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Dropped $310 on a Coleman 4 person instant tent and it leaked the very first night in Estes Park
I bought that instant cabin tent at the REI in Denver back in June because a guy working there said the tub floor and taped seams held up fine in storms, and I trusted him. First night out at Moraine Park in Estes Park, it rained maybe an hour, nothing crazy, and I woke up at 2am with water pooled along the back wall and my sleeping bag soaked from the knees down. Turns out the rainfly sits about an inch off the wall and just funnels water straight through the vent flap. I spent 45 minutes in the dark with a headlamp trying to rig a tarp over the whole thing, and then I packed it up and slept in my truck. Two other people at the same campground had the same tent and one of them said the same thing happened to him in Rocky Mountain National Park three weeks earlier. I get that you can waterproof the seams yourself for ten bucks, but when a tent costs over $300 I should not have to fix it on day one. If you are looking at instant tents for car camping, what actually held up for you in real rain, because I am not buying another one until I hear it from somebody who slept in it wet.
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