And because camping was so much cheaper than staying at a hotel, it fit our budget. We tried using the floating air mattresses that we used in the lake, as our camping mattress in the tent.When we were first married, my husband and I used to camp several times a year. Another camping mattress we considered was inflatable with a separate pump. For several years, we stopped camping, but we have recently started to take an interest in it again.

We will be camping and sleeping in comfort with our new camping mattress. The worse part about camping for me was sleeping on the ground. This looked simple to do and not hard to store, but it was not very thick, so we questioned the the level of comfort. I said to my husband that a camping mattress is the first thing we needed to buy. It was more comfortable than sleeping on the ground, but it was difficult to bring along and to store when we were not using it.

There is a camping mattress that is self inflating. You close the valve once it has inflated itself. It inflates as it is rolled out. The inflation time was around five minutes. This special camping mattress is sold in many sizes. The camping mattress inflates in about a minute and deflates flat in even less time. The mattress and pump fit into a duffle case which is the size of a sleeping bag. We ended up buying thick foam from a fabric store and used this as our camping mattress.

This seemed like a nice reasonably priced option for a camping mattress, but it didn't come with any possible way to store it. The camping mattress that we finally bought was a queen size mattress with a built pump in it. The sleeping bags kept slipping off and the mattress made noises every time you shifted even just a little. We lived in a duplex and it y type strainer was nice to get away from the neighbourhood on weekends.