We're now on our second Coleman comfort air bed in the last year.
I'm surprised as I read some really good reviews before I bought one, but one side seems to fail. The first one got a puncture and this current one just goes down with no visible puncture on one side.
Now neither me or OH are on the skinny side but neither of us are excessively huge.
I was wondering if anyone else has had problems as all I can find is good reviews
------------- "She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.”
Yes i had two fail on me as well.I did not realise you get some kind of guarantee with the as i owuld have returned them.We have now the Bestway double height, brilliant.
I have just looked at the Aerobeds as I need 4 new beds and they now say that the guarantee is a limited one for 1 to 5 years depending on the model but I can't find anything on it that says what it's limited to.
We've been using the same Coleman DC double for five seasons now, and we're no lightweights. I bought a second one two years ago when I saw them at £15, thinking it would be fine as a spare, and it's not been out the box yet.
They all go down a little bit overnight btw. Hot air expands, cold air contracts so if you blow it up on a warm afternoon it's bound to feel a lot softer after a cold night.
I used my coleman for several trips, both indoors (sleep overs) and outdoors (camping trips and festivals) and it has been nothing but reliable. Always comfortable and because I share with my 10 year old who flip flops about it certainly helps to have the seperate air chambers. Unfortunately when I was moving it on the last use my nephew and niece ran into it pushing it onto a door handle (I nearly cried) So I am trying to fix it before our next trip (it on a slow leak test currently) .....but if all else fails I will get another Coleman comfort just because I have found it so good.
Re the air coming out... We have never had one returned for air leaking out of the valve... This means it can only be a hole...Check to see if the valve is leaking, if not it must be a hole which could be a split seam, again we have not seen this before. It only takes a tiny puncture for the bed to go down, so tiny you may not even find it. Gary Cross
Ps, my bed of choice...Coleman comfort double..Due to my wife being so big compared to me...sorry wrong way around
------------- Gary Cross - The masked camping guru.
Well... We've bit the bullet and got an aerobed... £54.99 in Argos which I didn't think was too bad... if it (like people say they do) lasts
If not it's going right back to the shop!
Thanks for all the advice guys
------------- "She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies.”
I got 3 aerobeds sleepovers from ebay, there is a seller on there who are Aerobed themselves, think the sell off excess stock, bought 3 for £115, so was lucky, still not took them out the boxes yet though, dont know why i didnt buy 4, one for each room, but the kids use their kids beds
Oh Gawd, I was only bragging the other day that we find the Coleman bed excellent - but spoke too soon - We are on our 2nd one and unfortunately we've sprung a leak on the same side as our first one did !! so after OH sleeping on the floor 1st night tthis weekend we didn't want to risk a 3rd bed so bought 2 x single airbeds instead. Is this the sign of things to come I ask myself - we've gone from the double sleeping bag to single and now the beds - Could it be separate bedrooms next