The directions were pretty easy. Seemed it didn't explain where all the hardware went, discovered it when was done, so had to go back at fix it. But all in all..wasn't bad..looks neat, my daughter is 21 months, I think a little young for it yet, but she can grow into it, verse out of it. Overall..nice toy..can get many years of use out of it..worth the money..step 2 had the best price [...]