It was easy to put together, and has some really unique features for a water table, but it's also more work than other water tables. 

To get it going, you need 6 total batteries, 4 AAs and 2 Ds, bubble solution AND bubble bath. You add the bubble bath and water to the middle section, and bubbles to bubble blower up top. Once it's all ready, it takes a good 10 minutes to get enough 'foam' to play with. We ended up adding about 3x the amount of bubble bath in order to get it going.  All of the switches, buttons, etc worked as designed, unlike some other reviews.

We were going to rate this 3 stars due to the set up / clean up required, and the unproductive foam situation, but then we watched our 3 year old twins absolutely love playing with the thing. Since that's really what it's all about we bumped it up to 4 stars.