Product Details
Condo Tent

Condo Tent
From Eureka

Price: $799.97

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Average customer review:

Product Description

Condo Tent

Sleeps: 8-12
Floor Size: 10'6" x 20'

Stretch out and relax.
Eureka Condo Tent - A three-room tent larger than many master bedrooms, with plenty of headroom for even the tallest people.

EUREKA CONDO TENT FEATURES

  • Eureka Condo Floor plan includes 10'6" x 12' area for sleeping and a 10'6" x 7'4" vestibule area in front
  • 6 pole rectangular tent with umbrella hub
  • Eureka!® hub, shockcorded eaves, clips, freestanding frame, and ring and pin assemblies make set up easy
  • 2 patented High/Low venting doors have durable #10 zippers for trouble free operation
  • Rain curtains with clear window panels zip into fly for total weather protection
  • Zippered mesh ceiling panels maximize air flow in the Eureka Condo
  • 75D StormShield® polyester fly improves durability and resistance to UV, acid rain, and tearing
  • Heavy duty 210D nylon oxford bathtub floor minimizes seams and exposure to ground level water
  • 10 massive wall sized windows; 1 clear UV and cold resistant window in fly
  • Divider panel clips in to create 3rd area for dressing


Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #363809 in Sports & Outdoors
  • Brand: Eureka
  • Dimensions: 15.00" h x 16.00" w x 43.00" l, 72.50 pounds

Features

  • Recommended Season: 3 Season--Great for use in summer, spring, and fall.
  • Body Material: Nylon Taffeta--Provides a light and strong tent material that will last over time.
  • Floor Material: Nylon Oxford--
  • Floor Construction: Bathtub Floor--Having no seams on floor ensures that there will be no leaks or seepage.
  • Rainfly--Provides an extra layer to protect against bad weather.

Customer Reviews

Eureka over did this tent and changed their legendary ease of use into a burden 2
I must preface my review by saying we absolute love Eureka Tents. The ease of use the water tightness and the durability have been the selling points for us. We have had Timberline 2 and 4 tents and several years use from our Space III, We currently use timberline tents backpacking and a Titan for family camping however, when we upgraded to the Condo we found that all the things we loved about Eureka tents were a burden here.

First the good:

The tent is massive and dwarfs absolutely everything else about it. At some 20 feet long and 9 feet tall it encompasses a massive space accomedating large families or even groups with ease.

The central hub system is the same type used on and loved on so many of Eureka's top of the line tents.

The interior changing room that lets you have privacy while no having to zip up all the windows is a great idea!

The tent is light inside, very well ventilated, and strong.

Downsides:

The central hub system so easy with four poles is not easy with six.

I am 6' 7" tall and found the tent burdensome to set up and too tall, even for me, to comfortably do things like place the fly over the top - even with a running start!

The clear inserts in the zipped in storm flap separate from the nylon simply because the enormous sail area of the tent, creates stresses too much for a stiched joint of two different materials with different expansion/stretch rates and the plastic gives way.

The fly design over the doors is poor. Unlike nearly ever other Eurka tent - there is no overhang. Water drips off the storm fly over the zipper which leaks. Worse if you have to exit in the rain you litterally have to open an outwardly sloping door and the rain coming down and pouring off the fly, runs guess where - right into the tent! No way to avoid it - just poorly designed.

The steel poles also suffer from the huge stresses of such a structure and assume slight, but permanent bends in the direction of the stress. This would not be a issue but it makes them non-interchangeable with the other identical poles. So you might was well mark the poles the first time you pitch this tent as right front pole, left middle pole, etc. becasue that is where you will have to use them and it will save a lot of frustration later.

Storage! This tent takes up a lot of storage space - about the equal of a army duffel bag even larger. It is sort of like hauling a body in a duffel bag and is equally awkward. The fact that this duffel come with two handles one at each end tells you even the designers realized that it would take two people to handle it.

Conclusions:
We used it one season and sold it not because it was a bad tent but far too much of a burden. I buy Eureka tents because I find them good servants - this one made a terrible master.

By the way, this is far too much tent for any family having less than 4 adult and or teenaged family members. You simply cannot pitch it with less people and smaller children are not able to help as the poles are massive - about 16 feet long with a 70 degree bend at the six foot mark.

In short this tent is too much a good thing - combined with a terrible and I mean terrible, rainfly design The shame of it is I wanted very badly to like this tent and could not.