A great comfort cot, for camping, and sleepovers. Easy stow
An excellent camping cot, and certainly beats sleeping on the ground/iso mat, by a long shot. I spent 12yrs professionally sleeping on the ground with the Marines. An iso mat only goes so far, and if your like me, you're always setting up in the dark, and you always find the worst root that only a full size mattress could conceal. The mattress pad is nice, I've camped with, and without, and there's a huge difference. After a few days my hips started to ache every morning, when I woke up, not using the pad, during a week long camp. I decided to forego the pad due to space saving, but I doubt I'll do that again. With the pad, I slept just as well as I do at home, although my low standards of comfort are compared to an isomat on a root, so, you can always throw an iso mat under the pad of you want it's extra cushy. This cot is ideal, I'm 6'2, plenty long enough, even with a pillow. Super compact, which is important when the whole family goes, and as far as the space footprint, no larger than a standard iso mat, so it's not going to cramp your tent up any more than an iso mat would. If you're in a small dome tent, might be some concern with the height, and concave shape of those tents, but at 47yrs old, and Marine Corps knees, I am not crawling unless my life depends on it, so I get a tent I can stand up in. The over build is quite sturdy, I weigh 235lbs, and there's no concerning sounds when I get on. Just don't use it as a ladder, as it is a cot, and that's an excellent weigh to ruin a cot, and your tent all in one go. The look is fine, it's a cot though, so I'm not sure why aesthetic matters, but if it does, then the cot, looks like a cot, in whatever color you picked. There's space underneath for a small pack, your shoes or whatever, and this multi-pouch dangly thing on the side. Few small pouches on the front, one large pouch in the back, that would be good for a book, wallet, whatever small items you don't want on the floor, if your tent were to leak. I use it primarily for my vape mod, phone, and earbuds. The thickness is actually thicker than the standard military cots, and WAY easier to set up, than a cot that assembles similarly. That last end bar on a military cot is awful. This cot opens up like any folding chair. As with anything with a folding chair design, the fail points would be the little aluminum pins at the joints. Keep a 2-4 zip ties handy, feed 2 through the hole that the pin was formerly occupying, and you're able to finish out your camp out, without sleeping on the ground. Highly recommend this one. Read more
