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08/4/2022 at 10:02am
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Welcome.
You left out some rather essential info! How many kids and how old? I'm guessing two, and youngish pre-teenage.
General 'rule' of camping, for practical purposes, reduce the claimed berths of a 'all in one tent' or bedrooms by 1 for adult or older teenager use. The claimed berth figure is generally only for sleeping space at floor level with no allowance for baggage or standing space, and you'd be like sardines. Smaller kids obviously fit better.
As for camp beds/cots, nearly every tent has sloping walls, that means that by the time you have got 40 or 50cm off the floor at bed height the available wall to wall dimensions are much reduced and the bed, and likely occupants as well, will be in contact with the walls, walls flap/move in most tents with the slightest breeze, so you get a disturbed sleep.
Air beds are great (IMHO, others disagree), but modern PVC ones tend to be horribly unreliable, and often leak at best a little so they need re-inflating before every use, or catastrophically so they collapse during the night! One thing friends kids have demonstrated is they do not cope well with littleuns bouncing/standing on them as kids tend to do, so be prepared to be a draconian parent and spoil 'fun'! Often the internal bracing fails and they 'expand' into more of a blimp than a bed and are impossible to lie on!
People extol the virtues of SIMS (self inflating mats) over airbeds, but seem to overlook that to all intense and purposes it's just a thin foam filled airbed, and they too do spring leaks too! TBF, they have less seams, no internal bracing to fail, and do seem more reliable than airbeds.
Something that may work for you/kids is a camping bunk bed, it exacerbates the fitting in the tent/bedroom size issue, but perhaps worth looking at the numbers to see if it's an option, it does free up valuable floor space.
BTW, I've got a 5 berth 2/3 split bedroom tent bit bigger than yours, and me and my Border Collie dog can fill it, that dog can sprawl and use more floor than me, and I'm far from small! 
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