Great looking beds and seem to be quite sturdy for the price point! My 2 and 4 year old girls love them and have no trouble with the ladder. These obviously come in 100 pieces but the instructions were easy to follow and I had no problem getting the headboard/footboards assembled on my own as a 32 week pregnant lady. Attaching the side rails and bunking the two beds certainly required another set of hands. My only complaints: a few of the pieces came with weird red marks on them (I think from a red zip-tie used to ship), thankfully only on pieces that will be against the wall. Also, I'm not sure it would be possible to move the ladder to the left side of the bed if you wanted it positioned differently in a room. Overall, we're very pleased with the beds but cannot speak to how they hold up over time as we've only had them a week.