Non camp-inn mattress

My teardrop doesn't come with a mattress, so I'm looking at 4" memory foam ones at different places...like Walmart. It looks like the Camp-Inn is two inches shorter and narrower than a standard queen? Do I just cram a regular sized queen mattress in there? Does anyone have any recommendations?

 

Hi, Brett. I believe the CI bed is a standard queen. After a little trial and error, we are using a queen mattress from Walmart, and like it a lot. This one is a total of 4" thick, composed of 2" of base foam and 2" of memory foam.

We live down the road in Santa Fe, NM. Maybe we can camp together in CO next summer!

 

Thanks! That's exactly the mattress I was looking at. It gets great reviews online.

And camping sounds great!

Brett

 

It would be interesting to see what others' general impressions are about the CI provided mattress. What do you current TD owners have to say about this?

 

My 560 came with both the CI mattress and a 1-2" memory foam topper that Mike & Carol put in. I have not taken out the foam topper and just tried the CI mattress so I can't comment.

However, the combination of that 2 mattresses are extremely comfortable. It is as good as my regular bed.

The CI mattress is more dense than the memory foam so it is supportive.

This seems to be a great setup for us. Had we ordered new, I was planning on getting a memory foam topper so having it already there was a nice bonus.

 

From my understanding the new mattresses for the CampInns are two sided. One side is firmer than the other. I was told there was some white stitching to show which side was up, and when I looked at my mattress there was no white stitching, so I think this must have been added after 2010.

We have added a 2" memory foam which works well in the summer. The CampInn mattress is quite firm and that gives a little cushion (everyone have varying degrees of firmness they like, and is like it a bit softer). The downside to memory foam is it gets really hard when it is cold, so it is something to consider. Some folks use a feather bed on theirs, which I have considered changing out to.

 

Sarah,

It is not white stitching to look for. There is a small white X drawn on one end of the mattress. The X is biased towards the soft side of the mattress.


Brett,

Sarah brought up a good point many of our customers have run into. Memory foam mattresses tend to be too temperature sensitive when used in a camper. In cooler weather they get pretty dang firm. Like Sarah said, hers works great in the summer.

Cary

 

Thanks Cary! That's a good point about getting cold, I don't know how much cold camping we'll do but it's something to consider.

The down idea is a good one. Is a four inch down mattress going to be too soft? I don't want to feel like I'm sleeping in the floor with a quilt under me....?

 

I have the ci mattress, but like others have added a topper:http://www.campinnforum.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=20139&page=1

I like the wool topper, and yes I used it in summer, too.

 

Cary,

When did CampInn start doing that? I have searched my mattress and couldn't find one.

Thanks!

 

Sarah,

Ever since the mattress was changed to the composite two density construction. Can't remember when we made that change, 2008 maybe?

The way to tell would be to un-velcro the end of the mattress a little and peak at the end of the foam inside. The newer ones have two distinct layers of foam and the older ones have one single layer.

Cary



Cary

 

We added a 2 inch latex topper to our CI mattress and it is perfect. In fact it was so comfortable in the TD that when we came home after a month-long trip we could not sleep on the mattress we had on our bed! So now we have latex in both places )

 

We use the standard mattress with a foam topper from Costco. For those, like us, who found their queen-size topper a bit wide, an electric knife (ours is Black & Decker) makes quick, neat work of cutting the foam down to the correct size.

 

I ordered this mattress topper for my trailer:

http://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Joy-Vi...p/B000LQD88E/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8

It fits the mattress without cutting. I have a wool mattress pad on top of it and then my sheets. I have camped when it got in the 20 degree range. While the topper did get 'harder' it was not uncomfortable to sleep on.

 

Searched for the small white X also - could not find it. Opened the Velcro & found two layers of foam - YELLOW and BLUE - which one is soft or firm?

TOWBERT
2015 560 SUV Ultra #720

 

Searched for the small white X also - could not find it. Opened the Velcro & found two layers of foam - YELLOW and BLUE - which one is soft or firm?

TOWBERT
2015 560 SUV Ultra #720

 

TOWBERT,

My white x is where the Velcro is. I opened the cover and the white x is over the BLUE layer.

 

Joan has that correct. Blue is the soft side. The X should correspond with the blue side.

Cary