Vango
Vango Tay 200
Best use
- Made for
- Car and festival
- Not for
- Bikepacking, Winter mountain
Why these labels
- Car and festival: The maker states this use, and the published specs do not rule it out.
- Bikepacking: Heavy for bikepacking: 3.2 kg
- Winter mountain: 3-season rating, not built for winter storms
From the maker's stated use and the published specs.
- Summer wild camp: 4/10 UK, roughly May to September, nights above about 8 °C, sheltered pitches.
- Three-season hills: 4/10 UK hills in spring and autumn. Wind, rain, and nights near freezing.
- Winter camp: 4/10 UK winter or high ground. Below freezing, strong wind, possibly snow. Capped at 4: needs the maker's 4-season rating and wind 7+.
- Weight: 1/10 How much it adds to your pack, compared with the whole market.
Festivals, campsites and first-time campers on a very tight budget
- Pitches
- Inner first
- Freestanding
- Yes
- Walls
- Double
- Sleeps
- 2
- Seasons
- 3-season
- Min. weight
- 3.24 kg
- Flysheet
- 3,000 mm
- Inner length
- 205 cm
Packed size 13.39 L, 59 cm long and 17 cm across Compare with a 2-litre bottle
About two 2-litre bottles long and about one and a half times as wide. Drawn to scale.
Where to buy
Cotswold Outdoor £67.89 In stock. Delivery £6.95. Deep Blue; the shop's RRP is £97.50, the same as Vango's price. Free delivery over £125, £6.95 under it; free Click & Collect.
View at shop: Cotswold OutdoorAttwoolls £69 In stock. Delivery £5.95. Peridot Green; the shop prints an RRP of £95. Free delivery over £100, £5.95 under it (the shop's delivery page).
View at shop: AttwoollsVango £97.50 Out of stock. Free delivery over £50.
View at shop: VangoPrices checked 8 Nov 2026 on each shop's own page; shops can change them. We earn no commission on these links; shops are listed by price. More
Our ratings (out of 10)
1 to 10, compared with the whole market. Each says what it's based on. How we score
Weight
From maker's figures 1/10How much it adds to your pack. This is the whole tent: two people sharing can split it. 1: A real weak point.
Vango's total weight is 3.24 kg (Cotswold calls it the trail weight and gives 3.31 kg packed), in the 2.7 kg+ band.
Rain protection
From maker's figures 7/10How well it keeps out heavy, long rain. 7: Better than most.
Fly 3,000 mm is in the 3,000 mm+ band (the top band), then one band lower because Vango publishes no hydrostatic head for the polyethylene floor (4).
Wind
Estimate from maker's specs: maker's season rating (fewer than 3 reviews about wind) 5/10How steady it stays in strong wind on open ground. 5: Does the job. Average for wild-camping gear.
No published review says how it copes with wind, so this is an estimate from the maker's season rating.
Space
From maker's figures 6/10Room to lie, sit up and keep kit inside. 6: A bit better than average.
Bergfreunde gives an inner size of 205 x 130 cm: 2.05 x 1.30 = 2.665 m² (2.67 m²), or 1.33 m² each for two, in the 1.15–1.34 band. Vango itself gives only the outer size.
Packed size
From maker's figures 3/10How much room it takes in your rucksack. 3: Below average. Fine for some trips, not others.
Vango gives 59 cm long x 17 cm across: 3.1416 x 8.5 x 8.5 x 59 = 13,392 cm³, so 13.39 L, in the 10–14.9 L band.
In short
Good for
- Festivals, campsites and first-time campers on a very tight budget
- Short, car-side trips in fair-weather three-season conditions
- Not a tent for wild camping on foot: it is heavy and bulky to carry
Strengths
- Freestanding dome with colour-coded poles; Vango says 10 minutes to pitch
- Fly rated 3,000 mm, with factory-taped seams
- 205 x 130 cm inner, with a lights-out inner and a porch
- Large clear windows let light into the porch
Weaknesses
- 3.24 kg trail weight and a 13.4 L pack size are poor for backpacking
- Polyethylene floor with no published waterproof rating
- Fibreglass poles are heavier and less durable than alloy
- Inner pitches first, so it gets wet in the rain
- No independent review found, so wind, pitching and durability are estimates, not reviewed scores
Sources
We haven't tested this ourselves. Every score comes from these specs, tests and reviews.