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This is a review of the Decathlon Folding Camping Chair. The setup of the chair is incredibly easy:
the frame is a hub formation with thick metal in a cross and then longer poles
that you snap together, and a material cover that hooks onto that, which you then sit in.
It has a weight limit of 110 kilograms and its pack size is quite small. On the packaging,
they claim that the chair weighs 1.1 kilograms and on my kitchen scale at home it weighs
just under that - it was like and ninety two grams or something like that - so that seems pretty spot
on to me. I find the chair reasonably comfortable. I think that if you have a slightly larger build,
it might not be as comfortable for you, as the seat is pretty narrow. The material part of the
chair also has mesh built into the sides, which is supposedly to help you stay a bit cooler,
but I must say that that particular mesh on that chair feels very plasticky to me, so when I'm
sitting in it, it doesn't really make me feel cooler. In fact, I feel like I sweat more where
I'm touching that plasticky mesh than on the place where I'm touching the more canvas type material.
Something that did happen to me while I was using this chair around a campfire, is that an ember
got blown off the fire, landed on the chair and immediately burned a hole through the material.
I'm not sure if this was just unlucky and that any chair would have had a hole burnt through it...
I did have another two chairs around the campfire at the time, from NatureHike, and they have
a different type of canvas material and they didn't have any holes in them at all. I do think
that the thinner material of the Decathlon chair is perhaps a little bit more susceptible to embers
burning holes in it or having things ripped open, perhaps. In terms of the price of this chair:
it is currently retailing on the Decathlon South Africa website for R799, which makes
it significantly cheaper than the NatureHike chair and that is really nice, but I don't think it is
as high quality as the NatureHike chair, but if cost is the most important thing, then definitely
check out the Decathlon chair. Another thing that kind of annoyed me about the chair is it
has this large white tag on the back. Or perhaps I should say it had a large white tag on the back,
because after multiple evenings where it was windy and that little tag was flapping around and making
a huge racquet, I just cut it off with my pair of scissors because I couldn't stand it anymore.
Another thing that you should also keep in mind about the decathlon chair
is that it does not come with those extra bulbous feet like the NatureHike chair does. It just has
quite pointy rubber sections on the bottom of its feet and that's fine if you're on pretty hard
ground, but any ground that is softer, like soft sand or really muddy ground, the chair
is going to sink in because those feet are pretty sharp so they kind of want to sink into the ground
in that situation. Overall, I think for the price the Decathlon Folding Camping Chair is actually
quite a good deal and I'm happy to recommend it to people so long as you realize the materials
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