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Learning & Education | Home » » Kidco Pea Pod Indoor/Outdoor Travel Bed | | | | | | | Description: | | Kidco Pea Pod Indoor/Outdoor Travel BedThe Kidco Pea Pod Indoor/Outdoor Travel Bed does it all for the on-the-go parent. The inflatable mattress helps protect baby from cold, damp floors while providing a comforting place to sleep. Zippered panels allow parents quick and easy access to baby from virtually any angle. The slick, easy to fold design makes it ideal for storage and use anytime. The Kidco PeaPod travel bed can be used indoors or outdoors and features a virtually indestructible frame a | | | Features: | |
• Use from birth and up
• Bottom pocket hides mattress away from baby and prevents mattress shifting
• Side zipper panels can be rolled down and secured with clasps to prevent tampering
• Washable Sleeping Pad
• Great for outdoors because of UV protection and wind screens
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 14.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 15.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 5.3 pounds | | Package Length:
| 14.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 14.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 6.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 5.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 85 reviews |
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47 of 47 found the following review helpful:
 Awesome travel bed!Jan 13, 2009
By S. Timmons
We purchased the smaller sized peapod when my son was about 5 months old. My husband and I travel a lot and we needed a travel bed that was lightweight, easy to set up, and safe for our child. This met all of our expectations.
When I purchased this item, I had seen the reviews about how difficult it could be to re-fold the peapod. So I went out to Kidco's website and found a very helpful document there on how to re-fold it. When the peapod arrived, I practiced opening and closing per Kidco's instructions and it didn't take long for me to be able to figure it out and get it down without thinking about it. After that, any trip we went on it was a piece of cake folding it right back up and putting it back into it's pouch.
One of the things I love about it is that it is lightweight and compact. I can pack it in our suitcase and still have room for everything else I need to take.
It's also durable. Again, we travel a lot with our son (about once a month on average), and it has held up over the last 2 and 1/2 years. No tears, rips, or anything (and it's not like we're gentle with it).
Also, I found a technique that minimized the noise from zipping up the tent (holding my thumb and forefinger on the zipper teeth and zipper pull (where the zipper teeth have just closed as you pull the zipper). For whatever reason, that seems to dull the sound. Eventually my son got used to the sound of zipping up/down the tent and it no longer grabbed his attention. And now that he's older, it's a non-issue as I just put him in the tent, say goodnight, and close up the tent (he prefers it zipped up).
Oh, during that first year once our son started to crawl, we often put the tent out for son to explore and play in a few days before heading off on a trip. That would help familiarize him with the tent again and make it an easier adjustment for him once we went on the trip.
My son is finally getting too big for the smaller sized peapod, so we're going to purchase the Peapod Plus and retire the old one. We loved the old one so we hope we'll love the new one, too.
18 of 18 found the following review helpful:
Love it !!!!!Sep 18, 2007
By Don C. Peterson
"SgtP_USMC"
We love this! Seriously, if you have a baby, you need this! It's lightweight, folds easily and our 9 month old sleeps in it, no problem. WAY less hassle than a pack 'n' play. It's a cinch to fold- I don't know what the other reviewers were complaining about. I am NOT a mechanically minded person, but I folded it up easily without even looking at the directions. It comes with a small pump to inflate the little mattress. That takes about two minutes. Pop open the tent, put the mattress in, cover it with the little blanket/pad, put the kid in, and zip it up. I can move the pod from room to room. She can sleep in our room, the computer room, the sewing room, etc. It's also CUTE! My bigger kids call it the "baby tent", because it looks exactly like a tiny tent. We will be vacationing extensively next month and I'm looking forward to using this super product!
32 of 38 found the following review helpful:
 only for up to one yearOct 21, 2007
By spd
this is good product but small--the instructions say recommended for up to one year, depending on your child's development (we were not able to find that info until we got the product). we sent it back and got the PeaPod Plus, which has been great and goes up to 5 years old.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Great so far!Jun 17, 2007
By C. Schroeder
I just received my PeaPOd Travel bed in the mail and I love it!!
I immediately opened it up to play around with it, check it out and see how easy the set up and take down was.
Beware when you open it up! I vaguely remember reading a review saying how quickly it opens up and to watch out! Unfortunately I remembered too late! It DOES spring out REALLY quickly. So much so that it flew out of my hands - I'm glad that my daughter wasn't around at the time! But, at least I know that I don't have to fool around with it to set up it :)
The quality seems really good. Sturdy fabric and poles, no holes or rips - in very good shape on arrival.
I blew up the mattress with my mouth (I don't want to take the pump with us to Europe, so I wanted to make sure it was manageable) and it took maybe a minute to do. It also deflated really quickly and easily (I pushed on it to get most of the air out, and then rolled it up to get the rest out. Then it was ready to be folded up flat!).
When inflated it fit pretty good into the tent - just a little extra room around the edges. Nothing that I'm concerned about.
I don't plan on using the blanket, as it's a little too bulky for my safety standards with my 10 month old. I think that since they advertise this bed for such a young age, they should give a more appropriate blanket for those parents that do use them. We will just bring our own blanket that she already sleeps with. Plus it will save us more space.
That being said, the blanket was a nice blanket and I'm sure would be nice and warm for those old enough to use it.
As to folding the tent back up: I have read reviews on this bed on so many sites and one thing that seemed to just keep coming back up was how difficult it was to fold back up. Needless to say I was a little nervous about it. I looked at the illustrated instructions once, tried to fold it up and failed. Looked at them again, a little more closely, and then folded it up perfectly with no problems. It took me all of 1 minute (from very start to very finish) and did not take the muscle of a grown man to do (which I had read in several reviews). I was going to bring the instructions along with if I did have problems, just to make sure we could do it again, but I am pretty confident that it will be no problem whatsoever.
I gave the bed 5 stars, but keep in mind I have not tested it out with my daughter and it has not had any wear and tear yet. I am a little nervous about whether my daughter will stay inside it when it's bedtime or if she will flip out if I zip it all closed. I plan on transitioning her into it over the week. If possible I might put the tent inside her crib for a couple naps so that she knows it's for sleeping time and shouldn't play in it or crawl out of it. We'll see how that goes :)
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Amazing bed for travel!!Aug 08, 2009
By twin momma
We have twin girls who are now 13 months and we have done four trips with these beds. I LOVE them. They fold down very compactly and appear to be very comfortable for the babies.
They are EASY to assemble and break down. You only need to read the directions once and it is SUPER EASY despite what I have read from other reviews. Trust me on this one......I'm not naturally mechanically inclined.
The mattress is slick on the underside and fuzzy on the top. I agree with other reviewers that the mattress cover slides around too much for my comfort. That was completely solved by putting a standard crib sheet over it. With the fuzzy top, I think you could forgo their mattress cover completely.
Their mattress pad transferred blue dye when they drooled on it, but that stopped after washing it once.
I was concerned that my very active girls might be able to tip over these beds, but that appears completely impossible. It just stretches/bends when they roll around a lot.
I put the girls in these beds for four nights before our trips. Even with multiple changes in where they slept (several family homes on a single trip), they seemed quite comfortable tucked away in their pods. It's like their own little comfort zone in there.
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