The good: very very durable. Our yard is covered in pecan shell parts and this pool has yet to get a tear in the bottom. The slide is very fun, my son loved that the most. The handles are well attached. The bad: a real pain in the neck to inflate, many ports to inflate, and the palm trees and basketball hoop don't stay inflated for more than a day or 2. It is almost impossible to clean because there are so many corners and crannies for grass, etc to hide when emptying. Very diffcult to fully empty, so it becomes a big mosquito farm. Impossible to store unless you deflate. We did have several tears in the sides probably from cats or racoons in the yard at night, which is why you may need to store. We ended up using the smaller pool as a sand box and the larger part of the pool for water. We used commercial pool chemicals to eliminate the mosquito probem.