Tentsile Trilogy 6-Person Centre Canopy Review

The Trilogy 6-Person Centre Canopy is the roof piece of the Trilogy: a canopy designed to sit atop 3 Connect or Safari Connect 2-Person Tree Tents and join them into a Trilogy Super 6-Person Tree Tent. The page says it encloses the three tents and that a pole props up the centre point so the Trilogy stays level. It costs $399 with no variants, and its box list names a 5,000 hydrostatic head rainfly, 3 x 8.5mm poles and 3 x 5 Ton Stainless Steel screw gate Quick Links.

Options and pricing

There is one option at $399 and no color or size choice. The page lists two sets under What's In the Box, separated by OR...: a Trilogy Centre Canopy Kit (1 x 5,000 hydrostatic head rainfly, 3 x 8.5mm diameter anodised aluminium alloy poles, 3 x 5 Ton Stainless Steel screw gate Quick Links) and a Trilogy Centre Pole (an extendable pole and a base disc). It does not say whether the price covers one or both, and the three tents are not part of it.

How it compares

The Roof Canopy XL lists $599 with a 20 person capacity, a 2 Season rating, a unit weight of 10lbs / 4kg and a floor area of 414sqft / 38.5sqm, figures this canopy's page does not give for the Trilogy. The RoofKit lists $349 with Seasons: 3 and a unit weight of 2.9kg / 6.4lbs. The Stargazer Rainfly for Connect lists $189 and is a rainfly named for the Connect tent.

Shipping, returns and warranty

Shipping is free on orders over $199 sent from the US (lower 48) and EU countries; for Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand the page says its rates are kept as low as it can and gives a rough guide of $10 for most accessories and $20 for heavier items inside the US mainland. Average delivery is 3 to 5 working days in the US and EU and 7 to 10 days for the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. PO Box addresses are refused. The page says no extra taxes or duties apply to purchases from the US, EU, Canada, Australia or the UK, optional cover from Route can be added at checkout, and free shipping covers the first delivery attempt only; stack and accessory parts can come from different warehouses and arrive in separate packages. Returns: unused, unopened products in their original packaging can go back within 30 days of receipt, and opened or tested products can too, with a restocking fee the page gives as $20 for an unopened box and $50 for a used product (another line on the same page says $30 for all non-warranty returns). You pay return shipping on opened products unless they are defective or were sent wrongly, pre-loved and clearance sales are final, Canadian returns go to a US return centre with duties paid, and EU returns that are not warranty cases go to the UK. Warranty: products bought on tentsile.com after January 2025 carry a lifetime warranty against manufacturing defects when used as the manuals say; straps and ratchets are covered for 5 years and a rainfly is meant to be replaced about every 3 years. The exclusions include poles and pegs, wear and tear, UV degradation (fabric rated for 1,500 hours for black mesh, 2,500 hours for green fabric and 3,500 hours for Safari fabric), snow load over 1 inch, high winds and products bought from third parties. Orders from $35 to $2,000 can be split into four payments with Zip, ClearPay, PayPal or Afterpay.

Before you buy

Tentsile's page header says "Rated 4.5/5" with "1100+ reviews" and "120,000+ Happy Customers"; these are the store's own figures and were not checked. Independent coverage we could open is thin: a hands-on review of the Connect by TechGadgetsCanada (March 2024, about 8 set-ups and 4 to 5 nights) found a steep learning curve, workable trees at only about half of its stops and one cold night, and a Wilderness Times write-up of the Stingray summarises specs and owner feedback without showing any hands-on testing. Tentsile's own pages set limits that matter, for example a recommended set-up height of 1.2m / 4ft on its Trilogy page, a 1 inch snow-load limit in its warranty terms and an FAQ warning that tension loads can reach 15kN, so only healthy trees should be used. The store also warns about copycat sites, and its returns and warranty terms apply to purchases made on tentsile.com.