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I've only had the mattress a short while but it does seem to be working well. It is made of plastic and may give me problems in the future but for this short time of ownership, I am very satisfied with the construction and craftsmanship. I love the fact that there is a built in electric air pump. It took a very short well to inflate and it is conveniently located at the end of the bed making it easy to hide once the mattress is inflated.

I can't say enough good things about this air bed. I purchased it for a bedroom that I really don't use for occasional guest. Everyone who has used it raved about what a good nights sleep they got. It's very large Queen size and high off the floor which is just what I wanted. I had a prior air mattress that I paid twice as much for that got a really large rip so I brought this one as a replacement. This one is so much better. I would highly recommend this mattress to anyone.

We had a crowd for Thanksgiving and needed an extra bed. My husband and I slept on this for two nights. It never leaked and stayed just as firm as we wanted. I would suggest a thick blanket or a mattress cover to put a barrier between you and the rubber-like bed.The second night we did this and it made a difference. Our granddaughters played on this during the day, and it held up perfectly.I don't think I would ever recommend a bed like this for an extremely long period, but for those times we need an extra bed, this was great. The price was excellent. Follow the easy directions, and you won't have air escaping issues. It was a nice level, no extra bending, a very nice height. Now we are ready for visitors whenever they come. Thank you.

I ended up getting two of these! These are sooooo comfy! It's difficult to remember you're laying on an air mattress. This mattress is very supportive yet soft. I slept like a baby every night and I'm a picky sleeper! The built in pump is genius! It's a breeze to set up and take down. The pump does all of the work both ways, it puts the air in, you slightly turn the little ring and then it will suck the air out for you as well! It blows up fast and comes down fast as well! LOVE IT! Just remember to add air into every night right before laying down to get the best comfort.

I was so excited to get this in time to go to camp and delivery was super fast .. It fills up quickly and the pump has reverse on it to suck all the air out again. Because all the air is sucked out, it is way easier to fold and store in the handy carry bag. This mattress is 22" from floor to the top of the mattress and that made getting up and out of the bed amazingly simple. I loved that feature. Sheets stayed in place nicely and most of all, it was comfortable. My next purchase will be the king size as my sweetie and I enjoy the extra space a king size affords. The other good thing about this mattress was the price. Around $54 as I recall and worth every penny. Intex makes a great product and I would recommend it to anyone who needs a comfortable place to sleep.

FANTASTIC! I would rate this item as one of the best products I have ever bought! We opted to buy an airbed for our spare room after my daughter rated the (new) futon we had in there was extremely uncomfortable to sleep on. The Intex Comfort Plush Elevated Dura-Beam Airbed is PERFECT! We have already had another guest staying with us who was the first to use it and after her 10 day stay she gave it two thumbs up.It was easy and quick to inflate. VERY comfortable and the best part was the price - $55! Where can you buy a Queen Bed for that price? my final words are; if you are thinking of buying an airbed you can't go wrong buying this one. We LOVE ours!

Good air mattress for home or for camping. Can fit two adults comfortably. It's completely firm. Holds air throughout the night. The only issue we have with this product is although the mattress has a soft top it tends to get cold during the night. Cold in a way that removes your natural body heat and you begin to freeze. Any family member or friend who used this mattress experienced the same problem. However, we solved this issue by placing 3 thin quilt blankets below the sheet.

I like the comfort of this bed but I wish it had the option to constantly add air as needed like my old one did. I am a travel nurse and this is my main bed. As long as I keep the air full in this bed my back feels great in the morning. It is very cold to lie on however, I have 3 blankets on it to keep the cold away. I have to add air to it every 3 days I would estimate, not much but just enough to make it a hassle.

I'd say go for it. It is a good quality air bed. Be advised that you cannot really make it softer by simply deflating it. It is just firm with less air. It is a firm air bed, but is worth the money of you need a temporary bed. I have had it set up for a week now and it has not leaked, which is impressive. My dog had jumped up on there a few times and has not punctured it. All in all, I recommend it. I am not giving it 5 stars simply because I haven't anything else to compare it to.

I like this air mattress a lot, but with a caveat. We bought it because we recently moved to San Diego and, surprise surprise, all of a sudden everyone wants to visit us! (Can't blame them.)First, we had a couple sleep on the mattress for one night for its inaugural test, and they reported great comfort and no deflation. Fantastic! Second, one friend stayed two nights, with the same report--no deflation, very comfortable.Third, my husband's sister stayed with us for two nights, and after the first night, said she woke up in a mattress burrito, so moved to the couch. My husband had inflated the mattress this time, so I reminded him that to check that the knob was securely locked on the "inflate" side. He said he had done so, but said I should try doing it the second night since I'd had three successful inflations under my belt at this point. I did it that second night and she still ended up in a "mattress hammock" as she so kindly put it. What a bummer! After she left, we inflated it again and left it in the living room to see what happened. It seemed to hold its shape, but once we lay on it and watched some TV, we noticed it starting to deflate, and we tried our darndest to identify where the leak was coming from, but had no luck. No noise of air escaping (although we must have looked really odd crawling around the mattress with our ears to the vinyl), no feeling of air rushing out, so we couldn't patch the leak, either. We have guests coming this weekend and again in another few weeks, which really sad as the air mattress only lasted a total of three nights. Since I really, really like this mattress when it works correctly, I'm going to cross my fingers that it was defective, and order a new one (I didn't keep the packaging after the first successful usage because I figured we were good to go!) and if it eats my money again, then I'm going to have to return it (keeping the packaging this time!!) and take my business elsewhere. But let it not be said that I give up easily.

We ordered this as a makeshift arrangement for 2-3 days till our permanent mattress came in. And had planned to give it away to someone after use. We didn't want it for longer coz were scared that air bed might give us a backache. My husband is a stomach sleeper and I a back n side sleeper.Once opened, it takes around 5-7 minutes to properly inflate to its full capacity. Unexpectedly, this bed was so comfortable that we ended up sleeping on it for 3 weeks. We didnt open the other mattress and due to the comfort, we were in no hurry and hence the 3 days stretched to 3 weeks.I took one star away coz it loses its air and has to be refilled every 2-3 days depending on the use. And if you doesn't inflate again, one can get bodyache. So as long as the air is in, you will stay comfortable.Deflating it was also easy. And we have decided to keep it for any guests who might drop in. This is easy to store and install/ uninstall when needed. Happy with the product.Packaging was also good.

Based on many of the reviews, I was hesitant to buy this product. It was either loved or hated. Many claimed it leaked air during the night. But I liked the built in pump and the height off the ground, important for an elderly couple. We have slept on it for two nights so we don't have a long term report to make. But I found as the air mattress engineer of the family I found it compact and I like the storage pouch that came with it for travel or storage. The pump filled the mattress quickly and was easy to adjust the inflation. I filled it at first and then let it settle out. Then once it had stretched out and all chambers filled, I pumped it up to the firm mattress we like for our backs. The first night we did find that it leaked air getting more like a water bed. Not good. But I had myself to blame, not the product. I had not fully read the instructions. The mattress and pump has a knob that changes the direction of the pump. One way for filling and the other way for pump all the air out so that it becomes completely flat for easy folding and storage in the supplied pouch. If that knob is not either all the way one way or the other, it can let some air leak out. But if firmly to the right (clockwise) for filling, then we found the second night that the mattress did not leak at all and stayed fully inflated until I pumped the air out for storage. A standard Queen fitted sheet fits perfectly. At a full inflation, one sleeper did not wake up the other when getting out of bed for a toilet visit during the night. Better than many standard beds. With additional uses, I may well bump the rating up to 5 star if it continues to perform as it seemed to on the two nights we used it.

I've had various air mattresses over the years, all of them feeling incredibly uncomfortable. This one is more comfortable, but the air moves around like the water in a waterbed. My husband and I couldn't sleep very well because of these. We adjust the amount of air in it to try and make it more comfortable, but nothing helped. Thankfully we only needed to use it for three nights while waiting for our furniture to be delivered.

Was singing this air mattress's praises until out of no where it started losing air pressure. I was so happy with this bed for the first 45 days but it hasn't been a full 2 months yet and the bed loses air. I literally have to wake in the middle of the night to re inflate which is disruptive to my sleep & I'm sure my neighbor's as well when I turn the pump on. There has been no puncture or anything heavy on the bed to explain why this is happening. I use the bed at most 5hrs a nite during a 5 day work week. The bed until the last 3 weeks was perfect as it is the same height as a standard bed on a box spring and frame. It does require deep pocket King size sheets to fit the thickness of the queen mattress. Not sure how long air mattresses should last but I still think it was a good purchase vs the uncomfortable futon option I was using before.

I was so excited about this purchase, but it quickly disappointed. The first night we used it, it was ok, it deflated a little bit, but wasn't really that big of a deal. The second night we used it it completely folded in in the middle of the night, and we couldn't sleep on it. Now this could be because the house we stayed at they had a cat so it could have scratched it, but not too sure. I returned it anyway and got my money back.Worth it to buy, just don't use it around a cat!

I have had this air matress for a couple of months now. It came at the beginning of December. I liked it because it had an automatic pump, and was high off the ground. Only complaint at first was that it didn't seem to hold air for very long. That seemed to get better with a couple of uses. Just yesterday i started to hear a whistle that sounded like air leaking and sure enough, there was a leak in the seam of the mattress... VERY hard to patch. I ended up going to Walmart and getting a bike tire patch. I am hoping that this works. This bed has done it's job until now, I was just hoping it would be sturdier. If this does not work I will be buying a roll away.

Good value for the money, but trying to be the height of a regular bed causes two problems: No way to tuck in top sheet and blankets, and a far bigger problem, that's a lot of cold air to try to heat up with your body. I was cold and stiff trying to sleep on it and if I use it again I'll have to figure out a major insulative layer...but what to use? Maybe okay when I need an extra bed when guest come IN THE SUMMER and IN A FAR WARMER MORE HUMID CLIMATE. I had slept on one at a cousin's apartment in NYC on an August night and thought it fine, but the human body cannot heat this volume of air space.

UPDATED: 01/02/2017One of the inflatables does not hold up air anymore. I searched through and through for a whole but could not find any. It just won't stay up overnight and had to pump air into it every so often. A big disappointment as we have been very careful at using this, and only used it a few times.I was anxious ordering an airmattress online. I was also considering a more expensive airmattress at amazon before buying this one. I am so glad I bought this. It worked like a charm. Bought two queens for relatives who were staying over for two nights. This mattress stayed firm and did not deflated overnight. Love that the pump is included and the plug has it's own slot for you to tuck it in when done finlating the bed. Inflating and deflating has been so much easier than two other air mattresses we have owned. My husband who did not want to buy another air mattress again has been convinced that this one is an exception. He liked them and was glad I bought them too. The mattress look big once inflated, but it's actually just right once you set everything up (sheets and all). One of the mattresses held up pretty good even with a tempurpedic memory foam mattress on top (that weighed pretty heavy) . Our guests appreciated that it's raised, one of our guest had a bad knee and the height was just right for getting up without effort. It did not go floppy two nights straight. Deflating it was no problem, it did not take long. The bag fit the mattress just fine. It did not break or tear. You just need to follow the instruction on how to fold the mattress properly to fit in the bag. Overall, great buy for the price!! I'm glad that for the price of the other mattress I was considering, I was able to buy two of these instead. I am considering of buying another one for our guests' kids to keep everything at the same height.UPDATE:I just set them up again for incoming guests. I inflated one of the Intex queen sized mattresses and the lower navy colored one I got from Kmart in 2013 ( it's intext too but the cheaper one reference -https://amzn.com/B000HBILB2 ).I cannot tell you enough how much easier the process of inflating and setting up the Intex over the blue one from Kmart. The blue one from Kmart had a separate electric pump. I forgot how annoying, loud, and SLOW it was until after I inflated this. The Intext was so easy, it wasn't too loud. The Intex airmatress - you plug it in, turn it on and it inflates on it's own in less than five minutes. It's much higher than the Kmart one and the quality of the mattress is far superior than the one I got from Kmart. The entire matress has this velvety/felt all over it's body. Unlike the Kmart one where the body is literally plastic. It really makes you feel like you are sleeping not only on an air mattress, but you are sleeping on one of those floaties you used on the swimming pool. The Intex however, is firm, sturdy and higher. It almost doesn't feel like an airmattress. It holds air pretty good. Atleast the ones that I got. The Kmart one is not holding air as good as the Intex.In some of the photos, I am showing how you can take this airmattress up a notch with comfort and it is holding up pretty good. Padded mattress protector on, bed sheets, nice fluffy comforter, great pillows, extra soft throw and it makes a huge difference being that you are having your guests sleep on an air mattress.I would have added a matress topper, but I live in an apartment, and this is a temporary situation - I don't have room to keep a mattress topper so I opted for a quilted mattress protector which added some softness on top of the mattress.Great solution and great buy for incoming guests!!

It's hard as a rock! It fills up fast, holds air, and is quite tall. Tried it twice so far, once when we took it on a overnight to family and once when family came to visit. We did not have a good nights sleep, and our family opted to sleep on the couch rather then this mattress. Even after letting out some air for extra cushion it wasn't comfortable, the material doesn't have any give. I'll keep it for the grandkids to play on. I don't like giving bad ratings, but can not recommend this air mattress, however, if you like something extremely firm this might be for you.

This is the second air mattress I have purchased and both units have had the same problem... they continuously leak even after multiple days of being inflated. Intex's instructions say that some leakage is normal for the first 2-3 days of inflation due to the mattress stretching. But both my mattresses leaked after being inflated for 7 days. My guests couldn't sleep on the mattress without waking up on the floor in the middle of the night. I used soap and water to search the entire mattress for any tears/holes/ and couldn't find any. My guess is that the leak comes from the built-in inflator. Unfortunately I didn't use this mattress right away and it's now out of it's warranty period. I won't be purchasing another Intex mattress. I recommend air mattresses from a strong brand like Coleman who I've not had any issues with after years of use.

When we first got this I loved it. My cousins spent the night on it and said they loved it. I left it aired up and it stayed hard for 2 weeks. My sister came and slept on it for a week and she loved it! We took it down, I used the pump in deflate mode to get all the air out. We rolled it up, on carpet, and put it in it's bag. It fit wonderfully!Fast forward a week and we took it with us on a family vacation. We aired it up on a carpeted floor and my brother slept on it for two hours and it was very low. I am so disappointed because it worked so great the first two weeks. I thought it was a fluke so I deflated it again and repumped it up making sure the dial was all the way in the inflate position. It still deflated, even without anyone laying on it. This would have been a five star review if it would have kept up.

Great size, comfortable, and convenient. Too bad it only last 3 overnight uses. The mattress began to have a leak and now deflates with any use. Won't make it through the night.

Originally ordered this mattress and it had a manufacturing defect, the sealant around the pump didn't go fully around and left a small gap for air to seep through. It was an audible hiss that made it easy to pinpoint.I returned it without a hassle, and got another. This one lasted about 1 month staying fully inflated, but has developed a small pinhole leak and won't stay inflated through a night.Originally I had thought it was just a decent t, but it appears that the manufacturing is just shoddy. Two mattresses, two leaks. Wouldn't recommend the product, but it was comfortable while it worked.

Update 11/15/2016- I've had this air mattress for almost two weeks now... using it while I settle into my new house. The material is soft and it was very easy to blow it up.Simply plug in the cord and turn on the switch.So indeed you have to occasionally inflate the bed as instructed in directions.So every morning for the first few days I had re-air it. Once its broken in, then it maintains air pressure. BUT the bed stretches out on the sides so it looses the square shape. Kinda annoying because my fitted bed sheet does not wrap around it as easily and comes off occasionally at night or when climbing to bed, I have to slowly get on or the corners of the sheet will pop off. I just got rid of the sheets since I kept wakign up tangled in it lol #thestruggleisreal. Now that I have my real mattress back, I put the air mattress away but I wonder now that its stretched out how long will it hold up (after me sleeping on it for a week) I will update with a photo soon.Over all, I would not recommend this air mattress for long term use. A week was too long. Maybe as a spare for occasional one night guests.

I bought this to use at a friend's house when I stayed the night there because he didn't have a guest bedroom and didn't have a sofa to sleep on. I come here every few weeks and stay for a night or two. The first few times using this product were fantastic. Bed stayed firm after sleeping on it overnight and had minimal air leakage. Sadly, over the past few weeks it is losing lots of air overnight. Just inflated it fully about two hours ago and it's already lost a good chunk of its firmness - enough to wake me up because my body isn't being properly supported.Loved this product when I first received it, but I could not recommend it in good faith.

We have had the air mattress for over a month, and the chemical industrial smell is still so strong that we don't like going in the room where it is being stored. We even hung it up outside for a day and the smell is still very strong. We don't want to keep it in our house, let alone ask guests to sleep on it all night. It is decently comfortable and the air pump works well, so that is why it is 2 stars instead of 1.UPDATE (07/29/2017): Air mattress has now developed a pretty significant leak, and I am downgrading this to 1 star.

we read the reviews that said it needed a few times before the bed would hold the air but it has been several times and it has never remained inflated throughout the night my guests hate it and would prefer to sleep on my couch! waste of money

I purchased our air mattress to stay on when going to stay at a friends out of town, but we got a hotel room instead, so we didn't need. Lastnight I aired it up because we have a bunch of company coming and it has at least two nice holes in it. I tried patching it up, but when I went down to check on it today, the air was lacking in the bed.

Purchased mattress and a little over 3 months after purchase, mattress popped from the top portion. The whole is about 2-3 inches large. Nothing changed for the past week of sleeping on it and while laying down watching TV, all of the sudden the mattress just burst. We do not over inflate and do not keep any sharp objects around the bed. This is very disappointing as we actually like this mattress and the sleep quality. I hope Intex does the honorable thing and replaces our mattress as clearly it was defective.

This mattress worked great about...3 times. I purchased this air mattress in July and after a couple of uses it already has a hole somewhere that we can't even find to try and patch. Really disappointing overall as Amazon says the return period has passed. We were always very careful with the mattress and it has only been used indoors, so that fact that it worked 3 times and I can't get my money back is pretty frustrating. I would not purchase this air mattress again. Buy one with a warranty and save yourself the headache.