You loosen the strap, the coil jumps open in your hands, and the changing room is standing before the kettle has boiled.

The car park at the far end of the beach has no cubicle, and the drive home in a wet swimsuit is the part nobody looks forward to. This is the pod that answers that. It comes out of a flat round bag as a folded loop of sprung steel, and the moment you let go it snaps up into a tent 190 cm tall, so an adult stands upright inside with the door zipped and the towel finally has somewhere to hang.

The wall is 170T polyester with a silver coating on the inner face, and that coating is the whole trick: from two steps away the panels read as flat colour and nothing shows through. A rolled silver panel sits across the top on two toggle grips and unrolls to shut the skylight. Inside there is a hanging lanyard, a small mesh pocket for a phone and a bar of soap, and on the three window options a fixing point at the peak plus a slider at chest height that grip a shower head you supply yourself.

Key Benefits

• Up in seconds, nothing to thread The steel frame is sprung and sewn into the shell, so pitching is a shake rather than an assembly. Folding it back down to the disc is a twist that takes a couple of goes to learn.
• Full standing height 190 cm of headroom on both footprints, so you dress standing up instead of crouching on one leg.
• Two footprints 120 x 120 cm for one person and a bag, or 150 x 150 cm when you want room for a stool or a child changing alongside you.
• Walls you cannot see through The silver lined 170T polyester reads as opaque and throws deep shade inside on a bright afternoon.
• Packs to a flat disc 2.5 kg on the 120 and 2.7 kg on the 150, back into the round carry bag that ships with it.
• Eleven colours Army green, black, sky blue, sapphire blue, rose red, orange yellow, beige white, sand gold, dark brown and two camouflage prints.

Best for: campsites without a shower block, beach and lake days, festival fields, fishing swims, roadside stops, and photographers who need a changing corner. Also for a back garden with a paddling pool going and no bathroom free.

Why It Works

Nearly every privacy tent on the market is sold on a picture of somebody showering, and nearly none of them ship a shower. This one is a room, not a plumbing kit, and it is better understood that way. The maker names it a mobile shower tent and lists camping showers, restroom use, changing, fishing shade and photography as the jobs it is for, and it does all of them for one reason: it is a tall opaque box that goes up faster than you can find a bush. The bottom is deliberately open, which reads like an omission until you have rinsed off in one. The water runs straight into the grass or the shingle instead of pooling around your feet.

Quick Product Facts: pop up privacy enclosure; 120 x 120 x 190 cm at 2.5 kg or 150 x 150 x 190 cm at 2.7 kg; 170T polyester with a silver coated inner face; sprung steel frame; single layer; open bottom with a coated ground skirt; roll up skylight; 2 or 3 windows depending on the option; interior lanyard and mesh pocket; shower head mount on the 3 window options; 11 colours; ships as tent, one set of steel poles and a carry bag.

How It Fits Your Routine

Day one is the one that sells it. You park, you pull the disc out of the boot, you let the frame go, and thirty seconds later there is a cubicle standing on the shingle. Peg the corner loops if there is any wind at all, because 2.5 kg of empty tent behaves like a sail on an open beach.

By the second trip it has quietly become the thing you pack first. A solar shower bag hung from the peak mount turns it into a rinse room after a swim. A folding camp toilet set inside turns it into a restroom for a weekend in a field. Left empty with the skylight rolled open, it is a shaded spot to get a toddler out of a wet costume.

Packing away rewards a little care. Let the walls dry before you fold, because a silver coated panel put away damp will smell by the next trip, and a rinse with fresh water after a salty beach day keeps the zips running. Lay the frame flat, twist the two hoops down together, and it drops back into the bag.

FAQ

Does the toilet in the first photo come with it? No. The packing list is tent, one set of steel poles and a carry bag. The maker photographs a grey folding camp toilet standing beside the tent, which is sold separately. The tent is the private room you set your own toilet inside.

Is a shower head or a water tank included? No, and neither is listed. On the two options whose names end in ShowerMount you get the fixing point and the holder to hang your own solar shower or hose head from. The 2 window options do not name that mount, so read the option name before you add to cart.

Is it waterproof enough to shelter in? Treat it as a screen, not a rain shelter. The maker gives its own water resistance as below 1000 mm, which covers splashes and a light shower, and it prints no figure above that. It is a single layer tent with an open bottom, so sustained rain will get in.

Does it have a sewn in floor? No. The bottom is open to the ground and a coated skirt lies flat around the outside of the frame. Every field photo shows grass through the doorway. That is what lets shower water drain away, but it also means you stand on whatever you pitched on.