Wenzel Great Basin 18 X 10-Feet Nine-Person Two-Room Family Dome Tent (Light Grey/Blue/Taupe)

Best Family Camping Tent - The Wenzel Great Basin 18 X 10-Feet Nine-Person Two-Room Family Dome Tent was amazing! We took it for our family on a week long camping trip in the mountains and it did everything we needed it to! We really enjoyed this tent! It was very easy to set up and take down, roomy, and well designed. The zippers worked good, which is most tents downfall. Also, has really nice ventilation. As usual the room divider is marginal, but that really didn't bother us much.

Spacious and weather-resistant, the Wenzel Great Basin 18 X 10-Feet Nine-Person Two-Room Family Dome Tent sleeps up to nine campers in its two rooms, making it ideal for large families or smaller families with lots of gear. The Great Basin is made of rugged, weather-repellent Weather Armor polyester with a polyurethane coating for reliability, helping it keep water out and warmth in. The sonic-sealed polyethylene tub-style floor, meanwhile, is welded and not sewn, eliminating needle holes that might otherwise attract water seepage. And campers will love the variety of ventilation points--including two mesh back-to-back D-style doors and two polyester mesh windows--all of which are aided by an updraft ventilation system that improves the overall airflow.

The Great Basin is also easy to set up, with a shock-corded fiberglass frame and a pin-and-ring system. And when it comes time to hit the sheets, you can either create one huge sleeping room or roll down the divider curtain to create two separate rooms. The rooms can function as individual bedrooms for the campers or as a sleeping room and living room. Other details include two gear lofts for storage, two hanging pockets, a removable fly with a hoop frame over the door, and a storage duffel.

Wenzel Great Basin 18 X 10-Feet Product Features

• Shockcorded fiberglass poles with pin and ring system for easy set-up
• Hooped fly over front door and rear window for weather protection
• Hanging divider curtain creates two separate rooms
• Two mesh doors, two mesh windows and two mesh roof vents for cross breeze
• Includes stakes, gear loft, two hanging pockets and a storage duffel

Wenzel Great Basin 18 X 10-Feet Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Huge! This thing dwarfs other tents and will surely make others jealous! We filled it with a queen size air mattress, a baby's pack-and-play, a camp chair, a ton of gear, and still only covered half the floor space and had plenty of room to walk around. You will easily forget you are sleeping in a tent. Do not underestimate the size of this thing, it is really, really big.
• Easy to set up. Just four main poles and a very straightforward rain-fly.
• Convenient. Not too heavy and folds back into its back without too much difficulty.
• Inexpensive
• Light-rain proof. Haven't tried it in a real storm but kept a light rain/dew off.

Cons:

• Definitely requires staking on the sides. Not sure how it would hold up if you had really loose soil or sand.
• Not a cold weather tent by any means.

Overall this tent was well worth the money. Just two of us had no problem setting it up in <15 minutes and didn't find any defects in stitching, quality, etc.