I will say that my girls had a great time with this pool, for the one summer it lasted. First of all, it has to be on completely flat ground. Yes, that is in the instructions. But, you kind of assume there can be a little bit of uneven ground being most yards are not completely level. Well, this causes the entire pool to lean to the one side. This we could live with. But, the fact that the cover completely dry rotted before the season was over was unexceptable. The cover is now totally worthless and that was one of the main reasons we purchased the pool in the first place. Luckily, Little Tikes gave us back our money. Had the cover been better, and lasted for at least another year or so, we would have been delighted and given it another 2 stars.