Originally Posted by
headwind15
As far as freestanding V.S. not freestanding. My experience has been that if it's going to rain or it has been raining and you would prefer to not deal with having muddy feet, a potentially muddy tent bottom, it is nice to have a freestanding tent to put up on concrete/ asphalt/ non mud surface. Side entry tents are easier to get into /out of, than end entry tents.
Per message 7 up thread the entrance to the OneTigris Bungalow is the entire mesh side, not the end. Thinking of a Tyvek footprint which would extend a foot or two beyond the tent on the mesh side beneath the canopy.to form a 'porch'.