Hey folks, $250-300 is a good price on ebay. You can sometimes find lower, but the prices start skyrocketing come summer. Saw them going for $400-600 last year. I bought the Guide Gear 20' Party Shade since the North Poles weren't showing up on ebay or craigslist. It survived 2013, but there were a ...

This sounds a little different than how the NPPT's are made. They have a plastic attachment point that is sewn into the tent for the center pole. Do these have anything like that, or is the pole sitting directly on the tent fabric? :O No attachment point. Each end of the center tentpole is covered ...

I took my 30' Guide Gear model for a test camping trip this past weekend, using it to shade a 10x10 Kodiak tent. I too was concerned about the peak failing, and had planned to find a small plastic bowl to use as an end cap between the pole and the fabric at the peak, but I neglected to do so. Sure ...

This is the 20', not the 30'. It doesn't have the horizontal bars that the North Pole Party Tent had, but didn't seem to need it. The shipping weight of the NPPT was 41lbs and this was 15lbs, so I'm not sure if the difference in weight was entirely the poles or perhaps a lighter fabric as well. We a...

Hey folks, I purchased the Guide Gear tent and figured I'd post pictures in case people are thinking of buying it. The photos in the website are all photoshopped, so can't really get a sense of scale. What comes in the bag: 1 tent, 12 stakes, a center pole, bags for each. It's pretty roomy inside an...