Portable Beach Tent Canopy for 2 to 8 People with UPF 50 Protection

It’s winter here so we can’t exactly try this outside but I did set it up inside to see how the process was of setting it up, how it looked, and the process of taking it down. It’s packed well and in a small space and in its own bag with a drawstring. The bag has quick instructions but if you’ve ever put up a tent it’s pretty straight-forward, plus there are orange markers on one set of poles that correspond to the places on the beach tent where they go, and the other pole goes in the other attachment points. Pretty easy for one person, though with a wind I imagine it would need two. It goes up pretty fast and fits together well, again if there were wind I imagine this would be a few extra minutes and need another person. Each corner has a little pouch to heap sand into and there are metal stakes for the edges. To keep it in place and for real windy days there are ropes and stakes. We did not try these of course but they are your standard issue of plastic stakes and ropes. This looks to be well-made and durable.there is a floor space and an extended floor out the front, again you can stake this down. But you can also fold this up and there is a zip to make this a fully enclosed tiny tent. You can see it partially closed in one of my photos. It’s maybe big enough for kids, dogs, and maybe a few adults if they are cozy but not big enough for an average guy to stretch out in, but for my wife it was. There are triangular side windows that can be zipped open, with screens in them. The back has a large half-circle of window that can be zipped open, again it has a screen. Even open I think it would block lots of sun, but not fully – and block wind also, probably significantly. The zipper track itself is plastic teeth but the zippers themselves are metal with inside and outside metal tabs for zipping it up and down from outside or inside. I assume this is the same weather-resistance as other tents – probably would keep any rain off you for a bit at least, maybe longer but this is a bit of a guess on my part. It seems like regular tent material. Inside there are a few storage pockets. So I would say I am pretty impressed with this, though the real test will be during the summer when it is used in the wind. We wanted it for shade for the dogs, which is what it will do quite nicely I am sure. And also to block the wind at the windy beaches we go to, which I think it will do also – we will be putting our beach chairs in front of it and not in it and I think this will be a good block for the wind. If this is what you are looking for then I think you will like this particular one.