obstacles inside, in front of our path or above us neither obstacles outside
- obstacles for the outer daylight coming in
- odors
- good thermal transmission

If we say that in positive we expect for a luxury tent to be:

- spacious inside and able to be standing up without the need of guy ropes
- fabrics that allow the daylight inside
- well ventilated
- thermally isolated

and we expect all that features to be found together!!

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Ricardo Benítez Robredo

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Still time for Glamping?

Are the glamping tents comfortable enough for users?

No vacations past summer, too much work, short money.

Finally I decided to have a rest, what to do? Glamping!

I think this is a really enjoyable way for spending few days away. First, to fit the standard, then, to find the place.


Fitting the standard


Not so easy, maybe I fixed a very high standard, but I wnted to have room enough inside the tent for being able of keeping my erect position, being able to stand up and move freely inside the tent, not so easy.

Then I reject any place where I couldn't walk around my tent without obstacles, really difficult! Why so many tents still use old fashion guy ropes? Haven't we learned anything new since Roman era?

But those two seemed to me very easy requisites after trying to find a place where tents were at list a bit thermally isolated, very hard task!!, so difficult to find any! The point should be to have two separeted layers which can keep an air chamber in between capable of reducing the thermal transmission.

Is all that to much to ask for?

Finally I found what I was looking for www.ctents.com

Find the place


Once you have found the right glamping tent, then you know that any place where a tent like this is located must be a place pleasent enough to spend some unforgotable holidays.


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Glamping, a new old concept? Which features are more interesting?

Are glamping something new we have just discovered?

Glamping is not something so new as many people think. Maybe the name yes, but not the concept.

The tent is an old invention that was already used in the ancient Egypt and the Roman or Persian empires. And we shouldn't forget that the nobles, emperors or kings wanted to have a good comfort standard in their homes even if for a great part of their lifetime their homes were no the big palaces they built, some of which still remain for the joy of visitors, but just a portable one: Their tent.

Those tents were plenty of luxury and still today in the colective inconscient remains the remembering of such a luxurious places to stay anywhere they needed to be.

To me, the glamping appears to be a glamurous way of trying to imitate these powerful rulers of the ancient world but at a lower scale. The mankind has always been attracted by nature and has always tried to have a safe way to live as near as possible of it without disturbing it or, at least, with the minimun altering of it.

Modern society has got conscious of the necessity of protecting nature as much as we can and to preserve it, making our path through the Earth something without footprint. Even if we know this is not going to be possible we try to approach this idea.

Glamping reveals itself as a means of spending some days of vacations that nearly comply those conditions: To stay at nature, in a luxurious temporary home, without altering nature too much and without leaving, as much as it is possible, our footprint there.

To achieve all that, we cannot do it like those ancient emperors did, count with an army of slaves who prepared their tents with all the comfort standard that they expected to have, without thinking about the cost, the weight or the time to erect the tent.

Nowadays, if we want to offer an unforgetable glamping stay to our customers, we cannot do it at any cost. It is important to offer the best at the best price, and to be able of amortize our investment at the minimun possible period of time. Now we have to look for the compromise between cost and benefit.

What about if we had a glamping tent that could just be put over the soil, without the need of attaching it by pegs to the ground? What if we could displace it from the place we erected it, because we discover that the position in the soil, to the sun, to the dominant winds or just the view have been not well chosen and we would like to reorient the position of the tent? Could be interesting to be able to move the tent around without disassembling it, avoiding in this way a double work?

Is it something we expect, to need a small army of workers to assembly our glamping tents and to waste time looking for small pieces that can get lost easily? What about if our glamping tents could be assembled in few minutes with a reduced number of persons?, and what if their pieces were big enough not to get lost easily?

In my next post, I will suggest some indicators to consider, in order to obtain a good ROI (Return of Investment) of your investment in glamping tents .

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