Coleman Skylodge 12-Person Tent with Screened Porch, Weatherproof Family Tent Includes Color-Coded Poles, Screened-in Porch, Sturdy Rainfly, & Fits 4 Queen-Sized Airbeds

Bomb proof…almost…
I asked my wife what it would take to get her to go camping and she said she needed a BIG tent. I spent months looking at tents online and reading reviews before finally deciding to buy this one. Why this one? Because the brand with the biggest tents (IYKYK) has so many mixed reviews on waterproofing and durability, so I was worried about spending $300-500 on a tent that may or may not work. I have always used Coleman tents and have yet to have any issues. So I took a chance on this one, hoping the brand was still up to par. I either got lucky, or they remain one of the best brands.I set this up over a weekend, on a day when it was slightly windy, maybe 10mph breezes. So there was a little challenge with keeping things where I needed them until I was staked down, but the tent itself is heavy enough that it didn’t budge. Only my tarps and the fly had issue with the wind. Regardless, I got it about 90% put together myself, and then needed help from one other person to raise it and get the first couple poles in place before I could finish the rest by myself. I don’t know if I could have gotten it up without ANY help, but maybe if I did it a certain way…who knows. The fly definitely needed a second person to help pull it over the top, but I also waited until I had the whole tent up to deal with the fly. I staked the whole thing down, and then staked the guy lines. All of them.The second night the tent was up, we had rain. The next morning when I went out and checked, there wasn’t a single drop on the inside, while the entire outside had water beaded up all over it. I left the tent up for something like a week and a half, and during that time, we had two or three storms roll through with a ton of rain and winds. The tent held up to all of it, still not a single drop inside, on the walls or the floor, and the winds didn’t break anything. I am super impressed with the performance of this tent under those conditions, and I will certainly trust it on a camping trip after all that. I ended up taking it down on an evening when it was already pretty windy and calling for even worse winds and storms. I didn’t want to push my luck. Although the already fierce wind gust were pushing the sides of the tent around, the poles and guy lines weren’t budging one bit. That’s testament to why those guy lines are SO important, in addition to staking the tent itself.My only possible complaint is that this tent is pretty difficult to pack in a way that can fit everything back into the tote bag. Yes, I was rushing and dealing with winds, but I only managed to get the tent and fly back into the bag. I have the poles in their own bag, outside of the tote. I did also have to tear the seam on the bottom of the tote, which gives it some extra play for stuffing the tent in. But even still, I couldn’t fit the poles in with it. I may try to unpack it and see if I can pack it more neatly, but it’s not the end of the world, for sure. It’s not a big enough complaint to lower my overall rating.Oh, and I had a king-sized air mattress set up in there…I had it on the back end of the tent, there was space on both sides to walk around the bed, AND it only took up half the tent, lengthwise. Plus you get the extra space in the front screen room, which can be either completely open view, partially open view, or completely closed off as a second private area. The fly is even designed to roll up on the front sides, so you can have it even more open for airflow. This thing is just huge and roomy. I can’t wait to get it out and do some real camping with it!

Great tall
*I’ll add more photos after additional trips, I spaced getting our set up from the outside & entry views*So after getting flashed flooded out of last the camping trip of the season, last fall ‘21 my husband and I were on the hunt for a new tent. Our camping trips involve 2 adults, 1 toddler, 1 little kid (& soon a third baby will be joining us) and 2 med/large dogs. We’ve been tent campers for years and have always camped along the Rocky Mountains in the US. Normally, we camp for a min of 3 nights up to 12 nights. Important features for us based on our trips are a tub style floor, large doors/high ceilings, space for all our gear, good rain tarp, & screened in area before entering the main tent.This Colman tent met most of those parameters, I was hoping to spend $200-$300 for a tent but this one ended up being $300-$400 in spring ‘22This first trip we took was a 7 night stay to So. Utah near Bryce Canyon NP. The kids & I were going down a few days before my spouse so before we packed up to leave I made sure I could set up the tent on my own by trying it out in the backyard a few nights prior. Once we got there it took me 45-1hr to set up alone while 6 mo pregnant and having 2 littles running around. The hardest part to do alone is the initial 3 polls for the roof after that it’s just the uprights to elevate the tent up. The stakes are standard tent stakes, we always replace them with sturdier stakes which we did this time as well. It’s all color coded polls and sheaths so I didn’t really need to look at the instructions to assemble it but the instructions are good and clear too. From the photo you can see our initial set up. We didn’t have the dogs on this trip with us so we are missing their crates and I am standing in the entry with the door fully open.Pros: It’s so tall! We were able to hang up fans/lights at the very top center (there is also rings to hang things in each corner) and neither of us adults had an issue hitting it while getting dressed or needing to duck around it (we’re 5’8 & 5’10). The front doors opened up wide, at night when we didn’t want to unzip everything it was easy to duck in the door and be standing up right in the screened in entry, which also has a floor.Plenty of windows/venting options. We always camp with the rain tarp on but also have kids who still nap, being able to control the temp is vital, there is 5 windows in the interior and a lower floor vent at the furthest end & all the walls in the entry zip open to almost the floor.Floor was thick enough, and I cleared out rocks/sticks (the ground was red dirt/rock) but with how long the trip was and how often I’d be sitting on the floor helping kids get dressed we brought the floor mats.Plenty of space to get around. We had a double cot for the adults, a pack n play, and a smaller kid cot, 1 large luggage bag and 2 pop up laundry baskets in the main tent. Next year we plan on getting the cot bunks for the older kids and using a pack n play again, we will put the dog crates where the luggage is and move all that to the foot of our cot. I feel like we could grow into this tent and still not feel overly crowded. In the entry we had a chair for taking shoes on/off and 2 large tubs stacked on the other side with lots of room for all of us to get in and out at the same time. The tent door is massive, almost the whole wall zips away and has a large mesh pocket to stuff it into. There is 4 mesh pocket organizers, 2 up high & 2 down low opposite from one another. The are massive and had dividers sewn into them. They held all our keys, cords, flashlights/headlamps for 4 easily.Cons: I wish the rain tarp covered the sides of the tent a bit further down, it’s not a deal breaker but my preference.Sadly after a couple days I noticed a hole In one of the seams along the back of the tent, luckily it’s covered by the rain tarp but if you look in the pictures it’s clear the sewing machine just missed a few inches.The step up was a bit high for my toddler to get in & out of very easily but that’s somewhat expected with the tub style floor.Features we didn’t use: we didn’t use the zipper for the power extension. We don’t normally have anything in the tent to plug in, we use external batteries to charge items (sound machines, phones, headlamps etc) I’m sure it would be a nice feature. It’s right in the middle of the tent. I could see it getting in the way of arranging cots/air mattresses if you were using it and had a lot of people to sleep though.Overall impression: it’s a great family tent, I see us being able to use this till all the kids hit their teen years assuming we don’t experience another flash flood while camping.

Great!
It’s Coleman and they rock for car camping gear never leaks and tons of room!

We’ve had it up twice now, its HUGE. Once in the backyard as a practice run the other time over may long weekend in Southern Ontario. For those who don’t know, there are still people without power 4 days later, due to the storm we got. We however stayed bone dry. Only downfall is I can’t seem to roll it up small enough to easily get it back into the bag, even after I expanded it. We’ve switched to our old tent bag which was a bit bigger. Looking forward to a few good summers with thus as our kids get bigger!

Très grande tente. Un peu lourde et longue à montée. Parfait pour la laisser montée pour une partie de l’été. Nous apprécions ses nombreuses fenêtres qui permettent de bien voir dehors.