Portable 3 Person Ice Fishing Tent Insulated Ice Fishing Shelter Thermal Ice Fishing Shanty with Insulated Layer for Ice Fishing Winter Fishing

The media could not be loaded. I’ve been fishing in this tent all week and it’s awesome! Daytime high temps have been in the mid-30s and nighttime temps have been down to the low teens. I run a buddy heater at night and am cozy warm in this tent.The stakes and straps that come with it hold the tent securely in place. I also piled a bit of ice and snow on top of them for good measure and added insulation. I’ve had light winds with gusts up to 20-30 mph. The straps have been humming in the wind at times, but this thing isn’t going anywhere. If you’re not sure how to pitch an ice tent, talk to someone who’s done it before. There’s no reason why this tent should blow away, with 8 spikes and 4 straps included.My buddies can’t believe the deal I got on this tent. You can easily pay $250+ for some of the best-known brands out there. I am thrilled I picked this one up on sale on Amazon for a fraction of that.Love this tent - highly recommended!*** 2/17/23 UPDATE ***A day or two after I posted my review, I had to take down and pack up this tent for the first time. It did not go as smoothly as I would have hoped. Here's what I learned:- The ice stakes that come with this tent are not going to stand up to much abuse. One snapped already in the course of my first week of use. I'm not sure whether it got kicked during the week or snapped when my buddy and I were packing up. The other seven stakes came out just fine.- The instructions that come with the tent are minimal and confusing when it's time to take it down. They talk about an insulation barrier of some sort that goes on the inside roof of the tent. I don't have one of those. The rest of the instructions are equally puzzling. Having taken it down three times now, the best way to do this is: 1) close up all the doors, windows, and vents 2) remove the ice stakes 3) free the skirt from the ice (might require warm water or a hair dryer, depending on how long the tent has been up) 4) collapse the roof 5) collapse the sides 6) fold it up and haul it home 7) set it in a bathtub or on a heated garage floor until it's completely dry 8) pack it up til next time.- The binding that holds the inside and outside skirts together at the base of this tent is single-stitched with a low-quality thread. This is a bizarre design choice, since most of the rest of the seams are double-stitched. The skirt is really important in holding this whole tent together, staking it down to the ice, and staying warm (preventing drafts). A portion of the skirt binding of my tent unraveled the first time I put it away. The thread holding it together just disintegrated.Despite all this, I'm still giving this product 5 stars. The price I paid can't be beaten. And Kazinski customer support has been super-responsive. They are standing by their product and have worked with me to resolve all my issues.So I would just say, be careful when you take down this tent. You're going to have to baby it quite a bit more than name-brand ice tents from Eskimo or Clam. But maybe any ice tent is ultimately doomed no matter what - we're dealing with sharp stuff (augers, shovels, hooks, etc.) and hot stuff (heaters, camp stoves, etc.) all day long around a fabric tent. I can see why folks build or buy ice shacks.

I purchased this to serve as a heated shelter for my computer and other associated astrophotography gear needed to support two automated telescope rigs (which are out in the open). I usually operate these remotely from inside my house, but sometimes setup takes some fiddling around outside and having a heated shelter makes a huge difference. I was mainly interested in something for winter, but after finding how convenient it is I'm pretty sure that when summer comes I'll be looking to cool it as well. Without an air conditioner I have heard that an insulated tent such as this (and with a black roof) can become unbearably hot.As others have described, these hub-style shelters set up very quickly. Without even knowing what I was doing it was set up in my living room in less than a minute. The interior is black and very dark, something that I appreciate when trying to see a computer screen while it is still daylight.So far I'm genuinely impressed with the quality and ease of deployment. The hubs in the center of each of the five panels (4 sides and the top) are die cast metal with what I presume to be fiberglass rods. The stitching and reinforcements look fine, certainly better than some of the user photos that I saw for reviews of a similar popular blue product. The zippered doors on opposite corners are perfect and access is very easy. I have the telescopes close to one corner door to allow easy access to the computer inside while doing interactive set up, and the opposite corner door is the main access.The doors have dual (top and bottom) zippers, and since the fabric on either side of the zipper needs to pull together it is best to close the top and bottom zippers together equally so they meet in the middle of the door flap. Trying to zip around the pointed corner of the door flaps with a single zipper is unnecessary and puts a lot of tension on it. I found that lubricating the zipper by rubbing the corner of a block of regular canning paraffin the full length of the zippers both inside and out greatly improved the ease with which they slide. I used Gulf wax from the supermarket for this. The zippers seem to be of good quality for the usage, but it does pay to take care of them right from the start since this tends to show up as a complaint in comments, particularly with a more well-known brand of shelter that is comparable to this one.It has four windows with Velcro covers, and the windows themselves are velcroed so that they may be fully opened. There are also two vents with flaps on opposite sides of the top, and two mesh storage pocket on the interior.Like some other similar insulated shelters this does have pinholes around the little "ravioli squares", or quilting pattern that serves to provide insulation. This seems to be a fairly common source of complaints from users that expect the shelter to be waterproof. In fairness it probably isn't much of a problem when used in winter for it's intended purpose, but it's possible that a wet snow with a heater going inside might result in an occasional drip. I don't know yet, but I'm not too concerned since I'm tying a square tarp over the top anyway as a rain fly.Getting the tent back in the bag is a little challenge but not as bad as someone else portrayed – the bag is fairly generously sized if you fold the shelter in the right sequence. The bag even has sort of a rubberized coating on the inside.After considering the what the shipping must cost on this size box and the quality of the shelter itself, I'm not sure who is making any money off this deal. I bought this on Prime Day for $141.59, which is about 1/3 to 1/4 the price of a comparable product which in some cases did not review as highly as this.All in all I would say that this is an outstanding value at the regular $179.99 price, and I would go so far to say that I would buy it without question at twice that price after seeing it. After a few nights of sitting in warm comfort on freezing Minnesota nights I wonder why I waited until now to find this.