Wen­zel Great Basin Nine-Person Two-Room Fam­ily Dome Tent Review

 

The Wenzel’s Size

The Wen­zel Great Basin is a pretty big tent that is designed to sleep nine peo­ple. It lives up to its design­ers inten­tions rather well as nine peo­ple could fit for the night rather eas­ily. At 18 feet by 10 feet space will never be an Issue with this Wen­zel. If you do use it to sleep nine then you will have prac­ti­cally no room for a liv­ing area for those that like tables and chairs in their tents, but sleep­ing seven or eight will leave some more room for that type of stuff. At 70 inches tall most peo­ple should be able to stand rather eas­ily while inside of the Wen­zel Great Basin.

Wen­zel Great Basin Weather Resistance

Weather shouldn’t be an issue with the tub style floor that is welded not sewn which means no leaky nee­dle wholes allow­ing water in to ruin your camp­ing trip. There is great ven­ti­la­tion pro­vided by two large mesh win­dows and two large side by side mesh  D Doors. The rain fly is large enough to cover the roof area and keep out the rain. This isn’t the great­est wind resis­tant tent, but should do well for those that aren’t camp­ing in the windi­est of conditions.

Great Basin Set Up

We found the set up of the Wen­zel to be easy for two peo­ple, although one per­son might have a dif­fi­cult time due to the size of the tent unless that one per­son has very long arms. The corded frame and pin and ring sys­tem help make the set up eas­ier. I esti­mate aver­age set up times to be between 15 and 30 min­utes depend­ing on your tent set up expe­ri­ence level.

Other fea­tures

The Wen­zel Great Basin Nine per­son two room tent is equipped with a divider that allows the tent to func­tion as one large room are two sep­a­rate rooms allow­ing for pri­vacy or just mak­ing a sleep­ing and liv­ing room. There are two lofts for stor­ing all your  equip­ment, back­packs and the like. There are also a cou­ple of stor­age pock­ets that are handy for stor­ing knick knacks.

Sum­mary

The Wen­zel Great Basin is a good tent. There are bet­ter tents on the mar­ket but not for such a good price. The is tons of space for a tent priced this low. Check to see if there is still a 50% dis­count on the Wen­zel Great Basin 18 X 10-Feet Nine-Person Two-Room Fam­ily Dome Tent on Ama­zon.   It is also avail­able with free shipping.

 

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