CORE Instant Cabin Tent with LED Lights for Family Camping and Glamping

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1. Lamont Verified Buyer – 29 March 2024

   I like the idea of this tent, plenty of room not only for sleeping but for gear as well. The “pyramid” shape is different, and allows for storage on the sides. The tent does come with indoor and outdoor lights that are controlled with buttons outside.

   I have several of these instant tents and I really like how easy and fast it is to setup and more importantly to take down. This is where the issues come in with this tent. You need two people to set up the tent, which isn’t a big deal, but it is good to know. While putting up the tent, I had 3 expandable legs that were stuck. The only way to unstick them was to wiggle, twist and position the legs just right to get it to expand. It took my about 20 minutes just to get that step done. Completely unacceptable.

   This may be a defect for this tent and the rest are fine, but for me, it was so hard to get it up that I can’t see myself using it often. The frustration level was through the roof. When I finally got it up, it was nice, very roomy, the lights worked fine. But the process to get it up was extremely frustrating as was the process of getting it down due to the stuck legs.
   

2. Hal Verified Buyer – 8 June 2024

   I’ve bought CORE tents from Costco before and I like the quality of CORE tents. I believe this pyramid shape is the newer style for 8 to 10 people tents.

   I wanted thi style for two reasons. One, it is more wind resistant than the other CORE tent that is more cube shaped.
   Two, this has only one center dome to push upward and hence easier and faster for one-person setup. I was able to set this up by myself. It would be faster with two people but it’s definitely doable with only one person. Just takes a bit longer.
   

3. Logan Verified Buyer – 2 March 2025

   I’ve had several instant cabin style tents, but this is the first “pyramid” style tent I’ve had. It’s perhaps the first of its kind that I have seen as well. I’m trying to think of reasons for the design, and I can see some advantages. If you have cots/pads set up on the far ends, you have a pretty good skyward view, though this is true everywhere in the tent as there’s tons of mesh. Either end has a gusset that is hooked up to the guy lines that I suppose helps to channel rain water away. Something that stands out to me with this tent compared to another instant tent I reviewed recently is that the material is quite tight, making the tent feel very sturdy. The instant cabin portion of the tent (center) are not quite 90 degrees but pretty close, giving you a bit more space and, I think, improving the tent’s wind resistance. With the novel design out of the way, the build quality is very good. No loose threads or anything of that nature. Stitches all look good. I have one build quality issue with one of the guy lines for the rainfly, where it’s oddly falling apart. Finally, the integrated lights are nice. I don’t know that it really adds much, but it is a sort of neat feature to have. I wish the string lights were integrated into the tent body so you don’t need the rainfly to use it. Between integrated lights and better material quality, I’d rather have better material quality. You can tell that a lot of the money for this tent went into providing lights. On to the issues: the material quality is only okay for the price. I’ve had less expensive instant tents that have better quality materials. The floor for example is PE (tarp). Kinda crude, basic. What you get on budget tents. It does the job, but isn’t very nice – but, that is improved slightly in that there is some nice reinforcement where the main poles hook into the tent floor, so that seems nice and robust (the tent in general seems built very robustly in spite of the cheaper materials). That said, the water resistance is unfortunately not very good. While the rainfly is generous and covers most of the tent, the center of the tent is fairly exposed. I didn’t see any issues with water ingress around the windows in the front or back, but those seams are all taped. The seam where the tent body and floor meets however is not taped – and this is exactly where water is getting in. It seems common knowledge that no matter how nice your seam is, unless it’s taped, it’s going to leak, so I’m not sure why tent makers don’t tape them. After my fairly short test with sub-city pressure water in between mist and stream, after a few minutes of “rain”, the seam began to leak in some places. Not everywhere, but I think with a long enough rainstorm, it will happen on both the front and back wall. Mind you, this was not with direct water spray on the seam either – this was indirect water. (Update: I think the leak, based on some of my pictures, might be from a transverse seam above the floor seam and it dripped down and collected at the floor seam – not sure) My final critique is that I don’t love the provided battery bank. It takes D batteries which I don’t have, so I had to use one of my power banks. I’m sure it’s this way both for cost cutting and also so that they can ship the tents without special provisions. To sum it up, it’s a well built tent with some novel features, and is reassuringly sturdy, but not particularly water resistant due to the body-to-floor seam. Setup is complicated by the design somewhat, but will probably be faster as you get used to it. The ends of the tent use fiberglass poles (my least favorite).

   

4. Mancave Central Verified Buyer – 3 March 2025

   Wow, what an amazing tent. Once you remove it from the shipping box you are greeted with a really high quality carrying case with a handle to make transporting easy. The material of the test is top notch and the ease of setup is great too. I have no prior experience with tents of this type so I have no point of reference other than I like it a lot and can’t wait to put it to use. The initial selling price is around $400 as of this writing so I suspect it to drop to half that eventually which would make it a better deal and more worthy of a recommendation.
   

5. MC Verified Buyer – 4 March 2025

   Nice large tent. It took two people to put it together. All the seamstress and zippers are nice and seem very sturdy. Used the tent during a high wind advisory and it withstood it well. Can’t attest to its waterproof ability’s. In the center of the tent my brother in law who is 6’5 was able to stand up tall and his head was at the roof. The sides you have to bend over. Perfect price for this tent.
   

6. Jean K Verified Buyer – 7 March 2025

   I like that this has added features like pockets to keep gear organized. I also like the ease of set up and take down. We haven’t used it in the rain yet but it seems like durable waterproof fabric. The 10 person size is great for a 4 person family plus gear storage.
   

7. Starr Verified Buyer – 18 March 2025

   I recently acquired some land in nowhere land and we are going to be camping out there for awhile to work on the land. So far this tent was super quick and easy to set up. Love how light it is and that it comes with lights. It was fast to assemble and very spacious. Its rated for 6 people but can fit more depending on the size of the people and stuff stored in the tent. I am using it for 2 adults and a dog. My husband is 6’4 and the tallest part of the tent is 6’8 so he can stand up completely in the tallest part of the tent. Absolutely worth every penny!!