Coleman Fastpitch Air Valdes 6XL Tent 2018 6 Berth Inflatable Tent

I've had this tent for almost 2 years now and I've really enjoyed it so though it needed a review. I've used it in most weather conditions and I've just come back from a sunny but chilly week camping with temperatures down to around 0°C overnight. I did have a generic 4 person tent before this and I decided to upgrade after a weekend of the tent turning in to a greenhouse with full daylight by 6am. There were 3 main reasons why I chose this tent; size, blackout rooms and airbeams.The size is huge, only 4 of us plus 2 dogs but it's great to have all the size you'd need and more. You can fit 3 x double blow up beds in the individual rooms or you can take down a divider and have 2 rooms with one large and one double. The foyer can fit everything you need and more and you could comfortably live with 6 here without being on top of each other. The porch/awning is great and you can have a fold out bench and kitchen unit there plus loads of room for other kit. The hinged door is handy and when it's cold it keeps the heat in very well. You can close it on the jar without having to zip and unzip it each time.The ventilation is also good and it allows heat to escape if you leave the ample vents open. The blackout rooms really do keep it cool and they will be comfortably cool until at least 9am. The blackout rooms are very effective. There is a beam of light that can get through where there is a mesh vented panel above you but it's still more than dark enough on a bright morning. The equivalent to a blind being down in a bedroom. You'd need to see it to believe how such a thin sheet can block so much daylight.The airbeams are great and make pitching it that much quicker. Now that my wife and I are well versed in it we can have the main structure up in 5 minutes. There remaining pegs take a good 10 minutes though. Once you figure out that the air valves lock open or closed you'll save yourself time when you pull out the pump and all the air escapes. Took me too long to figure that out! They are very sturdy and don't lose a drop of pressure over a week. After the reviews on here I just inflate them to 5psi and that is plenty and they feel like rock at that pressure. If it was a very hot day I'd drop a couple of PSI through peak temps then reinflate them overnight.When packed down it is a bit large but then it is a huge tent and for the size of it I don't think it's excessive. I find that if you store the poles for the awning and pump elsewhere it packs down nicely. Especially with a few extra straps to compress it further. This way it fits in to boot of my wife's Skoda Fabia hatch for context of size. Similarly it fits in a Thule Easybag like in the picture and with space for a few duvets and pillows too.This tent has made camping so much better for the family and I. It's well built and has lasted well over 2 years with no sign of fatigue or rips etc. I've reproofed it once but it was still plenty waterproof. For the alternative being yurts and glazing pods this has paid for itself over a couple of years and has more space than both of those. Hopefully we'll have plenty more years of use out of it and I'm planning to take it on a 3000 mile Eurotrip!

I wanted to love this tent. I DID love this tent. But here is my story of tent-woe...We were leant the smaller Coleman 6L tent to trial and put it up in our garden. Bowled over and incredibly impressed at it's ease of use, pitching speed, quality of materials and build we took the plunge and purchased the 6XL for our upcoming camping trip on the Isle of Wight. ORdered on a Monday, received on Tuesday (prime), trip the following Sunday.Arrive at the camp site and pitch up - again in next to no time - (10 minutes) to the jealously and awe of many pole-campers. We would remain in tenting bliss for the next 3 days.The innovative blackout bedrooms really were a wonder and we were delighted with a full night sleep from our restless, light-sleeper 2 year old who can hear a pin drop from the land of nod. The entry door hinge was incredibly useful and the layout and structure left us feeling cosy and at home.On the 4th day, we return to a sad tale of explosive-tent syndrome. I had seen negative reviews and people mentioning their poles had exploded. I apologise to you all now as I truly believed it was user error of people over inflating and not taking heed of the instructions. 'We will be fine' says I to the husband. 'We aren't that naive' says I.We inflated to 7.5psi, dead centre of the recommended 7-8psi. We had 22 degree heat with a gentle breeze - but not a cloud in the sky on some days. The Science teacher in me tells me the air in the tubes expanded over not one but 4 days of sun blazing heat reaching higher temperatures internally than the 22 degree ambient temperature. Like touching a metal slide on a sunny day and feeling the burning metal, the tent will have reached temperatures MUCH HIGHER than the ambient 22 degrees. The constant expansion of the air in the heat weakened it enough over 4 days that the inner tube, outer casing AND the green tent outer all shredded in the explosion.I am so very thankful that the tent exploded while we were out as the bang would have been incredibly loud and it may have put my young children off going back inside.Upon research it then appears that many brand of air tent is suffering such a catastrophe. However one brand - outdoor revolution - have now incorporated a pressure release valve meaning that should the air pole air expand in the heat, the valve with trigger at a set psi and release the air. Yes, this may mean a saggy tent when the air cools at night, but I would rather spend 2 minutes pumping back up that sleeping in a literal ticking time bomb. Off I trundle to purchase an outdoor revolution....Coleman, I am sorry as I loved everything else about this tent. Add your own pressure relief valve (I am surprised this is not a no brainer in the world of air tents) and all will be forgiven and I will return.

I like it, but.... my issue is that we a product defect; on erecting the tent, we found one of the pockets was ripped in the bedroom membrane. So, I was hoping I could contact the seller and they could send a replacement bedroom membrane. But my struggle here (we all learn!) is trying to make contact with customer support as it is supplied by amazon. It appears you can only choose to return or exchange and I don't want either as the tent itself is fine. Are Amazon knowingly making it harder to make contact in this way, or am I missing something.

La mia scelta era la tenda indicata in foto, ma mi è arrivata il modello precedente che cmq mi soddisfa pienamente. Consegna perfetta 5gg prima e collo integro.