The tent comes with fiberglass poles, an E-cable port, a pleasant awning supported with its own pole shown in the picture, and you also have side windows. The Coleman Skydome 6 Tent is with a full fly and vestibule so you have plenty of space for storage and a full protection coleman tents in a 3-season camping. Its official capacity is for 6 people and for this you have a floored area of 85 ft² (7.9 m²). The mentioned vestibule adds 40 ft² (3.7 m²) of fully covered area for gear. The structure is an extended dome supported with fiberglass poles.
This 6-person version offers 87.2 ft² (8.1 m²) so it is best to downgrade the number of users. The instant setup means that you can have it ready literally in 60 seconds. This is what they call the Fast Pitch design, and this means there is a hub element attached to the poles. The area is 90.4 ft² (8.4 m²), and the peak height is 76 inches (193 cm). This is a very unique design, what you see here is a connectable tent. This means it can be zipped to three other tents of this type or to smaller 3-person tents from the same series, one of them is shown in the picture.
The first was an early February trip to Indian Cove Campground, in Joshua Tree National Park, where daytime temperatures in the high 70s plunged to the mid-30s at night. (A later check of the weather at nearby Point Mugu Naval Air Station confirmed that the recorded winds had topped 40 miles per hour.) A third trip brought us to Wheeler Gorge Campground, outside Ojai, California, in April 2016. A year later, in early April 2017, we took another group trip to Point Mugu, in an effort to evaluate three additional family tents. Families who regularly pitch their tent in rainy locales need a wind-fighting tent with a good-size vestibule for storing wet shoes and gear, as well as a full rain fly for added weather protection.
To start, the Instant Cabin’s speedy set-up time (a claimed 60 seconds) is a standout feature and impossible for the Sundome to match. Second, the Instant Cabin doesn’t include a rainfly, although the tent body is said to be waterproof without one. And finally, the robust and quick-deploying frame of the Instant Cabin adds significant weight—it clocks in about 10 pounds heavier than the Sundome. While we love the idea of setting up a tent super fast, we’re not convinced the Instant Cabin is worth the extra cost and questionable rain protection. Despite its inexpensive price tag and overall lack of features, the Coleman Sundome is a highly durable camping tent that should have no problem standing up to years of use. The bathtub floor is made of a thick, tarp-like material, and the body and mesh don’t feel in the least bit fragile.
In addition to the 6-person Kingdom tent, REI offers a 4-person option and an 8-person option, which is recommended for larger families. We tested the six-person version of the Coleman Sundome, which offers a healthy 10 feet x 10 feet of floor area. However, camping tents rarely live up to their capacity numbers in real life—unless you want to sleep like sardines and leave little space for gear or daytime activities—and the Coleman was no exception.
When Coleman introduced their first Instant Tent to the world back in 2013 I was a little skeptical it was smaller than similar tents and quite a lot more money. The original Instant 8 has over the years has become an all time favorite along with the more recent Instant Cabin both have huge followings with great ratings. The tent is very affordable and dome-shaped, note that there is an extra loop pole for the vestibule support, and these are fiberglass poles. The tent weighs 9 lb 5.4 oz (8.77 kg), and its peak height is 72 inches (183 cm).
The tent’s floor area is 244.3 ft² (22.7 m²), and the porch adds 75.3 ft² (7 m²). Because of such a size, I have included it also into my list of extra large family camping tents. I have been using a marmot tent but want a bigger tent for family car camping. I understand the quality of these tents are not what they used to be and we don’t want to risk broken poles or worse water leaking in. The “Skydome™” variants of dome tents are designed to provide “20%” more head room.
Indeed, one of the Marmot’s most subtle and best features is its color coding and door design, which makes it very easy to orient the tent for weather protection. Both doors zip open to the side that’s color-coded blue, as opposed to zipping open to opposite sides. This means the vestibules equally protect coleman sleeping bags the doors, rather than providing opposite entries and exits—the latter creates a situation where, in stormy weather, one side of the tent is always more exposed to blustering wind or rain. In other words, one partner—or one partner’s gear—is always going to get a dose of weather when they head out.