- Good day folks, Ben from Snowys here today
taking you for a walkthrough of the Coleman
Instant Swagger 3 Person tent
or swag with dark room technology.
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This is a compact tent
that's an alternative to a swag
that offers easy set up
and a great extra room for your campsite.
And these swagger tents from Coleman have been really
popular and are a great option
for people who might be sort of looking for a swag
but maybe want a little bit more living space than a swag
but still want the same sort of pack size.
This doesn't have bedding inside.
It's basically a tent with a frame,
but it packs up to a smaller set of size than a swag does.
But it has nice durable fabrics, a nice durable floor
and it's a really good or easy setup option
for an extra room maybe for kids in the campsite,
your teenager wants their own space.
They don't wanna be in the tent with mum and dad anymore.
This is an easy setup option
to set up anywhere in the campsite.
It's got an instant up frame inside.
We're taking you for a bit of a walkthrough today.
We'll get to the frame shortly,
but we'll start with the fabrics.
It's made with 150 denier polyester.
It's got a 1500 millimetre water head.
So it's a good quality good waterproof fabric
and it's nice and durable.
Now this version of the swagger has got
what they call their dark room technology.
So this has got this black coating on the inside here
which blocks out about 95% of the light
which means you can sleep in longer in the morning.
If the sun's rising earlier, you are not an early riser,
this is gonna keep it dark inside the tent.
They do also claim that it keeps the temperature
inside the tent down a little bit, not by a whole lot.
That probably works well
if you're using the shade
that this fabric provides combined with good ventilation.
So you'd still want this open to allow air flow through
'cause it creates a bit more shade inside the tent
'cause it doesn't let that light through.
But the main thing is that it keeps it nice and dark inside
so you can sleep in in the mornings.
As we move down,
we've got 150 denier polyester inner here as well
and mesh door.
This is a double door.
So you've got a polyester back and then mesh on the front.
This isn't a super fine mesh.
I wouldn't say it keeps midges out
but it's certainly gonna keep the mossies and the flies out.
And then a heavy duty polyethylene floors.
This is the tarp material type floors.
It's got that crinkly set of feel
but it's really tough floor.
It's gonna keep you nice and waterproof.
Keep all the water out.
And there's a bucket floor that comes 10 to 15 centimetres
up on the sides here.
Got a bit of a walk around the tent,
just looking at the front first.
You've got this awning that sets up out the front here
and you get these steel awning poles included
so you can set that up
as a bit of a weather protected entrance to the tent.
You can roll this back
if you like up against the tent here.
You've got tabs here to secure it up there.
So you've got ventilation through the front.
Alternatively, if you zip it down to the
along this zipper here to secure the front here,
you've got this vegetable
which is probably about sort of 70 yard centimetres
of space here for a bit of storage for shoes and bags.
And then it creates a nice weatherproof shelter for you
with that all zipped up.
Coming around to the side here,
you've got two go ups, which I haven't got set up today.
One of the benefits of this is Coleman have also
incorporated these go ups on the inner tent.
So directly behind this attached
to the inner tent are two more gyros
which means you can set the inner tent up securely
without having to use the fly.
So if it is a really hot night,
if you're in a really warm set of conditions,
you don't need to use both skins, the fly and the inner.
You can just use the inner tent
and have a really good ventilation.
On each end, there are these windows here.
So this section here is a window,
which is secured by a little velcro tab
at the bottom here and two zips up the sides.
So if you unzip these,
we can set these up in a few different ways.
Firstly, just roll it up if you like.
So this is mirrored to the other end of the tent.
So this opens up to a mesh panel here
which goes to another mesh panel inside.
And then on the back of the inner mesh panel
we'll show you shortly is an another privacy panel.
So when this is open
and the inner is open, you've got ventilation through here.
You've got ventilation on the other side
and the doorway at the front there.
And we'll show you the vent at the back as well.
You can also set this up
as a little weather protected awning if you like.
There are gyros on each corner.
So pick this out like this, it's gonna keep a bit of rain
or if it is raining, it's gonna keep the rain
from coming inside the window,
but allow ventilation up underneath.
Coming around through the back here,
we've got this kind of little sort of shape
sticking out here.
This is forms part of the circle ventilation
that Coleman incorporated into a lot of their tents
and it features in the swagger here.
So we can see this sort of dome set a shape here.
There's a panel inside.
So this has got the mesh on the outside here
and a polyester panel inside.
So it's adjustable from the inside.
It's partially open there at the moment.
You can open that right up
and then this pegs down and allows ventilation
at the low level here.
So you've got ventilation on all four sides
of the tent.
Coming around to the other end,
the tent, swench,
so whatever you wanna call it,
exactly the same as what we saw the opposite in there.
Another window here with the mesh behind it
so you could peg that out as however,
use it however you like.
Pegged out as a weather protected warning
or open for ventilation
and then back around to the front here.
Now we'll squat down in here a bit
and have a bit of a look at what's up underneath here.
I might actually just pull this off
and show you some of the frame up under here.
So this is the instant up frame.
So this is steel frame here,
these poles are run up and down each side here
as an A frame.
And then you can't quite see it with a flyer on
but there's this extra little poles here
just to sort of give a bit more head space.
These are actually composite poles or fibreglass poles.
They're all attached to the same hub here.
It all folds up in together.
Check out our setup video on how that all works
but that's all incorporated into one.
So as you extend the frame out,
it all pops into place to make really easy setup.
So let's jump inside and have a look at the space in there.
Now this door is a double door.
So, this zips together,
both the polyester and the mesh panel here.
There's a zipper on the inside
that allows us to unzip the polyester panel behind.
So we can just have it done up as just mesh
just polyester or both if we like.
So just mesh if we want that ventilation
that keep the bugs out.
You can roll this back up against the edge here
and secure it with these tabs.
I'll just do it very roughly here at the moment
but you can keep that out the way there.
You can secure each panel individually as well.
So if you've just got the mesh done up
you can roll the polyester back.
Now coming inside here, they say it's a three person tent.
I'd say it's a comfortable space for two.
So we've got 240 centimetres in width this way
from end to end and then 210 centimetres this way.
Now I'm 185 centimetres.
So if I was to lie down, I've got space each end
that the sides of the tent are just sort of touching my feet
and my head here.
So I fit this way.
So that means I'll put some mats in here shortly
but you can quite comfortably fit two people.
But the great thing with the three P is if you want it
for a kid's tent, you could actually fit four kids mats
side by side here quite easily
and they'd be quite snug inside this tent.
So a great space for four kids.
The end walls here are quite upright.
So you can sit at the tent almost right over
to the edge here.
You've got 130 centimetres of height.
So there's heaps of head space here.
And I can sit almost right to the back of the tent
with enough head space here.
Now these walls do slope a little bit so that
sort of heeds a little bit on the side
but those fibreglass, all those composite poles
that I talked about before, just pull the roof out
into this section here.
So you've got a bit of extra head space.
At each end, a couple of windows.
This is that privacy panel that I talked about
on the inside here.
If I unzip that, that can be secured down here.
There's a mesh panel here
and we're now looking out onto the fly there.
So there's a panel just down here.
That's the mesh panel in the fly
where I've got the the storm flat close
on the outside there.
That also features at the opposite end of the tent.
So you got ventilation,
this sitting and this end
and you also get at this end a bit of a storage pocket.
So just two mesh pockets here.
You can store your stuff in, window above that.
And then at the rear,
we've got that circle ventilation section
that I was talking about.
So we can unzip this, roll it up at the bottom here.
We've got that ventilation out
and that little sort of dome
that we've got pegged out there.
If it is cold, zip this up,
or if it's really windy, zip it up
and it secures it or keeps it nice
and it keeps it a bit warmer
at the low level of the tent in here.
The last couple of features inside the tent
first is the power access point
which is down in this corner here.
There's a red zipper on the inside here
which you can undo to allow power inside.
So if you've got a fan or a lantern
that you wanna run off of 12 volt, you get a cable inside.
And then there's also a little loop on the top here
just a little hook,
which is secured to the pole that runs
along the ridge there
that allows us to just hang a little lantern
at the top here if we like.
Not too heavy,
probably won't want a too big lantern in there anyway
'cause it's gonna hang down sort of your head space.
But a small lantern like this one here
can hang nice and neatly there.
That's pretty much all the features inside the tent.
What I wanna do though, is grab a couple of mats.
I've got two single air beds
that I'm gonna put in here just to give you
a feel for the space you've got inside the tent.
Now these are just regular key single air beds
that I've got here.
So they measure about 190 centimetres in length
and about a metre in width.
So you can see for two people is quite comfortable.
If I lie on one of these mats, my head is gonna be slightly
against the fabric at the end.
Then my feet slightly against the fabric
at the end there as well.
So these are quite high mats though.
You can get nowadays sort of 10 centimetre
self-inflating mats
that are probably gonna fit a little bit better.
I thought I put some big mats in here
to give you an idea of space.
But that still gives me sort of 40 yard centimetres
of space down the middle here to sit on the bed
to put my stuff.
You could probably put the mats this way as well
'cause we've got 210 centimetres in width.
Let's see if this works.
So for two people, that potentially works better
because we've got,
we don't have the access from the doorway here
'cause the bed sits right across it.
But you've got more head space there
and a bit more foot space here.
So you haven't got the fabric hanging on your head.
So you've got a couple of options there for setup.
You could probably also fit,
you could almost fit a double high queen air bed in here.
It's gonna take up most of the space.
It's gonna sit right in the middle here
'cause it's gonna be 150 centimetres
and take up most of the length,
but you could fit be a double high queen air bed in here
as well if you like.
But I reckon it's ideal for a setup with two beds
like this probably two 10 centimetre thick
self-inflating mats is a great option
or four small mats for four kids in here
are gonna fit really comfortably.
So the last thing I wanna do is collapse
this awning down and zip it right up
and show you how dark it is inside
'cause it's a reasonably sunny day today.
We're in a little bit of shade here
but it should give you an idea
of how much light this dark room technology fabric cuts out.
So we zip this up.
Things are gonna get dark.
We'll be able to see light just coming in pretty much
just from up underneath the bottom of the fly sheet.
But what I wanna show before I zip up the inner tent is
that this material it's actually pretty good.
It 95% of the light, this air blocks out
but there is the odd little spot here and there.
You can see a little patch here.
I can see a little one.
I just up here kinda like looking at a starry night.
There are little spots where light comes through it.
Doesn't completely block out all the light
but it certainly makes it a lot darker in here
than it is on the outside.
I'll take it one step further
and zip up the inner door here as well,
cuts out a bit of that radiant light coming in
from up underneath the fly sheet out there.
That's where most of the light coming in now is from
and you can just see sort of a glow
around the base of a tent.
Certainly dark enough to sleep in here
'cause it is the middle of the day at the moment.
I'll just turn the light on here.
You see that's now giving us good light inside here.
You wouldn't know there was light outside
apart from a bit of bit of light
around the base of the tent.
So the fabric certainly cuts it out,
enough light for you to sleep in here
at any time of the day.
That is all the features of the Coleman Instance
Swagger 3 Person tent with dark room.
Now call it a tent, call it a swag,
call it a swench, whatever you like,
kind of fills that funny sort of grey
or that void between what a swag is
and what a tent is.
Offers really good weather protection
a bit more living space than a swag.
But doesn't come with bedding and mats
incorporated inside it.
But certainly a popular choice
for that extra bit of shelter, that extra room
something for the kids at the campsite.
And you can check them out online at snowys.com.au
where you find them at our lowest prices every day.
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