Customer Reviews

Wenzel Windsong 8- by 8-Foot Three Person Pentadome Tent

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This is a good tent for backyard camping: easy to put up and break down, roomy, and has good ventilation. However, water leaks through the rain fly during a heavy rain. The tent arrived with a part missing. However, I called the manufacturer, and it sent me the replacement part immediately. Excellent customer service. Considering how inexpensive it was, it's okay to treat this tent as fairly disposable, and I don't worry about my kid being too rough on it. I would purchase Wenzel products again.

I bought this tent a few years back and found it a good value for the price. It's a great first tent for a beginning camper. I was camping in a location known for it's rain and at the advise of a seasoned camper applied the seam sealer the first day so I never had any problems with leaks. The floor of this tent was great for the rainy area I was in as the bathtub shape (although annoying to step over) kept out not just the rain but the small rivers that tried to invade.

Would not recommend this tent for multiple people. The shape of it means your sleeping bag has to go nearly in the middle and if a second sleeping bag were in the tent the only room left would be in the corners.

I did have one tent pole break but only after it got cracked after something heavy was dropped on it.

I have since upgraded to a tent I can stand up in (makes getting dressed so much easier) but keep this tent for friends to use who aren't ready to invest in their own.

Overall a good value.

Ok - so the tent was super easy to put up and more than enough room for 2. Hard to figure out 3 people, unless it's a small child or canine companion! However, within the first day, the small pole broke. After a raining weekend with a little bit of leakage, but mostly dry, we put the tent up to dry out at home. Within one day, 3 of the main poles broke at the seams. And of course, the "10 year warranty" didn't cover the poles. We're considering replacement poles, but it might be worth it to just invest in a different tent. Sort of disapointing as my husband got it as a 5 year at work gift. Guess we should've read these reviews before choosing that as our gift!

My husband is 6'3" and there's no way he fits in this tent. We like the design and the set up was easy. We bought an air mattress size 6'6" by 5' to go inside and it wouldn't fit in this supposedly 8' by 8' tent. I'm very disappointed in the tent size.

Took this tent right out of the box brand new at the campsite. Set-up was easy and quick which was a good thing because it was raining. After set-up it didn't take long for the seams to start leaking...continuous drips in the ceiling seems of the rain guard on top. The second night we used aluminum foil and cardboard placed on top of the tent to keep the roof from leaking. I guess I'll buy some seam sealer to try to solve this problem but should a person really have to expect a brand new tent to leak right out of the box? WHEN BUYING MY NEXT TENT I WILL SPEND A LITTLE MORE MONEY TO GET QUALITY. NO MORE WENZELS.

This is the second tent I bought to replace my old one, I was disappointed the size was much smaller than it described fits for 3 people, it might measure 8 by 8 foot from pentadome corner to corner, but that corner space is total wasted. Top roof cover is also not well designed that blocks wings. My old tent was mush bigger the usable space and top roof cover doesn't block wings through, and roof also much higher than this new one.

I am active with a scout troop. We were heading for a week long summer camp, and I needed a tent large enough to hold my folding cot. This tent seemed to fit the bill. It arrived, and the only way my cot would fit is when it was in the middle of the pentagon-shaped floor, with the tips of the cot pressing against the walls of the tent.

In short, it worked, but it wasn't ideal. Without the cot, it would have been a roomy tent. With the cot, I had a small area where I could enter the tent and take my shoes off, and all my gear had to go over the cot to the empty space on the other side.

It rained the first night. I had no leaks like the other reviewed experienced. However, sometime during the week, the rod for my rain fly broke. The fiberglass snapped by the metal ferule. It didn't rain agian that week, so it wasn't a big deal. But I was disappointed that it broke under mild circumstances.

The bathtub style floor meant I didn't have to worry as much about a damp floor in the rain, but it did mean I had to stoop/step over the lip to get in and out of the tent - rather awkward for a 5' 9" woman.