Provided a nice place for our family of 3 to sit and have a snack after playing on the beach. Pretty easy to set up, as it just pops open. It was quite a windy day at the beach, though, so I had to weigh it down with all our belongings to get it to stay put. The tiny metal stakes did not really do the job, and kept popping out of the sand. I could not fold it up in the wind as it kept blowing away from me, so we just had to throw it in the car as is and fold when we got back to the house, out ofSee full review