Tahoe Gear Carson 3-Season 14 Person Large Family Cabin Tent

The instructions for setting this tent up are miserable at best. They come printed on a small flap inside the carrying case and are barely legible which makes it very difficult to reference part A and Part F when it's printed so small that the text bleed over makes both letters look the same. They also skip some basic steps that can make it far more complicated or confusing than necessary. First time setting it up took about 90 minutes, tear down took about 30-45 mins. Total tent footprint is 25 feet long by 17 feet deep so you'll need to think about where you want to camp and make sure you have space.Upside is that once you actually get it put together the first time, it makes sense and goes together much quicker on subsequent tries. 3rd try it went up in about 45 minutes. Would definitely be easier and faster with 2-3 people but is "possible" with one.Tent itself is fantastic. The main room holds a queen size air mattress with 2+ feet of walking space on all sides. The 2 "side" rooms hold a queen size mattress with about one foot of walking space on each side. It has a ton of windows for ventilation and hanging points to hang lights throughout the tent.The screen porch area is sizeable and useful. It probably wouldn't fit a picnic table, but it does provide space for coolers, shoes, gear, chairs etc. The only downside to the screen porch is that they do not provide a way to attach it to the tent along the sides which leaves a 3-4" gap between the screened room and the tent for bugs to get through. I'm thinking about taking some velcro and rigging it up myself.We use a thick tarp under the entire tent and screened room to minimize dirt being tracked in and out and to minimize how dirty the actual tent gets and it works great. The only "issue" with using the tarp is how you anchor the tent to the ground (unless you don't mind just poking holes through the tarp.Overall, great tent so far (only owned it 3 weeks), family loves it and we hope it ends up being as durable. as we expect it too be.

Bought this tent after many hours searching for the perfect tent. We call it our compound... its amazing for myself wife and our 7 year old daughter. Went up in 35 minutes with 2 people. Lay everything out first then put together. Stormed like crazy when camping for a week ( we got evacuated due to winds and rain 2x ) and not a drop of water inside the tent!! Best tent I have ever bought I would recommend to everyone!!!!

Once you figure out the instructions it is not too difficult to put. Definitely measure and then label them to make it easier. The only issue we had with it during our camping trip was that the zipper for the front porch would not zip (too tight to zip). From what I could tell, we had the rain fly on correctly , so it should have zipped. I was able to fit a queen size mattress in the middle room with room to spare. Bonus that it was not hard to get the tent back into the bag afterwards

Great looking tent. Like many reviews the instructions are not the greatest. However we found the instructions on the companies website and printed them out. First time set up took about an hour. Now that we have everything labeled. My wife and I can do it in about 35 minutes. The only bad thing. Really wish there were screens for the doors.The best advice I can give to anyone looking at this tent. Lay everything out before trying before you set it up. Once you have them laid out. It's really easy to figure where each pole goes...I had given this a 4 star review. But we used this tent over the weekend. We had 18 mph winds.. we had to use larger stakes. But the tent held up great. We had no leaks.. I am giving this a 5 star review because the durability is quite impressive... plus we put this tent up this time only took 30 mins.

Awesome tent it's hugh inside the kids loved it it has so much room it was a little hard to put up but it got put up it rained and we stayed dry GREAT INVESTMENT

Updated review: VMInnovations worked with me to make this right. While the camping trip was a bust, I appreciate that they cared enough to correct the problem. Changed from 1 to 3 stars.***Product is worthless and a complete waste of money. Considering the price, that is a shame. It took 5 of us 3 hours to get it up. With in 1 hour poles were riped apart and holes thought the tent. Great in concept. Would have loved to have this for our weekend. Thank goodness we had a back up tent.

Not a very good design for a large family/group tent. Bought this size tent because we wanted extra room and we thought it looked like a good design. It might sleep 14 kids but I doubt it will sleep more than 10 adults. Dimensions described were off. You will need at least a 25' x 15' area to set this tent up along with at least 8' + of overhead clearance. Directions are a little vague so it takes a while to set up at first but once you get the hang of it it's pretty quick. It is also very bulky and very heavy when it's in its carrying case. Rainfly that covers the main tent and screened-in area are one in the same so if you don't want the rain fly on the tent then you're going to have to rig it up somehow to have the screened-in area set up. Also the color we ordered was not the color received. And as usual the tent stakes are the cheap kind so if you're able to, get the good tent stakes

Put this thing up at least once at home, and mark the poles. There's like 8 different sizes, and they aren't marked. Otherwise, it's big and seems durable. My biggest complaint (as noted in other reviews) is that the screened in area does not attach to the tent all the way down. It clips at the top and bottom, but there's a large gap along the edges between tent and screen. The screened area also doesn't stay flush to the ground very well. Thus, it's not very effective at keeping airborne or ground bugs out of the screened in area.