Coleman Double Hub Signature Instant Dome Tent (5-Person)

The tent is great, easy to set up. Not quite 1 min, I have two small children so with no help from anyone else I can get it set up in less than 5 min but more than 1. My only issue is that the tent is a bit bigger than I wanted so some campgrounds may be difficult to fit into but this is not a flaw or problem with the actual product - but keep this in mind. Pay attention to the footprint and check your favorite place to be sure it'll fit.

I purchased this tent in January for a weekend music festival in March and have had previous models with a single pitch in the middle to support the telescoping poles. This model with two pitch sockets (with 3 hinges each) is the worst thing about this tent and a MAJOR ISSUE.After easily setting it up and breaking it down three times, my father and I were breaking it down earlier today and as it folded downward as a tent usually does we saw a pole pop out of the right support socket. It apparently snapped as it is no longer hinged and cannot be reinserted into place to function. The tent is done and can only lay flat.. It isn't even possible to make heads or tails of how it snapped when all we were doing was gently using the same process to disassemble the tent we had prior.I wouldn't recommend this tent to anybody as the integrity of a key, structural component is very flawed.I would love to have this purchase refunded by Amazon, as I would love to shop for a different tent.

I think that this is a good 2 person tent realistically (you could squeeze 3 but you'd have to know each other pretty good). Overall it is a good tent. It rained VERY hard one night and the tent held up like a champ. I have a Coleman instant tent from several years ago and I can see the downgrade in materials - most notably the extension poles, they did feel thinner and more fragile compared to my earlier model. Other reviews mention how the poles broke, so I was very careful, and having a similar tent, know how to put it up so nothing broke. Once the tent was up, I felt confident in its construction. My biggest complaint is that the storage bag it came with is way too small and the zipper weld broke while putting it away - so I will be buying a large duffel bag for it. But overall, a very nice 2 person tent.

I had 2 issues when first using this tent. I set it up at home and then took it camping. When setting it up, I found one of the poles from the top to a hub had come out of it's position. It took about 30 minutes to figure out how to get it right. The zipper on the door continually got jammed on the flap that covers it. That's a hard problem in the middle of the night with a full bladder. Other than those two things, the tent works as advertised and gave us a nice camping experience, our first on over 30 years.

So lets begin. the tent looks and sets up awesome the first time you build it... no issue there. its the putting it away part that gets me. Takes about 3-5 minutes realistically to put it away the problem is that even taking my time the the tent poles and hubs look like they are going to rip thru the bottom tarp as its all folded down and I am not able to put slack into that area. Also, this is my second one of these tents, the first got so messed up when I put it away in a rush after only 3-4 times using it I had to thrash it. Some how the poles got twisted around when I put it away and I wasn't able to put them back where they needed to go since the poles don't actually come out of their holders which was the beauty of the tent in the first place. Hopefully round 2 goes a little better. its a cheap tent, you get what you pay for. Definitely spending a little more money next time around and getting the tents that you throw in the air and they pop-up into shape and the take down is simply twisting it like those sun shades for the car windwshields.

Big, well made tent. Assembly and disassembly is cake. Only negative is that it can be a little challenging to “neatly” get it back into the bag after disassembly.

Didn’t even use it. Got to our destination and try to set it up the poles were bent. Couldn’t even get it down and was forced to throw it away at the campground so couldn’t return it! Waste of 140 bucks!

So far, so good. I used my tent during a scout night at a baseball stadium. I was one of the last to get on the field but one of the first to have my tent done. I have not been able to test it with inclement weather yet to determine if it is good but I plan to write another review when I do so.