REI Hobitat Tent Review

Overall 4.00 of 5 (by 1 user)

Russ
Marietta, GA

Plenty of headroom.

nature lover, outdoorsman, Hiker

Pros

Headroom, Door, Storage

AUG

2007

REI Hobitat Tent —

The REI Hobitat is a big, comfortable tent. It comes in a 100"x86" 4 person model and a 120"x100" 6 person model. I like it a lot, mainly because of two features. The first is the variably flexible poles. The bottom couple of feet of each pole is more rigid than the rest, leading to straighter sides. This means more head room closer to the sides, allowing normal size people (not me) to stand up. The other really nice feature is the large door. No crawling in and out. The width of the door also helps you avoid climbing other campers. I know larger doors are standard on family style tents like this, but the Hobitat feels good to me.

The Hobitat has a bunch of storage pockets in two of the corners, and a couple in the other corners. There are plenty of hang loops in the ceiling, for equipment, bags or a gear loft. The rain fly does a good job of keeping out the rain. I would be happier if it had an awning part to form a 'porch', but it does what it's supposed to do.

The poles are aluminum, which means that you don't have to worry about the ends fraying from impacts like fiberglass does. Just don't bend them beyond their point of maximum elasticity.

Jury is still out on whether the name is dorky or not, but you don't have to tell people the name of your tent and it's kind of appropriate with the round door.

If you've got a lot of campers, this could be the tent for you.

Last edited on Aug 07, 2007