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01/8/2013 at 3:46pm
Location: Essex Greater London
Outfit: Bailey Phoenix 640
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We never use our front V LARGE double, (aka even wider than King size), coz we prefer to snuggle up, (only 3' 7" wide),on the rear double made up from the rear dinette, that way we don't have to faff about putting it all away and getting it made up again every blessed day. When we need the front for extra sleepers, we tend to just use them as 2 singles coz they're really quite comfy that way. They must be coz our son and DIL use them as singles since the arrival of their 2 year old who goes on top of the 2 back cushions on the floor between them in his inflatable Readybed, (marvellous invention and he's particularly fond of his TreeFu Tom one, and they would certainly tell us if they were uncomfortable so it's not just us that manage perfectly well on the singles.
Anyhoo, because the rear double is so dinky widthways, it's hard to get a memory foam topper unless you have it made to measure, (too pricey for our liking, certainly never saw as cheap as £50, you jammy beggar lol), and over the years we've tried various things to use as a topper ranging from a thin single duvet to our current wonderfind! It's a double velour mattress topper from Dunelm Mill and only cost about £25 4 or 5 years ago and takes up much less space when stowed away en route to wherever we're going or coming back from. Because it's the bog standard double size and our liccle bed is well short of that, I find that there's plenty to tuck down over the sides keeping it nice and taut so disguising any slight gaps from movement that you can get between the cushions while the bed's made up. Our narrow double is, however, longer than your bog standard double bed would be so this also allows for a really tight fit lengthways too and we both find it very, very comfortable. As did our son and DIL when they used to get the rear double. All that's needed then is a quick shuggle of the velour topper each day to cover the gaps once again and Bob's yer uncle as they say.
We have a memory foam topper on our very high bed at home and luv it although it does mean buying King size sheets to go over the 8" thick bed mattress plus the couple of inches of topper. My main concern about having a memory foam topper for the tin tent, was the excess weight it would add, (coz our one at home aint no lightweight I can tell ya),plus the amount of storage space it would take up once released from it's vacuum pack and since we don't take a hoover away with us, we'd have no way to squash it back into a vacuum bag again.
Give the velour Mattress topper a go before forking out for a memory foam one, you might be pleasantly surprised. In fact, this year, for whatever reason, my hubby remarked that he'd been sleeping better than he ever had in our tin tent! Go figure!
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08/4/2018 at 2:58pm
Location: Teesside
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We have the same layout as you and have always made up the double bed at night as you have tried, with backrests to the middle.
Over two years we found that, with much fettling, one can iron out the ridges between the cushions that helps a lot; however the cushions were still very hard, which aggravated my wife's bad back after a few nights.
Last year, our third season, we bit the bullet and bought two Duvalay 5cm memory foam mattress toppers. We baulked at the expense but having used them on our three-week vacation last year I would buy them again at double the price! Our caravan is now more comfortable than our bed at home.
We have a 66cm and a 77cm topper, which exactly fits our 140cm wide bed with no discernable join felt by either of us.
We also got pillows and zip covers for the toppers, and find putting up and taking down the bed is rather quicker than when we used bottom sheets. They are a bit bulky but we keep them in the shower cubicle during the day, in storage bags which we also purchased at the time.
Bottom line: an expensive investment but they will last for years and years, so over time they are good value.
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