Coleman 4-Person Dark Room Sundome Tent

I like this tent! I've had many Coleman tents but this black-out innovation is a first for me. I was worried that there might be some off-gassing from the black-out stuff. There was not and I slept well. It was an easy set up, in the dark, at midnight, with just me setting up. If it hadn't been my first set up in years, with a new tent, then set up would have been less than ten minutes. I love that Coleman still has the same tough waterproof bottom material that comes up the sides (about 10”?? 8”?) enough for protection in small flooding events. On day two, it rained hard in the morning but inside the tent was dry. I hadn't used the strings to stake down the rain guard but it wasn't necessary; the rain fell off properly. I slept through the downpour but the outside of the tent was still wet from rain when I had to pack out so I didn't roll it up for bagging, but left it loose in the car with the other wet things. After drying fully on my porch I rolled it up properly and was once again impressed that all the pieces fit just fine in the carry bag. I didn't have to open up the extra gusset built into the carry bag. This tent is truly black-out. I can't wait to use it beach camping to finally have some shade after sunrise and see how it handles hot weather. I already have the necessary extra long stakes for setting up in sand. The included stakes are the standard length. They're fine for most camping setups. It's just that beach camping on sand and in constant wind requires using longer stakes. Without the rain guard the tent has lots of open screen, the solid sides are all black-out. The windows are screen with zippered black-out. I'm guessing that staking the strings of the rain guard will open up more venting space for the tent's large open screen area to breathe more? The vent space is shallower when just relying on the tent pole attachment points. Because I am a bit of a glamper I thought the size was perfect for just me. I could see how two, or two and 1/2, could be fine. I just like to leave plenty of room between my stuff and the sides of a tent due to early experiences of rainwater wicking through tents when an item is touching the tent walls during rain. My paranoia about that might be outdated, but I'm not going to experiment.