Screened room

We are considering buying a R-Pod (slide-out floor plan). Is the screened room useful? How much is it affected by the wind? Any other suggestions or comments? Thanks    

i second the above, i like the dome as much as the Pod itself.  we are in or under ours all the time.  we only go inside to sleep.

I heartily agree!! We have used urs down on Cape Hatteras and it has handled 20 mph winds. It added some serious extra space! We use it all the time!

From recent experience, 20 mph is about your max on the dome room.  I find it works best if it's closed tight or totally open.  The weather forecasters were just a tad off on winds in Florida on my recent trip and twice I got caught in higher winds (once over 30 mph) and had to keep putting the poles back up as they fell down....once it's that windy, I thought it would have been too hard to get it down and hold onto it alone so just "maintained" it till winds died down a bit.  Just to add though that I was on concrete and only had a couple of spots I could stake it....had water bags and bricks otherwise and those just aren't the same as stakes.

Other than 1 or 2 quick one-nighters at the local park, we have setup and used the dome every time we have been out podding. In cold weather we have closed up the flaps, turned on a portable catalytic heater and it was a nice warm porch. In warm weather it is shaded and cool with a fan blowing, and in buggy weather it keeps the skeeters at bay. When rain comes it does as good a job as any other shelter for the most part, and gives us a dry place to change out of muddy boots and jackets before going inside. It's big enough for us to put up a couple good sized chairs, a table and our dog kennel for Comet, along with the drinks cooler and some other storage items.

Not everyone likes it, not everyone wants it, but for us it was probably one of the biggest selling points for buying the Pod.