NTK Arizona GT 12 Person Tent for Family Camping | 20.6x10 ft Camping Tent with 2 Rooms, 2 Doors, 100% Waterproof Dome & Breathable Mesh | Outdoor Tent | 2500 mm Warm & Cold Weather Family Tent

First, this is a well designed and constructed spacious tent. We purchased a NTK Laredo GT tent two years ago after much research and we were thoroughly pleased with our experience with the Laredo (I posted a 5 star review for the Laredo on Amazon on Sept 22, 2016 under SAJ).We wanted a large tent with two doors and windows with good ventilation. We knew that NTK was a quality brand so we did not hesitate to purchase the Super Arizona and we're happy with the result.We set up the Arizona a mere 30 feet from our home on our ideal location which happened to be hard packed gravel. Why this location you ask? You would have to know our neighbor! To protect the bottom on the tent I laid down 6 and a quarter sheets of 1/2" plywood (actually 19/32" exterior plywood purchased from Lowe's). One sheet had to be cut lengthwise and a quarter sheet from the seventh sheet to complete the 10' x 20' footprint. A tarp then went on top before assembling the tent. Pitching the tent was pretty straightforward thanks to the color coding of the poles. A note on the poles. Several reviewers said that they broke poles while erecting them and others said that this tent is pitched easily with one person. Unless you are very experienced at this I would recommend getting help at least with raising the two red crossmember poles. I had help raising them and even then felt sure at one point that the pole would surely snap. Thankfully it did not and the rest went smoothly until time to put on the rainfly. We tied two guy lines to one end and pulled it over quite easily.As you can see in the photos, we had an Intex queen size (22" high) air bed, an Intex 6 foot long air couch(34" high), and a card table with two chairs set up in the tent with room to spare! Due to the slope of the tent anything with any height will have a gap between it and the wall. The bed and couch had a gap of 12 to 18 inches depending on where you put them (end or side wall). This, of course provides room for clothes or other gear. We also had three 5'x 7' area rugs for comfort and extra insulation and an extension cord (with GFI for safety) to power a laptop, a coffee maker, and a Lasko squirrel cage type fan. That fan really puts out a tremendous amount of air even on the lowest of three settings. As you can tell we were not roughing it by any means. Oh, we also had a 4x4 (13'x13') DD tarp set up and our NTK Laredo set up as a dressing/ hygiene tent.There's much more that I could write but suffice it to say that this is an excellent tent. We had no leaks at all even with several days of rain and wind. We would highly recommend this tent!Wish list:Include metal poles (similar to the door canopy poles) to elevate the windows for more than a 25% view.Make windows accessible from the inside.Make inside height at least 6'-5" the entire length not just the very center where the poles cross.Make the door canopy wider than the door opening to prevent rain from entering the tent when the canopy is extended.Not complaining. Just wishing! 🙂The picture shows how the windows can be simply modified for a full view instead of the partial view as provided by NTK. Shown is something that I put together in just a few minutes using two tree branches about 66" long used as vertical supports and one horizontal branch which is needed to redirect and support the tent guy line.For those who may be wondering, the picture of the tent with the tarp and Dutch oven tripod is showing the NTK Laredo Tent which we used in addition to the NTK Super Arizona..

I bought this tent last year after having to suffer through two years of getting soaked during storms at a rock festival while sleeping in a wall tent. My other tents I own all have full rainflys but unfortunately were too small to accommodate everyone, so we had to go with less weatherproof yet larger wall tents.Searching for a large tent with a full rainfly I stumbled upon the ARIZONA GT and decided to give it a shot. I have now used it three trips for a combined total of 10 days. The first trip, there was no bad weather. None the less I was impressed with the quality given the price and the ease of assembly. While not quick, I can actually put up the tent by myself, admittedly getting the rainfly on is a little tricky even with my 6 ft height. It's also legitimately huge.On the 2nd trip, there were some storms with up to 30 mph gust. Tent worked great! No water made it in. The third time out really tested things. During this years rock festival, the event for which I bought the tent, there was a serious storm with weather reports of 80 mph straight-line winds. While I don't know exactly how fast the winds were, it was hell a fast. During the storm I was sitting in my vehical and during large gusts I could see the tent get pushed over, and actually see the top of the rainfly. However after each gust it would pop back up and be just fine. I suspect if the winds were coming towards the shortPost storm the ARIZONA was the only one left standing in our group. Looking at nearby campsites, our tent honestly was probably one out of 10's that was left. Additionally the tent was standing in about 5 inches of water. Inside the tent a little water seeped in from where the wall of tent got pushed down on our air mattresses, but that was it, and totally expected! Upon packing the tent up 2 days later, we did find a little damage. Two sections of fiberglass poles had split due to the wind, but that's it, and the poles are easily replaced. I cannot recommend this tend enough.

This thing is gigantic. I do think it is over priced, its not "all that". The zippers, as many reviewers stated, are weak, I anticipate those failing. My sleeping bag has a better zipper! The windows only have an outdoor zipping option and that is so inconvinient, especially if it starts to rain at night. We got some dew through the floor which was weird, we had 2 tarps under the tent so I'm not sure what happened there. As other reviewers mentioned the instructions are horrible and lacking, leaves you guessing, but we managed, its not overly complicated. After the first install you'll easily remember what to do. The stakes were incredibly cheap, I recommend buying better ones, again not what I expect at this price point, those stakes are the same that comes with one of those cheap walmart/home depot tents. All in all, I like the tent, glad its huge and it suited our needs. If they'd upgrade a few things then they'd earn the its "awesome" product review but as is, its a pretty good tent for a lot of money. We didnt get rain when we used it so I can't vouch for its weather proofness -which was my motivation for purchasing this tent.