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Rent-a-tent at Piana and Onda

colinjuett

Posted: Tue, Aug 31, 2010, 11:03

Hi,
I've only read on this forum that it is possible to rent tents from Refuges
Neither the Trailblazer guide nor the the Parc-Corse web-site mention this.
If you can rent tents at Piana and Onda then I'd rather do that then carry
a couple of extra kilos :)
We are only walking part of the trail (starting at Corte and joining the GR20 a couple of days later)

Thanks in advance,
Colin



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Michele

Posted: Wed, Sep 1, 2010, 13:35

Hi Colin,
Actually the Parc-Corse web-site http://www.parc-corse.org/vad/ DOES mention this. In fact there you can make a reservation for a tent (although apparently not very many people actually do that).

Michele



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colinjuett

Posted: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 9:38

Thanks Michelle.

Are you saying that the "Nbr location tente (2 places + matelas)" option is for reservation of a physical tent (for two persons plus mattress) and not solely the space for a tent??
Or is the information elsewhere?

If so, then that is fantastic news :)

Regards,
Colin



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colinjuett

Posted: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 9:59

Thanks Michele.

I had previously used the link to book beds in the Refuges.

However, I understood (actually, I guessed) that "Nbr location tente (2 places + matelas)" option is for reservation of solely the space for a tent (though why mattresses are mentioned wouldn't make sense).

Are you saying that this option means renting a physical tent (for two persons plus mattress)??

Or is the information elsewhere?

Thanks again,
Colin



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colinjuett

Posted: Thu, Sep 2, 2010, 19:32

Thanks Michele.

I did use that link previously to book beds in the refuges

I assumed (well, I guessed) that "Nbr location tente (2 places + matelas)" option is for reservation of space for a tent (though why a mattress would be mentioned doesn't make sense with my theory).

Are you saying that this is for reservation of a physical tent? (the blue ones that I've read about?)

Or is the information elsewhere?

Many thanks,
Colin



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Michele

Posted: Tue, Sep 7, 2010, 14:30

Sorry Colin for my late reply.

I know it is sort of misleading but where it says : Nbr location tente (2 places + matelas) , actually means the blue tent provided by the refuge (which includes 2 mats). I slept in them and they are quite fine. However they have a very limited room for the backpack.

The other wording: Couchage en bivouac (par défaut) means the actual reservation of space for a tent.

Hope that helps.
Michele



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colinjuett

Posted: Thu, Sep 23, 2010, 7:40

Thanks very much for the information.

It saved us carrying an unnecessary extra couple of kilos :)

We didn't book the tents in advance in case there was availability of a "bed" in the refuge.

At Manganu 3 of us had a bed and the fourth camped as the refuge was full. However, this is the flaw with the pre-booking as 20% of the beds were in fact available (due to no-shows)

At l'Onda, we had 2 in the refuge and 2 camping. The 2 in the refuge managed to change the booking (with the gardien) to camping as the refuge was grim



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ncst

Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2011, 13:22

I rented a - blue Quechua - tent at L'Onda. There were about 10 pitched already. They all have two sleeping pads/matrasses in them. The camp site is a fenced grazing site for horses. There is some farming stuff stored next to the refugio, so some people found it less 'nice', but I still liked L'Onda.

I only had a break in Petra Piana (I doubled that day), but remember seeing the blue tents.

If you bring a tent you don't need to make online reservations really. I pitched my tarp wherever I wanted to near the refuge.



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