Swiss Gear Élite Series 12 Per­son Huge Fam­ily Dome Camp­ing Tent SG33151 Review

3 room tent                       

The Swiss gear Élite Series 12 per­son tent comes with enough room to sleep the largest of fam­i­lies. Equipped with a cloth divider that splits the tent into three sep­a­rate rooms, the Élite series has much to offer in the way of pri­vacy. Also, both of the back rooms have their own door so if you are up later or ear­lier than your fel­low campers, you do not have to crawl over or dis­turb them. The nine­teen by nine­teen foot base pro­vides enough space to allow all three rooms to fit a queen size air mat­tress. The mid­dle room has screened walls that can be zipped up to allow  you to turn it into a sleep­ing area. If not sleep­ing in the mid­dle room, the walls come down to let in the fresh air and give you an area for eat­ing, play­ing, or stor­age. The cen­ter height is around six feet and ten inches so unless you are a NBA cen­ter, you should be able to walk around inside of this tent. This tent might be too big for some tent pads that are present at some camp­grounds. If you are search­ing for a huge tent that is in an afford­able price range, this one will surely sat­isfy your spe­cial needs.

Swiss Gear Élite series Set Up

Set­ting up the Swiss Gear Élite Series is pretty straight for­ward. Noth­ing too com­pli­cated. The size of the tent can make it a chore though. One per­son can assem­ble the tent alone but it will not be easy. Two peo­ple will be able to get it up with­out a prob­lem. With a tent this large, it is impor­tant to fol­low the direc­tions care­fully and not skip any steps. Color coded pole and sleeves make things a lit­tle eas­ier to fig­ure out. Set up is time con­sum­ing. The few times we’ve set up this tent, we were never able to get it up in under twenty five min­utes. That was with two peo­ple. But if you need the space, it’s worth it. Tak­ing the tent down can be a bit of a time sink as well, just make sure you fold it up prop­erly and care­fully or it will take up more space than it did before.

                                                                      Swiss Gear Élite Series Weather

The Swiss Gear Élite Series 12 per­son is  fully weather resis­tant. It is coated to keep out the water and is designed to be wind resis­tant. That being said, a heavy rain can allow for some leaks if you don’t apply the rain fly prop­erly. You should treat the seams and apply a  sealer before tak­ing the tent out as well. This will ensure you stay dry dur­ing wet weather. I’ve only seen this behe­moth in low to mild winds, so I haven’t per­son­ally seen it wind tested.

 Extra Features

The Élite Series 12 per­son is equipped with an e-port that allows for access to elec­tri­cal cords with­out hav­ing to leave the door open. Pri­vate doors to avoid other sleep­ers. The green color is nice in a wilder­ness setting.

Cons of the Swiss Gear élite series

I’ve read reports of the mate­r­ial tear­ing on a few occa­sions, but I believe this is due to improper han­dling dur­ing set up. Most likely from inex­pe­ri­enced peo­ple try­ing to set it up by them­selves or not fol­low­ing the direc­tions properly.

 

 Élite Series Summary

This isn’t the best tent on the mar­ket, but it does offer a lot of space at a rea­son­able price. Click here to check the cur­rent pric­ing at Amazon.

Suisse Sport Wyoming 3 Room Fam­ily Dome Tent Review

 

 

Suisse Sport Wyoming Size

We love the Suisse Sport Wyoming and the main rea­son is that is divides into three rooms. A three room tent!! So many tent are lim­ited to one or two rooms. A third room pro­vides extra pri­vacy that is much needed when camp­ing with large groups of peo­ple. You can use it as a two bed­room with a shared liv­ing room or as a three bed­room tent.

The Wyoming tent is large enough to sleep up to eight peo­ple with a lit­tle extra wig­gle room left over. If all ten­ants of the tent are chil­dren you could prob­a­bly squeeze in a few more than eight. This is a dome tent so the cen­ter height is taller than on the ends of the tent where you will prob­a­bly have to stoop or kneel to move around easily.

Suisse Sport Wyoming Weather

The Suisse Sport Wyoming Three Room Dome Tent is designed to keep you dry in the rain. It has a weather resis­tant poly­ester floor. The body fab­ric is also poly­ester with seams that are coated and taped. The rain fly does a good job of divert­ing the rain.  The weather resis­tant fea­tures of the Wyoming are not as good as some of the tents that will cost you a few hun­dred bucks, but for its price range  it per­forms quite nicely. It does great even in heavy rain and light winds, but severe storms could cause some minor leak­age. There are three large mesh win­dows that pro­vide plenty of ven­ti­la­tion and fresh air. Take off the rain fly any you will get even more air from the mesh roof and maybe a view of the stars.

Wyoming Set-up

The shock corded poles make set­ting up the tent a pretty easy process. It will prob­a­bly require two peo­ple to set it up prop­erly. Fif­teen minute is about how long it will take most peo­ple with a lit­tle expe­ri­ence to get it up. Inex­pe­ri­enced campers may take a bit longer until they get a lit­tle practice.

Addi­tional features

This Suisse Sport has some cool fea­tures. There are two com­part­ments near the entrance to the tent that are for plac­ing your shoes in. They zip up yo keep our the insects and the other creepy crawlers that could ruin your trip. Plus they can be accessed from the inside or out­side which is really con­ve­nient. The door zip­pers work great with­out snag­ging which is a prob­lem with many tents. There is a plug port for plug­ging in your elec­tronic devices.

All in all the Suisse Sport Wyoming is a good tent for the fam­ily. The fact that its a three room tent makes it more desir­able. It will be fine in most weather con­di­tions and set up isn’t difficult.The Wyoming was 37% off the last I checked. Check Ama­zon for the lat­est pric­ing on the Suisse Sport Wyoming 3 Room Fam­ily Dome Tent 18 x 10. Free ship­ping is avail­able for this tent too!