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Where are you going to be using them... If you are travelling by car and looking for comfort... try a 4 leg camping bed, they are fairly small and comfortable

Or if you are looking for lightweight and comfort.. try a thicker one, but only 3 quarter length. It will only be your feet missing out.

I found 5cm did not provide sufficient padding and was too low for my liking. So I use a blow up airbed instead.

I should have bought a double height single one, however, can't justify the cost, as I am still able, hopefully for a few more years.

Now, if, and a big IF, Tesco has a double height single at reduced price, then I may cancel my recently bought regular height single, that was left in the shop by mistake (not mine), and is awaiting my collection this weekend.

DK

After our airbed died during our last trip, we bought a 5cm double sefl-inflating mat. Only had two nights on it so far, but we found it very comfortable. OH is 13 stone and I am, er, quite a bit less.

The only problem is that we found the shiny sleeping bag material slid around on the shiny surface of the mat, so we may consider taking a sheet to tuck around it next time out.

yeah, fat airics out of stock until end next week :(

We've got very posh self-inflating 10cm mattresses (and, since we live in Switzerland, you really don't want to know what we had to pay for them ).  Buuuuut... they are truly fabulous.  On non-camping nights, we sleep in a 6ft wide bed with a lovely memory foam mattress - sleep is very important to us! - and these mattresses are the camping equivalent.  And, as a sort of economy, they're good enough to be considered as a 'spare room' for guests in our office.

Is it possible to test them out?  Our local camping shop had them all in a big rack, and we just lay on them on the floor until we found the ones we wanted. 

Oh, and if possible, get a design with two valves rather than one if you want to be able to deflate them this side of Christmas.

We madly budgeted on everything else - the kids have got 2.5cm self-inflating mats which we lay on foam karrimats for padding/insulation, the cooking pans were second-hand, and all the sleeping bags and liners were picked up at the army surplus store!  Ok, so they say 'Swiss Navy' on them, but hey, it's dark.

kodokan

Hi Michael.

                 We have just returned from 17 nights Camping in Southern France, and for the first time used our "Thermarest DreamTime XL's", superb matts, they fasten together, so two make for a Queen Size bed, I had a double fitted sheet made to cover the double setup, what can I say, the bed was brilliant, not sure on the thickness but maybe around 10cm with the fitted sheet, I got a better nights sleep than at home, the "DreamTime XL" is 76cm wide, and is made up of a self inlating matt, which has a foam insert ontop, the whole thing is encased in a zip on fleece cover, more of a sleeping system than just a matt. the only downside is the pack size, which although only 4Kg is quite bulky.