Setup did take a few hours to complete, but I would call it difficult. There are just a lot of bolts the put everything together.  Each picture in the directions represent a step where you can mostly tighten down that bolt and move onto the next set.

I am shocked at how well the pillow storage works! Rain the first night and all pillows remained dry in the storage of the two chests without any other cover. 

Construction is sturdy, seat comfy, and seems like these will last a while.  Downside was only that it does take a few hours of work to assemble and the directions could use improvement.  Directions on the first page even calls out the wrong product, doh! They should fix the typos.  Everything inside is correct, but minimal at best.