Eurohike inflatable matress

[Tengu]

Yet another car boot item

£2.50

complete with bag and repair kit...

This is a great bit of kit, each section inflates separatly, so you have lots of breaks from blowing.

I thought it would be a pig to deflate and repack, but nothing could be easier.

What do you think of these Eurohike products? I used to think they were bargain basement cheap goods, but the items I have seen seem to be fairly decent

 

[sxmolloy]

I have a couple I bought new and I have to say they are good. I was looking at a Therm-a-rest but the wallet couldn't handle it so I went with these.

They pack down smaller than a Therm-a-rest and are relatively light, so I like them. I have used mine a few times and have had no problems so far.

IIRC I paid £10 each for mine, I also use a Eurohike 20l rucksack on a daily basis and that is spot on. I have recently bought a Eurohike ground sheet to go under my tarp and that seems to be of good making, so I have no quarms about their gear.

ATB....Stu

 

[RAPPLEBY2000]

eurohiek is the lower quality end of the market but some of their gear works well and for years, look after it and it should last you a while.

 

[rik_uk3]

Bushcraft, like other hobbies and pastimes can get prone to "lablel buying", just because something is expensive, does not make it the best for you. I use the Argos self inflating matress, £14.99, full length and very good, the Gelert Trangia 25 clone is also very good and half the price at £24.99 (the metal is lighter, but will stand a lot of use), cheap Hong Kong 5 LED head torch at well less than £5 with delivery and working fine a couple of years later, the list goes on. If, like me, your trips are only a few a year, is it worth spending loads of dosh on something that will realistically see not weeks of use per year? No problem spending the money on a longer term bit of kit like a good tent or stove, but if I spent lets say £30 on a head torch, it would work out costing me £1 a night plus batteries over a year and I'm too tight to spend that, and for me equates to bad value for money.

Look at the bit of kit you want, and ask yourself "is it worth the money for what I will use it for" and "are there alternatives".

 

[Big Steve]

I used to buy expensive tents as I spent alot of my time living in them in the Middle East in my job, but switched to Eurohike tents very quickly after the discovering that, in just 30 days, the Jordanian summer sun had turned the nylon flysheet of my £300+ The North Face tent into rice paper that I could simply push my finger through. Since then, I have used the basic 2-man Eurohike geodesic dome 'festival' tent all over the world, carried on my back or on my bike, without any problems or leaks and when it eventually fails after a couple of years use, I simply replace it for about £50 (or even less with the discount for being a YHA member at Millets!), using the old one for spares (poles, pegs, clips etc) and any good nylon from the flysheet for home-made stuff sacks.

Eurohike tents rule!