can you give a bit of advice/opinion please. Up until now we've used airbeds but I'm SO sick of them puncturing etc. I'm very keen on a double campbed with double 10cm SIM. My issue is that I can't *try before I buy*. My DH is quite wide shouldered and 6ft tall. He's worried that his shoulders will either be trapped between the bars or he will feel them through the SIM. Also, if we use a double SIM will the bed feel like a double or will the bar in the middle intrude and render it the same as 2 singles pushed up together? I need some anecdotal evidence if I'm going to ever convince him to go for it (conversely I don't want to shell out for this set up if he's going to end up whinging about it)
Thanks in advance
I've never tried the doubles (bed or SIM), so feel free to shoot me down, but I just can't see the beauty of them, myself.
Providing the bed pod is of a suitable size, of course, go for singles. If need be, go extra wide, both for beds and SIMs.... and sleeping bags for that matter.
Butt them up side by side, with an inch gap so not actually touching.
Pro's?
Any movement will not affect partner one bit.
If one wants 4 season bag, and one is happy with 3 season, no problem. Same goes if one needs to go extra wide envelope, whilst the other prefers a mummy bag.
Same with SIMs. One not happy with 5cm? Get ONE 10cm!
Just seems so much more options are available, if you keep things single.
we have a double... and yes the center bar is noticeable... but we are retired so it does not really bother us, we use single bags this time of year..it's warmer...if you really want double then perhaps not camp beds..
The thought of two singles, or a double with a central bar, was always the dealbreaker for us. So we've gone for a raised aerobed double. Not used in anger yet, but preliminary testing shows it's holding air. Cost almost the same as campbed/s plus decent SIM's. We'll see.
I can see the advantages with the campbeds though, air insulation, and space underneath. Maybe the best thing is the old style fold-out guestbed with mattress. But who's got space to load one of those?
brickiemum, I suppose you could order a double and SIM online and try it, then if no good wizz them back under distance selling regs?
------------- Mike
My advice is worth no more than the price paid for it
We were fed up after even aerobed let us down so went for two single 10mm SIMS with a decent matress topper from john lewis. We were very comfy last summer when we went away for a month.
I'm going for the normal double air beds this year x2 one on top of each other Velcro on the top side of the bottom one Velcro on the underside of the top one!!!!!
J
------------- Looking to try every other weekend away
August/ - France
We have ordered a Vango double 10cm sim. It's not landed yet so can't comment on how good it is but our double sleeping bag is our favourite camping item. Sometimes we even cuddle up at home in it lol
We have a double & hubby is 6ft 4". We have a double serenity sim which we then cover with a fitted sheet. just cotton in summer & a woolly one for colder nights. sheepskin. This has the effect of stopping the sim moving. Also it means that no poles come through. once we have it set up it is perfect. We got this set up last season. in fact it was so good that on the 1st morning of using it as my hubby woke up he thought, "must get up & go downstairs & get breakfast" before he realised he was camping, this shows how comfortable he was. wouldn't change for the world.
------------- Lyn xxx
Harbury Fields March
Moreton in the Marsh March/April
Hawthorn Cottage April
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Somers Wood May
Maxstoke Hall June
Houghton Mill June
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The Meadows, October
By far the best option if you go for the double bed is two 7-10cm single SIM's. The reason is the centre bar is higher than the fabric you sleep on so if you use a double SIM its raised in the middle over the centre bar which in turn makes the SIM slope slightly away from the middle bar. If you go for single SIM's of the thicker style they sit well between the side and middle bar and sort of evens out the surface so you get a nice flat area on the same level either side.
I really hope that sort of made sense...
Also, buy some Kampa Big Feet as these are great to put on the feet of the bed to spread the load and not damage the groundsheet.
Quote: Originally posted by Cross Camping on 09/3/2013
Also, buy some Kampa Big Feet as these are great to put on the feet of the bed to spread the load and not damage the groundsheet.
Gary Cross
Positioning x 9 Big Feet will likely take longer to do than putting the bed up?!
Maybe next season Outwell will produce this with a design modification: with flat disc feet pre-attached, to spread the load and so reduce risk of damage to the SIG (especially as most modern tents - and all Outwells - now have this feature)?
Quote: Originally posted by don-maureen on 06/3/2013
we have a double... and yes the center bar is noticeable... but we are retired so it does not really bother us, we use single bags this time of year..it's warmer...if you really want double then perhaps not camp beds..
Must inform the wife that retired means we shouldn't bother ... lol ... I guess we'd be
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