We just purchased this playground for our kids. I felt it was way too expensive to have the company build it for us, so my husband and I built it together. I would give it a 5 star, but the way it was packaged made me give it a 3 star. It would be a whole lot easier if the pieces were packaged by the steps. Instead of having a packaging list and having to dig through all 4 boxes trying to find each piece, it's way too time consuming. Took us 4 days to complete. But once it was built I felt it was well worth the money, very nice and our kids truly enjoy it.

Wow, when my kids saw this playset in sam's club they were in awe. I couldn't believe the great price for such a nice set. It has literally EVERYTHING! Delivery was smooth. Building was easy thanks to the instructions. No missing parts of broken parts. A great buy, that my kids will enjoy for years to come! Highly reccomend!!

I bought the Skyfort over Christmas. The delivery man informed me that he normally just drops off the fort at the front door. He pushed it up my driveway and then helped me carry it to the covered patio. It took him almost an hour with my help. I was extremely impressed and greatful for the man. I just recently finished putting together the fort. The directions where extremely frustrating at points but now that it is together and up it is beautiful. My daughter loves it and was able to help put parts of it together, (she's 5 years old). I had the help of my brother and cousin and we where only able to work for about 2 to 3 hours a day, so it took us roughly a week to complete it. My overall rating of the Skyfort is: beautiful once it's up, frustrating as all get out to read the directions at times. Remain patient and it will come together, promise!

this sing set is great. all the peices were labled and the directions made it very easy to set up. it is very time consuming. It took us 3 1/2 days with 3 people to put it together. now that is is up our kids love it, we had a birthday party and very kid wanted to play on it.

We bought the playground last November as an early Christmas gift. Both my kids, 7 and 4 years old, enjoy playing on the playground for hours at a time. They love the variety of activities this playground has and my daughter loves her house and bench seats to play restaurant to mom and dad. As for the structure, it’s sturdy with both kids and a few of their friends playing on it. We had a third party put it together and when they put it together there were several pieces missing for the balcony. The playground company sent them within a few weeks (thankfully the kids were still able to play on the playground but just couldn’t use the higher balcony til all the guard rails came in). Highly recommend the playground! The kids will be using it for years to come.

Despite the undertaking of assembling yourself, this a great playset for any backyard. My suggestion is to unbox all 4 main boxes and layout all parts in alpha-numerical order. Then unbox all hardware and layout in alpha-numerical order. Take a breath and GO!

Overall the unit is OK and looks good but some of the material is very thin. The instructions, illustrations, and the markings on the material are below average. Three of us were busy for two days putting the unit together and all of us are very handy. One of the three was busy those two days pulling the pieces and hardware required for the two assembliers. We have all done home remodeling, car repair, etc and one of the three is a mechanical engineer. I believe the assembly could be simplified in many ways. The important thing is that my three Grandson's love it. I would only recommend this unit to someone who is very handy, has several days to put it together and few good friends that could help.

It's been a year since we purchased and built the sky fort II and we couldn't be happier. The construction process was straight forward and the instructions were well written. Construction took a full weekend. Had a helper for the first day and everything went pretty quick even after by myself. Using multiple screw guns/impact drivers sped things up with not having to change bits all the time. My kids love the set and they will get years of playing out of it. Definitely something they can grow with. I absolutely recommend this. It does have a large footprint so you'll need the space. Very sturdy and solid! After 1 year exposed to direct sun the factory finish is starting to fade so it will need regular up keep on the water sealing but I think that's started in the manual.

My kids absolutely love this play set! It was easy to assemble, just time consuming. It took about 20 hours, which is what the instructions estimated. We priced many different sets and this one seemed the nicest for the money. Now the we have it, I know we made the right choice!

We bought the Skyfort II after scouring through multiple different play sets because we saw so many features that our daughter could grow in to. As a four year old, she loves the swings, the climbing wall, the slide, and the play areas. Now that summer has arrived we look forward to having picnics and having friends over. She added flowers to her windows and we added a teeter totter under the monkey bars until she’s old enough. I feel comfortable as a mom letting her play outside on her own and know that she is getting some much needed free play time. Assembly: We took the advice of others and watched some YouTube videos before starting. We spent one weekend separating out all of the items into step-by-step piles and the hardware into baggies. It was detailed, but it made the assembly process so much easier and didn’t waste my kind volunteer’s time. We assembled it easily over two days with 4 active assemblers. Our daughter was sliding and swinging by Sunday evening! I highly recommend the Skyfort II. We sealed it once last September with a water based protectant and will do so once a year to keep it looking great.