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Camping & Hiking | Home » » Amberjack Outdoors Fully Enclosed Free Standing Mosquito Net Tent | | | | | | | Description: | | Amberjack Outdoors Free Standing Mosquito Nets are fully enclosed and constructed of Polyester No-See-Um netting with two fiberglass shock-corded poles. Stuff sack and stakes included. Stops mosquitoes, noseeums, sandflies, bed bugs and more. | | | Features: | |
• Fine Mesh Netting Stops Biting Bugs: Mosquitos, Bedbugs, NoSeeUms, Sandflies and more!
• Free standing for Use on the Ground or Bed (Twin - King)
• Fits Easily Into Carryon Luggage
• Lifetime Warranty Against Defects
• 89" x 48" x 42"
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19 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 Great tent for the priceDec 01, 2010
By C. McCarty
I bought one of these for a trip I made to Africa. I was on a budget for my trip, and I needed something that wasn't going to break the bank but still offer me full protection. For comparison sake, I could only find this and one other product, the TropicScreen 2 that I found at the store - $120 (yikes). I didn't set it up, but I slid it out of the stuff sack and examined it a bit before I left the store.
I decided to look online to see if I could get it cheaper because of the whole budget thing. I found the TropicScreen here on amazon for $96, which is a better price than the store. While I was looking around for the TropicScreen, I found a couple other competing models. One was similar to the TropicScreen (this Amberjack model), and the other was those spring type open ones that pop up like a kid's toy tent. From the pop up descriptions, though, I could tell that they won't easily pack into your bags, so I passed on those. Knowing I could return it if I wasn't happy, I ordered this Ambjerack one up. At the time I purchased it, it was about $35 less than the TropicScreen.
When it arrived, I was able to set it up in just a couple of minutes. It has only two shock corded poles and comes with the simplest instructions - feed through one set of sleeves and repeat for the second pole. Take down was a snap.
The quality is nice. It has a very fine mesh, finer than most noseeum mosquito nets I have seen. It's pretty lightweight (the same as the tropicscreen according to specs), and it is definitely self supporting - I picked it up from the top and it retains its shape rather nicely.
It served its purpose well for my trip, and kept me cool on some hot nights out in the bush and on top of the beds at the two hotels I stayed at. (You wouldn't believe how scary one of them was, I was glad I had this not just for mosquitos!)
I would recommend it to anyone who needs a tent like this. This would be great for south american travel as well, or really for any tropic area with lots of bugs.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
superiorJun 27, 2011
By Beth
Daughter needed this in the Panama jungle. Was excellent source to keep bugs and any other critters away. Highly recommended.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
awesome productOct 26, 2011
By Mike
Worked perfectly to protect me from mosquito's while i was in the bush in Africa! I would highly recommend this to everyone!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
insects at bayAug 17, 2011
By xxx
i have been sleeping in the midst of an insect infestation. Bed bugs, fleas, cockroaches. All manner of things in the insect realm were dining on my blood making for fitful bouts of sleep and pre-repose anxiety. The Amberjack Outdoors Fully Enclosed Free Standing Mosquito Net Tent has changed my life in just a coupe of days. An additional hour of repose immediately upon the use of this product. Nevermind the weight off my shoulders knowing hundreds of bloodsucking and disease carrying insects may not dine on my flesh and blood from here on. And sweet revenge, in the morning i watched them on the transparent, onion skin like mesh, almost angry in there deprivation of there sanguine feast. The mesh is fine, but the cool air-conditioning passes, the parasites don't. For children, adults.
 Keeps the bugs out, but also the breezeFeb 18, 2012
By Mike
I've used this tent on trips to Haiti and South Sudan. I use it indoors on top of beds when mosquito nets were not available or there was no practical way to hang them.
I agree with the other reviewers that the Amberjack Mosquito tent keeps the bugs out. But I think there are a couple of design flaws.
1) The mesh is very close knit and keeps the bugs out. But unless your room has air con (mine usually don't) it also keeps out the breeze. In Haiti I had a fan pointed right on my face and could not feel the breeze through the tent. I think traveling with a small camping fan might settle that though.
2) The door only zips towards the top of the dome and not the bottom of the door like most regular tents. This was a problem a few times when mosquitoes had settled on my tent and I had to unzip it quite a ways to get in and out. If it zipped on the bottom, I could slide in and out brushing off the sqeeters.
3) The floor is nylon like a normal tent and can get hot because it does not breath.
4) The design is interesting, but a pain in the but to get the poles in. They cross twice and you have to make sure you line it up right or it's a do-over. I don't think that design is really necessary.
But, like the other reviewers have said, it keeps the bugs out and is lite weight and packable. I just don't see the advantage of this tent over a small regular camping tent.
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