Family Weekender

[ TENT REVIEW ] OZTRAIL CRUISER 300 FAST FRAME

- Micky Baker

These days, the camping market is flooded with hundreds of tents, making it tougher than ever to pick one to stick with for a couple of years.

Tents have become lighter and easier than ever to set up, but often at the expense of durability.

Oztrail’s Fast Frame Cruiser series is a range of quick-setup, all-in-one tents that integrate awnings into the rain flysheets. The Cruiser is made from tough but light and highly waterproof Ripstop polyester, and comes in four-, five-, eight- or ten sleeper variations.

We tested the mid-sized five sleeper, which is spacious enough for a family looking to get away for the weekend.

The setup

The Cruiser’s selling point is its Fast Frame system, which replaces interconnectable poles with a pre-connected slide-out system. Once the tent has been unpacked and laid out on the ground, you simply lift each leg until you hear a click – a small mechanism locks the legs in place, saving you the effort of feeding poles through the structure.