Sleeping Bags or Duvets (1 Viewer)

[The Dudess]

Getting a motorhome with U-shaped lounge and planning to use the single bed configuration (as opposed to making up the big double bed). Would you recommend sleeping bags or duvets?

 

[icantremember]

Many motorhomers including us use the Duvalay >Link Removed<

 

[scousebird]

We use duvets in our u-shaped lounge. 1/2 under & 1/2 over like a sleeping bag but without the zip. If we make the bed then we have one under and one over us.

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[Gooney]

I bought 2 quite expensive sleeping bags and when I took them to be dry cleaned I found I could have bought Duvets for cheaper than the cleaning, in the future I would buy Duvets and throw them away when grubby

 

[injebreck99]

We use sleeping bags in winter, or colder weather and lightweight duvets in the summer, Ah yes, I seem to remember that word, Summer.!!

 

[Reallyretired]

Duvets always - we are not camping.:thumb:

We have a fixed bed but in the past when the bed had to be assembled out of seat bits we used two duvets - a light one and a heavy one. In cold weather the light one went underneath as a sort of mattress toipper with the heavy one on top. In warm weather the other way round.

Duvet covers are a pig to put on but easily washed.

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[Janine]

We use a double sleeping bag which unzips for easy laundering.

I've sewn a sheet on to one of the sleeping bags so we can put an extra duvet in for the cold nights.

The advantage of sleeping bag over a duvet on its own? My OH can't nick it and leave me with cold bits

 

[Touchwood]

DUVALAY!! :thumb::thumb::thumb::thumb:

Expensive, but in my opinion well worth it.

 

[Hayleylulu]

We use sleeping bags :thumb:

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[Mavis]

We use sleeping bags in the winter with a duvet as well.
Just a sleeping bag in the summer.
We have zipped two together to make a double.
this way we have cheaper ones but we can wash them easy in the washing machine.

 

[aba]

if you cant decide try the cheaper option first.
duvets have advantages and disadvantages as do sleeping bags.

 

[beachcaster]

2 duvets.....one thick one thin ..........in summer sleep ON the thick one..and cover up with the thin one..........and in winter the other way round.......bed making takes 2 mins
and its a very simple and cheap solution.

barry

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[Nirvanauk]

Duvet every time.

 

[Phill D]

duvalay, but expensive:thumb:

 

[Welsh girl]

We tried memory foam but found it too hot so got rid so the duvalay I think would feel the same so I have a normal sleeping bag on one single in our rear u shaped lounge and Tez has a single duvet, we do make the bed up but just for Susie on her cushions in the middle of us

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[Stewart J]

Two sleeping bags zipped together, OH has sown two double sheets together along their bottom edge only and sown 3 ties along the bottom edge and same along inside bottom edge of sleeping bag. Two sets of sheets so we can change and launder them easily.:thumb:

Works for us, tried duvet's both thick and thin but without success.

 

[Jamwitt]

Duvalay expensive but worth it:thumb:

 

[Colinyellowspanner]

And so to Bed

Over the years we've tried most combinations,- sleeping bags, duvets, fitted sheets etc etc. but couldn't get it quite right. Now we use Duvalays. They are SUPERB. Pros: V easy to use, just unroll and zzzz, no "cold side" draughts, easy to wash on site (removable cover), mask poor bed design by smoothing over matress joins. Cons: Not cheap, Can be a bit bulky to store. Sleep Tight!

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[oldun]

Getting a motorhome with U-shaped lounge and planning to use the single bed configuration (as opposed to making up the big double bed). Would you recommend sleeping bags or duvets?

We use neither - we like to have several different layers so that we are very warm when the weather is cold but not too hot when it gets warm. So its sheets and a few blankets for us.

 

[Sidney]

Duvalay topper and duvet...

Why rough it?

 

[whingyraindrop]

Proper cotton bed linen with a duvet and lots of pillows and cushions, just like in my other home.

Lorraine x

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[jonandshell]

Duvet for us!

Its a motorHOME not a tent!

 

[SuperMike]

So there it is around 2/3am and Mike needs to go somewhere and do something. So half asleep he has to unzip this bag thing and get out and upon returning get in and zip it up again. I don't think so, thank you.

Proper bed and proper bedding. Duvet every time. :thumb:

 

[robnchris]

sleepy nights

Oh yeah go with Duvets, cotton sheets and goose feather pillows, just like home, snug and warm.:thumb:

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[oldun]

Oh yeah go with Duvets, cotton sheets and goose feather pillows, just like home, snug and warm.:thumb:

Feather pillows - I would be dead in the morning from my allergy to feather.

Man made fibres every time.

 

[Rayb182]

In winter we use summer duvet beneath us and winter one on top and vicer versa summer \(old rosie moment again )

 

[Minxy]

We only ever used sleeping bags when we had a tent except for one night last year when we picked up our new panel van conversion and took a couple of sleeping bags to use for ease ... never again! They were horrible and restrictive ... like being a sausage trapped inside a bread roll, worst night's sleep I'd had for ages!!!! :shout:

A double duvet would be my first preference - folded over with approx 1/3rd underneath and 2/3rds on top - but the trouble with this is that it can move around quite a bit as none of it is 'rigid' to hold it in place on the seat/bed and you could end up with it all gradually 'slipping' off! :Blush:

However, what I would probably do is make my own 'duvalay' type duvets - a double (or king) sized duvet cover stitched top to bottom to the width of a single duvet, with the other section having a piece of memory foam cut to size and slotted in. A single duvet could then be placed in the other part, either a winter or summer weight one depending on time of year. Much cheaper too!:thumb:

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[beachcaster]

Duvets always - we are not camping.:thumb:

We have a fixed bed but in the past when the bed had to be assembled out of seat bits we used two duvets - a light one and a heavy one. In cold weather the light one went underneath as a sort of mattress toipper with the heavy one on top. In warm weather the other way round.

Duvet covers are a pig to put on but easily washed.

We do this as well................its a perfect solution

barry

 

[Granjan]

Good quality synthetic duvets that fit in my washing machine and really nice linen, pillows and cushions ... Got to be as nice as any hotel. Agree with the 2 different tog duvet method under and over swapping over for winter / summer.

Always took duvets in a tent and linen to rented holiday homes .... standards have to be maintained or I wouldn't enjoy it.

Sheets are a pig to put on!

 

[Robert Clark]

We leave our UShaped lounge permanently made up as a double bed. We removed the cushions and replaced them with a memory foam mattress from IKEA
We use a duvet for a perfect 'at home' sleeping experience