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What about in a double?
Hiya Folks...
Does anyone know if anyone does any of these air ones in a double matress size...
We have 2 therma-rests and a joining kit at the moment but if I can convince my better half away from camp beds I think she'll insist on a blow up bed and one that doesn't need a 240v/12v pump and packs up to take up a whole boot would be nice...
Suggestions...
Tony.
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Word of caution for sleeping mats
I've burnt mine on the last camping trip; we decided on an open fire to cook the sausages etc - went OK and I pulled up the sleeping mat to sit on around the fire.
Then it lost its air just as it got dark and I could not see what the problem was. In the light of day, I thought I could see a bunch of tiny thorns stuck in the fabric (but there were no sources of thorns around!).
On getting the thing checked properly at home (immersed in the bath), it turned out that there were 4 tiny burns in the material and 3 of them were leaking air; a drop of bostic type glue on each one and it is holding air again!! 
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I have a Gelert Trail DLX Self Inflating sleeping Mat , it's really easy to use and it folds up to bugger all. Cost me £20 (GBP)
The great thing is that it has seperatly inflatable sides (& pillow), that come up quite high, so if like me, you roll a bit in the night, you stay on your mat. All my other mats I used to roll off.
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Does anyone know if anyone does any of these air ones in a double matress size...
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Tony, check out eBay, plenty of inflatable doubles on there, from proper camping shops too. 
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Hiya Folks...
Does anyone know if anyone does any of these air ones in a double matress size...
We have 2 therma-rests and a joining kit at the moment but if I can convince my better half away from camp beds I think she'll insist on a blow up bed and one that doesn't need a 240v/12v pump and packs up to take up a whole boot would be nice...
Suggestions...
Tony.
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hi tony, i bought my box matress in argos, and they do a double size
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ExPed experience - Great
We bought the ExPed Deluxe 9 sleeping pads in Portland, OR, USA in June to replace the Thermarests we had been using. Grant had said they were more comfortable, and we found that they are. We use the Thermarest double mattress straps to hold them side by side, the straps fit fine.
In Ireland in August we were trapped inside the tent by a rainstorm for an entire day. We pumped up the matresses and both sat on one mattress and leaned against the other. Not long after that one of them started leaking slowly (we don't remember which we one we sat on). The interior dividers had pulled away from the cover and there were small leaks along the welded seams at each end. We contacted ExPed by email (they're in Zurich) and said we were going to be passing by and could they look at it. They said yes, and we stopped in to see them. The man who we had emailed back and forth about it looked at them and immediately replaced both of them with new ones. We told him this whole story too. Great customer service! We are very pleased with the mattresses and with the company. My advice is only pump them enough to hold your whole body off the ground, not a concentrated area like your butt, especially two butts!
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[QUOTE=-Ali-;133176]what should i be looking at
Theyre all wrong, Ali.
Get an inflatable backpackers mattress...the one I have has 6 or & quills or tubes which you blow up by mouth - no extra machines needed. Its compact, light and cheap. It's great for sleeping on stony ground, for you float above the stones. In the UK this costs about £7 or 10 euros for the cheapest. (Argos) Dont over inflate, thats all.
These other things that people recommend are heavy, big, expensive and they soon leak air. I had 2 of them and they were no good at all. They are maybe OK for kids to use camping in the garden.
No doubt someone will say how his lasted for years.....I still say dont get one!
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Caimando -
Have you used this mat a lot? any problems?
I like the idea it looks fairly thick and will pack up very small and has 6 chambers so if 1 goes flat..
The self inflating mats seem to have a much thicker construction so I guess are less likely to leak?
I have used a number of double size inflating airbeds from argos (the bix box type ones) but they last about 3-5 uses then puncture which leaves you sleeping on the floor (or rethar not sleeping...)
Does the construction of the backpacker feel like it will last and/or take a bit of abuse?
Does anyone know of a similar thing but a bit heavier duty since the combination of thickness light weight and small size are very good but it would be a miserable night(s) if it punctured though I guess it has at least 6 air chambers.
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Around Australia we have throns that puncture air matreses ... so I have one of those cheap foam matreses .. then a thermarest self inflating matress .. The foam matress takes the thorns (make certain you only use it one way up, and after a while pick out the thorns) and the thremarest provide the comfort.
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what should i be looking at getting? It's for one person and want it to be as cheap as possible
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why not a folding camp bed as seenher :=
outdoor uk Furniture,camping uk Chairs,stools uk,camping tables, folding tables,
the 10.95 one with four legs is teh most comfy. no need to worry about punctures.
when camping i take a bag and a double bed sized thin fleece. that way i can in hot weather lie onit all, or have one or two layers of fleexce or the bag plus one or twolayers of fleece. ( warmest is to lieon one layer of fleece with the oyther half overthe bag and my head. most of teh heat you lose is through your head and by warming the air you breathe, having a mini tent over your head reduces heat loss considerably... also gives you a second line of defence if any insects get in your tent.
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Comfort
I use to have one of those folding beds. It was pretty comfy for a cot but it didn't fold up that small and I can only imagine if you had a full load, the trouble it would be to pack it some where on the bike. I can't remember the model but I also had a therma-rest back in the day. It was very nice. It had two layers. The bottom was foam and then a top layer that you were able to blow up and put in a bit of air for extra comfort. The good thing about it was if you did get a thorn or something in the bottom it was only in the foam and since these were differnt compartments, it would not lose air. Also it squeezed and rolled up into a nice compact size and would fit on the bottom of my pack when I would go camping. I haven't looked into it but I'm sure there are still pads like this.
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Alpkit
I just got 2 alpkit mats in the Uk, they are a thermarest type mat but way cheaper and like thermarest can be joined up for 2. both mats were less than £30 delivered and this Alpkit seems like quality stuff.
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Caimando -
Have you used this mat a lot? any problems?
I like the idea it looks fairly thick and will pack up very small and has 6 chambers so if 1 goes flat..
The self inflating mats seem to have a much thicker construction so I guess are less likely to leak?
I have used a number of double size inflating airbeds from argos (the bix box type ones) but they last about 3-5 uses then puncture which leaves you sleeping on the floor (or rethar not sleeping...)
Does the construction of the backpacker feel like it will last and/or take a bit of abuse?
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Yes I use it all the time after I got rid of the expensive self inflating type, two of which leaked right away.. The backpacker one I got from Argos is great. I think Millets sells them too. But I'm not certain. Dont inflate them too hard. Thats a common mistake. As they are only £8 why dont you try it? Ive used this for 2 years, camping all the time on long trips up to Tallin, Estonia, down to Portugal , and many many trips to France.
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