7 best tents for couples camping in 2023
Our roundup of the best tents for couples including car camping and backpacking tents
Looking to go camping with your partner?
Or trying to find a nice tent to convince your partner that camping is actually fun?
Finding the best tent when you’re in a couple is actually super easy. You’ve got tonnes of options.
You just need to decide how much space you want, what kind of camping you’re gonna be doing and how much you want to spend.
If you’ve got answers to those few questions, we’ve got answers to the rest!
In a hurry? Here’s our top 3 picks for the best tents for couples.
Best car camping tent for couples
The Coleman Sundome 4-person tent provides plenty of space for couples to chill out and relax in comfort.
Best backpacking tent for couples
A lightweight, super high-quality backpacking tent for couples. While it’s lightweight and compact it offers plenty of liveable space and comfort for a backpacking tent.
Best festival tent for couples
Made specifically for festival goers, the Ohnana Rayve 2 features black out and heat reflecting technology. Allowing you to sleep off your hangover or late night without sweating your life away.
7 best tents for couples
Coleman Sundome
A budget option for couples looking to car camp
The Coleman Sundome is a fantastic choice for couples. It comes in a multitude of sizes to suit your needs.
If you’re looking to pack as small and compact as possible, the 2 or 3-person versions are your best bet, but if you’re looking for a little more space and comfort then the 4-person version is perfect for two.
The 4-person version is large enough to fit a queen size air mattress inside with a little room to spare around all four sides.
As you can see from the picture below, the interior of the 4-person will provide you with loads of room for chilling out and camping in comfort.
Other great features of the Sundome include a loop in the ceiling to hang a lantern, a couple of mesh storage pockets and an e-port for easy electrical cord access.
While the Sundome isn’t an instant tent, it’s still super easy to set up. It can be set up by 1-person, and after a practice run will take a maximum of 10 minutes to pitch.
Coleman 2-person pop up
A spacious 2-person tent with a super fast set up
The Coleman 2-person pop up tent is the perfect option if you’re looking for something fast, easy and compact.
Coleman’s recommendation of a 10-second set up time is actually on the high end.
In reality the tent literally pops up and open in about 2 seconds, and the rest of the set up time is just staking the tent down.
While the take down process is a little more confusing, after a couple of practices it is also super simple.
You know how you collapse the sun shades in your car?
It’s like collapsing a big one of them.
Kind of annoying at first, but once you know how it takes less than a minute.
A nice feature of this tent is the multi-position rainfly.
It allows for you to fold the rainfly up in various sections to reveal the mesh ceiling and allow ventilation on hot evenings as well as great stargazing opportunities.
Geertop Toproad
A 4-season backpacking tent perfect for couples
The Geertop Toproad is perfect if you’re looking for a 4-season tent.
Not only is it high-quality and lightweight, but it’s cheap too.
It’s double layer wall design with a 3000mm hydrostatic head rating ensures you will stay dry in torrential rain and high winds.
The snow skirt is a must-have feature if you’re planning to do some serious winter camping.
The snow skirt allows you to build up the snow on top of the skirt to provide insulation from the cold and keep the interior warm.
The great thing about this tent is that while most 4-season tents are only really useable in winter due to their design and weight, the Toproad can actually be used all year round, not just in winter.
In dry weather you can simply sleep inside the inner tent and leave the rainfly off, or leave the rainfly at home to save on weight.
The tent includes plenty of useful features such as a loop in the ceiling to hang a light or lantern, two doors on either side, two vestibules for storage and plenty of mesh ventilation points to prevent condensation.
Coleman instant cabin
Perfect if you’re looking for quick set up and tonnes of space
The Coleman instant cabin tent is the perfect option if you’re looking for a tent with a little more head room than the usual dome style tents.
While the 4-person version is taller than most similar tents, it’s still not tall enough to stand up in at 4 feet 11 inches.
The 6-person tent has a height of 6 feet, so is tall enough to stand up in for most if you’re of an average height.
As you can see in the image below, the 4-person capacity is really more suited to two people. It can fit one queen size air mattress, but it will take up most of the tent.
However, if you’re looking for something more spacious and liveable, the 6-person version is perfect for couples.
The 6-person can fit two queen mattresses, but with just one in, provides loads of liveable space for furniture and chilling out inside the tent.
Other great features include mesh storage pockets, large zippered windows, and an integrated rainfly.
Ohnana Rayve 2
The best festival tent for couples
The Ohnana Rayve 2-person tent was created for festivals.
And no, we don’t mean that it’s so crap you don’t mind setting it on fire at the end of your trip.
It’s more to provide you with maximum comfort designed specifically for festival camping conditions.
The reflective rainfly blocks the sun’s heat and keeps light out.
It keeps your tent over 25°F / 14°C cooler than a conventional tent, and keeps the interior pitch black in broad daylight.
A perfect combination for allowing you to sleep off a hideous hangover, so that you’re ready for round two.
While at first glance it doesn’t look like a particularly large tent, it can actually fit a queen sized air mattress inside, with a little room to store belongings and get in and out of the tent.
Other neat features include super easy set up (literally less than 5-minutes on first try) and an oversized stuff sack for fast pack up.
Perfect when you just want to get home and shower off your sins the dirt.
Moon Lence camping tent
A budget option for couples camping for the first time
The Moon Lence tent is a great option if you’re looking for a cheap and cheerful tent.
And by that we don’t mean that it is a throw away tent, just that it’s cheap enough to be one.
If you’ve never been camping, or haven’t been camping for a long time and aren’t sure whether you’re going to like it, the best thing you can do is buy a tent like this to test out what you like before spending the big bucks.
Despite being cheap, the tent is well made, sturdy and extremely waterproof.
It’s also extremely well thought out and offers plenty of ventilation to prevent condensation, features reflective guy lines and is super easy to set up with one or two people.
MSR Hubba Hubba NX
Best backpacking tent for couples
The MSR Hubba Hubba NX is one of, if not, the best backpacking tent for couples.
MSR make some of the highest quality lightweight backpacking tents on the market today.
With brands such as Big Agnes going down hill in the quality of their tents in an attempt to make them lighter, MSR stand tall.
The Hubba Hubba NX can easily withstand the usual 3-season weather such as rain, wind and humidity. However, it can also withstand serious blizzards without too much trouble.
Basically, whatever weather you find yourself in, the MSR will handle it.
Besides being high quality and super durable, the MSR is one of the most liveable backpacking tents for two people.
It provides the perfect balance between weight and comfort.
While weight is obviously a huge factor when it comes to backpacking tents, your comfort is equally important, particularly when you’re backpacking long distances each day.
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