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I'm looking for a new airbed as some of you from the tent talk forum might have read. We currently have a rubberised 4ft (i think, it feels quite small anyway) royal camping one which is quite thin and wrong for us if our little one wants to come into our bed in the night. So we are on the lookout for a much larger one. When we started camping ages ago we got a flock air bed but I do recall it didn't last us long and we ended up with a rubberised one, an outwell one that I think is a bit larger than our royal one but has a pillow and we don't like it for this reason.

How do people rate flock air beds as opposed to rubberised ones. I can't recall why we didn't seem to get along with the flock one but do recall it let us down in the night on occassion, finding yourself on the hard floor by morning. The rubberised ones have never done this.

Pros and cons of each? What do you all think?

I think you might be right klarky. I'm starting to recall not being able to get comfy on ours. I think you can get 'into' the rubberised ones without feeling like you are merely 'on top of' like you do with flock.

Anyone find me a king size one with no pillow?

On a side note, Argos are currently discounting their rubberised/cotton airbed from £18.99 down to £14.99. Built in pillow unfortunately ..

Totally agree though .. rubberised airbeds are much more comfortable than the flocked PVC ones and they seem to retain heat better at night!

http://www.cccoutdoors.com/products.asp?category=Sleeping+Equipment&subcategory=Airbeds+%26+Campbeds

Try the above link for rubber ones without pillows (or with if preferred). Size is not huge though.