I purchased this air bed for those times of the year when I have a house full of guests. I've only used it 4 nights so far, and kids slept on it. I did lay on it, and it seemed comfortable. It arrived packaged nicely. The pump is attached to the mattress and cord plugs into the wall. It inflated in less than 2 minutes. The best feature on this mattress for me is that when you turn the dial to "deflate", the pump actually sucks air back out to assist in total deflation. How many of us have laid on a mattress to "get all the air out", so that we could fold it up and put it away? In this case the pump does it for you. Nice height mattress - queen size bedding fits well. Would purchase again!