Coleman Large Instant Tent for 8 People | Family Camping Solution

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1. idle chatter Verified Buyer – 4 April 2024

   We bought this tent in July in anticipation of our first camping trip in 5 years. To say my spouse is a reluctant camper is an understatement, so I did whatever I could think of (short of renting a furnished cottage) to make our week on the coast of Maine comfortable. I had been reading the comments about this tent for about a year before we decided for sure that we’d be camping this summer. Wish I’d gone for it in early summer, when Coleman was running a $20 rebate program! Oh, well. We practiced raising the tent one time before leaving home. In the hot sun, it took us a few minutes of frustration to figure out how to get all the arms extended, but really it wasn’t too bad. Knocking it down wasn’t bad either — we managed to get it back into the case without opening up the gusset for extra space. Fast forward a week — we sure were glad we had done a dry run as we raced the sunset to arrive at the campground. Setup went very fast. We used a tarp underneath (smaller than the footprint of the tent, as recommended by some of the commenters here), but that was it — no seam-sealing or other prep. Someone else posted this week about using the tent for 2 people — honestly, we were happy to have all that space for just the two of us, and couldn’t imagine sharing it! It’s spacious, but we liked the elbow room. To give an idea of how much room there was, we used a double-high, queen-size air mattress, and had plenty of room to walk on either side. I had little nightstands on either side of the bed as well. I also had a 4’x6′ rug (from Ikea, in case you’re interested) in the front area of the tent. I’ll see if I can post a photo. We had only one day of rain that week, but it was torrential. Storms kept blowing through the area, so it rained hard, on and off, for hours. We had been out all day — when we got back, we noticed that there had been a small leak. The vulnerable spot seemed to be where the curtain/room divider was sewn into the roof of the tent. We didn’t have a fly, but we had staked the tent out as taut as we could, and that was the only moisture issue we experienced. Never noticed condensation inside the tent, even though we were by the coast and mornings could be damp. We were among pine trees, so it was easy to put the stakes in, but I was glad that we at least had a few longer spikes for the four corners of the tent, and a mallet. That kit that Coleman sells is actually kind of nice — we asked for it in our wedding registry. It comes with four of the sturdier stakes, the mallet and a stake puller, plus a cute broom and dustpan. It all came in handy. Coleman Tent Kit One result of all that rain — even though the tarp was much smaller than the footprint of the tent, a lot of water got trapped between the tarp that the underside of the tent. We discovered it at the end of the week, when we were dismantling the tent. But we never had any moisture underfoot, inside the tent. The bottom material must have been very well coated. The person who commented about needing both hands free to get in and out of the tent — we experienced that as one of the major annoyances of the tent. It’s the reason I gave it 4 stars and not 5. We wanted to keep it zipped, to keep out the mosquitoes, but every time we wanted to bring something into or out of the tent, it was hard to juggle it while holding onto the bottom of the zipper with one hand and raising the zipper tab with the other. Quite a pain, as our daily routine required many entrances and exits. Maybe next time we’ll be a little less obsessive about keeping it sealed, since the zipper is protected by a nice, heavy flap with a few sturdy patches of Velcro along its length. Putting the tent back into the bag, with the bottom all wet and muddy, was a lot harder than when we did it the first time, when all was clean and dry. We didn’t want to touch it and get our clothes all dirty, but you do have to kind of get down to roll it, and show it who’s boss. It’s a lot of work, IMO. That was where my “glamping” concept got a reality check! Looking forward to using it again, and I hope I won’t have to wait 5 years! Also hope we don’t experience the parts failures that others have described, or at least that Coleman will have come up with a suitable fix by then. It’s worrisome to hear that these things can break, apparently for no good reason.

   

2. YAHYA Verified Buyer – 7 September 2024

   It is a good tint, but it came without rain cover !!
   

3. Gabriel Reyes Verified Buyer – 14 February 2025

   Desde que yo nací mi familia acostumbra ir de campamento, y este tipo de casas de campaña que se arman y quitan rápidamente son un sueño hecho realidad. Es de excelente calidad y bastante amplia. Estamos muy contentos con la compra.
   

4. OSCAR Verified Buyer – 27 February 2025

   Es un excelente casa de campaña se arma muy fácil y rápido.
   Tiene demasiado espacio, a mi familia le encantó….
   Me hubiera gustado que el protector contra la lluvia viniera en la casa.
   

5. Sahid Verified Buyer – 2 March 2025

   Excelente para acampar cerca del coche, es funcional y muy amplia, el armado y desarmado toma solo unos minutos. No la recomiendo cuando se debe caminar para acampar, el peso de casi 20 kg y las dimensiones no lo permiten.
   La recomiendo muchísimo!
   

6. R. Reichelt Verified Buyer – 15 March 2025

   I’ve had many tents, of varying quality but always large cabin type tents with room. These aren’t designed to live out of or to backpack – I drive my car up to a spot in the woods and start unloading the ridiculous amount of camping gear I have for a 2 night stay. This tent goes up and comes down amazing fast and simple. I find it attractive, roomy, and a god send compared to previous tents that took forever to figure out and put up and tear down. I love that I can put up my tent myself in a quick and simple manner and get to the rest of my trip without wasting time figuring out how to put the darn thing together. I’d recommend this tent over and over and will never go back to the old type of tent without the easy-up features. UPDATE!!!: So I have had this tent a couple years, store it well and it was great the first couple times I got to use it. As you can see above, I loved and recommended it. Fast forward to the third time I used it – I was not shielded by forest and was subjected to a little bit of wind/breeze which grabbed at the tent naturally. I felt that since it goes up so quick and easy – we’d throw it up and secure it with tie downs right? Wrong – two corner pieces snapped. They couldn’t stand even a small amount of wind without breaking. I’m not sure if you can see in the picture, but two corners are rigged together with wire and rope. Bummer, and lesson learned – let’s contact Coleman to order new parts and I just won’t set the tent up unless I have perfect air stillness in the future. Well, it doesn’t appear that they sell replacement parts for this tent anymore. I’ve taken two courses of action – contacted their customer service via email and ordered similar looking parts for a newer model tent in hopes that they might fit my tent and I can use it again. The result? Coleman has ignored my concerns for over a week now without any sort of correspondence or care. Even worse, the parts I ordered over a week ago (so that I would have them in time for my next trip 10 days from when I ordered) are still not even showing as shipped on the website. It says my order is processing on the Coleman website. I mean…seriously? I pay a somewhat hefty price for one of their tents, use it 3 times and it breaks, then pay to replace the shoddy parts – and I can’t even get correspondence back or any move on an order to pay to replace the parts myself??? Bad form Coleman, bad form indeed. I believe this tent to be better than 1 star, the customer service sucks though so you best hope nothing goes wrong with it for you because the tent has easily breakable, non-replaceable parts – and Coleman isn’t trying to help you out. I had an issue with a Columbia tent once – the customer service could not have been better. Giving 1 star, and adding a picture in hopes that people will search out 1-star reviews, and picture reviews – see this and be forewarned.

   

7. Mr Roberts Verified Buyer – 26 March 2025

   I used this tent last weekend when I went camping by myself and I am extremely glad I bought this tent! Without looking at the instructions I setup the tent myself in about 2-3 minutes while I figured it all out. This tent is huge and so comfortable compared to my last tent which is a Eureka 4 person triangle tent. I love the design of this tent and I am so glad whatcampingtent.com still carries this model as the new Coleman model is smaller (14×8). Having the extra 2 feet of floor space along the entire length of this tent adds about 28 feet of floor space! I love that it can be split into 2 rooms. For me I used the back room for my queen air mattress and my gear and then had 1 of the 2 dividers down on the side of the bed to make it a more private space. In the front room which has massive windows all around I kept a few pieces of gear and had a ton of extra space. I bought some good quality tent stakes to replace the cheap ones the tent comes with and I didnt use the tie-downs. When it got rather windy the tent held up perfectly and had no issues at all. Pros: – Large tent with lots of storage, sleeping, and hang out space. – All the inside seams of the tent are taped as a extra waterproofing method and the floor piece goes up the wall about 6 inches to prevent ground water seeping in as there are no ground level seems. – Very easy to setup and take down, even with 1 person it was fairly easy. – Good quality materials and fabric. – Customizable windows all around the tent which allow either unzipping or unzipping and hanging with straps. – Doors on both side of the tent. – High ceiling allows you to stand up and walk around the whole tent (unless you are unusually tall). – Tent looks really nice and the design is unique. The frame kind of looks like a spider holding the tent up! Cons: – When packed up the tent is rather heavy to carry around so hopefully you can setup camp where you park and dont have to haul it too far – I wish there was a couple more storage pockets on the inside of the tent for little items like keys, glasses, wallets etc. There are 2 now but 2 more would be fantastic – When the windows are down/unzipped, there arent any straps to keep the flap neat and tidy, you just have to tuck the flap into the bottom of the window area – The last and biggest con would be that I didnt buy one of these a long time ago!!! Such a fantastic tent!!!! For a rainfly I went to Colemans website and purchased the 10 person tent rainfly using the Family discount and it ended up being $35 + $9 shipping. I had to call Coleman to get this discount as the rainflys are backordered until 9/21/12. The sales rep I spoke with wasnt even aware there was a Family discount and I had to tell her how I got the discount but she was happy to apply it to my order and it saved me $20 or so! To get the Family discount you go to the coleman website, click on the Site Map link at the very bottom of the page (in fine print) and then on the right column click on the Coleman Family Store link. When prompted for a password enter “Family” without the quotes. Once in the family store you can browse to Tents, and then Accessories, and scroll down to find the “Instant Tent Rainfly Accessory for 10-Person Tent” model 2000010328. The rainfly sold on whatcampingtent.com and most other sites wont fit this tent so make sure you purchase the correct one. I would highly recommend this tent to anyone who enjoys camping!!

   

8. Papa Didge Verified Buyer – 3 April 2025

   There are so many great things I can say about this tent. I wanted to wait to write my review on this tent until I had enough times to use it to really get an accurate feel for it. First of all it is so convenient. It literally is an instant tent. It is so easy to put up and take down. It takes me more time to set up things inside the tent than it does to put it up. The polls are already attached to the tent and stay there permanently. So all you have to do is take it out of the bag, extend the polls and stake it down. It is a very large tent. It has plenty of room in there. One thing I really like is that it is wall to wall head space. There is no place in the tent in which you have to duck. My wife and I both have twin size air beds that we have in an “L” shape in the tent. I have a small table in which I use my cpap machine at night. I have a large box fan, a very large cooler, boxes for our food and clothing in there. With all of that there is still a bit of space to walk around in. It has two doors and plenty of screen space. It does not come with the rain fly but there is one available for it. I recommend getting this. I have not tried the tent in the rain without it, but we did camp during a horrible storm with some pretty good gusts of wind. The tent passed with flying colors. The only wet area in the tent the next morning was a very small puddle on the floor. We chalked that up to not having it on a level surface. There was a dip in the ground exactly where the puddle was. Only negatives I can say about it, is that again it does not automatically come with the rain fly. There is no eport, however I just run an extension cord through the zipper door. Also the zipper can sometimes get stuck in the over-flap in the door. This can be frustrating. The negatives, however, are few enough for me to not love this tent. That is why it still gets 5 stars. Pros: Easy to put up. Easy to take down Very large, plenty of room With the rain fly it will keep you dry. Also holds up in decent gusts of wind. Cons: Does not automatically come with the rain fly. No Eport Zipper gets stuck in the over-flap. All in all I would not hesitate to get this tent. We have taken it on several adventures and are looking forward to calling it home for years to come. If you found this review to be helpful, please click the “yes: button below. Thanks