ABO Gear Go-Zebo Screen House

I actually bought this to sleep in on kayaking trips where where pack weight and size are not an issue. Tents are too hot where I live and we use a lightweight tarp or open cabin as the rain fly. The screen house is relatively easy to set up but it helps to have two people.

This screen house set up okay, with the usual hassle of trying to fish very long support poles through opposing sleeves. Worked well for two days of camping – set up over a picnic table and kept the mosquitoes at bay. But on the third day we returned from a hike to find it collapsed on one side -- one of the poles (fiberglass) had snapped at about 3:00 o'clock in the top of its arc. The other pole looks like it would have broken too if the other had not. [...]

This screen tent is a great value for the money. I set it up alone, but it is a bit cumbersome with one person. However, for car camping in areas with bugs, this is an awesome product. It is 11'x11' by 8 foot high and has stakes on all 4 tent poles as well as two side walls. It has no floor, so can go over a picnic table or where you want it. The design will probably NOT keep rain off, except in a small central area, so if you need a rain shelter, you'd have to tarp it. Two opposite walls have full length zippers, so you have options for entrances. The shock cord is too loose in the poles, as another reviewer noted, which means you need to push the poles through in disassembling it, not pull them, or they'll separate and get stuck. The design uses two very long poles that insert through external fabric slots on the top third of the tent and cross on the top. Each pole end goes into an aluminum spike that is sewn to each of the tent corners. Tent stakes are included and there are also bags on each corner you can fill with sand to hold the tent if you are on the beach. The tent also has bags for the entire kit and for the stakes and poles.

Incredibly heavy, awkward set-up. Poles are poorly (loosely) shock-corded and hard to get into the tent and clips. Once up, it functions pretty well, but I will not purchase another like this.

A GREAT bargin for the price and for RVing it is a great bug shelter. Large inside area but being this big makes it a challenge to setup alone - a helper would greatly simplify set-up. No floor means it is easy to enclose your table and or chaise lounges.