Unisex's Mini Candle Lantern Kit 2.0

Tea lights burn for 5-6 hours and are very inexpensive. This candle lantern holds the candle securely at the base and only has three small vertical supports to hold the globe in place so the light isn't obstructed. Its very light and perfect for camping. You could stack six candles in the unit for storage during transport. I have no complaints

There are a few tiny imperfections, like where the handle holes are drilled. But it's a decent little ambient light and should be long lasting with protection. Pro tip : use a zippered, neoprene, bottle koozie to store it. Room for four tea candles inside the glass, and the koozie neck also has room for a film canister of waterproof matches and striker strip. Forget about uco's low-quality, $15 neoprene sleeve.

It works fine. Nice to us camping. I think it's over priced for how sturdy it is. I would love to have about 6 of them but at the price that not going to happen. I got it to try out, but I just don't see why it so expensive. I could see it being a good deal at $8-$10. But just not all that.

I all around like this lantern.I made a heat shield out of disposable grill topper and heavy duty aluminum foil. Hanging from the ridgeline in my hammock it gives a nice light and keeps the condensation away.Only issue is the bottom candle holder. It locks in very loosely. So much that it was unstable and unsafe. I had to make a gasket out of a rubber band so it would stay on tightly.Otherwise the slightest jar could knock the candle and base free from the upper part of the lantern.

This is the second one I've owned, very well made, strong winds will not blow it out. One candle lasts hours. Buy one!

It's a wonderful little lantern . Put in a 5 hour tea light candle And boom , you're set. Weighs very little and I threw in like 12 tea candles in the storage bag , and in my pack it went. Great bang for your dollar. And yes I'm going to buy a few more as gifts . Pretty awesome !!!!

Burns easy-to-find tea light candles. The red lantern is cute, and other colors are inexplicably much more expensive. DESPITE poor packaging for shipping, the product arrived intact. Hint: it is not wise to ship FOUR mini-lanterns in a plastic bag. ESPECIALLY when shipped with a box of 20 candles.

This is a great alternative to uco’s standard candle lantern since it doesn’t require specific candles. This burns tea light candles which are very cheap. Great for camping trips, or power outages or wherever it’s dark.

I bought this because I wanted a non electric light source for emergencies and maybe camping, plus I had a lot of tealights which I thought I could use with it.Now on the plus side its probably the safest tealight holder you can get and will prevent most unfortunate, though not all, spills.That said it has a 3 prong grip to seat the tea light in which will have to be adjusted with a pair of pliers if you want you use it with cheaper standard tealights. The tealights provided are about 4.1cm wide and my bag of wilko ones are 3.8cm, hence the pliers. However I wouldn't recommend using cheap tealights, the ones supplied with it are 1.5cm deep whilst my cheap ones are about 0.7cm deep. Using cheap tealights I have found the following effect: you get about 30 - 40 mins of maximum light and then the wick starts to sag dimming an already low light light considerably. I have also found these tea lights near impossible to relight because of poor quality wicks, I'm going to experiment next with beeswax tealights next as they are supposed to burn longer and brighter, though the only ones I can find are probably too deep for the lantern at 4cm.TLDR: a small, safe, cheap, not fantastically bright light, which is most economical when used in a single burn to the end of each candle (6 hrs?) and you may need to experiment with the best candle for you so you can stock up. Also the steel plate at the top gets mighty hot!P.s. I have now experimented with the more expensive beeswax tea light and I would say they do burn hotter and brighter. In terms of the light output the problem of wick sag remains and I would not say the increase in light was enough to justify the increased cost. However with the increased heat I suppose a desperate survivalist could now more practically heat a small cup of water provided the cup bottom of the cup was a conductive material ie. Metal

I haven't used it camping yet, I think it will be safe inside a tent. However I wouldn't hang it, I would place it on something firm so it won't knock over (like inside a mess tin). It doesn't fit the candles I bought very well, that's my only criticism, but it does the job, and I am using different candles from what was supplied. I use it in my room as ambient light and it works great.

What a great quality item. Don't expect to go wandering around in the woods at night with it lighting your way, it's not designed for that. If you want some ambient 'real flame' soft light, or a marker for finding your camp after that 2am nip to the bushes. It's ideal.Lantern itself is solidly made, and the bag is soft and well made. Love it.

Small, light, well designed and efficient in use. You can pack up to five candles inside the lantern when it is being carried. This particular one can use standard tea lights rather than extortionately prized proprietory candles. With care the individual tea lights will burn for 8 hours, that means you can carry up to 40 hours of burning time packed inside the body of the lantern.

i thought after buying the first uco candle lantern that this would be the answer, a lamp that uses any propriaory tea lamp candles but recieved a very big box with a brocken glass and lamp .... uco time to get it toghether...