Prospector Moonshadow 8- by 8-Foot Dome Tent
Prospector Moonshadow 8- by 8-Foot Dome Tent
Prospector Moonshadow 8- by 8-Foot Dome Tent Reviews
We bought this tent because of it’s great price and size. We set it up in our living room prior to our first camping trip and all seemed great! Our queen sized blow up fit inside and left a little room left over for misc items. Once we arrived at our campsite we began setting up our tent. All was well until on of the corner rings, that holds the support poles in place, ripped off. Ok, no big deal, we’ll figure something out. The next thing that went was the door zipper. Half the time it would close, half the time it wouldn’t close the zipper threads together. Other times it was just plain hard to pull – hard enough that my husband even had a hard time getting it shut. The next thing to go was the zipper for the door window. I went to unzip the window and noticed that the zipper had completely pulled apart from one side rendering that zipper usless and the door window now always partially open.
If these things had not happened we would have been completely happy with our purchase. However, we are now trashing the tent after one use. Spend the money and buy a quality made tent in the first place!
The zippers are total garbage. Very very light weight heads (or whatever you call the thing you pull). One of them broke in half even with careful use–our entire trip, it seemed, was about the zippers on the tents–making that tent useless. The other two tents had to have the zippers fixed over and over again–we had to coax them back on their tracks, painstakingly and time-consumingly.
Material is flimsy in the extreme–a slight wind kept us cold all night. Rainfly is preposterously small.
The clips (attaching tent to poles) are made of very cheap, very brittle plastic. They are also quite small and inefficiently designed. I broke one on the first set-up, and I was being ridiculously careful as it was already clear that the clips were fragile. Another one shattered when we struck camp.
This was an easy, car-camping short trip in nice weather. The tents didn’t stand up at all.
It’s not a bargain if you have to throw it away. I bought mine when they cost $33 and change, and I wouldn’t take one now if you paid me that much to do so. They are not worth the room they take up.
It doesn’t deserve the one star I had to give it. Amazon: we need a NO STAR option. Actually, we need a Negative Star option.
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