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32 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
By L. Hesselberg
We bought this for a camping trip. Was trying to figure out how to rig up a enclosure using stuff around the house (I am very cheap!!) but gave up and ordered this. Was very happy with the purchase. We used it for showering and to hold the luggable loo. The shower worked - we didn't have a branch to hang it from so we put it on a rope strung between two trees so it wasn't very high but it felt great after a sweaty day of hiking. The shelter pops up like the Play Hut toys if you are familiar with those. Would buy again! (See my actual picture!!)
28 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
By S. N. Anderson
Maybe the last camper wasn't too experienced? You still need to hang your full camp shower from a tree or something, but the beauty of how easy this is to set up with its super light weight frame is how simple it is to then move your shelter to wherever you need it.
Mine came with instructions, they were folded neatly into one of the accessory pouches that it comes with. But any which way, all you have to do is fold all four sides flat, then bend the top half toward the bottom and begin pulling the "rings" this forms towards you, they'll be in between the folds you just made. After a few seconds of tightening the rings its folded to fit perfectly into it's carry case again.
Nothing magic about the black plastic, it requires six to eight hours of direct sunlight unless you're somewhere warm during the summer, and I'd rest the clear side on something insulating like say a sleeping bag if ambient temperatures are chilly.
35 of 43 people found the following review helpful.
By Mike
I bought this shelter because it came with a solar shower while most of the others didn't. I went camping up in the mountains and set it up before my tent. The first thing I noticed was how flimsy the material is. You pull it out of the bag and it pops up easy. Then you unfold the sides and stake it into the ground like a tent on all four corners. Then it collapses into itself when a gust of wind comes along. The first couple times I lifted it back up but it kept collapsing into itself so I just left it there unless someone needed to use it. I filled the water bladder about half full because I was wary if the flimsy shelter could hold it up. It couldn't. The second I had the string and pipe up holding it in place the shelter would fall down from the weight. So we ended up just using the shelter as a changing room. The solar shower we hung up from a tree, still half full. And after a couple hours the weight snapped the little plastic hook that keeps it up. So instead we had to lay the thing out on a boulder. Left it out in the sun for about five hours and it was still cold water so I doubt there's anything special about the black plastic covering the one half of the bag. The other half was see through which was nice and I liked the hose and nozzle it came with. After camping putting the shelter away was rather difficult. There were no instructions on how to fold it into the small circle needed to slip into the carrying bag. Instructions would have been helpful.
