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Hello,

Fairly new to camping and we have a 2yr old who has never camped before and I was thinking about getting an airbed for him, but I am having troubles finding any UK suppliers, although there are a few on ebay.

Does anyone have any experiance of using them with their children ? Sucessful and not sucessful and can anyone reccomend a supplier of these airbeds ideally located not too far from Cambridge.

Thanks

Hi, I have a 3 yr old and a 22 month old, my daughter (3) has been using a 'normal' airbed for a year now and we are antipating my son who is in a travel cot currently will be OK to be 'let free' soon. We had some problems initially because of the freedom a tent can supply but a good junior sleeping bag helped to contain midnight walkabouts.

In terms of size the usual adult ones were to big, a friend gave us an old single with a pillow chamber which was inflated seperately (hope that makes sense). We decided to cut the pillow section off leaving an airbed of about 5 feet which seemed much less unweildy.

I would guess that if you use a bed at home you will be OK, if you still have a cot then it could be an interesting learning curve.

Good luck.

My 3 year old sleeps on a standard single mattress as well, and I use a Vango Nitestar Convertible sleeping bag ( superb bag by the way) and he gets on fine.

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