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We had the Gelert one with the built in foot pump in one corner.

My son was a wiz at blowing this one up, he could get the double up in about 5 mins, I couldnt even top it up in that time.  quieter than the elelectric pumps though

We has a couple of the Gelert ones, unfortunately they leaked - one of them badly, my son would keep waking up on a completely flat mattress.  Eventually we binned them and moved the kids onto foam mats.  My son is now complaining that his mat isn't soft enough so next time he will be using a ready bed.  Soon we will have tried everything - I keep looking at self-inflating mats.

The Gelert ones we had were the "reeded" air beds which I don't think are anywhere near as comfortable as the the others we have - my favourite is the traditional red and blue box sided one but it is slow to inflate, our flocked top one has a bigger opening and goes up really quickly.

We have one with a built in pump, tried using it a couple of times and gave up.

I found that it would not pump very well. when you lift your foot on the pump the whole pump lifted. We gave up and now use an electric pump on it.

After spending an hour putting the tent up the last thing I wanted was another 30mins wrestling witha silly pump.