Robens HydroTex® Polycotton
Most tents are made from 100% polyester. This material is highly waterproof, which helps keep your tent dry.
Unfortunately, a tight-weave 100% polyester material isn’t breathable.
That’s the differents with a tent made from Robens HydroTex® Polycotton, a modern twist on the traditional canvas tent material.
It’s made with a tight-weave fabric that’s treated with a water repellant and UV-inhibitor.
Unlike polyester, the weave isn’t 100% waterproof. Wait! Doesn’t that mean my tent will leak!?! Well, no – not after weathering at least.
As the fibres get wet, they naturally expand to fill the holes and then dry back into their new shape. When you get a new tent with Robens HydroTex® Polycotton, it’s important to spray the hose on it or leave it out in the rain and let it dry.
You will then have a tent that feels traditional (but not as heavy as traditional canvas), that helps keep the tent cooler in the summer months and warmer in the winter months compared to a 100% polyester tent.
Robens HydroTex® Polycotton (Image credit: Robens)
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- Traditional yet high-tech.
- Simple to pitch and not bulky to get to the campsite.
- Ready for a tent stove.
- Plenty of space.
- If you need bedrooms, these are extra.
- A beautiful tent that's different to what you normally see.
- A blend of tradition and modern, with the use of Polycotton and Aluminium.
- You can fit a stove flue, without needing to cut a hole in your tent.
- Easy to pitch.
- Flexible use with the front that opens up.
- This style of tent is not for everyone, such as the lack of inner tent as standard. If you do get the inner tent, you cannot use a stove in the tent.
- The Robens Prospector is a large canvas tent that comes ready to use with a camping stove.
- It's very heavy and a small step ladder is recommended to help get it pitched.
- A fast-to-pitch large tent that you can use a wood burning stove in :-)
- A strong gust of wind took the tent down before I had finished pitching it and we lost a few groundsheet anchors in the process, but otherwise, the quality of this tent has been very good.