From: me on
Am looking at buying the model Costco has in link

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11480428&search=aerobed&Mo=1&cm_re=1_en-_-Top_Left_Nav-_-Top_search&lang=en-US&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&Sp=S&N=5000043&whse=BC&Dx=mode+matchallpartial&Ntk=Text_Search&Dr=P_CatalogName:BC&Ne=4000000&D=aerobed&Ntt=aerobed&No=1&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nty=1&topnav=&s=1

Anyone have any experience with Aerobed as a perm bed
for college student?

Can reg Queen size sheets be used? Or do u have to
order "special sheets"?
From: Robert Neville on
me(a)privacy.net wrote:

>Anyone have any experience with Aerobed as a perm bed
>for college student?

I can sleep on them for a few days, but it isn't very comfortable as a long term
solution. You are sleeping on an air mattress, albeit one you can adjust the
degree of inflation. If it's too soft, you sink into the center or roll off the
side. If it's too hard, it's like sleeping on the floor only a bit warmer. Never
seem to find the "just right".

Eventually the valve will start leaking and you end up with a partially deflated
mattress by morning.

You might be better off with an inexpensive futon bed. That can also double as a
couch.

>Can reg Queen size sheets be used? Or do u have to
>order "special sheets"?

Regular sheets work fine, but they won't stay tucked in.
From: Michael Black on
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Scott in SoCal wrote:

> Last time on misc.consumers, Robert Neville <dont(a)bother.com> said:
>
>> me(a)privacy.net wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone have any experience with Aerobed as a perm bed
>>> for college student?
>>
>> I can sleep on them for a few days, but it isn't very comfortable as a long term
>> solution. You are sleeping on an air mattress, albeit one you can adjust the
>> degree of inflation. If it's too soft, you sink into the center or roll off the
>> side. If it's too hard, it's like sleeping on the floor only a bit warmer. Never
>> seem to find the "just right".
>>
>> Eventually the valve will start leaking and you end up with a partially deflated
>> mattress by morning.
>>
>> You might be better off with an inexpensive futon bed. That can also double as a
>> couch.
>
> Futons aren't very comfortable, either. They do have the advantage of
> not deflating during the night, however.
>
I've slept on a futon for a quarter century. If a futon isn't
comfortable, then I must have missed the comfortable alternatives.

Michael