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Measuring 17.5 by 14 feet, the huge Swiss Gear Montreaux Family Dome Tent will sleep up to ten people. It features a generous 177 square feet of space with sewn-in room dividers creating two distinct living areas and two side rooms with divider curtains for extra storage. Ventilation is maximized with a big "D" style door, full mesh ceiling and side and rear windows. The full cover rain fly gives added shelter and the floor is water-resistant, sonic welded polyethylene. Heavy SwissGuard fabric coating on both the fly and wall fabrics provide water repellency while lap felled seams and factory taped fly seams assure added weather proofing. This tent sets up without apparent effort with plastic eave hubs and pin and ring system. The patented truncated corners give the tent stability. Includes E-port for electrical cord access. Specifications: • Base: 17.5 ft. x 14 ft. • Center Height: 84 in. • Area: 177 sq. ft. • Door: Dutch "D" style • Floor: welded polyethylene • Frame: shockcorded fiberglass/steel • Stakes: steel • Carry Weight: 37 lbs. • Sleeps: 10

Tired of camping with the family in "family sized" tents that scarcely fit you, your spouse, and a few bags? Turn to the Swiss Gear Montreaux 10-person dome camping tent, an extra-spacious shelter that's guaranteed to make you the jealousy of the campground. The tent boasts a sewn-in divider that gives rise to two distinct living areas, along with two side rooms with divider curtains for extra storage. You may use the entire tent as one big bedroom, two littler bedrooms, or one bedroom and a discerned living/dining area. The tent likewise sets up speedily equated to most big tents, with an effective pin-and-ring system and plastic eave hubs. As a result, you may receive pleasure from the great outdoors right away rather than wasting time on setup. And to keep you cool and comfortable on a hot summer night, the tent includes a full mesh ceiling and side and rear windows.

Other features include truncated corners for stability, a full rainfly, an e-port that offers easy and arid electrical cord access, factory-taped fly seams, a sonic-welded polyethylene floor, and a zippered duffel carrying bag.

Specifications:

• Base size: 17.5 by 14 feet
• Actual area: 137 square feet
• Center height: 84 inches
• Sleeps: Up to 10 humans
• Fabric: Polyester taffeta with double-pass polyurethane coating and mesh
• Floor: Sonic-sealed floors for heightened water shelter
• Windows: 4
• Door: Dutch D-style
• Carrying weight: 37 pounds

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147 of 148 people found the following review helpful.
I'm pleased overall, but the design needs work.
By J. Andrus
(RATING) I just finished my 2nd trip in our new tent, and even even though my final rating of this tent is 3 stars, I would guess that most people with my same overall experience would give this tent 5 stars. Swiss Gear makes a good tent, and I'm happy with my purchase. It's possible that my overall rating is a statement on tent design in general, but since this peculiar tent has numerous design flaws that I find unforgivable, my rating will have to stand, biased or not.

(SPACE) This tent is well built (good materials), very big, easy to set up, well ventilated, and we all sleep very well. I'm 6'7" and my head doesn't touch the ceiling when I'm standing inside. I ought to emphasize how rare this is. If you have the included room dividers installed, this is a 4 room tent, but with the room dividers up, the two "side" rooms are very small. However, they could still without apparent effort hold two children each, so if you have a family with little kids, this makes it perfect.

(SIZE) The main room divider is sewn into the tent and cannot be removed. The tent does have tie-backs for this divider. The two dividers for the side rooms are removable, and we didn't even use them since it made the rooms too small. We had two humans each in the side rooms with heads under windows and feet shooting toward the middle of the tent. Between the feet of these four persons there was a queen size air mattress. This tent is very big. This still left the entrance room completely empty, which could without apparent effort hold 3 humans in sleep bags or a king size air mattress. In my opinion, this tent will very comfortably sleep 9 persons and 10 or more, tightly. I say this because we all recognise that tents commonly overstate the number of humans that may sleep comfortably.

(FLOOR) The biggest positive I have for this tent is the floor. This is the 2nd Swiss Gear tent I've purchased, and both floors have been exceptional. The floor is made of a tarp-like material, and is wondrously durable. I want to note that the instructions are sewn into the tent bag, which is a good idea, since you can't lose the instructions, but it does make them awkward to read. I think it's a good idea though.

(MATERIALS) The ordinary construction of the tent is solid. I love the fact that the main structure is held up with 6 steel poles. This is rare in today's tent world, and it makes the tent look and feel solid, even in the wind.

(WEATHER) This tent, as antecedently noted, is solid. (WIND) On our 2nd trip, we had winds gusting to 20mph, and the tent didn't bat an eye. That being said, this tent is tall and the walls are upright, not domed, so this isn't made for hurricane conditions. (RAIN) We sealed our seals with "McNett Seam Sure Water based Sealer Tube, 2oz" and sprayed the lower half of the tent with "Nikwax Tent and Gear Solar Proof, 33.8-Ounce" and the rain fly with "Star brite Waterproof Spray with PTEF, 22 oz". The tent was solid in the rain. I would suggest the Star brite spray for the whole tent though, because it worked outstanding and it's rather a bit cheaper. Also it came with a spray nozzle, and the Nikwax didn't. All of the zippers are covered with orange nylon, which is great, but I didn't seal them, and that was a mistake. One of the zippers popped a drip for the duration of our thunderstorm. I don't believe this was the fault of the tent however, but in my thinking that I wouldn't need to seal the nylon covering the zippers. Make sure you learn from my mistake.

(COMPLAINTS) I have three main complaints regarding this tent. (and one minor one)

1) (TIE DOWNS) None of the windows have tie-backs. This doesn't make sense. How much expense would a few pieces of string be for the window flaps? There is one tie-back in the tent, and it's on the door. However, it can't be employed to tie back the shade so that the window on the door is open, while the actual door remains closed. This tie may only be applied to keep the door exclusively open. I might be weird, but I don't like bugs, and I tend to want to keep the door zipped, but have the window on the door open. If you do this, there is no tie back for the window flap.

2) (ZIPPERS) The zippers seem to get stuck frequently. I think the zippers are in all probability too small, and something when it comes to how the door is made causes them to bunch easily, so you have to use two hands the entire way around the door or windows. This is more of an inconvenience or irritation that anything.

3) (RAIN FLY) The rain fly. It doesn't cover any of the windows well, so you can't leave the windows open for the duration of a rain. It likewise doesn't cover the door very well, so you can't leave shoes or anything else outside. Why not add an awning to cover the windows and door? I don't get it. If there was a larger awning on the door, and any awning on the windows, I'm sure that would have bumped up my rating to a 5. I could effortlessly overlook my other difficulties if this was fixed. It must also be noted that on the longest side of the tent, going along the back-side, there is no tie-down for the rain-fly. This caused the back 1/6th of the top of the fly to hold tiny pools of water for the duration of a rain storm we had, where all the other 5 divisions of the dome were tight and water just rolled off.

4) Minor complaint: The rain fly tie-downs are black and are fundamentally invisible at night. I opted to fix this design problem (MORE RAIN FLY ISSUES!) by buying "Nite Ize RR-04-50 Reflective Cord, 50 Feet, Green". This green rope lights up like a Christmas tree when it's dark and a flashlight hits it, one package was way more than I necessitated to replace all of the black rain-fly tie downs.

(RECAP)

Pros:
Huge (Sleeps 9 exceedingly comfortably)
Floor (made of tarp-like material, which is very study)
Lots of head room. (I'm 6'7" and my head doesn't touch the ceiling)
Well ventilated. (lots of big windows, and a totally mesh ceiling)
Easy to set up. (My 10 & 8 year old and I had it set up in regarding 15 minutes the 2nd time at 11pm. The basi time it took us when it comes to 40 minutes for the duration of the day, so if you are setting up at night, make sure you've had a former trial run.)
I actually like the mesh roof. We took off the rain fly on a clear night and watched the stars into the wee hours.

Cons:
No window tie downs.
Zippers are too small. (the door zipper disunited on our 2nd camping trip, even though we were capable to fix it.)
The rain fly is poorly designed. (doesn't cover any windows, and scarcely covers the door. The back-side doesn't have a tie-down.)
You can't remove the main center divider. (sooo simple... why Swiss gear?)

Despite my hatred of the rain fly design, I would commend this tent, as it's a reasonable price for such a big tent and it's made with good materials.

If you have any other questions, let me know.

82 of 83 people found the following review helpful.
Awesome
By countryboy
Bought this tent, took it camping memorial weekend. We fit 9 people in this tent. 2 Adults, 5 teenagers, and 2 littler children. We had 2 full air mattresses 2 twin air mattresses and 3 cots. Very roomy. We even had a freak thunderstorm, it never leaked. Air flows through very well. Can't wait to take it camping again!!

116 of 120 people found the following review helpful.
Great tent so far
By Sound Sleeper 7 - 9
I was worried in regards to buying this tent without any reviews posted, but I decisive to take the prospect anyway. Hopefully my review may help someone else out. I have not been camping in this tent yet, but it is presently set up in my back yard taking on the rain as we speak. First of all, the tent was very well packed and protected in a outstanding bag when it arrived. The instructions said that two adults were required for assembly, but all I had was my four-year-old son. The instructions for assemblage are sewn into the bag, so you can not lose them! I set my son to work assembling the poles which he did with ease since they all have a cord inside that helps snap them together. The constituents are not labeled, but they make sense for assemblage anyway. After sorting all of the poles, I rolled the tent out onto a tarp base that I purchased to protect the bottom of the tent. We quickly inserted the poles into the top of the tent and had the main dome up in a matter of 10 minutes. After that, the rest of the assemblage took only another 10 minutes, including the rain fly. The fly was a challenge to put on the tent with only one adult since the tent is so tall, but I managed to get it in place. So far, the rain fly is my only concern because after securing it in place, it caused the two littler rooms on the back side of the tent to deform slightly. I did not mark this rating down however, as after looking at it, my back yard is somewhat unlevel, and I believe that is the cause for this deformation. I will report back after I have had a prospect to assemble later on level ground on our introductory camping trip.

I have to say that walking into this tent for the firstborn time was a real treat. This is the initial tent I have ever owned which permitted me to stand upright inside. The two littler rooms on the back side are shorter, however, I think most people will use these rooms for storage. The room divider runs parallel with the front door of the tent, with a single zipper that runs from top to bottom in the middle. The two halves of the divider distinguished and tie up at the sides so you may comfortably walk underneath. It looks like the 17.5 foot wide back half of the tent will comfortably accomodate two queen sized air mattresses, which is what we plan to put inside. This leaves the front half of the tent to put our other items. Of course you will be competent to set the interior up nevertheless you would like. There are little pockets all over the inside of the tent which will concede us to stow littler items like keys, phones, kids toys, or even shoes. As far as the build of the tent is concerned, it seems well made with good solid materials and craftsmanship. The floor is not a solid piece, however, it is "a sonic-welded polyethylene floor" and I have no reason to believe that the welded seams would ever leak. As I said above the tent has been out in rainy conditions for five hours now. Even without seam sealer, the tent has only one very little leak in the back, and that leak has amounted to with regards to half the size of a dollar bill. Not bad for steady rainfall. I will be buying a seam sealing kit soon and taking care of all of the seams inside. Once that is done, I think this tent will be everything we need and more for a family of four.

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