Pros and Cons about Raised Airbeds

Raised airbeds are a great choice for vacationers who would prefer to bring their own bedding rather than relying on the rather dubious bedding choices that are offered by many hotels and motels.
Campers also enjoy using raised airbeds since they cushion the sleepers from the rough surfaces that are often encountered when sleeping in a thin skinned tent or outdoors.
Unfortunately, raised airbeds do not typically allow for separate firmness settings for different sleepers, which means that couples often have to compromise on the firmness setting if they have different preferences.

Raised airbeds are particularly handy for families that have frequent overnight visitors but do not have an extra room to spare as a guest room. Raised airbeds make ideal accommodations for guests since they can be set up in only a few minutes and provide much more comfort that one would gain from sleeping on the floor or on a flimsy blow up mattress.
Raised airbeds feature standard pneumatic hook ups, so it is easy to interface raised airbeds with electrical or human powered pumps. It is not advisable to attempt to blow up raised airbeds using only lung power since the beds are much larger than other inflatable mattresses and it can be difficult to achieve the desired firmness level using lung power alone.

The only potential negative of raised airbeds is that they do not typically feature adjustable firmness settings that can vary across the bed. This means that couples must negotiate on the firmness of the raised airbeds. However, since most raised airbeds are for temporary use only, this is a situation that can be lived with.