A super low-budget two-person backpacking tent from German discount supermarket chain, Aldi, the Adventuridge backpacking tent is a small and lightweight summer shelter. While by no means high-quality, it outperforms all expectations you might have at this price point.

Aldi Adventuridge Tent

Ideal for: lightweight backpacking, summer camping, campsites, solo camping

Aldi’s Adventuridge two-person backpacking tent is surprisingly good: Better than it probably has any right to be. It packs down small, is lightweight, pitches easily and performs well in UK summer conditions. And all for a very low price.

The Good

Inexpensive

Lightweight

Easy to pitch

Small pack size

Great introductory tent

The Bad

Breathability could be better

Pockets are flimsy

Likely won’t last multiple seasons

The inner material isn’t very durable

Eco-credentials aren’t clear

Aldi’s Adventuridge Backpacking Tent

The Adventuridge 2-Man Backpacking Tent is a cheap and cheerful ‘2 person’ shelter sold at regular times through the year by German discount supermarket Aldi. Coming in with an RRP of £49.99, the tent is one of the cheapest backpacking shelters on the market and one that, in our experience, exceeds any and all expectations — whatever metric you look at.

Weighing in at 1.75 kg (3.8 lbs), the Adventuridge tent is lightweight and easy to carry. It packs down to a reasonable size and is very easy to erect and dismantle. As is the case with most ‘2-person’ shelters, however, it’s only suitable for one person and kit. Whereas other 2-person shelters might be roomy enough for 2 people in a pinch, we found the Aldi Adventuridge tent only to be suitable for one man and kit. This is due to the shorter inner which, despite being listed on Aldi’s website as 230 cm long, is actually only 190 cm in length according to our measurements. This resulted in us having to sleep diagonally in the tent each time we used it. That being said, sleeping diagonally in a 140 x 190 cm rectangle leaves you with plenty of space to scatter kit inside, and the small vestibule is roomy enough to store boots or an empty backpack.

When it comes to bang for your buck, then, we think you’ll be hard-pressed to find a tent that delivers as much as the Adventuridge delivers for a lower price. Just don’t take that to mean the tent is a top-quality product: The materials are cheap and the stitching is questionable, and we wouldn’t expect to get more than a season out of the shelter. In that sense, if you’re a hyper keen camper, you (and the environment) would be better off investing a little more in a more robust tent; one that will last you many years (we recommend looking at the Mountain Warehouse Backpacker 2 or the OEX Phoxx 2. Both are slightly more robust than the Adventuridge, and can be bought during regular sales for £80 and £100 respectively). If you need a tent for a one-off trip, however, or if you only go backpacking/wildcamping once or twice a year in the summer, the Adventuridge tent delivers pretty much everything you need.

Our experience using Aldi’s Adventuridge Backpacking Tent

To test the Adventuridge tent, we used in once in the Shropshire Hills on a fairly still night and once out on Dartmoor. Both times the tent exceeded our expectations, so we decided to properly put it through its paces by pitching it on top of Pen y Fan, the UK’s highest summit south of Snowdonia, and a place known for persistent rain and driving wind. And you know what? It did a valiant job at keeping us safe.

Pitching Adi’s Adventuridge backpacking tent is very easy. It’s simply a matter of sliding the poles into the sleeves fastened to the inner and pegging out the body of the tent. You then tie the outer to the inner using the stitched-on lashes. All in, it takes less than 5 minutes to get a fairly stable pitch. As it’s inner-pitch first, however, those 5 minutes might be some of the worst of your trip when putting it up in a rainstorm. That’s why we wouldn’t recommend using it outside of the summer and highly suggest you keep an eye on the weather forecast on days you’re planning on sleeping in it.

One thing that we did find frustrating with the Adventuridge tent was the vestibule space. Practically non-existent, you can’t really use it for cooking or for storing any larger items of gear. Again, if the weather’s OK, this isn’t an issue: You can simply cook outside. But if you’re camping in this tent in a storm, experience tells us that you won’t have a very fun time.

With a 3,000 mm hydrostatic head rating on the polyester flysheet, the tent is also reasonably waterproof, enough to keep you dry in sustained rain, at least. Thanks to the tent’s low profile, we also found that it did a surprisingly good job in windy conditions. When we pitched it up on Pen y Fan, for example, it was subjected to regular gusts of up to 30 mph (according to the weather report — we didn’t verify this with a meter ourselves). And while we definitely felt those gusts, the tent seemed to shrug them off fairly easily, with no noticeable damages, tears or signs of use whatsoever noted the following morning.

When it comes to ventilation, the tent seems to do a reasonable job at keeping condensation at bay. Two ventilation ports on the sides of the fly allow for a certain degree of airflow, although the thickness of the fly (and the cheapness of the polyester material it’s manufactured from) mean you shouldn’t expect incredible performance. Every time we used it, some condensation was present inside the tent, and experience tells us that this thing would get pretty wet in the winter. Another reason why we suggest you stick to only summer camping in the Adventuridge backpacking tent.

Aldi’s Adventuridge backpacking tent FAQs

Conclusion

The Adventuridge 2-person backpacking shelter from Aldi is a surprisingly good shelter for an incredibly low price. If bought on sale for £29.99, we think that there’s absolutely nothing out there that comes close in regards to bang for your buck. In fact, even if you pay full price for this thing (£49.99), you’ll be hard-pressed to find a better shelter for sub £50. That being said, as the tent is made from fairly flimsy materials and the stitching is of a questionable quality, we don’t think it’ll last all that long before it either needs to be replaced or repaired. For that reason, we’d recommend it only to those who plan on using it very occassionally (once or twice a year) or to those looking for a cheap shelter for a one-off event, such as a Duke of Edinburgh’s Award trip or similar.