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Part of Therm-a-Rest's newly-named "Backpacking Comfort" category, this sleeping bag and mat combination provides an easy-to-use and extremely comfortable three-season car camping set-up, while also offering a potential option for backpacking and travel, says Rebecca Ting. 

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The mat looks more comfy than the mattress on my bed! It's a good point about width and tents, I've checked 2 person tents I've reviewed by putting my Thermarest Z Rest and Ridgerest - both 50 cms wide, thinking I've not met mats wider than that, so if they fit side by side that's a genuine 2 person tent. I doubt two Neolofts would fit in the two MSR (same parent company as Thermarest) 2 person tents I've reviewed, so that would be a major consideration. 

What is side-country in terms of camping? 😄 I know it's a skiing term but not sure exactly what its camping meaning would be! Sleeping in your van at the side of the road below Stanage Apparent North perhaps? 😉

You are right to call me out there Toby! 😄 I've mentally transferred the skiing idea of "backcountryish terrain easily accessible just off the lift" to its camping equivalent of "not car camping but where you wouldn't have to carry your gear very far/for more than an hour before you set up camp". Maybe it will catch on...please use it in your next appropriate review 😄

PS. Looks like on paper the MSR Zoic could just fit two, but the Freelite will definitely have to put up with less comfortable more lightweight contents!

PPS. I do smile now at the old marketing for the Marmot Grid 2P's "Roomy 2P Semi Geodesic Construction"...

I had the opportunity to test one of the prototype NeoLofts, and when I say test I mean my wife saw it and said, “that’s mine” for a week long canoeing trip.  Since then I’ve purchased two as she refuses to sleep on anything else!  Super comfy and not so big and heavy you regret backpacking with it.   We just did a 5 week road trip in the American west and the compact pack size to comfort rating was fantastic to maximize space!

I have a Boost 650 and absolutely love it. It is shedding feathers quite a bit though !

If only someone would make a bag with similar zips for feet to poke out.  I sleep quite chilly, but the one thing that makes it uncomfortable is my feet being crammed next to each other in a mummy sock end.

Interesting idea! It might be worth going to have a look at one of the Boost 650s though as even in mummy mode it is the least crammed mummy footbox both of us had experienced (I'm a size 38,  Ben is a 42 - my feet were nowhere near each other with the WarmZip closed) and you could unzip from the bottom to keep feet roomier even if the torso is in mummy mode for warmth?

FYI @TobyA, while I am inventing camping terminology, I shall call this last concept, "the mermaid"