SAFACUS 1 Person Tent for Outdoor Backpacking, Lightweight Double Layer Waterproof 1 Man Tent, Easy Set up Tent with Two Doors Aluminum Poles for Camping Hiking Mountaineering

This is a decent tent for the price point. I bought it on sale for $40. I would recommend this to a friend on a budget or someone new to backpacking.Here's a few things about this tent.1. Unfortunately it is not 3.5 lbs. Had I known this I would not of bought it. Weight has to be spot on. It's what many of us look for next to price. Sadly for the seller this mistake or typo could of added cost to their bottom line if I had chose to return it which I highly considered doing just for this reason. This is where it loses a star. It's actually 4 lbs or 3.94 lbs to be precise. And I tested this against other items in the house (bags of rice, beans, etc) to check calibration of my scale. +/- an ounce and it's still closer to 4 than 3.5. It's freestanding and in decent weather you only need two stakes for the vestibules. Leave remaining stakes and guy lines at home and you'll be at 3.54 lbs. Closer to the listed weight.2. Although the tent options for the single person are green and orange, I somehow received red (red fly, orange-red body). Red is also written on the tag. I like the red and actually prefer it over orange, but if I was stuck on getting orange I would be returning this. Once again this hurts the seller's bottom line and leaves them with an upset customer and bad referrals.I'm 6' tall, broad shoulders and a size 12 shoe. My toes touched a little but not enough to annoy me. I was surprised to find that the inside is actually quite roomy. The side walls are near vertical (roughly 15° inward). This gave me ample side room compared to traditional tents that lean between a 25° and 45° angle. This also gives you more room in the vestibules! About the same as the ones on my Kelty 2P tent. No problem fitting my backpack and boots in one vestibule, and a few other handy items in the other.It comes with a decent size gear loft. I don't recall that in the description so I was very pleased. It's rectangular, of good size and looks nothing like my Kelty gear loft which was triangular and looked like my ex-girfriend's gstring. This one held my hat, wallet, flashlight, and few other small items. 2 inside triangle shaped pockets. One on each end. 2 vestibules, 2 full size doors, and reflective material around the 2 vents and near the tie/stake down areas. The fly sheet has adjustable buckles. My $200 Kelty doesn't even have these. The webbing on them is thin, but they seem to hold fine.I was a little concerned about the design thinking the roof would collect and puddle water. I gave it a good hose test and camped two nights in the rain. I had no issues. The floor is thin, as with all 1P backpacking tents. So you'll need to consider adding a tarp as a footprint. This will add about 0.5 lbs to your overall weight. $1.00 at the dollar store but the tarp will be a little small. $4.99 at Big 5 and you get a 6x8 which spans the tent's entire floor and most of both vestibules - which is good for rainy days where you want to set your gear on something dry.Installation: Instructions are lacking. What you do to set this up right the first time is to sleeve the poles, then insert the ends of the right side pole into the left side grommets and the ends of the left side pole into the right side grommets. Taught the vestibules first! Then taught the ends of the fly. Reason for this is one of the door zippers wants to sit on the roof side of the tent pole. This could allow rain in. There's no way around this that I found, but by doing things in this order the design flaw (if I may call it that) will be reduced some. A 3rd velco strap at the top of each door would have been nice. I might add one myself.Some final notes: The stakes are soft and bend very easy. The zippers are on the less expensive side, but if you treat them with care there shouldn't be any problems. There are two zippers per door and they are double sided zippers. Some areas of the tent have extra material (not cut correctly) a few loose hanging threads that will need to be carefully trimmed off with some scissors. Not a big deal. Remember this isn't a $100+ tent.I had some condensation build up. This is normal for most 1P tents though. Not too bad but could of been better. Higher vents would have done a better job for circulation. Being 6' tall I was able to fully sit up inside, my head only hitting the gear loft when it was loaded with items. Tent is nylon. Not as strong as polyester and will tend to collect moisture and sag a little under prolonged wet conditions.The price point and the listed weight (though inaccurate) were the selling points for me. It's a bargain and if treated like a light weight, light material backpacking tent, I expect it will last through several more trips outdoors. Overall I'm happy.

I have a couple 3 season tents. I looked at this product to take with me in place of those due to colder temps for a Feb. 1 start of the AT. I chose it based on a higher interior wall fabric, and lower gap between ground and fly. Other considerations were the interior space. Wide enough to bring in my pack without laying a wet pack on my bag, as well as height so as to be able to comfortably dress etc while still in tent. I am 5'8" and had about 6" or so left from the top of my head to the wall with my feet just nudging the other side. If you are taller there is plenty of room to angle. I would not suggest a two person squeeze. would work in an emergency, but not really enough room for two pads side by side. This product arrived as stated with the exception that the described red was a little darker, more of a Sienna color or dark orange with the red. I actually like it better than the bright red so no dings there. Has a little corner pocket for headlamp or phone, and a removable hanging loft net. Lose the included stakes tho and get some good ones, although you could easily pitch this with just a trekking pole for each vestibule and leave the rest freestanding if your not in heavy wind. Left mine set up out back for almost two weeks in the weather to watch its performance and not a drop of water inside. The fabric and stitching is on par with the price point, and this appears to be a good tent so far. Spent one night as a shake down and got standard condensation on the inside of the fly due to the lower set side vents. nothing drastic tho. Has seam taping, however I always choose to apply my own waterproofing both inside and out. I will update the review with some pics after a couple months and a couple hundred miles. Safe travels!

Well to be honest the tent was nice and pretty easy to set up. Even though I had to figure out how it all went together because I didn’t realize the instructions were on the inside of the carry bag. Also, I noticed the carry bag has a slice cut in it about 5 inches long. Upon further inspection I also realized that the floor of the tent was also cut. I would have returned it but by the time I realized there was damage it was too late because my done was leaving for his BoyScout camp in two days and I would not have had a chance to get a new one by then. So please I spect the tent as soon as you receive it.

Effective tent system with two doors! for one camper. Rods seem thinner than expected and very long which makes set up unwieldy. Rod support system leaves gap in center top which could gather snow or rain so an addition rain fly is recommended. Is stand alone breathable and stealthy.

perfect little tent,working

After doing a lot of online searching my spouse and I decided to buy this tent for our oldest son so he can take it camping on his dual-sport bike. We would have to wait for actual feedback from him once he uses it but after searching online this seemed to offer the most desirable features (rain cover, extended front flap and aluminum poles) that the others did not at this price range. I myself have used fiberglass poles in the past they've always ended up becoming brittle and snapping. Aluminum poles was another reason we selected this particular model.

I spent 6 nights straight in this. I used a small tarp as an awning, but nothing underneath. It rained almost non stop for a day and two nights. At the end of that day, the inside started to get slightly wet, then the second night was really stormy. Probably 40mph winds which ripped of a loop of the rainfly that I connected the tarp to. I had a sleeping pad which kept me dry and slept fine. I recently ordered a larger tarp that I can hopefully double as footprint and awning. Idk how a more expensive tent would perform, but I am impressed with this one.

I used this in a hike recently and had no issues with it at all. I have not had it in rain yet though. I only wish it was a bit lighter but the weight is very minor. Does not come with ground cloth so I just purchased a simple one from Walmart to use under it.