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Topic: Width of Self Inflating Mattresses

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Spock1

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Hi
We've used airbeds for a number of years, but are trying to reduce the camp set-up / break down times, as we're now camping more for just a couple of nights at a time. We have a couple of (oldish) thermarests, which are very convenient, but I find that they're just not wide enough, and I keep rolling off during the night. Checking around, they all seem to be 50 - 55cm wide. Does anybody know of wider mattresses, probably 70 - 80cm wide ?
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My Thermarest Luxury Map XL is 76cm wide.

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Yes the XL versions for most manufacturers are considerably wider than the standard ones.

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What about the Alpkit Wideboy? It's 64 cm wide. My friend has one of these and deflates to about half the size of my Gelert Adventure XL SIM

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Vango xl is 76 cm wide and 10 cm thick ! fabulous !!!!!!

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Thanks for your responses - I managed to miss all of these in my searches ! I'll go and see if I can get a deal on one of those ..

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I ordered a vango comfort xl last week and it came today so it's currently self inflating. It's 76cm wide, its really quite wide and its 10cm thick. I have yet to lie on it but it looks comfy.

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I've just read some reviews on the Vango Comfort XL, and a few commented that they're a bit of a s*d to deflate. Has anybody experienced this ?

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I have just put it back down, it took no more than 3 ish minutes, definitely no more than 5 (estimation but it took next to no time). I folded/rolled it into 4-6 sections and knelt on each one to get most of the air out, then I quickly started rolling it up and only needed to kneel on the last 2 rolls and twisted the valves and put the elastic things on and it fitted perfectly in the bag. I would say it's much less effort than most sleeping bags, and it's definitely less effort than the aldi sims I have atm. There's two valves so I think the air comes out easier.

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