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Kohana 4 Tent: 4-Person 3-Season

Got this as a durable car camping tent that could hold up with two dogs, and after a few uses it definitely fits the bill. The tent fabric is durable and the inside is super spacious. My only issue with the tent is ventilation. It could really use some kind of vent towards the top of the fly, instead of the little ones near the doors that don't seem to do anything. With both fly doors closed, we woke up with a fair amount of condensation. Sleeping with them open was great, but obviously that isn't always possible depending on weather. Overall, it's a great tent that seems like it will last awhile, just wish it had a bit more airflow.

Seems like a decent tent, time will tell

Have yet to go camping with it. My observations from setting it up are: - Tent itself is easy to set up, clips make it a snap. - The poles are rather flimsy, not sure how they'll perform in harsh wind storms. - There are times when a surprise rain makes you have to scurry around in the middle of the night to throw the fly on. This fly is a bit of a pain to get on, and needing two extra poles for the fly is annoying. Not something you want to deal with in the middle of the night. - The stuff sack is barely large enough to get the tent, poles and fly in, there's no room for the ground tarp (footprint)! Will have to get another stuff bag that all will fit into. Not sure I'll keep it, the cons are outweighing the pros so far.

I really want to like this tent. We'll see.

OK. But kind of a let down. I like the concept of the vestibules. The aluminum poles seem fairly flimsy and prone to be easily bent. The floor is rather thin, so a ground mat is mandatory to help prevent inevitable puncture to the thin floor. Biggest complaint is you basically have to set up two tents to have one. It's useless without the rainfly because of the porous and see-through mesh on sides and top. The rainfly it so big and requires so many ties down hooks It's like setting up another tent over the existing one. I get it's supposed to be secure and prevent rain infiltrating the tent. So in that regard it is well designed. But the rainfly better do a darn good job repelling water because you have only one line of defense with this tent due to the mesh top and sides.

The tent is well made- fly extends to bottom of tent walls- great price!

Fly design flaw

Because the fly poles run perpendicular and on top of the tent poles, the fly poles create a lip for water to flow over. Water ends up pooling on the fly and you need to shake the tent to get the water to drain off the fly. This is annoying because if it rains in the night water just sits on the fly all night long. I am sure this will result in an issue with leakage in the future in these locations.

LOVE LOVE !!LOVE!!!

The tent was extremely easy to set up. It was spacious and had lots of room to clip things as well as store things in the numerous pockets. The colors are adorable and I will defiently be using for a long time.

Good quality and good tent

Very easy to set up and take down. Very light for a car camping tent and roomy for four people with dual access and vestibules

So disapointed ! Fly leaks!

As some other users experienced, after three occasions, we found that the "T-loops" on the underside of the rain fly (that hold up the vestibule doors when rolled up) dripped water onto the door mesh and into the tent on both sides. We are very very dissapointed.

About what I expected

The main features I wanted were double entry and large vestibules. Got those. We are replacing a Eureka Apex II. My only disappointment was the lack of inside pockets. All else in a good.

Leaks like a sieve...

Familiarity:

I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions

I recently purchased this Eureka Kohana 4 tent from Backcountry via eBay. I was attracted to this tent's rugged fabric, burly aluminum poles, and very thick waterproof coating. I have purchased other Eureka tents in the past and have been very happy with their performance and value. At first sight and inspection, the Eureka Kohana tents seem like great, solid tents. Unfortunately, the Eureka Kohana 4 and 6 person tents are brand new products from Eureka for 2021. Like many brand new products, these tents have their share of flaws and defects. I found this out the hard way while camping a couple times in my new Eureka Kohana 4 tent during some steady rainstorms. The primary design defect concerning the Eureka Kohana tents concern multiple leaks emanating from the rain fly in the dual vestibule areas. There are two areas in the rain fly portion of each of the two vestibules that cause the annoying slow leakage of water into the tent during rainstorms. Again, these leaks occur in BOTH sides of the tents in the vestibule areas. These four total leaks then slowly drip water down onto the mesh doors of each side of the tents. The drops of water pass through the mesh of the doors and then drip onto the tent's floor. You then end up with four separate puddles of water in the tent (two on each side) near the doors. This problem is not limited to only the Eureka Kohana 4 person tent. Look at the review of the Eureka Kohana 6 person tent (by Richard I. dated 4/25/21) on this Backcountry site. You will find that the Eureka Kohana 4 and Kohana 6 tents are both plagued with leaks. Unless you enjoy constantly mopping up four separate puddles of water IN your tent, stay far away from these two defective tents. Eureka needs to work the "bugs" out of both these brand new model tents. Even though Eureka has taped all the seams in the rain fly of these tents, they STILL leak. Even though I applied a seam sealant to the external seams on the rain fly of my Kohana tent, it STILL leaks. There is not way to remedy the leakage problem in the Kohana tents. They truly suffer from a serious design defect. An upper end brand new Eureka tent should not leak at all. Buyer beware!