DreamTents Review: Pop-Up Child’s Tent

DreamTents are pop-up tents that install easily over a child’s bed. Do they work? Read our DreamTents review.

About DreamTents

DreamTents are durable pop-up tents that allow your child to have an attractive tent over his or her bed. The product website is mydreamtents.com, which was registered in September 2016. The screen shot below shows how the product website appeared in December 2016 and February 2017.

Claims & Features

• Pops open easily
• Fastens to bed in seconds
• Personal reading light included
• Promotes restful sleep, alleviates fear of darkness
• Compact folding design
• Works on twin beds, including bunk beds
• 8 different designs

Cost

DreamTents cost $19.95 + $7.95 P&H. I think it’s worth noting that the price for DreamTents has changed at least twice that I’ve seen. In December 2016, it was $19.95, then it went up to $39.95, then back down to $19.95.

Despite being listed as “Not Available in Stores,” I found DreamTents at a local As Seen on TV Store here in Las Vegas for $20. They only had one model available, the outer space design.

DreamTents Review

I first saw Dream Tents (stylized as one word: “DreamTents”) briefly appear in late 2016, only to discover a disclaimer on the website that said the product was in demand and wouldn’t be back until 2017. Now the item is back with a renewed advertising campaign for 2017 – along with a new price.

DreamTents are described as pop-up tents for use on a child’s twin bed. When unfurled, they resemble a rounded rectangle with a cloth curtain on one side. Two oval-shaped sides are attached to each side of a twin bed via soft plastic hooks that are placed underneath the mattress. Once the tent is in place, the child can sit or lay underneath it. There are “curtains” that can be tied up or allowed to hang for privacy. A small pocket is also included for storage of a few smaller items.

You can choose among 8 different designs: Space Adventure, Winter Wonderland, Fairytale Forest, Undersea World, Magical Princess, Sports World, Dinosaur Island, and Unicorn Fantasy.

The advertising may give the impression to some viewers that these tents are lighted, which they are not. The opening sequence of the commercial shows kids marveling at the illuminated patterns on the translucent material, but this is only achieved by placing lights outside of the tents, such as a lamp on either side.

My first impression is that this will probably go over well with kids, especially if expectations are realistic. It may not be possible to easily recreate the beautiful illuminated tent as shown in the ads, and I don’t know if they explained how such a tent could ease a child’s fear of the dark. That said, kids love tents, and this offers an easy and mostly foolproof way for children to set up and take down tents in their own rooms quite easily. I believe older kids will be able to assemble and dissassemble DreamTents by themselves, but smaller children will probably need some help, primarily because it is about 7 feet long.

I found that it gets a bit warm inside DreamTents, as it would with any tent. Kids don’t seem to mind the stuffiness, however, because they love tents.

The packaging in the store noted that there is a reading light, but it’s a mail-in offer that requires you to pay $5 shipping.

One potential drawback is using it on a bed next to a wall, as that requires the bed to be moved away from the wall first. Also, I was asked how it works on a full sized bed, so I’ve included a photo of that below (it doesn’t work very well).

DreamTents only work with twin beds, and I don’t think there would be any practical way to use it anywhere but with a bed. My guess is that they will offer additional sizes if this sells well.

Alternatives

There are other bed tents for children on the market such as this model which appears to have solid consumer reviews over a long period of time.

Video Review

Below is my full video review of DreamTents.

Your DreamTents Reviews

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Updated July 2017.