Camper Mattress

By far one of the more vital, but often overlooked items in an outdoor gear inventory is the camper mattress, or camper bed as they are most times called.

Good camper mattresses do really make a big difference in the comfort of any adventure into the great yonder, and that is final.

You see, not having a camper mattress that feels perfect to you, or simply having no camper mattress whatsoever can just render your night totally miserable.

You will sleep very poorly if you sleep at all and so will wake up tired, stiff and not able to spend a day in the great outdoors. This is something that just will not do for today's modern camper.

Ensure therefore that you take a very good look at the many types of camper mattresses before buying. Depending on what you are doing, one kind or another might be better for you. The simplest camper mattress is called a sleeping pad. It is really just that – a flat, foam pad that can be very easily packed, easily rolled and unrolled to afford some padding under your sleeping pad.

Although this is definitely not the most comfortable type of camper mattress, it does have some pertinant advantages. The sleeping pad is cheap, light, packs easily and pretty darn comfortable.

Not to mention it is also rugged, and can not pop like a self-inflating camper mattress can. In that it is nothing but a simple pad, there are no parts that can break and cause this style of camper mattress to fail, which is a major plus in my book.

If you are going somewhere pretty remote, or going on an extended trip, this is the camper mattress to have, hands down.

Of course there is also the more common and deluxe kind of camper mattress which is basically just an advanced kind of air mattress. They can still pack pretty tight, and most of them are not too heavy to carry.

A lot of them are quite comfortable, and they will provide a far superior rest to a foam camper mattress any day. But, of course, they do have their drawbacks.

Literally tt takes seconds to pack up or unpack a foam pad, but packing away a camper bed can be very time consuming, as you must get all of the air out before you can truly wrap it up.

Furthermore, the camping mattress can pop open, or get an air leak, or you could misplace the parts needed to fill it up, particularly if it is one of the ones that uses air pumps.