Safe Place Bedding Travel Bed Review

Written by Amber Bobnar

Updated on October 22, 2024

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Traveling with a special needs child can be really stressful! From medications to special dietary needs, safety concerns to accessibility, there are so many possible disasters waiting around every corner. It’s no wonder so many families with special needs kids choose to just stay home!

One of the biggest concerns families have when traveling is safe sleeping while away from home. Your child’s room is probably designed to make sleeping as comfortable and safe for them as possible. You may have a safe special needs bed, climate control, allergy air filters, weighted blankets, and even nighttime monitors. How can we possibly recreate this safe sleep environment in a hotel room or at grandma’s house?

While we may not be able to pack and bring everything with us (although I have been known to pack video monitors and ambient sound machines even for a weekend trip), having a safe sleeping space will make a vacation much less stressful.

We purchased a Safe Place Bedding Travel Bed a few years ago. I had my doubts about this bed at first because it is inflatable and needs to be attached to a stationary bed, but I was pleasantly surprised by how durable, safe, and easy it was to use! The company has recently updated the bed, and now it is even better!

Safe Place Bedding Travel Bed Basic Specs

• 39” wide, 72” long, 34” high
• About 15 lbs (when packed with all its accessories)
• Sleeping space interior is twin-sized
• Padded interior
• Fully enclosed
• Allows for video monitoring
• Allows for air circulation
• Only opens from outside
• Watertight floor
• Travel-ready!

Pros of the Safe Place Bedding Travel Bed

• Affordable (when compared to other special needs beds)
• Compact and lightweight and all components fit in a duffle bag (included)
• Easy to set up and take down
• Secure and safe
• One-way valves make it easy to inflate and deflate
• Comes with an electric air pump and waterproof incontinence pad
• Soft waterproof material used for floor
• Attaches to a full-sized mattress (or larger) so your child isn’t sleeping directly on the floor

The Safe Place Bedding Travel Bed is priced at $800, but the company often offers sales or promo codes, so keep your eye out for deals! Yes, that’s still a lot of money, but compared to the thousands you might spend on other travel beds, it’s actually quite affordable! We were also able to use grant funds to pay for the bed, which is easier to do when your purchase is less than $1000.

Another huge plus for me is how small the duffle bag containing the bed is, making it very easy to pack! We have so many things to pack for our son to keep him comfortable and safe; the fewer bags we need to take with us, the better. The Safe Place Bedding bed fits in a 22x12x12 gym duffle bag—and that includes room for the electric pump as well!

Set up is so easy! Just set the bed where you want it, use the pump to inflate the sides, strap the bed in place, and you’re done! You can literally have your child’s sleep space up and ready in less than ten minutes.

We recorded ourselves setting up the bed so you can see how easy it is. This was just a practice run at home before we took the bed out for our next trip, so we attached it to our fold-out couch in our living room. When traveling with the Safe Place Travel Bed, you will want to have it on a full-sized mattress or larger.

The valves have special stoppers that allow air in but not out, making it really easy to inflate. You can remove the stoppers when deflating the bed. Taking the bed down and fitting it back in the bag was also really easy!

I did feel that Ivan was safe in this bed. The inside of the bed is about a standard twin size, but it is required to be strapped to a full or larger size bed for safety. The straps hold the bed in place really well, and I was not at all worried about it tipping or falling off the bed. If you are worried about your child getting out of bed on their own, the zippers can clip closed from the outside.

I also like that there is a lot of airflow through the mesh sides of this bed, so I wasn’t worried about the inside of the bed overheating. This also made setting up a video monitor easy.

Updates to the Safe Place Bedding Travel Bed

• The inflatable plastic frame is now covered in thick canvas-like fabric protecting it from bites and kicks
• The frame of the bed is now composed of individual chambers that are easy to replace if punctured
• The mesh door opens upward so your child does not have to climb over the door to enter the bed
• There is no longer an inflated chamber at the base of the bed where your child enters, making entry and exit much easier
• There are 4 straps (instead of 2) keeping the bed in place
• The large incontinence pad is designed to fit perfectly in the bed
• Everything is included (the bed, incontinence pad, air pump, and duffle bag), so there are no additional costs!

The Safe Place Bedding Travel Bed’s frame is made of thick, reinforced plastic inflatable chambers designed to withstand kicks and bites. In the new design, these chambers are then housed in heavy-duty, thick canvas-like fabric, making them almost impenetrable. Of course, accidents do happen, but with this new design, it is simple to replace a punctured chamber without having to replace the entire bed. New chambers are reasonably priced at $25.

I’m also so happy to see that all the needed accessories (the incontinence pad, air pump, and duffle bag) come included without requiring extra cost. Everything fits easily (with room to spare) in the duffle bag, which weighs about 15 pounds when all packed. Considering this is a complete safe-sleep solution, that’s a fairly small package! Check out the video below to see what all comes in the box.

At first, I was concerned that the bed doesn’t come with its own mattress. I worried that if we didn’t have a full-sized bed to attach the safety bed to, we’d be out of luck. After using the Safe Place Bedding Travel Bed on multiple trips, I now see the beauty of this design. Travel beds that sit on the floor are usually hard and uncomfortable. They can also be difficult to get in and out of, especially for kids with motor challenges. Travel beds that require a mattress to be placed inside the unit can create entrapment issues along the side of the mattress. By far the safest, most convenient, and most comfortable solution is to place a safe bedding enclosure on top of an already existing mattress.

With all that said, you can see why I highly recommend the Safe Place Bedding Travel Bed. It is easy to pack, easy to carry, easy to set up, and provides a safe and comfortable place for Ivan to sleep when we are traveling.

Here’s to happy (and safe) family traveling!