Coleman Elite Sundome Camping Tent with LED Lights, Weatherproof 6-Person Tent with Included Rainfly & Frame that can Withstand 35 MPH Winds, Built-In LED Lighting System with 3 Brightness Settings

I love the Coleman hinged door feature! I don’t know why all tents don’t have this! We have about 10 tents of varying sizes and brands. Tiny tents for backpacking, Coleman WeatherMaster for family camping that holds 4 large cots and tons of gear, eureka because my husband considers them THE tent for Boy Scout camping, and more.My husband and I were looking for a tent we could stand up in. One that we could step inside the door (not crawl into). A tent that could hold two large cots and lots of gear when we camp for a week but was light enough to carry in and out of camp (not light enough for backpacking, but under 20 lbs). We needed something that could withstand the heavy rains of southeast, gulf of Texas. We wanted a reasonable priced tent…my husband had his eye on a 6 person Eureka but they were about $600, plus all the custom add ons, I wanted a better deal. We were looking for our Goldilocks tent - just right!Classified as a 6 person tent, this Coleman tent could sleep 7 sardine style. Large dome - I think 6 feet tall in the center. Easy to set up and take down. The two of us can do it in about 15 minutes including all the stakes and tie downs.It was windy and rainy the first night we used it, and inside the tent stayed dry!Overall this tent checks every box and then some. Plus that hinged door. Seriously genius. Our WeatherMaster had a hinged door. I love not having to unzip and zip and unzip and zip all the time. Door stays closed all the time - no bugs or creepy crawlies get in…but it’s like a house door, just open and close thanks to the great design!Another win for Coleman. This is our go to tent for my husband and I when we go with our Boy Scout troop for the weekend or even for a full week. Not too big, but definitely big enough! Love it!

This tent is awesome. I’ve been camping every summer for pretty much all of my 54 years of life! As a kid myself, with my own kids, family, friends, solo… and out of maybe 20 tents ive had my whole life, this tent is The Best Tent Ever for one reason (actually there are a few more reasons I’ll also add below):IT HAS A SWINGING DOORYou might be thinking “meh. What’s the big deal. My tent zips. I’m good.” Well, I guess you’ve never been trying to leave the campsite to head down to the lake and then you realize your sun glasses are still in the tent, so you go and unzip the tent and go in and come out and zip it up. And then your kid says “wait, where’s my hat”. In the tent. So you unzip it. Get the hat. Zip it up…. Repeat. Repeat.Trust me, it’s better than sliced bread!!!Setting up the door is so easy and the designers thought of everything to make it quick and easy and simple and effective. You basically just bend a thin tent pole around the “curved part” of a D for one part of the door and then there’s a short pole to the be the “back of the D”. That’s it. Now the door swings open and because the front wall is slightly sloped, the door will close itself behind you! Alternatively if you want to keep it open you can, it kind of “sticks” itself under the edge of the fly to prop it open.But here’s why else it’s great:Oh, and, I bought it in summer 2020. And I camped a ton during the pandemic. So it’s been used for maybe a total of 90 nights camping. At least.It has a “lighting system”. And yeah I know: why do I need that? It’s easy enough to use a headlamp.I agree. I love headlamps! In fact I use one to set up this tent all the time and it’s great! But there’s a light switch ON THE WALL. Guess what that means? You always know where the switch is. See what I mean? Seasoned campers will realize… “ooooohhhhhhh…. Right…. No more fumbling around.”Yeah.I know. Right?So you need 4 D batteries and they last multiple trips each summer and last multiple years. I use the overhead light on bright when getting ready for bed. Or on “dim” as it gets closer to bed time. And then in the middle of the night if I get up to use the bathroom I turn on the amber/red light and no more trying to find your tent as you come back to camp! And since I also use the Ds in the air mattress pump, it’s actually nice to know I have a second set of batteries to back up each.Lastly, in the photos above you might wonder why it looks like there’s a tent inside a tent. Yeah. That’s my awesome cold weather camping solution! It’s a 2-3 person backpacking tent inside the larger Coleman sun dome! The double insulation against freezing temps (I think it was in the high 20’s at night) extended Sierra camping into the first week of October! So this tent is the larger one that fit the other tent inside.How big is it? Is it really tall enough to stand? Yes. I’m 5’8” and I can stand and get dressed just fine and I’ve had people over 6’ tall also comfortable standing in the center.I easily fit a queen mattress off center so I have more open space at the entry. (And the person on the other side of the bed has a door, too, so night time potty trips don’t have to wake everyone. But the back door is a regular door. Zipper. So sad. How old fashioned! :)But it has good floor space and since the walls are pretty vertical, there’s lots of room. I can also fit a potty bucket, a chair, one of the camping storage boxes I pack with as a nightstand, and two dog beds! If you had to fit two queens, they would fit side to side but probably not much room around that. Alternatively, sometimes I camp with just a cot and a single sized air mattress as a pad on the cot, and that gives even more room inside! And my dog who loves to be in a kennel sleeps under my cot!But what about weather:It has rained on me. And rained a lot. Lightning. Hail. Snow. All of it. And I thought surely I would get some leaks. Nope. The fly is awesome as is, but if you use the guy wires to allow for more air circulation, and to pull the fly away from the walls so it extends a little, it is the best ventilated tent I’ve ever had! No buildup of moisture! Sometimes I tie the guy lines to trees or shrubbery or sometimes do the whole stake it down thing… which reminds me… NO you don’t have to stake the tent down in order for it to be stable. If it was storming at all of course you’d want to stake it everywhere but sometimes you get lazy and just want to set it up quickly. It works just fine.But the door.Get this tent for the door.It has some light Velcro that “latches it” when you close it and at night or whenever you want (like if you need to put the dogs in the tent for a minute…), and there’s a grab handle of webbing to open it. The zipper is super cool in that it has guides so it moves the fabric out from in front of the zipper. THIS TENT HAS NEVER EVER GOTTEN CAUGHT IN ITS ZIPPER. Again, seasoned camper know: game changer.Oh and a bonus awesome thing: the windows “roll up” as you unzip them. It’s hard to explain but it involves a simple technology similar to a “slap bracelet” (or a single slat of a mini blind). No more window flaps hanging all over getting in the way….It’s as if someone at Coleman actually went camping once and was like “You know what would be awesome. If a tent could….” And then they made a tent that solved every tent problem ever.Except it does take a minute to set up. Not the easiest. But no way the most complicate tent to set up. This one is pretty fast to do by myself. I’ve never timed it. But it doesn’t seem to take more than about 8-10 mins. It has fast clips for most of the pole length with just about 2” of “stuffing the pole in the sleeve” right at the apex.

First of all, this is not my first Coleman Sundome tent. I've seen many reviews complaining of water in the tent after a storm. Yes, the rainfly only comes down 6 inches below the mesh side in these tents, but properly staked out, I've had little to no water in any I've owned. If you want more protection from rain blown under the rainfly, get an appropriate sized tarp to cover it. I did so with this Sundome Elite for two reasons. First was to lengthen the rainfly. Second was where I camp I get small dead limbs falling from nearby trees as well as a tree seed that looks like a spiked ball falling. Don't want this to destroy the rainfly. I've only found 2 real downsides to this tent. One is door size. Don't expect to inflate your queen sized air bed outside the tent and get it through either door. And the only door you might get an inflated bed of this size through is the unframed door with a little work. The second downside is the proprietary CPX 6 power source for the light. WTF. If Coleman were truly environmentally friendly, they'd stop pushing this proprietary power source as well as their proprietary One Source battery systems. I'd estimate 90% of people carry a lithium power bank for their phones. Why not just attach a USB plug in to fit these to their lighted tents. Walmart and it's Ozark Trails tents do this.Size wise, you could fit 6 in this tent with a small amount of gear only in mummy style sleeping bags. This tent would more appropriately be a 4 man tent at most with gear. By myself I could get one queen sized bed, 2 50 gallon tubs and 2 18 gallon tubs with room to spare.Otherwise, this is probably the sturdiest dome tent for the money. It certainly has the best bathtub floor on the market for thickness and durability. Yes this tent is heavy. It's NOT your backpacking NOR bikepacking tent. Look elsewhere if looking for a light weight tent for backpacking or bikepacking.Update 3/8/2023: I've found like others who have dealt with Coleman customer service that they are not necessarily rude but, they do NOT do a very good job of support for their tents. I asked a simple question as to the size of the plug for their CPX 6 proprietary power source which is no longer made, nor supported by them but is environmentally unfriendly with it's requirement for D cell batteries. They admitted not knowing and commented about getting back to me but after a month never got back to me on it.I did measure the plug that goes into the CPX 6 power source and am currently waiting on an adapter cable to plug into my Anker power banks. Will update with the specific size and product used if my measurement was correct.