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Got the same ones at the weekend from Matalan JoanM, but haven't tried them out yet either. I'm not totally certain that I need them in a caravan but am getting a wee bit paranoid over this larger new one having so much less storage space, (well at least in the kitchen area), than our lovely old girl, so when I spotted these, I just grabbed them.

Have already greatly reduced the space and weight needed by the usual 8 bath towels, (hubby always gets his soaked and with the weather we're prone to, this is not conducive to 'drying'), by investing in four of those Gelert microfibre body towels and that's a huge difference for a start! And they can be quickly hand washed, drying very quickly so shouldn't need as many anyway. Think that these bags may be great for bedding etc. reducing the required amount of space particularly if they work with the pillows, (very particular about decent pillows with the old arthritis in the neck). Maybe I should try them out and not just leave them on the dining table -looking at them?

Should also be very handy for when hubby goes away on his sports coaching related trips, which are all too frequent and his bag just seems to need more and more space each time he travels.

4 days to hols and counting....

I made reduced size pillows by cutting down some ordinary polyester ones and stitching back up - they're about two thirds of size. Made covers to match using ones I bought in the sales.

Made a big difference space wise and the kids find sleeping with them in the back to the car easier too.

You don't really need the whole pilow we found, it's really the neck support and the air beds do have a sort of built in bit.

We have some JML and Superdrug ones, mixed results to be honest but if you can accept that one or two of them might be a bit dodgy and just use the ones that do work well then they are great.  We took duvets, pillows, blankets and towels etc and also vacuumed our clothes too and it saved loads of space in the car.  We could never have taken what we did without them, that's for sure.  We used a gelert two way handpump to deflate them and it works just as well as the Dyson did.

Ali