We bought this about 2 months ago and its been great! Our 3 year old loves it! My husband put together by himself pretty easily- he ended up doing it through the weekend so it did take some time but he laid everything put first to make sure everything was included and worked on putting it together! 

We know the set will work for our kids for a long time. We ended up making a sand box below the deck area and its great covered but enough space.