Tent Coastline

My husband and I just camped using this tent for the first time. The tent was simple to put up between the two of us. We left the bedroom attached inside the tent when we dismantled it. We camped for a week in August. We had lovely sunny days but the nights were wet and blustery. The tent was perfectly waterproof. The separate bedroom meant that we had no condensation in there. Thanks to the guy-ropes it withstood some pretty strong winds. The door has 3 zips (sides and bottom) which all need to be fastened to ensure that no rain gets in. The bottom zip can b a little tricky until you get used to it. The fixed groundsheet with raised sides were good both for weather resistance and kept crawling insects out. We removed the bedroom divider and had one large bedroom for the two of us (the divider gives two bedrooms) ... this gave us space for a double airbed, a bedside (camping) table and multiple holdalls ... and we still had space to spare. I'm 5 foot 10" and it was great to be able to stand up wherever I was in the tent. The living area was generous. We had space for two tables (one to eat at etc and one on which we had a toaster, kettle etc), a couple of chairs, plus storage crates of food etc ... and there was still space for me to lay down (stretched out) to look out of the tent (admiring the view). When we took the tent down we folded it into half and then half again (lengthwise) ... I then rolled it tightly, whilst hubby concentrated on getting the air out of it and tucking anything in. We then placed the bag over it (covering the tent with the bag, instead of trying to put the tent in the bag) ... flipped it over and then hubby held the zipper together whilst I zipped it up. We were able to store it back it in it's original bag with ease this way. We are very happy with this tent.

Although I have a couple of backpacking tents this is my first purchase of a big site camper. No getting away from it, this is a substantial dwelling place, heavy, spacious, sturdy and super comfortable to live in. You will not lug this around on your back but thats not what you do on a campsite where you can take the car to the pitch. Goes up easily with two people helping but can be assembled by one. Space is terrific, really like the large living area and twin bedrooms, lots of space for your gear. Really tall, 6'6" inside which is a novelty to me being used to small solo tents. Lots of neat touches such as variable vents and zip out dividers. Great to see the issue with the door has been fixed by the addition of a bottom zip. Only moan would be the small bag it comes in, once the tent has been used it is nothing short of magic to get everything back into it. I bought a low cost bigger bag and split the parts up in the two. Great price and service from Amazon.

We've just bought this tent, it's the first tent I've bought in well over a decade and I was pleasantly surprised at how easily it went up. However you can forget the instructions, they're utterly useless. Putting it up easily needs a calm day, in which case you slip the poles through the sleeves, push up the tent and insert the pole ends into the grommets provided. Then you just put in the four corner pegs and work from there. If it's windy you're going to have to peg it down first... The poles are the usual fibreglass that all reasonably priced tents seem to have these days. Plenty of short cheap fairly useless alloy 'pins' that will soon bend are provided, but you can buy decent 12" steel 'pins' at every pound shop these days, along with a rubber mallet that you're also probably going to need. Anyway, it looks solid enough, is remarkably well made for the price, has loads of head room and room to sit if it's wet and the ground sheet is of reasonable quality. This is a BIG tent when it is fully guyed out, you'll need plenty of room. It's about 10 feet wide and at least 14 feet long and there are guy ropes on all sides that'll run out at least another three feet meaning that you'll need a pitch at least 16' by 20'. However... When it came time to take it down it all turned into a bit of a wrestling match. The outer tent traps air in it and swells to an alarming size when you're folding it up, and it doesn't like going down even if someone lies on it. When rolled up it's an absolute nightmare to get it back in the rather flimsy bag provided. We took the tent away for a weekend and it worked remarkably well, there were some problems others have mentioned that have obviously been sorted out, such as the bottom zip for the main entrance and the sleeping pod divider folding right down, both items that worked well on our tent. The small sleeping pods won't take a double inflatable mattress and I doubt you'd be terribly comfortable with four people living in it, with two it was reasonably comfortable. What didn't work: Well the short 8 inch pins provided pulled out at the first sign of a breeze, but I'd bought a couple of packets of cheap steel 10 inch pins from the local pound shop and the problem went away. The poles flex alarmingly in any sort of a wind. We got a 16 mph breeze and the whole edifice was moving alarmingly from the inside but it stayed up with no damage. However we had to take the tent down in the same breeze and that was no laughing matter for two people. The provided bag remains useless and our tent now lives in a large Aldi wheeled holdall/sports bag. Oh yes, buy the awning, it's almost an essential to stop you tracking stuff into the tent, but guy out the zip that attaches it to the tent as that unfastens itself in any wind...

This tent has a great deal going for it; o It stupendously easy to put up - 3 poles and 4 guy ropes and you're away o It has great space and head height for such a compact tent o It seems ultra-resilient to gusting winds o By-and-large the quality of manufacture is of the standard that makes many of us keep coming back to Coleman. o The self rolling windows are a great innovation (but see below) o The front door/ awning arrangement is straight forward and functional (but see below) However; o The zipping arrangement for the front door seems like a bit of Friday afternoon design - very awkward, and might beneficially have been simplified to a 2-zip design in lieu of the 3 that it comes with (2 sides, 1 bottom) o There's not really enough ventilation options get enough air through the tent on even a mildly sunny day - it has 4 small velcro-open pocket vents, a zip-open ground level D-vent, and the front door; no mesh on the windows and nothing whatsoever at head height or in the roof to get a through-draft o An uncharacteristic manufacturing error meant one of the window spring pockets wasn't sewn in properly, so the first time I used the windows the spring made a bid for freedom and tore the rest of the pocket away from the canvas (yep, the springs are pretty strong!) o The front door window is a toggle-down curtain (instead of self rolling, like the sides) which means when you have the awning up as you take care to step over the bottom lip of the door you garotte yourself on the dangling curtain. o Pole set. Just rubbish, plain and simple. The awning poles aren't staked, bayonetted or detented together so it's a bit of a contortionist's act to put the awning up without the poles disassembling themselves. The main poles are functional but like all steel-socketed, fibrewrap poles, they're heavy, sloppy and just a pain in the tits to insert and remove. (I replaced mine with a socketless, aircraft-grade aluminium pole set that I manufactured**, very similar to the Coleman Exponent pole sets of 5-6 years ago). So, in summary it's actually very good but for the want of that extra 5% quality in design, materials and manufacture it comes very close to being an also-ran. ** If you're interested in socketless aluminium pole sets for whatever tent you have, by all means drop me a line

This tent has an easy-to-assemble structure and could conceivably work in a cold but very dry location. Due to a very small number of openings for ventilation, it gets hot inside very quickly with the tiniest amount of sunshine even on a cool summer day. However, if there's any chance of moisture, this is the tent to avoid at all costs - it is clearly not waterproofed properly, or at least you might, like us, be unlucky enough to get one that has not been. We got a couple of consistent leaks after a few light showers within the first two hours of it being erected - mainly through the seams around the window toggles and the zip of the electric cable vent. And then the rain became heavier - both outside and inside the tent. This was not a tropical monsoon, just a standard Welsh shower, and we were getting a steady drizzle inside. Obviously, we intend to return the tent for a refund, because it is not fit for purpose and the claim that it is waterproof to any extent is totally misleading. (And we found a tear in the ground sheet, and the design of the entrance makes it impossible to avoid letting the rain in when you come in or go out, just to complete the picture.)

Very happy with this tent. It was our first tent, we don't have any previous experience mounting tents, but we made it very fast. It's easy to mount, and easy to fold afterwards. It works perfect with rain. We "tested" for two days in our first trip, and everything was perfect! Not a single drop inside. In our firs trip, we were two adults for 3 days and four adults another two days. A lot of space for two people, but even for 4 adults, the living room has enough space to have a table to cook and another one to eat. Inside, there is enough high for an adult in every point. The only negative point would be that there are no other windows than the main door, so in a very sunny day, it could be a little hot inside, but it's a good point if you travel to the mountains, where temperature fall a lot at night, and it's good to keep some warm from the day. I would really recommend it to friends or anyone who ask me advice about a tent.

Good tent at a great price, we purchased it for a festival. Quick & easy to put up & to repack afterwards. (Although it was windy and there were 4 of us, it could have proved more tricky otherwise!) Spacious and it was luxury to be able to stand up. 4 of us sat in the porch on cold evenings for a drink and it was nice to be able to sit out under the canopy on a rainy day. (Rain runs into the front of the porch if you just leave it unzipped, but putting up the canopy stops this.) Seems well made & sturdy. We didn't have any problems with the tent pegs as mentioned in some of the reviews, and we were on rocky ground. It's a bit heavy and needs one on each handle if you're carrying it any distance. We've only used it the once, but would give it top marks so far! A year later and we've used the tent several times since. Still very pleased and our friends in smaller tents are very envious that we can actually stand up and walk about whilst they're crawling in and out of their tents in the mud! Great product.

I bought this tent to take to a festival at Donnington. The tent was very easy to put up with two people and had plenty of room. The main attraction for buying the tent was the spacious sitting area. However, we had problems zipping and un-zipping the tent, it was a real nightmare. The zips are obviously not hardy enough for the job, as they would zip up then fall open again, very frustrating. We would leave the tent, wondering whether or not the zips would stay in place, and our tent might flood with rain, not ideal. Although the zips appeared to have stayed in place. I have read other reviews about rain coming in through the door, we didn't experience this, but we did have some very heavy rain, and noticed the side windows leaked, not tons of water, but small puddles. All in all, the tent stayed put in this weather, but was very noisy in the wind, earplugs advisable. That said, the ground sheeting is very durable and the sleeping compartments are fairly dark.

Une tente qui se monte seul en 35 minutes maxi. On peut y "vivre" à 4 en famille sans aucun souci. Elle a tenu un orage monstrueux avec des rafales à 60km/heure. Les 2 chambres peuvent ne faire qu'une seule grande pièce facilement (zip). Pour ceux qui se posent la question (?) le zip extérieur au dessus de la porte permet de rajouter un auvent. c'est vraiment une tente agréable qui semble solide (déjà 2 étés pour la notre). Je ne vois aucun point d’amélioration.

Ottimo prodotto, comodo per la famiglia numerosa, tenda spaziosa, per gli amanti del genere una sciccheria, ventilata il giusto. Consigliata.

Awesome size and space inside. Great room separators inside, allowing privacy between campers. The only gripe is the terrible ventilation. They should have made the ventilation better, if the front is door is zipped closed, there are only small vents to allow moisture out. If you sleep with the door open that should resolve that. But overall a good tent with huge room inside. Seems quite sturdy and able to withstand bad weather.

La prima volta che l'ho montata c'ho messo piu o meno 15 minuti... facilissima da montare e da riporre nella sacca unica pecca che ho trovato è che era stata insacchettata molto male e le numerose plastiche trasparenti ( punto debole di questa tenda) erano un po troppo piegate. Comodissimo il metodo di avvolgimento automatico delle finestre laterali (stecche di acciario removibili come i braccialetti dei bambini) che con un solo tocco si arrotolano e si srotolano. X fare delle ferie in campeggio in maniera comoda è sicuramente l'ideale

Nous sommes contents de cette tente. Elle est bien conçue (à part pour la porte d'entrée qui tire sur une fermeture éclaire. Il faut forcer pour fermer). Elle résiste très bien à de forte pluie et au vent. En bref, bon rapport qualité prix.