Choosing a quality camping air bed can be frustrating and time consuming. Don’t you wish you could inflate it, put it into a pool of water and see if it is leaking or not, because all camping air beds seem to leak right? Wrong!
Most modern styles of camping air beds are not made from the cheap thin plastic materials they used to be. You can really tell by the touch and feel of the new camping air beds that they are made from a much thicker material. Some are made with a memory foam topper built into the air bed itself. There are also self inflating camping air beds, air beds with pillows built in and actual sleeping bags built into the camping air beds! The sad part is that with quality comes price. Most of these high quality camping air beds are very expensive considering that you can buy a standard everyday camping air bed for about $35 dollars. Don’t get me wrong, the standard air bed will work for a little while and it will leak sometime soon, but the old saying of “you get what you pay for” really comes into play here. The higher quality camping air beds are going to run about $175 and higher. Now I don’t know what a good nights sleep is worth to you while you’re camping but, it could be worth investing the money and having a good quality camping air bed to sleep on.
Tags: camping, camping air bed, sleeping bags
April 30, 2008 at 9:21 pm
I heartily agree. If an air bed is something you need as part of your gear, get a good one!
July 7, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Good post, very informative. It should be noted, though, that the air beds that come with memory foam in them should NOT be placed in water. This can have a bad effect on the overall quality of the bed.