Bought this for our Spring break trip.  We have 3 kids and were planning a trip to the Smoky Mountains.  We were going to be staying in a hotel for a couple nights and a cabin for the remainder of the trip.  Since our kids don't like sharing beds this was a cheap way to have a spare mattress along when needed.  We were also concerned with some bedwetting issues and didn't want to ruin a mattress.  The material this mattress is made out of does not soak up moisture and wipes down for easy clean up as needed.  It also folds up to a small enough size that it didn't take up a whole lot of room with all of our other stuff going along.