It's only and eight footer since I have such a small yard and it has to be on a perfectly flat surface, but I love, love, love it! It and the filter were only about $50 at Amazon. The filter works really well and you really only have to just hose off the filter cartridge with a garden hose once in awhile and keep reusing it. I also put foam insulation boards under it to make it cushiony on the bottom of the pool and they make getting the wrinkles out when you fill it up easy as pie. I built outside the pool steps for it out of stacked cinderblocks and the inside the pool steps opposite is just a two-step utility stair I got for about $10 at Home Depot. I had to tie a brick to the bottom of the first step on the underside so it wouldn't float though. You can buy a ladder for the pool, but it cost more than the whole pool and filter set up, so I worked out the idea for the steps, and I like them better anyway. I often sit on the inside the pool steps halfway in the water reading a book because if I sit on the bottom of the pool the water is up to my neck. I did end up getting the stronger filter for it last year (only about ten dollars more and looks and acts exactly the same) because the pool is shaded by part of the tree, and all kinds of crap was falling from the tree into the pool putting a strain on the filter... and the squirrels and birds were always chucking stuff out of their nests into my pool. They moved out of my tree for some reason (probably Yoshi) last fall and no critters are living in it now. I don't miss them... nothing like bird crap all over your pool cover to clean off every morning.
If you have the room you should think about getting one. They're easy as hell to set up and maintain all summer, and even my little one is a joy. Mine is the eight footer and looks like this. The 10, 12 and a little higher foot ones look the same but are just bigger...
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