ALDI Adventureridge Air Mattress

Purchased for a sleepout during this fine weather spell. Inflation was straightforward. The hissing of air being ingested was positive. On locking the valve there was a good half inch of cushion to lay on. And that's where the positives end. A couple of minutes of laying down and you may as well be laying on the three fivers you just handed over… Read more

for it. Almost instantaneous deflation. No obvious damage, more than likely variance in manufacture. A lucky dip in the centre isle. Leave well alone.

I bought this for when I was travelling and for exercising. It was good for the exercising, but after sleeping on it for a couple for about a week it began leaking air during the night, and I would have to keep opening the valve to self inflate it, sometimes several times during the night. If I didn't it was as if I had no mattress at all. I… Read more

think its good for occasional use where you are not on it for hours on end, like sleeping, not for constant use.

I have four air mattresses and when last used they were very good. I have lost the screw caps for all 4 mattresses, where can I purchase the screw caps. Show details ·  1

ALDI Adventureridge Air Mattress - Single bed – Used once a couple of months ago and worked OK for the 2 nights it was used. Stored it in it's original box until needed again. Got it out the other night and pump would not work at all. Ended up using the other outlet and an air pump to inflate it. By morning it was totally flat. I would not recommend this air bed to anyone, Waste of money. Shame I don't still have the receipt. Show details

Didn’t last one night – Purchased 7/1/2023 for around $39 for a queen size as I remembered thinking Big W was cheaper.. Opened it last night to use as extra bedding in our van and annexe and woke up 5hrs later with my back on the hard floor. Still have another 3 nights down the coast so have to buy another brand. Have my credit card details of the purchase but who knows where the grocery receipt is now? Doubt Aldi will refund. Avoid at all costs.

Didn’t last one night – Bought a single mattress for a guest to stay a few nights at our home. It was used once, inside and did not have sharp objects near it. The first night they ended up touching the floor as so much air came out of it so we needed to sort out alternative bedding for the rest of the stay. We didn’t keep the receipt so it’s unfortunately a landfill issue now. Show details

A recipe for disaster – Look I’ve been using air mattresses as a personal bed for the last year. I have developed a sense to spot a good air mattress just by looking at it. It all started at KMART, I tried the Queen size the first time and it was amazing. Amazing until it blew up one Saturday without giving me any notice. Then came the King size with an integrated… Read more

electric air pump. It was more comfortable, the issue was its life span. It started leaking after 5 nights!!! Of course no warranty whatsoever (that is what I got told at the counter anyways, no good when we talk top of the range products).

I had read some people reviews reporting this issue but I wanted to try “The Mattress”. I was a bit dissapointed to be honest, I paid over $80 for it, which roughly cost me $15 a night. After spending big on the King I decided to be down to earth and bought the Single size this time, which up to date has been the more reliable, lasting an impressive 3 months, zero leaks. I had great sleeps and long siestas on it. Everynow and then and specially at the 2-week mark, I had nightmares where the Single bed would be leaking, but it was just that, a nightmare. The dog kept delivering a good performance. After 3 months, one Sunday at 7am, one of the edges just under my head decided to cut open and all the air dissapeared, spraying my face with dirty air, also waking me up and giving me a heart attack.

Note how amazing the Single air mattress was that it blew up just 3 days prior Aldi releasing their new Air mattresses collection with incorporated foot air pump. I slept at my friend’s bed those three nights and proceeded to head to Aldi to get the “Premium Air Mattress designed in Germany with pork mit kartoffen technology”. Two nights in and I started having bad sleeps, my back was sore, I could not sleep for more than 2 hours straight. I ended up going to the couch. Unfortunately, at the time of this post, KMART’s single air mattress bed is sold out at my local shop.

So here are my five cents about this product and the reason I am giving it only 1 star.

I would like to see Aldi working together with their german fellow Mercedes-Benz, sharing their both technology to create a reliable and comfortable product, the AMG air mattress.

We will see what future unfolds.

Kind regards

CHEAP PVC DETERIORATES AND TEARS AT WELDED SEAMS – I LOVE ALDI - I'm a loyal customer & have purchased some great quality/value products from Aldi over the years - amazing quality for price - but every now and then they sell total crap - like these air beds. DESCRIPTION These are a single flocked blue vinyl (PVC) camping mattress - I think they are branded AdventureRidge like most of their… Read more

camping gear. I bought 2 of these in 2019 - one with a built in pillow and foot pump, the other without the built in pump or pillow section. They were good for about 18 months (3 camping trips of approximately 1 week each) but they only lasted this long because i patched them after tiny tears appeared around the welded air pockets/dimples in the fabric. I recall getting a tear in my new mattress on the first camping trip (my partners one was OK but she weighs 60 kilos, I weighed 100+) so I patched it up easily enough. But this problem got way out of control on subsequent trips with many more patches required.

PRICE: about $25-$30 each if I recall correctly.

QUALITY / LONGEVITY OF MATERIAL (PVC) There are many reviews of Aldi Airbeds - and some are great. I would have rated these mattresses as GREAT after the first use - comfortable and reasonably air-tight but due to initial stretching they lost 20% pressure. But they simply do not last. Camping mattresses use a very thin SINGLE LAYER PVC material to keep the beds compact and light for camping, as opposed to non-camping varieties. That also explains different reviews. At this price point air mattresses use recycled PVC (not virgin PVC which comes at a premium price). This material degrades (oxidises) over time and it also stretches with each use until there is less give in the material and it tears. You could say that the life of an air mattress is measured by time and the number of inflations. These Aldi camping mattresses are good for a couple of uses - you get what you pay for. Kmart or BigW sell a cheap single air mattress for about $10. Don't be foolish and expect them to be good for more than 1 camping trip - if you weigh more than a child. The PVC used in the Aldi ones was so thin that in a hot tent the material softens and stretches like a crepe. I weigh 100+ kilos. These mattresses are not rated for weight but I reckon 80 kilos max.

WHERE THEY RIPPED. My Aldi air mattresses didn't suffer punctures - I put Aldi's interlocking EVA mats under them as well as double groundsheets under our tent base. I stored them very carefully and NEVER slept on them with buttons or my watch or anything that could press into the fabric. I NEVER over-inflated them since my trusty ALDI rechargeable air-bed pump (great product) hasn't got the pressure to over-inflate.

Eventually both airbeds started ripping/tearing at the welded seams around the air pockets on both the smooth underside and the flocked side - in about 6 places on each bed. On the 2nd and 3rd camping trips (without my partner) I took her Adventure Ridge mattress as a spare (with the built in pump/pillow) and it didn't fare any better. I took a vinyl repair kit with me. After many traumatic nights on a hard uneven tent floor (after my airbeds deflated) I would spend the following day patching up tears. They had so many patches I eventually trashed them. It reached a point (age of the material) when every night a new tear would appear - always around a welded pocket seam but never at the seam around the edge of the beds. The heat-welded seams for the internal air pockets (the circular dimples) are brittle and after so may inflations the surrounding material thins out and rips along the welds.

CONCLUSION. Not worth buying Aldi camping air mattresses. Go for a high quality thicker walled air mattress preferably multiple layers containing virgin (non-recycled) PVC . Expect to pay around 5 - 6 times more, assuming you can find one (I can't). If an air bed is super light and compact its likely not worth buying. A thick, high density closed cell polyurethane or EVA foam mattress would be better (can't deflate) but they are too bulky rolled up in a small car to take camping (especially a double/queen size). PS. We also bought an Intex queen sized air-mattress 10 years ago - used it only 3 times but recently it has also started to tear on the pocket welds after we took it out of long storage. ( 2 repair patches so far). Not as bad as these Aldi single mattresses. Most air mattresses in low to mid price range are cheap chinese junk made from impure/recycled PVC and designed to last for limited inflations, especially if you weigh more than a child. Aldi's product is no exception. Maybe you get what you pay for ... but what you really get is a ruined camping holiday and a very memorable experience. What price do you put on that? So be warned if you take your cheap air mattress out of storage and it starts to disintegrate.