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Are none of the Thermarest beds as good as Fat Airics?

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MaryMotherOfCheeses · 08/07/2009 21:47

Why do we only want Fat Airics?

is there no alternative?

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Lilymaid · 08/07/2009 21:51

Could it be something to do with the price? see comparison chart. Also, the excellent service from the firm.

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MaryMotherOfCheeses · 08/07/2009 21:55

Hmm, have just been googling, they are flippin expensive aren't they.

I wonder about those Gelert ones on that list...

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chevre · 09/07/2009 09:32

i love thermarests! didn't have faterics in my day [gimmer]

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Slubberdegullion · 09/07/2009 09:45

I love my thermarests too.

Pah to the newbie imposters.

Thermarests got dh me and all the way around Australia in 40+ degree heat and we still made love frequently and he proposed at the end of it.

Can fat airics claim to Increase The Love?

I don't think so.

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Pawslikepaddington · 09/07/2009 09:47

I love my thermarest basecamp, and folds up reeeeaallly small (compared to it's stuff sack) so you can get loads more in with it. Also agree to the tres good love-ness-some of them have special grippy bits on to keep you in place

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Slubberdegullion · 09/07/2009 09:53

ooh we have base camps too, in the strong and sensible navy blue.

I pity the fool who lies on a lime green self inflating mat at night time and expects to wake up fully refreshed and mentally alert enough to deal with any caming crises that may occur.

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blithedance · 09/07/2009 09:55

I have the lime green thermarest. Best of both worlds and packs to the size of a kitchen roll.

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troutpout · 09/07/2009 09:56

I think thermarests are probably even better tbh (from what i've heard) but for superdooper thick one (thermarest basecamp large for instance) they were just a bit too expensive (for me)
I could just about stretch to 2 fat airics (which had similar dimensions)with the tenner off for buying 2

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Slubberdegullion · 09/07/2009 09:57

A LIME GREEN THERMAREST*

Good grief. When did they start making those then?

I am quite taken aback

[taken aback]

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troutpout · 09/07/2009 09:59

slubber
that was way to much information

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Slubberdegullion · 09/07/2009 10:01

Well you know, camping threads need a bit of spice now and again.....and hey I didn't mention grippy bits like paws. That is quite graphic imo.

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blithedance · 09/07/2009 10:01

Klaxon?

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Slubberdegullion · 09/07/2009 10:02

A flaxon sounds quite kinky. Or maybe it is a self inflating-rolls up quite small waterproof klaxon

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troutpout · 09/07/2009 10:05

Thats the one
klaxon
I knew that looked wrong

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chevre · 09/07/2009 10:13

i must admitt i no longer sleep on my thermarest but i can't bear to part with it.

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chevre · 09/07/2009 10:14

loving slubbers sex tour of australia!

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Slubberdegullion · 09/07/2009 10:28

ahem

Just to put the record straight here, it was not a sex tour of Australia with thermarests, it was a tour of Australia with thermarests FULL STOP. dh (then dp) and I had perfectly natural pre-marital congress upon them, that was well supported and did not leave you with sore boney bits digging in.

I do not wish to sully the maginificent name of thermarests with a sex smear. They will not turn you into a nymphomaniac.

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MaryMotherOfCheeses · 09/07/2009 20:25

Good lord. I go to work and leave you lot to it and the talk turns to sex again.

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Slubberdegullion · 09/07/2009 20:49

MMOC I would absolutely work with the sex angle

And they roll up really small and are super warm. An excellent camping investment imo.

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kathyis6incheshigh · 09/07/2009 20:51

Does the presence of the children three feet away separated only by a thin sheet of nylon not inhibit the sex a trifle? Only asking.

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Slubberdegullion · 09/07/2009 20:58

lol

weeeeeell

you have to be a bit less, um, energetic.

Gawd I am talking out of my arse. The most exciting thing of a nightime in our tent is a slightly naughty chocolate hob nob eaten by head torch light with simultaneous foot-warming by hot water bottle in sleeping bag.

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MaryMotherOfCheeses · 09/07/2009 21:01

Kathy, that's why we've got a vis a vis tent.

And frankly, Dagenham Girl Pipers could march through DS's bedroom and he'd sleep through it.

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Nappyzoneisabeetrootrunner · 09/07/2009 21:01

slubber is chocolate hob nob eating what i think it is - ooop north we call it a blow job

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Slubberdegullion · 09/07/2009 21:09

Well I'm up North and would never refer to it as such.

I'm having a nice cup of decaf tea here fgs.

I think that was the first time EVER that the bj word has been uttered on a camping thread.

tsk

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kathyis6incheshigh · 09/07/2009 21:12

I must say I like the idea of blow job with simultaneous hot-water bottle foot warming. Or does that have a secret meaning as well?

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