CORE9 Person Instant Cabin Tent - 14' x 9', Green (40008)

This is the best tent I ever had. It is my 10th year as a single mother camper with 2 kids under 13. I love pop up tents because it requires minimal work and it is stress free. I purchased this tent last year to have more room and because it has more windows for summer camping. First use for Memorial day weekend 2024 this tent endured 12 hours of rain and strong winds in Saluda NC mountain with no leaks and I dryed fast. Second use this weekend new river state park VA know for it's strong winds. This tend resisted 20 to 40 miles per hour winds from 10am to 5pm and it didn't move one inch from the ground. I have owned about 7 tents all sizes all pop ups all brand names. This one is by far the best tent I have purchased in 10 years. We go camping 4 Tony times between March and November. I also purched the under tent tarp sold for this tent and it is the perfect size. I purched the 9 people size but it really fits 5 people on single air mattress with no room for your bags or anything else. So I recommend for 4 people with all your shoes, backs and etc to have room inside. The only thing I find that needs improvement is the mail door zippers. They get stuck where the fabric has a fold so you have to hold it with one hand and with the other stretch the fabric and you need 2 people to throw the rainfly over the tent because is very tall. Other than, this is a durable, sturdy and super affordable tent. I am 5.5 131 pounds and I can carry it in and out of the car to load with no issues by myself. I am writing this review and plan to purchase the 4 people size to replace y existing one to camp solo due to my experience of rain and wind proof 100% twice for me with this tent.

So far just set it up in the backyard for a test run. Without stakes/rainfly it literally took 4 minutes from zipped up in carrying bag to standing up. Total game changer compared to traditional tents. It’s so easy I may just use it on days I want to be outside but don’t want to be bothered by mosquitos.It’s also very spacious. 9 people can lay down with a comfortable amount of wiggle room in the arrangement indicated on the diagram. If you were really going sardine mode, maybe more people could fit.There seems to be a layer of glue or sealant covering some of the seams, which I hope will make it durable for many trips to come. Will update this review as I get more info.

After much waffling on different models, selected this tent for a cross country road trip where my family of 4 would camp most nights, one night per location. That's alot of setting up and tearing down, and my two kids are too young to be of much real help. As such, the "instant" style tent seemed the best fit for my needs. Had been leaning towards the Coleman Instant Cabin 8, but ultimately selected this one for the weight, this one is about 10lbs lighter at a little over 30 lbs, compared to the Coleman at just over 40 lbs. I had also been attracted to the Gazelle 8-person, it's one of those that literally pops up; but it was expensive, and I had concerns about how well it would hold up to high winds, and reading the reviews it didn't actually seem to go up any quicker than this one. Finally, I searched around all the premium backpacking brands looking for something ultralight. I used to backpack extensively and am no stranger for paying a premium to shave off weight, especially for large heavy gear like tents. Brands like Big Agnes, MSR, etc. However I find that in the 8-person capacity range, the weight of those tents was still in the same ballpark as these car camping varieties (near 30 lbs or more). Based on that, I ruled out those brands because the price is much higher.I received the tent yesterday. Since it was beautiful spring weather, I decided to give it a shakedown. The tent set up so easily. Although I had spectators, I wanted to try a one person set up. Took maybe 2-3 minutes, first time, no instructions (I did watch a couple of YouTube videos while I was deciding on tents). As luck would have it, we were expecting some mild thunderstorms overnight, followed by another dry sunny day. So I had the chance to try out the weatherproofing and still have a day to dry it out before packing it away. So I guyed out the rainfly and also staked all 8 anchors on the tent itself. Heard the thunder in the wee hours of the morning and the gutters gushing right outside my bedroom window. This morning: not a drop in the tent. One little drop fell out of the zipper on the door as I opened up the tent.So this afternoon, the true test: packing the tent away. This is always the part I dread the most, since I was a kid. Such a pain to roll around on a moist tent trying to squeeze the thing back in the bag. Especially on a road trip where you're wanting to get up and get on the road, and it takes so long to break camp anyway with all the other equipment that has to be packed up and stowed. Takedown was flawless, despite a strong breeze. Dropping the tent and folding it up is truly a 60 second job, and again this was my first time. It did take another couple minutes to tie the thing around with the two strings provided. Honestly those are too short and too flimsy anyway and I'll replace them with some paracord. Then it stuffed back into the bag, along with the rain fly, in seconds. It was awesome! It took me 5 times as long to carefully coil up the guy lines on the rain fly so they wouldn't be a tangled mess, as it did to break down, fold up and pack the entire rest of the tent. I'm a super happy camper, so far. I plan to use this in a variety of settings, pretty intensively for a few weeks this summer, so I will update this review with regard to durability, longevity and other factors I'm not foreseeing at this time.The only issue I had with the tent was, somehow it came to me with no stakes. I wasn't terribly disappointed because the stakes that come with tents are typically short, crappy steel ones, and the reviews indicated no different with this tent. So I would likely have replaced them anyway. No worries, I hop on Amazon and contact customer service. They're unable to send replacement parts, the only option is to return the whole tent, which seems absurd with a tent of this size when everything works perfectly. After a quick chat with a bot, then a real person, they offered to refund a discount to cover the cost of the stakes, an asked how much I would need to replace them. Well I was going to buy good, long aluminum or titanium stakes with real eyelets, so I told them $20. They agreed, but within a couple of hours I received $30 + tax issued to my Amazon account. That will more than cover the cost of some nice, lightweight stakes! Based on this excellent customer service, my 5 star (so far) review remains.UPDATE: after a 3-week cross-country road trip, this tent has been an excellent choice for my needs. It has remained durable after 15 nights of camping with constant set up and tear downs. It withstood multiple days and nights of rain with absolutely no leaks. The only negative thing that happened was one of the poles had the little plastic green release button jam up and break while camping at Kaibab National Forest. Thereafter, for that single pole I have to use a screwdriver or other small pointed tool to reach in and press the button that allows the pole to collapse. All in all, for less than $300, this tent was an excellent value.

I had a big camping trip planned for my Girl Scouts. It was able to sleep 8 girls (although we kept their overnight bags in a different place).Set up was a breeze! When they say “set up in minutes” they mean it! And taking it down was simple enough too. The storage bag is big - no struggling with small storage bags.The last thing I will mention is that we had 1 night of severe thunderstorms and the tent did not leak at all. The rainfly looks short but it was effective.Overall, id definitely recommend this tent. Hoping it lasts us a while.