Before buying the Lifetime Adventure Tower Playset from Sam's Club online, I checked other sites. The Sam's Club price was the best that I found, plus if your a Sam's Club Plus member you get $30.00 back in rewards compared to the other sites I shopped, you can't beat that. The ordering process was quick and easy only problem I had was with shipping but that was not due to Sam's Club but the delivery company's ABF Freight and Beaver Express. The playset comes packaged on a 10ft long pallet with a total weight of 671lbs. Putting the playset together can be done by one adult but it helps having a second adult around to. The playset can also be put up in one day if you have time and no interruptions. The instructions on how to put it together are good but some of them were mislabeled, but that's no big deal. The quality of the playset is real good and well worth the costs. I know my kids are already enjoying it. I have bought other lifetime products and will be buying more. Thanks Sam's Club

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] We bought this play set for our grand babies about a month ago. They just love it. We've had story time inside the “Princess Castle” area and look forward to many years of memories. Maybe grandma will even go down the slide...

There are lots of pieces when you open the boxes and the 100 page manual will scare you but, I have to say it was very easy to put together. I did most of it myself and when I needed an extra hand my wife helped. It took us a day to assemble. The quality is great and when completed looks very good. The instructions are easy to read and follow but, they don't come with the playset, you have to download and print them from the manufacturers website, unless mine just didn't have it. For the price, I highly recommend this playset. Don't hire someone to do it for you, its easy and great to spend time with the family building it. I could have paid someone to do it but, my wife and I enjoyed the fact that we built something this awesome for the kids.

This playground has been a life saver! With a home surrounded by nothing but dirt, no fences, and construction, we needed something for our kids to do outside. This playground was our answer for it all! The metal and plastic is sturdy and holds up well against all the wind and dirt, not to mention my roudy kids. I also highly recommend springing for the install. They came and put it together in about 4.5 hours and did a great job; much more preferable to the headache and 2plus days to get it done.

We have had this set since May 2014. I got it for my kids and grandkids. My 17 year old and her friends play on it. My 24 year old autistic sonenjoys his time on it as well. My 6 1/2 year old visually impaired (and short for her age) child loves it as well. She hasn't had any problems navigating the equipment since we did hand over hand to orient her. The 4 year old grandson has learned to move like a monkey at the zoo and we are shopping for a bucket infant/toddler swing for the 7 month old to start joining in the fun. Nothing takes the place of adult supervision and guidance. My oldest daughter and I put it together ourselves. It took a while since we had the help of my autistic son. It supports all sizes and needs of our household and even gives the teens (and adults) a place to get back in touch with their inner child. We bought this to accommodate his size as well as give room for the others to grow and play.

This is a wonderful playset that my kids LOVE! This was a gift and I am beyond thankful that we have it as our kids spend hours outside playing on this. This is a solid playset that is going to last a longtime (not like to wooden ones). The challenge on this was the setup as it took about 12hrs (split it up over two days). Someone with more experience could have done it in less time, but this was my first time to put something like this together and I ran into some self inflicted mistakes (read the directions very closely and look at the pictures to make sure you are putting together the right parts). No doubt that I would recommend this to anyone looking for a playset.

Just finished the build Steps 1-4 took me 13hrs to do I only had the assistance of my wife for a few pieces, but the rest I did by myself. Steps 5-6 took 3hrs. Kids are having a blast playing on it. Things to note during the build: I think it is step 5 or 6 that tells you to drill the holes for the slide and ladder you want to do this earlier because 2 of the drill spots will be hard to maneuver the drill, because of the cross bar support. So when you are drilling the holes onto of the base of the play structure I would also turn to the future step and drill the holes for the ladder and slide. Other then that make sure you have the 3/8ths drill bit, I had to drive to the store because it was the only one I was missing.

The quality of this product is outstanding and our girls 2-8 love it.  The clubhouse is a great size for multiple kids to interact on the top and bottom at the same time.  This set is going to look brand new for years to come - unlike the wood sets that way too many people buy!

We assembled this in September. Within days, several metal bars started to rust and the metal coating began to fall off. Customer service offered to send replacement bars but it would take me around 30 hours to disassemble and reassemble. I am incredibly disappointed with the quality of this set given the price and for the fact that Lifetime is not doing more to help given that I was sold a defective product.

We bought this set a little over a month ago and set it up 2 weeks ago. We wanted to surprise our 3 yr old for his birthday. He LOVES it!! It's a great set and I highly recommend it. My only issue with the set was how much of a pain it was to set up. My husband and I spent 12 hours putting it together. (Which after reading several other reviews, we knew it was going to be a challenge.) The instructions weren't very clear and several of the hardware pieces didn't fit together. We would spend 15-20 minutes on one screw trying to figure out how to make it work. This happened so many times I lost count. Thankfully, they included some extra pieces so we could switch a couple of them out... but not nearly enough of them. It was extremely frustrating. However, seeing his reaction made it all worth it.