{ "id": "extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad", "sku": "extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad", "title": "Extra Thick Camping Sleeping Pad with Built-In Foot Pump and Pillow", "slug": "extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad", "price": 73.99, "currency": "GBP", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "sleeping-gear", "category_label": "Sleeping Bags, Mats & Pillows", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": "850 g", "images": [ "https://campingcompany.co.uk/dropship-images/sleeping-gear/extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad/main-extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad.jpg", "https://campingcompany.co.uk/dropship-images/sleeping-gear/extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad/extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad-2.jpg", "https://campingcompany.co.uk/dropship-images/sleeping-gear/extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad/extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad-3.jpg", "https://campingcompany.co.uk/dropship-images/sleeping-gear/extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad/extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad-4.jpg", "https://campingcompany.co.uk/dropship-images/sleeping-gear/extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad/extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad-5.jpg", "https://campingcompany.co.uk/dropship-images/sleeping-gear/extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad/extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad-6.jpg", "https://campingcompany.co.uk/dropship-images/sleeping-gear/extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad/extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad-7.jpg" ], "description_short": "A 9.9 cm nylon air mattress with a built-in foot pump, an attached pillow, side snaps for joining two pads together, and a 199.58 kg weight rating.", "description": "The real reason you sleep badly in a tent\n\nMost people blame the tent, the noise, or the unfamiliar surroundings. Usually it is the ground.\n\nSoil, sand and grass look soft. Under a 70 kg body they are not. Your hip and shoulder carry the bulk of your weight when you sleep on your side, and those two points press straight through a thin mat into compacted dirt. You wake up, roll over, press the other hip into the ground, and repeat that cycle until the sun comes up. By breakfast you have technically been in bed eight hours and slept maybe four.\n\nThe ground also steals heat. Dirt conducts warmth away from your body far faster than air does, which is why you can be in a warm sleeping bag and still feel cold along your back. A sleeping bag's insulation gets crushed flat underneath you, so it does almost nothing on that side. The job of putting a layer between you and the earth belongs to the pad, not the bag.\n\nThat is the whole purpose of a thick camping sleeping pad. It is not a luxury item. It is the difference between enjoying day two of a trip and counting down the hours until you can go home.\n\nHow an inflatable camping mat works\n\nAn inflatable pad is a sealed chamber of fabric holding a volume of air. When you lie on it, the air redistributes under your pressure points instead of resisting them. Your hip sinks a little, the air moves sideways, and the load spreads across a wider area. That is why 9.9 cm of air feels dramatically different from 2 cm of closed-cell foam, even though both are described as a sleeping mat.\n\nThe two things that matter most are depth and firmness. Depth sets your ceiling: you cannot sink further than the pad is thick, so a thin pad bottoms out quickly for heavier sleepers and side sleepers. This one inflates to 9.9 cm, which gives you real room to settle before you reach the ground.\n\nFirmness is yours to set. Fully inflated, the pad is supportive and a touch bouncy. Let out a small amount of air and it gets plusher and contours more. Most people land on roughly ninety percent full after a couple of nights of experimenting. There is no correct answer, only the one your body prefers.\n\nThe built-in pump, and why it matters more than you think\n\nInflating a pad sounds trivial until you are doing it at the end of a long day. You have driven four hours, pitched a tent in fading light, and now you are kneeling on cold ground blowing into a valve, getting lightheaded, with the pad nowhere near full.\n\nThis pad has a foot pump built into it. You stand up, put your foot on the pump section, and press. The pad fills while you are upright, in the dark, with your hands free to hold a torch. No separate pump to carry, nothing to charge, nothing to go flat.\n\nThere is a quieter benefit too. Breath carries moisture. Mouth-inflating an air pad over a whole season puts a surprising amount of damp into the chamber, and damp inside a sealed space leads to smells and, eventually, mould. A foot pump pushes in dry ambient air instead. Over a few seasons that keeps the inside of the pad in much better shape.\n\nWidth, length and the snap-together trick\n\nInflated, this pad measures 195.8 cm long and 68.8 cm wide. That length covers most adults with room to spare. The width is generous for a single pad, so you are not balancing on a narrow strip and waking up with one arm off the edge.\n\nThe more interesting feature is the row of snaps along each side. Two pads clip together into one continuous surface. This solves an old camping annoyance: two separate mats inevitably drift apart in the night, leaving a cold gap right where two people are trying to share warmth. Clipped together, they behave like a single bed.\n\nIf you camp as a couple, or you have a kid who migrates across the tent at 3 am, buying two and snapping them is a better answer than hunting for the best double camping sleeping pad as a single unit. You also keep the flexibility of two separate pads when you travel alone.\n\nBefore you commit to a pair, measure your tent floor. Two pads side by side need close to 138 cm of clear width, which most three-person and larger tents handle but some two-person tents do not.\n\nWeight, packing and where it fits in your kit\n\nThe pad weighs 850 g and packs into a compact roll. That puts it in a useful middle ground. It is not the lightest thing a gram-counting thru-hiker would carry, but it is far lighter and smaller than a traditional airbed, and the comfort gain over a thin foam mat is substantial.\n\nFor car camping and van trips, weight barely registers and you simply get a better night's sleep. For festivals, it slides into a backpack and makes a tent genuinely liveable for three days. For weekend walks, 850 g is a reasonable trade for actually sleeping. If you are assembling a kit around the best lightweight camping pad you can find, weigh the gram count against how you feel on the second morning.\n\nA quick note on packing. Roll from the far end toward the open valve, slowly and evenly, keeping the roll tight. Scrunching traps air and leaves you with a lumpy bundle that will not fit its bag. Two slow rolls beat one fast one every time.\n\nWho this suits, and who should look elsewhere\n\nThis pad fits most campers well. Side sleepers benefit from the depth. Adults up to the stated 199.58 kg capacity are covered. It serves tent campers, van travellers, festival goers, people doing hut-to-hut walks, and anyone who needs an occasional spare bed at home.\n\nTwo groups should think harder. Dedicated winter campers need a specified R-value to judge cold-weather performance, and that figure is not given in this record, so plan on adding a closed-cell foam mat underneath for snow or hard frost. Extreme ultralight hikers chasing sub-400 g setups will want something more specialised, accepting less comfort in return.\n\nEveryone else is well served. Nylon construction, two layers, water resistant, with an attached pillow so there is one fewer item to pack and lose.\n\nLooking after it\n\nCare is simple and mostly about habit. Clear the tent floor before you lay the pad down, because one sharp stone under full body weight is how most pads die. A groundsheet is cheap insurance on rocky sites.\n\nCleaning is hand wash only. Wipe the nylon with a damp cloth and mild soap, wipe again with clean water, and let it dry completely before it goes away. Packing a damp pad is the fastest route to a musty smell you cannot get rid of.\n\nFor storage between trips, resist the urge to keep it crushed in its smallest bundle for months. Loosely rolled, or flat with the valve open, is kinder to the fabric and the seams. Keep it out of hot cars and direct sun.\n\nIf you do get a puncture, it is usually fixable. Inflate the pad, listen and feel along the surface for escaping air, mark the spot, clean and dry it, then apply a patch and give it time to cure before the next trip.\n\nThe short version\n\nThin mats do not work because the ground is harder than it looks. This pad gives you 9.9 cm of air, a foot pump so you are not blowing it up in the dark, a pillow that is already attached, and snaps so two pads become one bed. It weighs 850 g, packs small, and holds up to 199.58 kg.\n\nIf you camp a few times a year and keep waking up sore, this is the piece of kit that changes that.", "llm_summary": "The AKSOUL extra thick camping sleeping pad is an inflatable nylon air mattress measuring 195.8 x 68.8 x 9.9 cm when inflated and weighing 850 g. It uses a built-in foot pump for inflation and includes an attached pillow. Construction is two-layer nylon with air fill, rated water resistant, with a plush firmness and a stated weight capacity of 199.58 kg (440 lb). Side snaps allow two pads to be connected into a wider double surface. Listed size is Double, colour is blue and grey, model number sleeping mat peacock blue, manufacturer part number 03. Care is hand wash only. Country of origin and GTIN are not specified in this record.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "Voluntary 14-day change-of-mind returns in original condition, buyer pays return postage; Consumer Rights Act 2015 consumer guarantees for faulty goods. Return postage on faulty goods is ours.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Camping Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://campingcompany.co.uk/extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad/", "canonical_url": "https://campingcompany.co.uk/extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad/", "json_url": "https://campingcompany.co.uk/api/products/extra-thick-camping-sleeping-pad.json", "updated_at": "2026-10-11" }