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REI Hobitat 6 Vestibule

REI Hobitat 6 Vestibule

Item # 761886
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This add-on vestibule adds 38.9 sq. ft. to the REI Hobitat 6 tent.

  • Provides convenient weatherproof storage and protected tent access
  • Includes a shockcorded pole to support vestibule and extend headroom
  • Made from polyurethane-coated nylon taffeta
  • Peak height: 66 in.
  • Packed size: 5.5 in. x 24 in.
  • Fits 2005 - 2008 Hobitat 6 tents

Imported.

Item 761886

REI Hobitat 6 Vestibule Specs

Specification

Description

Weight3 lbs. 7 oz.
MaterialNylon taffeta

REI Hobitat 6 Vestibule Customer Reviews

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REI Hobitat 6 Vestibule
 
3.8

(based on 4 reviews)

100%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Pros

    Cons

    • Difficult to setup (4)

    Best Uses

    • Car camping (4)
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    • Casual adventurer (3)

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    May

    31

    2008

    (3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)

     
    4.0

    Good luck figuring out the set-up

    By Dr. Doom

    from Boise, ID

    About Me Casual/ Recreational

    Site Member

    Pros

    • Lightweight
    • Nice addition

    Cons

    • Difficult To Setup

    Best Uses

    • Car Camping

    Comments about REI Hobitat 6 Vestibule:

    Make SURE you try it out in the garage first. The directions are very poorly written and you'll need help trying to wrap your head around three poles and four grommets and the sandwich. I dinged it a star for this reason alone.

    Its the technique used to connect the vestibule pole/grommets to the tent pole/grommets. But once up, it it great. The etxra room for changing clothes in pravacy, taking a sponge bath without getting the tent wet, etc. were a treat. That freed us (with two kids--ages 4 & 1) to get off the beaten path and away from the state park campsites.

    • What Is Your Gear Style:
    • Minimalist

    Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

    (3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)

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    Jun

    24

    2008

    (2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

     
    4.0

    Here's how to set it up

    By ultraarcher

    from Seattle WA

    About Me Avid Adventurer

    Pros

    • Comfortable
    • Sturdy

    Cons

    • Difficult To Setup

    Best Uses

    • Car Camping

    Comments about REI Hobitat 6 Vestibule:

    The above reviews are right: it's a great addition, but the directions are vague to the point of being wrong. Very unsual for REI, and they should remedy it. In fact I would have returned it as defective, but for the hints in the above review.

    In that spirit, I now will tell you, happy buyer, what you need to know, in a description below. The description will probably be greek to anyone who does not have the tent and vestibule in hand, but with luck it will save those a bunch of confusion head scratching out there is cyberspace.

    What you need to know:
    The key is that get the "three grommet" set up indirectly referred to in the vestibule set up. The thing that bufuddled me was that there is no piece with three grommets. What you do have are the "tag" on the corner of the tent (which has two grommets) and the tag on the edge of the vestibule (which also has two grommets). The way to make it all come together is to align the two tags referred to above, so you can stick the end of the vestibule pole through one of the grommets on each of the tags (the tent corner one and the vestibule one) . Overlapping the grommets in this way pins them together will create a "three grommet" structure.

    Once I figured this out on my own, the rest came together quickly.

    • What Is Your Gear Style:
    • Minimalist

    Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

    (2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)

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    Aug

    31

    2008

    (1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

     
    3.0

    Nice additon, but with a few flaws

    By Bostondad

    from Boston

    About Me Casual/ Recreational

    Site Member

    Pros

    • Nice extraprivate space

    Cons

    • Difficult To Setup
    • Zippers get caught up

    Best Uses

    • Car Camping

    Comments about REI Hobitat 6 Vestibule:

    Nice addition, but all comments about the difficulty of setting it up are true. I set it up AT the REI store with employee’s help and it was still a jigsaw puzzle. Using it 2 months later at the campsite for the first time took me longer to remember how to put it up then putting up the entire Hobitat 6 tent by myself (with my 3 year olds “help”).

    After it is up, it is nice, but one constant problem is that the zippers were always getting material stuck in them, more annoying than anything else. We used it mostly for our “potty” training child, by having his training potty inside of it, so not having a floor was actually good for us, but I could see the benefit of a type of flooring. The mesh bottom that was mentioned was also a nice idea, since we seemed to get a lot of spiders inside the vestibule during our week that it was used, they just crawled up from the opened bottom.

    • What Is Your Gear Style:
    • Comfort Driven

    Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

    (1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

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    Jun

    18

    2008

    (1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

     
    4.0

    A Great Option...Needs Better Directions

    By danielpersing

    from Kansas City, MO

    About Me Casual/ Recreational

    Site Member

    Pros

    • Comfortable
    • Lightweight
    • Sturdy

    Cons

    • Difficult To Setup

    Best Uses

    • Car Camping

    Comments about REI Hobitat 6 Vestibule:

    Loved having this optional piece to add to our Hobitat 6. It came in really handy but here are a few things that might help:

    Setting this up at home helped us a great deal before we went on our trip. But keep in mind that the bottom part of the vestibule is not flush with the ground.

    When I called REI about this, they said that was to aid in ventilation which totally makes sense now. But if it were flush to the ground, you could make the entryway just mesh with an optional zippered flap so that if you wanted it to be completely closed, you could do that. For bad weather, why not make the space between the ground and the vestibule a zippered option to raise it in case you have the front flap shut during downpours. That was you can still have ventilation but relatively keep that vestibule spacing dry.

    Clipping the vestibule to the main tent was a little bit on the trial and error side. A little bit of clarification on where they needed to be placed would have helped.

    I would have also liked to see some sort of flooring with the vestibule. For now we'll just buy an extra ground tarp, but I don't think that it would look as good poking out from underneath.

    Thanks for adding the vestibule this year! I had been waiting to make the purchase on the Hobitat 6 because it didn't have one so I'm looking forward to other options next year!

    • What Is Your Gear Style:
    • Comfort Driven

    Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

    (1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

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