Testimonials

Now then, we SoulPadders here at SoulPad HQ don't like to blow our own trumpets (much!), but we figured if folks are prepared to take the time to write in with praise, then we should at least acknowledge that praise by publishing some of it on the SoulPad website. So here's a sample, in no particular order. Our thanks to all of you who have taken the time to write so far. Please don't be offended if your message is not included, we didn't want to make this section too long (s'true!)

Attached is a photo of one of your tents, at our place in the mountains of S.W. France. We had about 20 adults (all family) staying in the house,and our combined children (9)in your tent! They loved it - the tent was cool during the heat of the day, and warm enough during the mountain nights... thanks!

Ben

Just wanted to let you know that we absolutely LOVE the SoulPad! It was minus 3 degrees on New Years Eve and we all sat in the tent in t-shirts, toasty warm with the blaze stove! It was brilliant - all our friends want one, and we're now looking forward to a year of excellent camping and festival fun! Thank you and Happy New Year!

Jon

Dudes - One SoulPad received this afternoon. Wickedness! Thanks for getting it to me it was very fast delivery across the open seas. Now I have something to write home about, and be the envy of the festival crowds. Thanks again

Ray

Thank you so much for helping My Dear Lady Wife, Lucy get me a wondrous SoulPad. I put it up in the garden literally minutes after unwrapping it. One of the best Birthday presents ever! Even at 43! As a family, we look forward to taking our SoulPad to all sorts of different destinations. Once again thank you for Kind attention and efficient service.

Mark

The Tribe arrived today - fantastic service. We had it up in 15 minutes - it is huge, beyond our imagination! And it has a sewn in groundsheet which we had not picked up from blurb - excellent. Everyone is now very enthusiastic about going camping again this year - although it is going to be the maddest tent on most of the sites we go to! And to think we nearly bought a tentipi for three times as much!!!!

Bob

We just tried out our shiny new SoulPad 5000-lite on the weekend. It was so easy to put up and take down, and we were able to have friends come and join us and chill out in it as it was so cosy and spacious. It looked brilliant with big cushions and furry blankets, but the next thing on the list is some carpet and sheepskin for the final touches. I was just writing to say thank you for putting the fun back into camping...its going to be used again next weekend!

Jo

I just wanted to let you know that I received the tent today. Wow! 3 days from ordering it to it arriving at my front door - that was really fast! I can't wait to put it up. I'm going to e using it at the southern lights festival as I wanted something unique!! At least I will be able to find my tent in amongst the sea of horrible coloured plastic tents!

Colin

The SoulPad is great. We used it as our Medi tent at a tournament. Perfect! Very versatile too. Will use it on school camping trips etc as well as for family use! You did a fantastic job - thank you so much. I will sing the praises of SoulPad to all my Headmaster friends and encourage them to buy one for their schools!

Matthew

Thank you so much for sorting me out! Got our tent on Friday and put it up at weekend. It is beautiful. We are all very happy and even husband approves! Going to try it out in Dorset in 3 weeks time and can't wait. Like you said, it was sooooo easy to put up and is just such a lovely relaxing place to be in (except when kids are running around it in circles screaming with excitement!).

Tonya

Let me say how pleased I am with both your prompt service, and the quality of the components!

Jon

Just wanted to say thank you so much for getting our new SoulPad to us so quickly. It arrived this morning in plenty of time for the Cropredy Festival next weekend. Sadly we don't have enough room in our back yard to get it out and play with it at home, so roll on next week when we can see it in all it's glory.

Sophie

My 5000 Soulpad Ease is awesome. I have been living in it during the summer. Hurricane Irene hit us a few days ago. Roads were taken out, bridges were washed away, houses were crushed into kindling, but my SoulPad made it through without a single leak. I didnt even have to tighten the guylines after the storm. I wish it had a place to put a woodstove so I could stay in it all winter. People ... thought I was crazy when I told them I was going to live in a tent all summer, but now that they have seen my Soulpad they are all jealous that they live in crappy apartments. I will probably buy a smaller Soulpad to take to festivals with me. I'll be sad to move out of my soulpad for the winter, but excited for the spring when I can move back in.

Jennette

Loving our new glamping way of camping - our 5000 has been nicknamed 'Bella' by the kids already. Anyone new to this stuff should be aware there is a downside to belltents... When you go on a 'regular' campsite you become the object of much curiosity and cooing from the Nylons. And you also become kid central as the 'tent with the bunting and lights and stuff' becomes the place to hang out. The only way round this, I guess, is to be where there are other people with SoulPads! Maybe it's an idea to have a SoulPad get-together at some point?

Ian

Dear SoulPad, Thank-you so much for your speedy delivery, friendly service and free postage! you guys really are a breathe of fresh air, and a pleasure to do business with. I am now the proud owner of the 3m Hybrid SoulPad, which will suit me perfectly this Summer in hot weather (with the fantastic zip on/off base) abroad, as well as in rainy ole' England! Couldn't be happier!

Michael

Bought a Soulpad 5000-ease last year and it's FANTASTIC!!!! Superb value for money and great quality. Took it to a festival with our baby and everyone loved it (although they kept calling it a tipi). Literally took 15 minutes tops to put up by myself (how I laughed at my friends wrestling with their tents) and when it rained, we had half a dozen people in for dinner and that didn't even take up ha ... lf the tent. Even with our double bed and travel cot, baby gear, etc there was still loads of room. The mosquito net at the entrance is great as it keeps all the nasties out and we hang a lantern from the hook on the central pole, which lights the whole tent. Due to the three zipped entrance it's also possible in theory to lock the zips together with a padlock, making it really secure. We also have the coir half moon rug for the entrance, which I would highly recommend. Also used it at our wedding (outdoor festival type event) for our wedding night in September. It was beautifully decorated inside by our family with flowers and rugs and was really cosy. Due to the white canvas, even if it's grey and dull outside, it's always light inside the tent. Going to buy a stove for it next month so we can go camping again as soon as the campsites open.

Mark

Another year down the line, I feel I need to add to my original review and all I can say is that this tent just goes from strength to strength. We went camping in Provence at the time of the floods. 36 hours of torrential downpour and not a ... drop of water was let in. Even with a broken gazebo pouring water over the entrance, we were perfectly dry. Having the 5000 was great as we had our sleeping area, our baby's sleeping area, kitchen area (cooker, fridge, etc), dining area (table and 4 chairs), toilet and still room to walk around in!!! After the rain, we had le mistral. 80kph winds and the centre pole barely moved. Well done for making such a solid tent!

James

I love the way our 4000-ease has performed in totally separate environments. Rainy & cold at a US Midwest event and a dry temp range from 45F - 80F during this last Gulf Wars (southern Mississippi, US). The tent does NOT stand out in a period SCA encampment, and offers the user the best of both worlds: bug screens & roof vents for the modern user, canvas and the great almost-authentic shape for the historical re-enactor. My wife and I have it fully up in 15 minutes and back down and packed up in 20. We wouldn't trade it now for anything! Thanks gang, for a wonderful tenting experience!

Cyn

Just writing to say that my 13' soulpad has been truly wonderful. it has been my home for almost 6 months. We have had record rainfalls all spring and summer here in the Saskatchewan prairies and never once did the tent leak. It has been brilliant! After living in such a beautiful home, it will be very difficult for me to go back to 4 square walls again, which I must do for a number of months. I will back in its warm embrace soon and I look so very forward to it! Cheers,

Catherine

I just returned from camping in what was probably the heaviest rainstorm this area has ever seen. Every time we thought it simply couldn't rain any harder, it did. My Soulpad kept me as dry as possible in 100% humidity - much drier than my friends who were camping in the usual nylon tents. No drips and no leaks in my Soulpad, at least not from above. At some point in the night, the field we w ... ere on became saturated and the water level started rising, which is how I think water got between the ground sheet and soul pad to form a few small puddles on the floor of my tent - but again, I fared much better than my nylon-tented friends who were bailing buckets out of their tents.

Stefanie

Wow! Ten minutes to erect, not even one cross word between husband and me and so beautiful - spacious yet cosy inside and I love how the shadows looked silhouetted on the roof. Our trial night was brilliant now all we need is some sunshine in North Devon next week for a perfect holiday! Thank you Soulpad.

Jessica

I’m a recent convert to the bell tent, like this one from SoulPad. It’s quick and easy to put up, with plenty of room inside, and, as it’s made from canvas, it stays warm on those chilly British nights. My nephews call it the “circus tent” and run around it pretending to be elephants.

Jonathan Knight, Travel Writer

Once up it [SoulPad 5000-lite] provides an amazing space that could easily sleep ten people. It's an eye-catching party tent that would work well for nostalgic base camps and the odd music festival. It uses a single pole and the side panels can be lifted during the day for maximum ventillation.

Matt Swaine, Editor, Trail Magazine

Arrived at Glastonbury with my wife and party 20 mins before show – it was absolutely chucking it down with rain and pitch black. And there she was, our very own 'SoulPad' pitched up and ready for our weekend. What a delight!!! Highly recommend these guys for any festival experience!

Craig Charles, Actor and Presenter

We love our SoulPad - absolutely brill for festivals.

Yorkshire Gig Guide

The new tent was fantastic! We've really got fed up with camping and having the new tent was brilliant.

Hexstatic, Legendary DJs

We love our SoulPad & can’t wait for it to get warm again so we can get out there!

Alexandra Tilley Loughrey, Author

The tent is amazing. They're such great tents.

Aaron Flether, of 'The Bees'

We have been using SoulPads on our holiday park for the past 4 years. We have found the products very good quality, and the customer service excellent. Our customers enjoy staying in our SoulPads, and a number have gone on to purchase their own SoulPad for their own camping adventures. They are easy to erect and obviously they become even easier, the more times they are used. we find they are very customer friendly, and the full zips and sewn in ground sheets have converted even the ‘non campers’! We plan to continue to use SoulPad on our site and can very much recommend both the product and the service.

Kerry & Dave, Pinewood Holiday Park

It's funny because when I crawled in...walked in to my tent, there's no mistaking the sound of the unzipping of a canvas door, and it sounds like camping. Then I came in here and obviously it was pitch black when I came in, but I lit all these candles...and I feel like the sort of favourite son of a Bedouin Prince. Its amazing!...it's great!

Alexander Armstrong, A Very British Holiday, BBC1

SoulPad’s bell tents are a breeze to put up, and have lovely detailing where everything is considered. There is a lovely quality of light through the soft cotton canvas and they supply great stoves to go with them if you want to use them in the colder months.

Carolyn Van Outersterp, Jollydays Ltd.

We were very impressed by your generosity in giving [a SoulPad] for the auction of gifts that helped to raise £10,600 for the Baka Rain forest people at our ball in September. It really lifted our spirits and your whole way of doing things and the company's go ahead positivity was very heart warming. So, big thanks all round. SoulPads give good vibes!

Su Hart of Baka Beyond