Denali Camper Deluxe Mat

Im overall happy with the product. There comfortable I've had 2 for about 5-6 years now. They have both cracked at the plastic sounding the valve, but after sicaflexing them back together they have been good since. Not sure if that a tick for Sica or Denali.

Bad bad bad really bad – Expensive and will last you 2 campings Will never get again this beand

Never seen an air mattress with so many hard to trace pinhole leaks – I have one of these losing air slowly. By dunking it patiently I find at least 3 tiny leaks, possible more running along creases and three whole areas I've marked with a texta as leak areas. Totally shoddy compared with the Thermarests I have had and used for decades ... I'll stick with Thermarest. Lifetime warranty on those.

Lasted for 25 months – 2 tear warranty and then one month later valve is leaking. Denali valves do not seem to have any way of being repaired. They also do not seem to have any customer facing capacity - no way of contacting them. The retailer will not honour warranty given it is out by one one month. I think this is simply a two year throw away object Show details

Comfortable but could use better quality – My wife and I bought two for a trip to PNG. We used both for around 200 nights this past year so we got our moneys worth even from the one that broke. One started leaking air shortly after we bought it. It would hold air for 1 night, just not 2. The leaky one eventually came apart between the inner and outer layer rendering it totally… Read more

unusable. The second is still going strong. Very comfortable to sleep on, much better than the brief in store test that I gave one model cheaper. I'd take a chance on these again just not at full price.

I have been sleeping on them every night for ~4 years or so – I had to go into hospital for some significant surgery about 4 years ago and I found the laying in bed all day on the old orthopedic mattress, well when you can't toss and turn - you soon find the thinning spring cover, lets the wire underneath, make it's presences felt.... so the old queen size mattress was too much of size and weight to wrestle… Read more

down the stairs, I skun the mattress (knife), then cut the wire inner up (bolt cutters and angle grinder cutting disk) and took it out in pieces.

I needed to replaced the $1800 - $2200 new price queen size orthopedic mattress, but with the mattress retailers, their pricing and generally poor service, and me knowing both how to make them and what is on the market from the manufacturers, and the sales people not having any idea of the range the manufacturers produced (very salty phone fights)., that along with the idea of wrestling a BIG queen size mattress up the stairs etc.,

Since the queen size mattress was around 20 cm thick, and the Denarli Royale's coming in at 9cm thick I just said bugger it...and got ONE then TWO and thought, this is pretty awesome and then splashed out for four of them.

With 4 of these Denarli self inflating camping mattress's in a one on top of another, and 2 side by side, configuration in a box frame retainer on a slat base, with a 50mm thick memory foam over lay or topper.

That made a mattress that was incredibly firm and the best bed I have ever slept in. And for those with damaged backs - depending upon what goes well with you, I like them to be very firm with a little sinkage, around the shoulders and hips, so my spine stays nearly straight when laying on my side...

The memory foam overlay - pure luxury and a very good nights sleep....

Not waking up sore and crippled.

It did have one drawback though - it is such a comfortable bed, I call it a death bed.... as you really can stay in it for months at a time..... One particularly cold winter I stayed in it non stop for 3 months... which is really bad for your circulation and muscles.... but it was SO comfortable.

AND they are SO warm in winter....... 3*C and one blanket and sheet over the top, and laying there like golden toast popping out of a toaster.

But in summer, you need some woollen blankets under you to allow breathing

See designing good gear is a compromise - the better it gets, the less compromises.

Like a 4WD racing buggy for the mountain roads, and dirt trails etc., doesn't go very well down a 400 meter drag racing strip - but a top fuel drag racing car, does not go very well on dirt tracks and mountain roads at all.

E.g.

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So when designing any mattress, one has to consider a number of issues - where is it going to be used, on a frame at home or when camping on cold hard ground when hiking...

When hiking weight, volume and REASONABLE comfort are necessary.

But this mattress is more for a combination of portability AND because of it's rolled up size and weight, it's VERY comfortable but - it's more for camping, at a semi-stationary location, and with a vehicle to carry it.

It's a very good level of comfort AND it's no where near as hard to carry around as a proper bed mattress, nor does it take up as much space.

This is the area of compromise.

I think the mattress's are brilliant, and I have never had any problems with them ever - and I sleep on them 7 nights a week, every week for 4 years.

But the compromise issues are like so - ALL most all inflatable devices leak - from tyres, to plastic bread bags - where molecules of air or water seep through them.

IF the mattresses were made of almost impermeable material, then that would make the fabric cover thicker and heavier and bigger. If they were made to be extremely durable and indeed totally puncture resistant to thorns etc., then they would be much heavier. And if the fabric outer was meant to be infinitely flexible for a long time, then that would drive the costs way up and the fabric would become way thinner and more porous on a molecular scale.

So after 4 or maybe 5 years they tend to leak air on a molecular level and only stay up for a few nights, and then the valves must be opened to allow more air in.

But this slow degredation has been developing after getting in and out of my bed 5 or 6 times a day - on my hands and knees.... Which is a fairly extreme form of flexing. The fabric has never torn and the inner foam is still intact, but the fabric has been exposed to stresses like tension and flexing that are pretty hard going.

If I give them a quick flick of the valves and allow them to reinflate every few days, I might be able to get another 6 months to a year out of them until the outer material simply wears out in a major way, and all the air in the foam escapes as soon as you lay on them....

With one mattress laid on top of another with memory foam over that (and two lots of this) - as a replacement for a proper queen size mattress - well one half of the bed has worn out and this set up means I get an excellent and "very firm" mattress, and it's lasted a long time... And now after 4 or 5 years of daily use, I will replace the two mattress's in the worn out side, and use the hardly used side in the mean time.

So yeah I recommend them.... Absolutely. As a camping mattress for a tourer in a 4WD, or a caravan, or on a motorcycle with a lay down bed in the trailer, or a car with a tent and a need for a decent THICK durable and very firm mattress - fantastic.

Piece of junk! – I kid you not, this is a piece of expensive crap. I looked after mine, always made sure it was left unrolled with the vents open while not in use. The glue on the seam all around the edge is coming undone so of course it won't hold inflation when sleeping on it. I've also had Denali boots fail with the adhesive they use at a very early age. Never… Read more

again will I buy any product with Denali written on it. This brand reeks of a cheap Chinese manufacturer that doesn't product test their own items but charge western prices. Avoid.

Worked for a while then leaked, no warranty support – I have owned many camping mats and when I was younger I used to camp quite a lot. So I have repaired my old Thermarest camping mat a few times and I know that it's normal for a mat to occasionally develop a leak. As I decided I wanted more comfort I purchased this mat which is thicker while still being self-inflating. It is fairly bulky but not… Read more

out of proportion for its comfort level. It is a comfortable mat to sleep on when it stays inflated.

However after a number of years of relatively light use, it started leaking from the base of the mat. When I put it in the bath to find the hole, I found what appeared to be multiple small holes in several places. They were numerous enough that it didn't seem worth trying to repair it.

I rang Anaconda and they helpfully suggested I bring it in for assessment. That was good so far. After it had been with them for a week, they rang to say they hadn't been able to find my purchase on their system, and that unless I could produce a receipt they wouldn't be able to process any return or warranty claim. This isn't entirely unreasonable, but Denali is a house brand and they admitted it looked like a manufacturing defect - "depending on how old it is" - was their caveat. Unfortunately I don't have the original receipt, so I'm not really sure how old it is, but it is in excellent condition and has been slept on perhaps 30 times. If you can buy one of these mats on special then it might be OK value, but I wouldn't buy one again and gamble on its quality.