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06/8/2017 at 8:49pm
Location: Bridgwater Somerset
Outfit: outwell newgate 6
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Camp bed with a sim on top is the best nites sleep you will have in a tent!
We have a outwell posads double camp bed, with two single outwell sims on top, (singles as there is a bar in the middle of the bed)
I have a 5cm sim, the mrs has 10 cm dream catcher, she suffers with bad back as she has arthritis, and she sleeps better in the tent than she dose at home!!
Have yet to try the sims on the floor but we are planning on trying it out for weekends when we get our smaller weekend tent
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06/8/2017 at 8:58pm
Location: URMSTON MANCHESTER
Outfit: OUTWELL PALM COAST 600
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Hi & welcome 😊 we have been camping for many years and have recently purchased a Intex double height queen airbed with built in electric pump, not the cheapest but the quality is excellent, been up here in North Wales now for 6 nights and not needed to be topped up once!! Will only work with EHU or car adaptor. Over many years of camping tried mats, cheaper beds but this is far superior in quality.
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06/8/2017 at 10:05pm
Location: County Kildare Irel
Outfit: Tents
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After decades we discovered the decathlon air 70 with a kampa bliss on top. Best sleep ever. Better and warmer than air beds. More comfortable than camp beds or fishing beds. Better than Sims. No brainer.
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07/8/2017 at 5:59am
Location: Derby.
Outfit: T6 Hi-Top & Karsten
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I'll second the camp bed with SIM on top.
We both sleep better in the tent than at home. You're off the cold floor (even with a carpet down), there's space for storage underneath, and it's a comfortable height for sitting/getting dressed/getting in and out of bed.
Works (very well) for us.
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08/8/2017 at 10:20am
Location: Stourbridge
Outfit: Tent: Outwell Nevada MP
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I love my Outwell Dreamcatcher 10cm SIM. It is really comfortable.
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08/8/2017 at 12:57pm
Location: County Kildare Irel
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A backpacking airmat is lighter and less bulky than a roll mat.
Look at the insulated ones like the vaude norrsken or the Kelty recluse. The vaude has side bumpers that help you sleep in it rather than on it. The fold down to about the size of two tins of beans
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08/8/2017 at 7:28pm
Location: County Kildare Irel
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Try them. I find my vaude norrsken perfect. Much better than a karrimat for my middle aged body and less bulky than a sim. Touch wood I haven't had a puncture but I have the repair patch which came with it. There is a you tube video where they slide down on air mats. Some survive quite well.
I abandoned karrimats in the eighties.
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13/8/2017 at 3:50pm
Location: Yorkshire
Outfit: Outwell Trout Lake & Vango Orchy 400
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We use good quality, thick SIMs - comfy and warmer than air beds which just trap cold air. The kids roll off, but don't seem to mind!!😆
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14/8/2017 at 8:16am
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We use a 10cm SIM. As someone with spinal arthritis and damaged lower lumbar discs, it's a godsend. As others have said, set up on a fold out camp bed or on it's own, it'll be the best night's sleep in a tent you'll ever have. Some people don't like SIMs because they find them hard to compress back down, but there's a trick to it which makes it easy. If you open the valves and roll the mattress up from the other end, then close the valves again, you should then unroll the mattress, and repeat. After a few repeats of this exercise, they'll pack nice and tightly again, especially is you squash out all the air as best you can whilst rolling them back up.
More effort than an air bed, but air beds can be prone to puncture/leaking and frankly, are not as comfy imho as a really good SIM, especially if you have a bad back or similar.
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