ALPS Mountaineering  Acropolis 4 Tent

Tent is easy to setup, and it took only a few minutes to put it up. It is roomy for 2 peeps and 3 medium size dogs plus necessities and tall enough for you (im 5 ft 9 inches) to standup without touching your head. 4-stars bc i hadn't used the tent in nature yet.

I really wanted to love this tent. There are a lot of good things about it like the two doors and a spacious interior even with a queen size air mattress. And I can stand up in it (I'm 5'8"). I'm sure the tarp will be great in rain. The reason I don't love it is you can't control the air flow from inside the tent. There are no interior zips that cover the netting which also means no privacy unless the tarp is on. To control air flow you have to to roll up part of the vestibule or stake the tarp closer to the tent for more warmth, which has to be done by going outside of the tent. So at 3 in the morning when it might be a little chilly, there is no way to close the tent doors. Also, if you hear something outside of the tent and want to see what it is, you can't unless you open the vestibule. The photo doesn't show the vestibule staked out, it's rolled up and the door is open.

Bought this tent on discount. I have liked M.H. ever since I bought a $100 tent and it stayed dry for 3 days of rain. This is a tent that will stand up to rain and wind. I like the design. The white doesn’t hide dirt tho, but whatever. Quick set up and takedown. Stuff sack ripped rite away, but that’s not a big deal. Roomy enough for my gf and and kid. Don’t hesitate to buy- it’s a good one.

Bought this tent to have light car base camping tent to replace my Sierra Designs 20 year old 4p tent. Not hard to set up solo, with 2 people it's up in under 5 minutes including the ground cloth and rainfly (no sleeves for the poles, just hooks which makes it so much easier). Poles are identical so you can't get them wrong lol. Lots of head room and 2 doors is perfect. Rainfly goes all the way down for both rain and wind protection. Near vertical walls makes it feel so spacious. Fits 2 people (one who is 6'3") and a German shepherd (all with their own 4" pads) comfortably with room to still move. Cannot speak to how it does in the rain yet, but we had 2 days of 30 plus mph winds that hammered us and it did great. Heavier than I would want for backpacking (unless you did parse it out amongst 4 people, but it would be cozy in there) but for the car it is light and small.

The tent floor developed holes after just one use—it’s made of very thin material. Overall, I’m pretty unimpressed with the quality. I’m giving it three stars because ALPS did send me a replacement tent body for $30, but I wouldn’t purchase this tent again.

This is an initial impression, a very incomplete review. I'm transitioning from back country, backpacking and kayak camping to rustic state and national forest car camping. An aging body is prompting this shift. Many years ago, pre-modern fabrics my young family started in the outdoors with car camping. So, it's like full circle. Except there is a lot more to choose from in light weight fabrics and tent designs than 50+ years ago. My tent camping is now exclusively solo, and I'm looking at maybe 5-7 years more of it, if I'm lucky. I need room, room to get in and out easier, room to move around and function once inside the tent easier than in a 2P backpacking tent. I don't want to deal with complicated pitches that involve sleeves, hubs and/or require flat ground for the tent geometry to work. Selling my single pole pyramid tent with an innernet. Sold my tarp/bivy combos, sold my 2P Sea to Summit, and spending close to $1,000 for a high end Big Agnes or MSR 3+P tent is off target and way overkill as far as cost is concerned at this point. I'm 6'1" tall and 185 pounds. I mostly camp from spring through fall in northern MI. My feet are size 12's, and I sleep on a pillow. My largest pad is 77X25X4. My thickest bag is an old Snow Lion 0 - minus 15 down bag, and I want to get that all off the ground and onto a cot. In doing that I need the tent to be long enough, with walls that are vertical enough, that neither my head or feet are touching tent fabric. The REi Campwell folding cot measures 76X25X18, and fits the bill on my requirements in this tent. At 60" high I can operate pretty easily inside this tent on my knees, and with a 102X90" floor, there is plenty of room to move around, change clothes, or lounge in foul or buggy weather. Easy entry to an open floor. My Alite Monarch 2-legged chair is off to the side for me to sit and read or enjoy a movie on my phone, then there is my bed, and the other side of my bed is space to get out of bed at night and use the 2nd door to the vestibule where I will have dug a very convenient cat hole. A gear loft is included to hang a light, or put whatever up there. I'm not a fan of gear lofts, So, I'll likely just hang a light and not compromise the huge ceiling I have. I've only pitched this in the yard at this point, as we head into a MI winter. It's likely the tent won't be used until spring. The pitch is quite easy and intuitive. The poles are simple, and go together well. Tent fabric clips to the poles, no sleeves. My fingers aren't as subtle as they used to be so, the velcro wraps around the poles to connect the fly are slow going for me, but not difficult. 1st time up was maybe 20 minutes? I can see easily cutting that in half. Everything pulled out nice and tight. There are guy lines in case of wind, likely a necessity with the near vertical walls. i like the feel of the floor fabric, not quite as slippery as the ultra-light stuff I'm used to. There aren't a lot of reviews out there of this tent. The only negative knock I could find is that often there is sagging of the fly in the rain. On further investigation I learned that this was a pitching problem that could be avoided with proper pitching. As I said, in my test pitch I got everything nice and taught. So, I settled on this tent. It seems to meet all of my needs. i wasn't going to buy now. i'm done camping for 26 and thought I'd wait until spring REI sales to buy in 27, but REI had this tent on sale for 25% off right now. I called REI and asked about it, and it seems they have it on sale because they are discontinuing it. I called Alps Mountaineering and asked if they knew why, they didn't, and asked if they had plans to discontinue this tent, and I got a non-commital answer. "We have no plans at the moment, but what we might do this winter or next spring, I can't say". That should have raised a red flag, not so much with the tent, but more with "customer support". It was really a useless call. I REALLY liked this tent on paper. It was THE tent that seemed to best meet all of my needs, and considering how long I might actually use the tent, I decided, being discontinued or not, to buy it from REI on sale. The rest of this is about Alps Mountaineering customer service. Another reason my camping has ended for the year, I've recently had surgery, and recovery will take me well out beyond my normal fall camping limits. So, I got the tent and started researching cots. While I have never slept on a cot before the issue of will my bed and I fit into the length of a tent without my head or feet touching walls is a common issue that I have asked other tent manufacturers. Every time I asked, I would get a definitive response back, either yes or no. Alps Mountaineering? I got "I don't know, I'd have to pitch the tent and measure. I think it will work". Okay that's mildly irritating. My recovery has gone better than I hoped and so, I test pitched the tent in my yard and measured the extremes of a cot/pad/bag/body. As I researched cots I began to see that there is a potential issue with cots. Some cots, believe it or not, are designed with no thought given to the cot sitting on a tent floor, and it's not unusual for a cot's foot to tear a hole in a tent floor. Alps Mountaineering sells cots. The floor of this tent is a whooping 75D, very heavy duty. I called customer service at Aps Mountaineering and asked about this. I am not being a smart alex here. I really believe that if you make tents and also make cots to go inside those tents that they should be compatable. I really believed that I'd hear, if you buy our tent and our cot you won't have a problem. Instead what I was told was to tear pieces of cardboard and put them under the feet of the cot. This was the Alps Mountaineering recomendation for using their cot with one of their tents. How big of a piece of cardboard? How thick of a piece of cardboard? If I do that and a hole gets torn in the floor because the cardboard moved is my warranty valid? A company called Slumberjack sells cots and they sell booties to attach to the feet of their cots to prevent this. Might this approach have crossed the minds of Alps Mountaineering engineers? BUT, there was to be no further discussion. I very mildly objected to the cardboard solution and the customer service rep blurted out. "If you are unhappy we'll give you a refund on your tent". I was calling about a cot, not the tent, and I bought the tent from REI not them! I could see I was dealing with someone who spends a lot of time with disgruntled customers and had a very short fuse. I politely ended the call. REI assures me the feet of their cot are specifically designed to prevent tearing a hole in your floor. So, that's good enough for me, As for Alps Mountaineering? I will not deal with their customer service again unless I absolutely have no other choice. The test pitch of the tent in my yard couldn't have gone better. As far as customer service is concerned, perhaps I now have a little insight into why REI is discontinuing working with Alps Mountaineering, or at least scaling back. I'll update this review next spring/summer after I get some practical experience with it in maybe some less than ideal camping situations.

Loved the tent, but after 4 years of 5 weekends a year use, the zippers all failed. I tried pinching and replacing slides, but they were not fixed.To the landfill it goes.

Wonderful tent with lots of space and great heat retention