2 Person Folding Off The Ground Camping Sleeping Bed Double Tent Cot

This is a great tent. Plenty of room, comfortable and easy to put up (under 5 minutes). Plenty of ventilation and the rain fly worked perfectly. Its also an attraction. We had a number of people approach us to ask about it and check it out. It seemed to attract people like us older campers who just can't handle sleeping on the ground anymore. No back pain, slept like a rock. Here are a few points to note, suggestions and cons.- This tent is heavy and big. 3' x 5' folded. We ordered it ahead of time and had to shipped to where we were visiting. Took Amtrak back home. $20 for checked bag. Not bad. It would have been over $100+ if we flew it back.- We watched the manufacturers video. Basic but helpful. You need to figure out how to attach the rainfly on your own. Wish it showed how to strap it back together. Note this before you take it out of the box and set up. Some YouTube videos are helpful, most are crap. Watch KampRite's first.- Paper instructions are awful. KampRite needs someone in their creative department to work on this. No pictorials. If they do instructions like Ikea does with the little man illustrations, it would help.- We opened the tent and practiced. Necessary for another reason...you need to gas out the tent. Heavy chemical smell. Open the rainfly and pull the carrying bag inside out. After 5 hours in the sun, no smell.- The carrying case is garbage. Because the gears of the tent are exposed, the bottom of the bag torn the second we put it in. We're trying to create a plastic tray on the bottom of the bag. I'll repost once we figure it out.- There is a support bar down the center. We used two, 1" camping form rolls and purchased the KingCamp double self inflating pad and placed it in on top. Worked like a charm. This tent is a true double bed so double sized sheets were perfect.- With the rainfly on, you will need some sort of fan. We purchased an inexpensive LED fan/light. Get one with a hook. You can hook it to the top of the tent. Did the job.- We camped during low winds. If we go hiking and the tent is set up, I can see the tent blowing over if it gets bad, We getting or making U shaped stakes that can be placed over the support legs.- A few more postives. You can move this tent in a second if you need to due to ant hills, wind direction or annoying campfire smoke. Pick up and move up wind. Also, this can also be used as a double chaise lounge. Just put you pad on top over the unassembled tent and lock the chaise side up. The instructions are pretty clear on which side this is and there is a label on the frame. Don't force the side to close if in the locked position. You will break the gear. Only point on the paper instructions that was helpful.I hope this review helps. Enjoy and support our national parks.

Reading reviews on items can be just as frustrating as they are helpful. I hope to be helpful with this review. I bought this tent cot for a 6-day trip I was taking to the Nevada Desert 1 hour outside of Lovelock. The conditions were predicted to be cool and rainy. Turned out that the forecast was correct. Highs were 50-60F and lows dropped to around 30F, with winds gusting up to 30MPH, and rainy. Expecting bad weather, I was hoping to get off the muddy ground, as I'm a tent camper. I've camped out here with trenches around my tent many times, and occasionally got stuck with wet gear from the torrential downpours that blast through. This tent cot was a great solution for this trip, and it worked beyond expectations.For reference, I'm 5' 6" tall and weigh 195 lbs. My pack weighed close to 70 lbs, and I had approximately 30lbs more of additional gear.Pros:-This thing is heavy duty. The winds failed to move the cot even under the harshest conditions. Granted, I did have all my gear stored inside which helped anchor it. Alone, it can withstand quite a bit of wind though. If positioned in line with the direction of the wind, there is less surface area to act like a sail. I did awake to intense wind on the front of one of the storms, but quickly fell back to sleep knowing the tent wasn't going to fold down on me. It held up great.-This thing is BIG for a cot. There was plenty of room for me to set up my sleeping area on one side of cot, and store my huge backpack and other gear on the other side. There was plenty of room to be able to sit in the door on one side to take my boots off, and then transfer over to the sleeping side of the cot. At my height, I was able to sit comfortably in the middle of the cot as well.-Sleeping Room. I felt that cot was spacious enough to sleep comfortably. I had room to stretch long-wise with my height. Of course there is a support bar in the middle, which divided the cot into two separate sides. The width of each side was sufficient for rolling over, and moving around. I never felt locked into place by limited width.-Rain Fly. The rain fly came with the cot, and worked flawlessly in very heavy wind and rain. Now ...this is nothing more than a tent attached to a cot ...so you NEED to be a responsible tent camper and prepare the fabric for bad weather. I used tent silicone spray to seal the tent portion of the cot. I sprayed both ...the cot tent, and the rain fly. Let it dry and cure.....repeat one more time. This cot did NOT leak one single bit with the rain fly on. Granted, with the rainfly on, it is more difficult to zip the cot once your inside (you have to zip three separate zippers with the fly on), but the zippers are big enough that it's not difficult to accomplish.-Set up. This thing takes no time to set up. Probably took me 5 minutes. As many folks here stated, the clips that hold down the ends of the cot can be hooked to the middle bar and still be effective. This will prevent the cot from actually sitting on the clips. If you buy the cot, you will understand what everyone is talking about after the first time you set it up..-Construction. This is a heavy cot. Don't be fooled by any of the other reviews that says differently. Yes, I was able to carry it with the included carry bag with no issues, and I was able to throw it in the truck fairly easily. However, the weight is distributed over the sheer BULK of the cot, and it can be deceiving. Why so heavy? It is made with some pretty durable construction materials. The cot and frame is made acceptably well, and the tent appears to be average tent material. As stated before, the Zippers are heavy duty and make for easy zipping. There is some insulating padding between the folds of the cot material. It doesn't provide any true cushioning, but it does help a little with insulation from air moving underneath the cot. All the clips on the cot are made of some durable plastic. All the poles seem to be standard fiberglass poles (nothing special to see here). They have included some pockets for storage, which are handy.Cons:-Size: It's a big cot. It does not fit well in the back of my 1974 Bronco. I had no issues with placing it in the back of a full size pickup though.-Design: Being nitpicky here ... with the bad weather that I put this through, the clips that attach to the top of the tent to hold it up moved a little. What I mean by this is that the support bars that hold the top of the tent have a curvature to them, and then they bend downward to mount to the frame of the cot. The plastic clips slid slightly over the bend over the course of being beat down my 5 days of wind. Even though it did not have an affect on the performance of the tent cot, I just noticed that it cause a tiny bit of pooling towards the ends of the tent top. (of course, after proper preparation, the rain fly never leaked still.)The bar that supports the middle of the cot is noticeable. Don't buy this thinking that you are getting a "double" cot. This is really just two "singles" side-by-side. It worked out GREAT for me, but it will not be perfect for a couple wanting to cuddle without adding something to accommodate the bar.I really cant think of too many more Cons in regards to this product.Couple other things that I would like to add...- As with all sleeping arrangements, air underneath your sleeping arrangement is bad in cold weather. The air sucks the heat right out of you. This is true with air mattresses, and it is true with cots. I bought two reflective emergency blankets and folded them nicely to fit under my sleeping bag. I then layered it further with a thin insulating blanket. All three of these items rolled up nice and was easily storable in my backpack. This setup worked as intended, and I stayed plenty warm throughout the trip at temperatures in the low 30s.-I did buy a portable O2 Fan to control any of the normal condensation that collects from breathing inside the tent. I read somewhere else in a review that moisture condensing on the inside was a problem, since there is a small amount of ventilation in tent. I tested the idea out with the fan and found that the tent was absolutely dry when using through the night. I decided to not use the fan one night to reconfirm the results, and discovered a fair amount of condensation accumulated on the walls. So, having a circulating fan inside the cot is quite useful in ensuring that everything stays dry and comfortable. In times where it was not raining, cracking one of the zippers/doors open a little also does the job.-Storage under the cot stayed completely dry. The storage bags for this cot might be useful. I didn't try them, but I did store some items under the cot and they were dry the entire trip.If I had to improve this product from what it is now? I would add a little awning that could attach to either side. When it was raining and I had to enter the cot, I would unzip the rain fly and the two doors and sit inside with my legs outside. I didn't want my muddy boots to dirty up the inside of the cot, so I would take them off before getting completely inside. As you can imagine, with my legs outside of the cot while unlacing my boots, the rain water runs off the top of the tent and completely drenches your legs. I little awning would be helpful in keeping you dryer in this situation.Of course ..... not camping in the middle of forecasted week of thunderstorms would probably be a good solution as well.:)