Am extremely impressed with this umbrella! It’s beautiful, adjusts extremely smoothly, and covers a large area. Assembly was pretty straight forward but you definitely need two people to attach the arm into the base. It requires sand. At first my husband thought 50 pounds would be enough and I begged him to get 100. We ended up going back for another 100 pounds and it held the full 200. Only small con is unless you’re super tall then you will stand on the base to adjust it and the top covers of the base buckled a little under my 225 pound husband. It isn’t damaged but I also hope we aren’t moving it a lot more bc I don’t want him standing on it again.