6-Person Skydome™ Camping Tent – Blue NightsWith a quick setup in under 5 minutes, the Skydome™ Camping Tent lets you enjoy more time with friends and family on the next camping trip. 6-Person Skydome™ Camping Tent – EvergreenWith a quick setup in under 5 minutes, the Skydome™ Camping Tent lets you enjoy more time with friends and family on the next camping trip. We found plenty of reviews from users online emphasizing the value of the 4 person tent, particularly for car camping. For rain protection, the length of the rainfly of my Sundome Tent is pretty decent, covering about one-third of the entire tent body, and it leaked only after 30 to 35 minutes. The Coleman tent is not really a four person tent unless you have small children, under the age of five.
The metal tips clipped to each corner were easy to insert into the base of the tent poles. Using our back yard as a test site, I proceeded to test its set-up time which is set at 10 minutes. Silke watched from the edge of the deck as I deftly maneuvered my way around the laid out tent and proceeded to stake off the corners. It was very similar to our old coleman screen tent tent in layout and design so I had an unfair advantage to setting it up the first time. Even though Coleman uses an inverted seam to sew the tent body to the tub floor I still went around all four sides with seam sealer before I took it out on its first camp. So I’ve spent 12 nights in the tent and with a good steady rain on 4 nights and no leaks yet.
Our best guess is that the water ran down the rainfly, made contact with the tent body, and then proceeded to leak through the seam where the wall is sewn to the bathtub floor. All in all, we were pretty disappointed in its wet weather performance. If you think you’ll experience rain on your camping adventures, you get what you pay for here and it’s probably best to look elsewhere. We tested the six-person version of the , which offers a healthy 10 feet x 10 feet of floor area.
If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Specifications from Coleman state the Sundome 2 is 5’x7’. Usable interior dimensions were actually closer to 4’9″ x 6’9″.
Because of the no-frills approach to this tent build, pitching the Sundome only took 5 minutes and 43 seconds. Coleman chose not to use grommets like the rest of the tent world and instead attached a pin on every corner that slides inside the pole. Though not ideal, it is fairly easy to get used to doing. Packing the tent back up into the bag isn’t very hard either. There is a removable extension on the bottom that we assume helps keep the bag small for shipping but, once removed, allows a little more breathing room. The packed size of the 4-person dome tent would be too bulky for backpacking, but is conveniently sized and shaped for car camping.