Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Now, maybe I'm going to sound a bit wasteful but, for this price, I was basically expecting it to be disposable...and I was fine with that. If it lasted beyond the holiday (which it did)...bonus. People giving it low ratings with comments like "it got a hole in it after only 2 months" is the craziest thing I've heard. What the hell are you doing sleeping on an air mattress for 2 months and why did you buy one that cost $15 and expect it to last. It's one of the cheapest air mattresses I've seen sold. It's serves the purpose when your kids invite three friends to sleep over or, in a pinch after you make some bad decisions during an all-boys weekend with your old college buddies (or so I hear). It's not meant to be a replacement bed long-term. These are the same people complaining that the plastic spork they bought is starting to yellow after 6 weeks of use. Anyway, we bought two of these to create air mattress city in our playroom when the in-laws showed up with their horde of kids for Thanksgiving. We inflated them on Wednesday and they were still as firm as could be when I deflated them on Sunday. This was after seeing twin three year olds playing "jumpy castle" on them and their older sisters setting them up at 45 degree angles to the wall so they could slide down them. Now the new trend in air mattresses is higher profile (off the ground) sizing, which does make it a bit easier for us old folks to get in/out of but, after having the thin profile mattresses this weekend, I was glad they weren't the oversized version. While the big mattresses are nice, they take up so much room that you basically have to deflate-fold-store them every morning and unfold-inflate-setup every night to be able to move. Since our playroom doubled as our spare bedroom, and we needed the "play" part during the day, we just flipped the low profile (thin) air mattresses up against a wall in the corner during the day to give the kids room to play and pulled them back out, still fully inflated, at night.