Tasman Eco Eden Compact Cot

I’m so glad I purchased this compact cot for my bedroom, I’m 5ft1’ and lowering a baby over a standard cot rail when asleep is just not physically possible as they are too high. I use this cot, without the wheels and it is the perfect height for me to be able to lower baby without feeling that I will drop her or being unstable. She is now 12months… Read more

old and I’m sure she can stay on this cot for another 6months before needing to move. The mattress and cot are great quality, cot is sturdy with no squeaks and the mattress is firm but comfortable, the transition for bassinet went unnoticed. I can’t recommend this compact more highly, especially for those shorter mums

I thought I had seen everything. This rubbish plumbs new depths in flat packing – Assembly time. Fit the bottom rails first. Oh dear thats not very robust - nuts push fitted into MDF. Have to be super careful. 40 minutes of fiddling with the poor quality bolts and allan key, got bottom rails fitted. Then - unbeleivibly - strong gust of wind, got enough purchase on the end, and it blew over. That was enough for the other end… Read more

fall off as well. The nuts anchoring the rails in simply pulled out of the MDF - in a wind gust! It’s not like getting pieces of flatpack furniture to attach to each other is unknown technology. Why they resorted to this entirely inadequate method is beyond credence. Absolutely unfit for purpose. Now a very large volume of packaging and several hundred dollars of useless MDF to be taken to the tip.

Nice looking cot, good size, terrible design and comfort – We were looking for a compact cot for our smaller bedroom, to move bub to after she starting growing too large for her bassinet. The Tasman Eco Eden unit looked about right sized, at around 1100 long and 550 wide (shes got a larger cot in her room for when past 12 months). We also liked the look of the unit, with the closed front and back panels… Read more

meaning less light in the cot and less places for little hands and feet to get stuck, but still plenty of good airflow. The cot was reasonably priced, but did take a little longer than hoped for delilvery, but otherwise so far so good. Then came time to assemble this nightmare and this is where I have to wonder if the designers were children themselves or in some other way distracted or just plain unaware of basic design principles! All bolts etc, are almost completely impossible to screw in properly, without using the allen key and making quarter turns at time. Insane - worst kind of flat pack I've ever encountered. Every opportunity to make this difficult to assemble has been taken, and no screw driver or ratchet bit driver, etc can fit to get it together.

It's also got something like 30 bolts for hte slats, but only 4 to support the whole slat assembly being fitted to the frame. I feel almost terrified to have the baby in there under what seems like such underwhelming support (especially given how difficult it is to assemble anyway). Now dreading reassembling to lower the base in a few weeks/months when bub can sit up and it needs a lower setting. My other larger cot has bolts accessible from the outside, and is easy to tighten, maintain, etc.

Unfortunately, issues don't stop there though. The next major issue is comfort. Whilst we understand the need for a firm mattress, this particular foam mattress feels more like styrofoam level still - it has an unpleasant stiff spongey feel, completely unlike any of her bassinet mattresses or the other cot mattress (an ikea standard size and decent mattress). I've tried to break it in and soften it a touch, but its very unforgiving, and we're finding our baby gets uncomfortable half way through the night now and wants to come to our bed, despite never doing that with the bassinet up to 4-5 months (She's now 6 months). I'm looking for a replacement, even if I have to cut an ikea one down to fit. There was an innerspring option, but we'd read foam might be better - in this case it seems that might be off the mark.

All in all, one of our poorer purchases, and not impressed, given we generally like tasman eco stuff in past. Only getting two stars for the compact size and nice clean look, but definately have to suggest looking at other options.