Sauna tent was amazing! It heated up really fast and kept warm pretty well. We only have two stools, so we fit very comfortably just two of us. With a longer bench it may fit 4 people. Our tent is the smallest one of Savottas sauna tents, so for more people I'd recommend a bigger one. We had our water buckets in sauna for the whole time we had it warm and one bucket just below the rocks. That way the water we threw on rocks partly poured back to bucket. We washed ourselves with semi warm water and we think that was the best. After sauna you don't even want the water to be hot. There's also actual water containers for the stove available, but we don't need it (nor have space for it). I hope this answers to your questions and sorry for being to slow to reply. Please ask more if we missed something!