Beds & Accessories

Review by Monique:

I originally got online to search for a baby tent to use at the beach, and then my eye fell on the pea pod travel bed. I got it in the mail just in time for a weekend music festival, where it more than proved its worth. We used it in the pop-up camper for bedtime, outside in the shade during naps, and even took it down for the baby to lay/play in while we listened to music. Very light and portable, I found it easy to fold, and although I bought it for my 3month old baby, my three year old found it novel and took a couple naps in it himself. Since then we’ve taken it to friends houses so we can put the baby to bed there, and she plays in it happily in the kitchen floor while I cook…. it’s soooo much nicer/lighter/more space efficient to haul along than a pack and play. Not made exactly for beach cover, but it keeps her out of the sand and we drape a towel over or place the pod under the umbrella. Anyway, I am really happy with the functionability and travel-friendliness of this item.

Review by busy mum:

i love the peapod! i would have given it 5 stars but i wish it came with a way to put a sheet down on the bottom, what i’ve done instead of putting the mattress underneath in the zipper compartment i would put it inside with a fitted sheet around it. all in all its a great product and my 14 month old still fits with room to spare.

Review by Samantha S.:

I have always liked these beds, but the covers do not last very long. I bought

replacements for two beds used by an Older Lab and Shepherd. These dogs only sleep

on them and they are in a heated kennel. Both covers developed small holes that

became large holes that made the bed worthless. These could be from toe nails.

These dogs are not chewers and did not mistreat the covers. The Little Tag in the

Corner “Coolaroo for Life” does not even mean for doggie life years. The

Company guarantees these covers only against Sunlight damage. (How useful is that).

Dog wear is on you. I am sorry that a large International Company cannot make a

Stronger Longer Lasting Cover. And the Slogan “For Life” sewn on every cover is

only misleading.

Review by Sandra:

This is the perfect bed for my 80lb lab. He is super comfy on it. I have to replace the cover about every other month because of tears. Maybe if it were dbl or triple ply it would be more sturdy.

Review by Grand Pappy:

What grandchild wanted but paid too much. Profit is OK but double or more is not right. If grand child was not in a rural area without major stores – would not have done this.

Review by Dawn C. Gatke:

The bed and blanket are really really soft. “Hampy” fits right in and peeks out. SUPER CUTE!

Review by M. Burrows:

A great concept let down by a few design flaws.

My intent for buying a new alarm clock was two-fold:

1) To enable me to set an alarm which would wake me, without disturbing others

2) To have a way to dim the clock so it would not disturb my sleep with too much light in the room.

Having this connect to an iPod Nano was a bonus.

The first thing that impressed me from the specs on this alarm clock was the bed shaker. Now, take note, this says Bed Shaker – and it truly is. Anyone sleeping on the same matress will feel their skull vibrating almost as much as yours, even when you place the vibrating disc under your pillow. 9/10 points for effort – 4/10 points for implementation

The second thing that persuaded me to this model was that it appeared, from reading through the reviews that the brightness on the clock was settable from 0 (no backlight) to 9 (bright enough to read a book by). This seemed great as this would allow me to have the backlight off for sleeping and adjust it if/when I needed to read the clock… However, the implementation of this is a fatal flaw for me with this product. Let me explain in detail:

a) The brightness change requires you to set a new overall brightness level; so if you are at 0 you click the Dimmer/Snooze button and it goes to 1. To turn the light off you have to click the button another 9 times to cycle back to 0. This is awkward, though is way surpassed by the loud clicking made by the cheap switch which wakes anyone else not wearing earplugs…

b) Insult is added to injury with the design of the Dimmer/Snooze button. Imagine you’re sleeping with the backlight off (Dimmer 0) and the alarm occurs – you hit the button to increase the brightness, but it’s a joint-function Dimmer/Snooze button… So, the alarm snoozes – and no matter how many times you hit the dimmer/snooze button again, to turn the brightness up to see the time, nothing happens. It appears the the clock is in “alarm mode”. The only way to see the clock is to fumble for the alarm off button, turn off the alarm permanently and then hit the Dimmer/Snooze button again to now increase the backlight on the clock to level 1.

I know, and apologise, if this appears like a rant – and maybe my unit is faulty as the Dimmer 1 setting is incredibly bright and disturbing to sleep.

On the brighter side. The iPod functionality works well, even on the new iPod nanos, and the speakers are ok – definitely not hi-fi, but for a bedside table to listen to music whilst reading a book, they are adequate.

Anyway, please take the review as is, and if you we looking to an alarm clock with similiar prerequisites steer clear of this one. I wish/hope that these flaws are corrected and welcome any feedback to highlight better alternatives.

Hope this helps,

Review by Kagakusha:

Here is the rundown:

Pros:

+Docked flawlessly with my iPod nano 5g.

+All buttons worked.

+Ability to have auxiliary input.

+Wake up bed shaker is a nice touch. (and it has a very long cord)

+Alarm is a beep that gets louder over time (and can be used in concordance with the bed shaker)

+Can customize both alarms to incorporate different alarm types (ie. Shaker and beep, shaker and playlist, etc)

Cons:

-Sound was absolutely unbearable with any bass (even with ipod EQ settings set to bass reducer)

-Wake up bed shaker is not as strong as I hoped it to be.

-Product “feels” cheap (thin plastic, cheap buttons).

-Time setting is clumsy and difficult, why not just have it sync to the atomic clock (my walmart clock did that)

-There are two bass “holes” in the back that appear to do nothing (I don’t hear anything coming from them)

-Many comparable docks have remotes included. This does not.

-The screen does not look like it does in the image. It has a bright blue backlight.

Bottom Line:

This is great if you want an alarm clock with multiple alarm features that will also charge your iPod. You should not get this if you want to listen to music on it.

Why I gave it 2 stars:

I got this so I could listen to my iPod while I go to sleep. The sound quality is so unbearable that I stopped using it. It still has nice alarm features, but is overpriced for what I wanted.

Review by Andi:

This truck net comes with 20 — yes 20 — hooks that can be attached to the bungee cords anywhere making the net very flexible. This hooks snap onto the bungee cords very snugly and then hook easily to the lip of the truck bed wherever needed. When you cover your cargo with a tarp, you can cover the tarp with the net and you don’t have to worry about the tarp coming loose. If you have light weight items, tying them down isn’t as much of an issue because this net will hold them in place just fine. I have used mine for 3 years now and wouldn’t know what to do without it.

Review by Joseph D. Cunningham:

There is really nothing wrong with this item. It shipped in a timely manner and was designed as advertised. The bigger issue is that using this is like trying to herd cats. Perhaps the problem is that long bed trucks are not designed to accept all the hooks on the cargo net. I ended up running a stringer around the base of the truck bed and hooking the cargo net to the stringer. It worked but it was messy.