When this arrived, I did the first thing that I always do with items I order offline. I checked it for defects and the quality. It arrives in a nice nylon carry bag. The stitching is great. There were no lose threads or missing stitches. The bag was easy to open and to close. The strap is attached really well. I feel that the carry bag will last a long time.
I then removed the inflatable lounger. That's where I became a little confused, lol. It was the same nice quality as the carry bag. I did not find any defects at all on the lounger. The closing end is very sturdy and it snaps with a really sturdy buckle. It actually takes 2 hands to open the buckle. I was impressed with the quality of the closure. There is actually an inside plastic liner. I was unsure if I should have removed it or not, because this product did not come with any type of instructions. I have a friend who got a different brand and hers did not come with instructions either. I do believe that maybe they should be added to these types of products. I am glad that I left the liner alone!! In a video I watched I noticed their liner was left in theirs as well! So do NOT remove the plastic liner inside it!!!!
Then came the "hard" part, getting the lounger inflated. There was no wind at all the day I wanted to test it. My husband and I tried for several minutes, looking like idiots in the front yard trying to get this thing inflated. We did have lots of fun laughing at each other and all the silly ideas that we came up with trying to get it filled. We could not get this thing filled no matter what we did.
We went inside and consulted good old Google and Youtube. I watched a couple of videos and they made it look so easy. I was already frustrated so I just put it down and thought that I would try it later. I was telling my neighbor about my experience because she wanted to get one, so told me to bring it over and she would try. So I ran home got it and we sat down and watched a couple videos and I realized my mistake with her help.
It shows them kind of swooping it from side to side to get air in it. I did that but it had remained flat. They were closing the flap between each swoop to trap the air inside. When I would swoop left then go to swoop right is would loose its air. Once we started to close the flap as we were transferring it to swoop the other direction the sir stayed inside. YAY !!! Filling it with air problem solved.
We then rolled it down as tight as we could and locked it in place. It lost air fairly quickly.. I was now not impressed once again. But before we blamed the product we wanted to make sure it was not user error. We inflated it once more and took our time rolling the end. Made sure that the closure on the end was tight and none of the chair was inside the flap at the end, rolled it super tight and closed it with the plastic buckle and left it alone to see if it deflated. I am so glad we tried it the second time, it was user error, it stayed inflated. I love this lounger. it is so portable and I wont get light headed trying to blow it up, and no more sitting on the ground at places I would hate to lug a huge bulky lawn chair! If you chose to get one and have issues like I did, search YouTube lots of great videos out there and really pay attention to their hands when they are making the swooping motion to fill it! Now that I have the hang of it, it is super easy to fill and use! CHECK IT OUT HERE .
