Vango is owned and operated by the AMG group, a large distributor of outdoor products such as camping equipment and ski equipment and outdoor clothing. The Vango name has become a very popular tents and camping equipment brand across Europe selling some of the best equipment on the market today.
Vango have been producing tents for over forty years now, starting as the Force 10 brand manufacturing expedition style tents ideal for mountain terrains and extreme survival. However over the years the Vango brand began to diversify and form into the strongest camping brand in the UK. Now the Vango tents range has an offering for every type of tent, from mountain tents, adventure tents to the highly successful range family camping tents.
Utilising the success and knowledge gained from experience, Vango has built a brand focused upon reliability, quality, innovation, design and usability.

OutdoorWorldDirect.co.uk has proudly stocked Vango equipment for around ten years, stocking a large range of Vango tents, accessories, sleeping bags and rucksacks.

Vango Tents

Originating from Force 10 roots, Vango tents are completely focussed on aesthetics and meeting the demands of the modern camper. This has led to Vango creating a wide and varied range of tents that caters for every type of camper, whether it be someone backpacking across Europe needing a lightweight tent or the traditional family camper looking for a large family tent suitable for housing a family for a short period of time.

Vango's diverse range of tents has been split into eleven separate categories of product, each designed to meet a different and specific demand of the camping marketplace.

Pitch tents - a range of tents designed to suit the needs of a festival goer, looking for a budget pop up or quick erect tent. The Vango Dart and Swift tents have been extremely successful in this range, producing colourful and quick erecting tents at a cost effective price point.

Adventure tents - dome and tunnel style tents offering technical and practical features ideal for the adventure camper or the festival camper. The quality of Vango begins to show through in this range of adventure tents, which has incidentally led to Vango dominating the adventure sector of the camping tents market. The highly successful Beta, Alpha and Zetes ranges of adventure styled tents originate from the Vango Adventure range.

Weekend tents - A growing and developing part of the camping market is the weekend segment; this caters for the need for a simple yet spacious tent ideal for couples or small families wanting to escape a hectic modern lifestyle by camping in the countryside for the weekend. Part of this range is the Vango Icarus 500, a phenomenal success when released in 2009. The Icarus tent stands for everything that weekend camping should be about, simple, quick to set up and down. The Artemis tent also launches as part of the weekend collection in 2010, a simple tunnel structure using alloy poles to achieve a lightweight tent with great standing and living space.

Family tents - The traditional styled tents for the traditional family campers wanting luxurious space and quality of design. Vango's family tents range really appeals to many families due to the design quality, strength and stability needed to ensure your family remains protected from the elements. Mostly designed with the integrated groundsheet system ensuring the tents remain clean, dry and bug free. The Vango Orchy and Vango Tigris tents have both been a successful part of this collection, offering solid and stable structures with great living space.

Family Premium Tents - Choosing a premium tent from the Vango premium collection is an important decision that must not be taken lightly. This type of tent is an investment due to the pricing of the products within this collection; however the product will offer an excellent product lifetime if well cared for. Vango's premium range of tents has a wealth of imaginative features to ensure your camping holiday is as luxurious as possible. Rich in design, colour and style, the premium range of Vango tents is designed to enhance your relaxation by creating a camping haven. The Vango Amazon has been a large success in this collection, due to its massive design and steel construction offering a huge camping home capable of housing six people more than comfortably.

Family Classic Tents - The classic collection from Vango incorporates similar styles and designs as the weekend and family ranges of tents. However the classic collection is produced in a rich cotton fabric which may be more ideal in hotter climates as it will keep the tent cooler. Additionally the quality of a poly-cotton flysheet opposed to a polyester flysheet is much higher giving many more advantages to the camper such as:

- Poly-cotton has a longer lifetime that polyester - wear and tear is much slower on this type of material.
- The quality of the poly-cotton helps keep the tent cooler in hotter conditions as the tent fabric will breathe. The Poly-cotton materials will also retain the warmth in cooler conditions or at night time.

The use of cotton helps to create a much more calming atmosphere within the tent during the day and the night, if touring across Europe or hotter parts of the world, a cotton tent would be a fine investment.

Eco Tents - A new and innovative range of tents to be introduced into the Vango tents range in 2010 offering the Eco friendly person a choice of tents with reduced carbon footprints. This eco friendly camping equipment range has been created using recycled components at every single opportunity. The only parts of the tents that are currently not possible to create from recycled materials are the groundsheet, zip teeth and tent poles. However the rest of the tent is manufactured with recycled plastics bearing many benefits such as reduced landfill waste, less oil in production of plastics and less energy is used in the production process. The Eco range of tents includes a tepee, a tunnel styled touring tent similar to the Vango Beta tent and an Icarus copy in recycled materials.

Lightweight Tents - Backpacking type holidays have become a massive growth area of the camping marketplace since the decline of the economy. More and more people have to stay on local turf and travel across the UK due to the exchange rates, thus leading to an increase in demand for lightweight and backpacking tents. Additionally, with the government pouring more money and incentives into education authorities for schemes such as the Duke of Edinburgh scheme, more young people are actively becoming interested in expeditions and outdoor adventures.
Vango's robust and most reliable range of lightweight tents has become a great success earning the official Duke of Edinburgh essential camping kit. The pack sizes and weights of the tents make them ideal for all types of touring as they will fit snugly into on top of a Vango rucksack. Also including a vast array of technical features such as the patented TBS II Pro system ensuring that any lightweight tent is able to cope with the adverse weather conditions they may face. The most popular options in this range remain the Vango Banshee 200 (Backpackers choice), the Vango Tempest 200 (Cyclists choice) and the Vango Omega 350.

Mountain Lite Tents - designed for the serious adrenaline junkies racing in marathon and adventure racing competitions where every single gram counts. The Vango Spirit tent is included within this range and has proved a big hit due to its solid and robust structure that won't let you down in harsh and demanding environments. With a range of expedition self inflating mats and sleeping bags to match this range, Vango have once again got a strong foothold in the mountain tents segment of the camping market due to their Force 10 heritage.

Mountain Tents- Vango's mountain range of tents are designed to compete at the top level of performance in terms of strength, durability and ability to cope in hazardous weather conditions. Stable, reliable and lightweight, the Vango mountain tent collection comes highly recommended in well established outdoor life magazines and media. Once again the Force 10 roots show through in this collection with most of these models of tents implementing the same key features and materials used by the best mountain tents available in the marketplace today. The Vango Hurricane is famed for its famous symmetrical geodesic style and was the model of tent chosen for the Red Nose day event - climbing K2. The Vango Equinox range also takes the plaudits due to its outstanding design which enhances the living and storage space within the tent.

New for 2010 in the Vango tents range is the Technical Family Tents, the suitable collection for those who still want a lightweight tent but have needs in terms of living and sleeping space. This range is ideal for those who love technical details and specifications. With lightweight alloy poles and a solid Protex 5000mm hydrostatic head polyester flysheet, it is very easy to see why this range is bound to be an absolute success.

To view the full range of Vango tents sold by OutdoorWorldDirect.co.uk, please click here.

Vango Sleeping Bags

Choosing the best Vango sleeping bag for your scenario can be quite a difficult decision mainly due to the vast choice throughout the range of sleeping bags. Vango have the craft, experience and knowledge implemented into their sleeping bag design to ensure you get the best night sleep possible. From family camping sleeping bags to mountain survival sleeping bags, Outdoor World Direct stocks a wide choice of Vango sleeping bags to suit every type of camping occasion. The wide choice of sleeping bags in the Vango range has been split into six categories to represent the different needs and specifications of each style of bag and the market segment they are most ideally suited for.

Vango Family Sleeping Bags – Two models of square sleeping bags that are designed for summer camping. Including the new Breakout sleeping bag that is a cost effective sleeping bag ideal for warmer summer climates.

Vango Adventure Sleeping Bags - a fine compilation of summer camping sleeping bags ideal for all the family, from baby sleeping bags to double sleeping bags. The Wilderness bags are the budget sleeping bags for summer camping and includes a double sleeping bag, two children’s sleeping bags and the standard mummy sleeping bags. The Nitestar then comes into the range offering a warmer and more comfortable sleeping bag ideal for those who feel the cold a little bit more. The Vango Nitestar 250 has become the best selling sleeping bag in the UK, due to the price, warmth and quality.

Vango Travel Sleeping Bags – a dense collection of sleeping bags offering the potential traveller or backpacker a lightweight and small pack size sleeping bag. With just three models of sleeping bag, this is one of the more compact ranges from Vango sleeping bags. The Voyager sleeping bag offers a combination of lightweight materials mixed with insulating fabrics to create a compact yet warm sleeping bag with a tapered square bottom for added space in the foot compartment for added comfort.

Vango Lightweight Sleeping Bags – a fine blend of sleeping bags designed to meet the demands of the backpacker or the adventure seeker needing a small pack size sleeping bag capable of performing in all weather conditions. Utilising a lightweight ‘superfine’ insulation to ensure the sleeping bag retains the body heat of the user whilst remaining small in pack size. Additionally, most of the sleeping bags in this range have been shortlisted in the Duke of Edinburgh recommended kit list due to their high performance levels.

Vango Mountain Sleeping Bags – possibly the most specialist camping equipment stocked by OutdoorWorldDirect, the technical detail and knowledge applied in the mountain sleeping bag collection is top class. Some of the sleeping bags in this range have the capability to go down to minus temperatures of twenty degrees (Supernova and Viper). In addition to this, the Venom range of sleeping bags has incredibly tiny pack sizes, yet these bags are capable of being used on the side of a mountain in some of the harshest conditions. Top quality products for the avid mountain hikers and adventure seekers.

Never underestimate the benefit of a good night's sleep, especially after a day of adventure seeking in the mountains. A warm and comfortable night’s sleep can recharge your batteries allowing you to enjoy more outdoor activities the next day. To view a full range of Vango sleeping bags stocked by Outdoor World Direct, click here.

Vango Rucsacs

Rucsacs are an essential travel item, designed to carry as much weight as possible without causing discomfort to the user. The modern rucsac has been designed to be stylish, comfortable and durable as to withstand the heavy punishment rucsacs naturally get throughout their working life. In addition to this, most rucsacs are now streamlined and as narrow as possible to ensure you don’t take out four people when stepping onto a crowded train. The adjustable and contoured back systems found on Vango rucsacs are second to none and the Airtrek system ensures your back can breathe allowing you to maintain your cool, regardless of how hot the climate may be. Ideally, a rucsac should support the weight by relying upon the shoulders and waist of the body, be sure to see our rucsac fitting techniques page which will help you better understand the logistics and fits of a rucsac.

With the best looking designs, colours and capacity, it is no wonder Vango rucsacs have become so popular for all types of outdoor activities from travelling to the Duke of Edinburgh award. Read through the different categories of rucsacs to decide which one best suit your purposes.

Vango Daysacs – a collection of colourful and striking daysacs ideal for children on walking trips to carry maps, water and other important walking and outdoor equipment such as compasses.

Vango Trek & Travel Rucsacs – ideal for trail walking and light casual hiking in the countryside. These rucsacs carry up to 45L of equipment meaning you have space for all the essential walking items.

Vango Adventure Rucsacs – the best selling Duke of Edinburgh rucsacs available, the adventure range of Vango rucsacs offer many benefits and innovative features making them more comfortable and stylish. Including the ever-popular Vango Sherpa and Explorer rucsacs, which dominate the adventure rucsac market.

Vango Mountain Rucsacs – a collection of rugged and reliable rucsacs that will be capable of coping with mountain conditions, whilst keeping the user comfortable and supporting the weight of the rucsac on the hips and shoulders. Often purchased for Duke of Edinburgh gold award editions due to the flexibility of the rucsacs, the 3D back systems are far superior to any rival rucsac fitting system with the exception of North Face rucsacs.

For a full list of Vango Rucsacs, please click here.