SUN NINJA Beach Tent Sun Shelter UPF50+ - Easy Pop Up Beach Canopy - Outdoor Shade for Camping Trips, Fishing, Backyard Fun Picnics - Sand Shovel, Ground Pegs & Stability Poles

Such a great purchase for the beach! Of course you have to fill the sand bags but once it’s up you don’t have to worry about it coming down with wind at the beach! The pole in the middle is functional and good quality! It’s allows the ceiling to be high enough to stand or sit under! My favorite part is the compact of carrying when it is taken down!

So much better than umbrellas. We’ve been using every day for a few weeks and it’s holding up very well. Relatively easy setup, but does take a few times to get efficient at it. I’ve found the easiest way to start is just put a few scoops of sand in each bag in order to easily spread the tent out, then do the poles and fill the bags the rest of the way. We now can easily set it up in just a few minutes. Stays sturdy even in windy conditions. Also - highly suggest getting all 4 poles. Definitely would recommend this product.

This is the second one we have ordered. We go to the beach regularly during the summer, so we have used this in all types of conditions. We have never had a problem with keeping it standing - even on extremely windy days. It is lightweight and super easy to set up. Be sure to watch the short video of how to set it up. This will help you avoid the reasons why people with similar products can't keep them standing. The secret is that the TOP of the pole points into the wind. Having the sand bags as part of the tent makes it compact and may contribute to why it is so stable on windy days. I would highly recommend this product!

Things I like:1. The footprint is giant so you have a lot of space around you.2. Easy to set up.3. Light to carry4. My partner and I can lay together on a blanket without a pole between us.Things I don't like:1. You can still get burned under this thing and it is hot. The material does not block out all of the Sun. Definitely hotter than under an umbrella.2. I live in a really windy area and it doesn't hold up so well in high winds.3. Doesn't work in the rain.I'm glad I bought it. We bring it to the beach all the time, but sometimes it is not the perfect option. I do wish it was a little less hot under the shade of the material.

Great quality and super easy to set up. Trouble keeping it up on a really windy beach. But we found tutorials and created new ideas to keep it up. Love how easy it is to carry around and set up in comparison to a standard pop up tent. Great sun protection, my family is fair skinned so sun shade is required.

We used this on the beach and there was very little wind at first. There was another family with a very popular, more expensive sun shade that wouldn’t work because there wasn’t enough wind, but this Sun Ninja shade was amazing. The wind picked up later and my new shade held up perfectly! Easy setup and take down. Very happy with this purchase!

Purchased specifically for a Florida gulf coast beach vacation in July 2024 for our family of 4 and it got the job done! We will take it back again this year. Keeping tension when setting up is key. If it’s windy, dig holes in the sand to put the full corner “bags” in, and then bury them for extra stability. It does help to have a larger shovel than the scoop it comes with. My only complaint is that it’s impossible to set up/take down without getting completely covered in sand but maybe that’s the Midwest girl in me not used to sand in everything. We rinsed it out at our vacation rental, brought it back home on the airplane and rinsed it out well again at home, ran it through the washer and air dried and it’s like new again. It’s worth the money to purchase it and fly to a destination versus renting shade once you get there if you plan to use it multiple times. Would recommend!

I was really hoping that this beach canopy/sun shelter would provide me everything I was looking for in a beach canopy.I have no idea why this has a 4.5 star rating. I must wonder how many people have used it multiple times at the beach. If you are not using this at the beach, then you may be ok. But good luck finding 50+ pounds of sand to put into each corner bag to hold it up if you are not at the beach.I was trying to get something that would:1. Provide plenty of shade. Something an umbrella just doesn’t do.2. Allow me to actually sit under the canopy and not outside of it like you have to do with some other beach covers.3. Allow me to lower one side to block the sun.4. Prevent me from having to move it throughout the day as the sun makes its way across the sky.5. Would work with wind or little wind. Unlike the Shibumi Shade that doesn’t work when there’s little wind. And must be moved when the wind changes directions. Those things are a rip-off.6. Be light weight and easy to carry7. That would be easy and efficient to set up.Dealing with your standard umbrella simply doesn’t provide as much shade and you have reposition yourself throughout the day.I’ve tried the beach tents, but they get stuffy due to lack of good cross ventilation and you have to move them, and you can’t put more than two people in/under them comfortably.I was going to use your standard camping canopy (which plenty of people do), but those are heavy. But, after dealing with this Sun Ninja for 10 days at the beach, it may be my last option.The Negatives:1. Right from the get-go, inserting the different sections of the poles into one another was problematic due to something called sand that you find lots of at the beach. The poles come in six sections with male/female ends and are held together by a bungee string running down through them. Once you have any amount of sand, they get difficult to connect and disconnect. So much so, on the last day, I could not disconnect one of the sections at all. Even using pliers didn’t work.2. The poles only offer one height of about 6’. A better solution would possibly be to have the poles telescoping and offering heights of 2’, 4’ and 6’…providing they don’t get stuck. This would make it easier to adjust the height of one side to provide greater sun protection.3. With any moderate wind (which is what you usually have at the beach), you will need to fill up the bag corners with 45-50 scoops of sand. This is very time consuming. It took me about 15 minutes to set up the canopy. That is way too long and inefficient. A better solution would be to simply have tie strings/cords and connect them to 2’ stakes that are driven in the sand.4. It takes up a lot of space. Sure, the canopy is 10x10, but by the time you stretch out the corners, it’s 25x25. If you are at a crowded beach, you will not have happy neighbors. You could shrink its overall footprint by using the tie strings and stakes.The Positives:1. It is lightweight and relatively easy to carry.2. The material seems nice and durable.3. Providing you set it up correctly and can lower one side, you will not have to move it throughout the day. You may have to move a little under the canopy, but not much. But, you can avoid moving just by lowering the side where the sun is coming from if you want.4. You can, sort of, lower one side by either not using two poles and really stretching it out, or, by angling the poles…which is what I did because I wanted to be able to see out.So, while it did meet some of my requirements, its main drawbacks of being inefficient to set up and poles that constantly are a pain to connect and disconnect (if you can) causes me to not recommend this for the beach.