Kelty Parthenon 8-Person Tent

Built for the family this free-standing ‘mansion-style’ tent is unbelievably quick and easy to set up and take down. An interior divider provides privacy, and the large mesh side panels ensure that the tent remains ventilated on hot summer days. This sturdy tent also has an organizer wall to keep you organized.With 143 square feet of sleeping space, the Kelty Parthenon eight-person mansion-style tent is roomy enough for the whole family. The Parthenon is spacious from head to toe, measuring 11 by 13 feet across the floor and standing 6 feet 4 inches in the center. As a result, your wife, kids, and dog have plenty of room to stretch out, or you can turn your camping trip into a party by bringing a few friends along. The Parthenon is also...

• Mansion-style 8-person tent with 143 square feet of living space
• Dual-entry vestibule; interior divider; mesh wall panels
• Polyester taffeta rainfly and ArcEdge polyurethane-coated floor
• Organizer wall and gear loft loops; noiseless zipper pulls
• Color-coded clip sleeves; packaged weight of 27 pounds 3 ounces

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1. Great tent!
I purchased this tent early last summer (2010). I did A LOT of research, reading reviews, checking features, etc. This tent was a bit more than I initially wanted to spend, but it has been worth it. At first I was looking at the "throw away" tents that rarely give you more than a year of use from department stores. The main thing I wanted to make sure my tent could do was to resist leaking, and most department store tents do not do that consistently. This tent has not leaked at all, and when I say not at all, I mean not a drop. I'm not one who would be satisfied with a tent that only gets a few small drops of water in one of the corners along the seem. To me, not leaking is not leaking.

There is a lot of room inside this tent. Two queen-sized mattresses and a double-sized mattress easily fit in this tent, leaving plenty of room for bags also inside the tent. Air flow through the tent is great, but reduced a little with the rain cover on (obviously).

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2. Perfect Tent for our family of 5
We bought the Kelty Parthenon 8-person tent to replace our 5 year old Kelty Valhalla 5 which we love, but have outgrown. Sadly, there aren't tons of choices when looking for a tent capable of sleeping 8+ people without having to compromise in one area or another. Either you go the cheap route and know that you are going to have to buy a new tent after a year or two or you spend upwards of $700-$1,000 on some crazy technical tent that you are almost scared to set up because you fear that you are going to ruin it the first time out. Considering the great all around experience we had camping in the Valhalla-5, we only briefly considered going with the 8 person REI or North Face tents, but their cost seemed a bit steep for the features that they were offering.

So, on to the Parthenon-8 review. Being the epitome of car campers, we were looking for a tent that comfortably slept our family of 5 (2 adults, and our 3 boys aged 2, 4, and 6) and also had enough room to store some...

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The 8 person Kelty Parthenon tent is a well-made, roomy, 3 season tent that is ideal for a family. I wouldn't want to try to squeeze 8 into the tent--4 or 5 would be ideal. We've only used it once, but it kept us dry during a heavy rain. The rain test is one of the most important for a tent, and this one passed with flying colors. It has a "door" that allows you to divide the tent into two compartments, a skylight type of window in the top, a rain fly, and storage pockets inside for odds and ends. The only negative is that the poles attach to the tent with plastic clips that appear to be weak enough to cause an eventual failure. Overall we are happy with the purchase.
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