When choosing a family tent, you want to decide how many partitions you are going to need. It might be that you are happy to sleep side by side in the main chamber – in which case you need only one bedroom that is wide enough for you to fit side by side and can be sectioned off from the rest of the tent to trap heat into one zone. If your family is big and you need two bedrooms or you need to partition by gender or age, then you need to make sure that you have enough bedrooms that are big enough to fit you all. If you have people that like ending the night reading a book, then you probably want partitions that are thick enough to block the light from the awake person keeping up the people trying to sleep. Some tents will describe their tent as ‘black out’ or something similar so you want to look out for that time of descriptor. You also want to make sure that any partitions are easy to remove. If it’s raining, then you and your family might be spending more time in the tent than simply sleeping. Being able to remove the partitions and have one big tent can go a long way in reducing the feeling of claustrophobia that you might experience.