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Fat Airic
available from:
alpkit
RRP £47.50
description

Fat Airic is a beast, you wouldn't really want to carry him around, but if you are going car camping it is the next best thing to your four poster bed!

  • Weight (gr): 1768
  • Dimensions (cm): 202 x 62 x 7.3
  • Min Rolled size (cm): 65 x 14.5
  • Realistic Rolled size (cm): 65 x 18
  • Mini Diamond Ripstop
  • Repair kit included
reviews
Unobtrusively great.
6 May 09
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Spent 3 nights sleeping on one of these and I can't fault it.

It was comfy (despite being only 3 inches thick) and warm, I didn't slip and slide around on it and it doesn't have that 'all at sea' feeling of an airbed.

It inflated on it's own while we got on with setting up camp and took about 3 minutes to roll up and put away when we packed up.

Brilliant, a really good solution.

It's probably too big for backpacking (but there are smaller versions for that) we're 'car campers' though so that wasn't an issue.

Still really happy with these fat boys
30 Aug 09
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Just wanted to add an update to my first review which gave our first impressions.

Well nothing has altered really we've just spent a whole week away with our airics and we got a good nights sleep every night.

They seem to be coping with the rough and tumble of camping well and basically we still can't fault them.

They spent most of the summer rolled up in the trailer (in fact they are still there) but once the camping season is really over (we might go one more time this year) we'll take them out of there bags and store them unrolled over the winter.

It looks like they are still offering 2 for £80 (saving £15) which is a great deal. The colour have changed, lego blue has replaced lime it seems.

comments
Good result then!
6 May 09

This is the one review I have been waiting for! why? well your problems with sleeping was the first blog that i read from you. so was keen to find if you had solved your issues and pleased that you have. Were airbed ourselves.. but keen to look at this! airbed is fine for us but we have a large double thick double so takes up alot of boot space. and yea its a nice thought to lose that at sea feeling :)

They don't pack down too small
7 May 09

You mention double aibed takes up space, the airics roll up but are not tiny when packed away, they end up as a cyclinder about 15-20cm in diameter and 70cm long.

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