RAVE Sports Vinyl Bongo Water Bouncer Pool Game

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Won't deploy our new Bongo 15 bouncer until next summer, but we're definitely excited about never having to buy replacement springs again. Don't know why (have some suspicion that it may have been intentional) but every year we ended up needing to buy replacements. This will be our fourth unit since 1988, and we've had both types of trampolines (with and without the metal frame.) It got very frustrating from a maintenance/budget perspective to have to check how many springs were missing when storing our AJ's for the winter and making sure someone got replacements (and spares) ordered before setting them up in June.

I bought the Bongo 15 size for our lake cabin in Wisconsin and the family thinks it's great. It was easy to inflate following the directions. It stays inflated all summer. We may need to add a bit of air to it depending on temperature fluctuations throughout the summer but it stays surprisingly full. It comes with the harness and we attached 100 pounds (we are on the windy side of the lake) to it. It hasn't budged. I researched the difference between the Rave water trampoline and the water bouncer that Rave makes and decided on the bouncer. It was lighter and easier to set up. The black jumping surface is attached to the blue and yellow inflatable part so you don't have to attach it with all the springs. It doesn't allow kids to jump as high on it as they could on the water trampoline but it still gives great bounce and they have a blast. Our son is 5'10 and he and his friends fit easily. It is a good size for a maximum of 6 kids. They spend many hours swimming to and from it and bouncing on the top then jumping into the water. The kids have multiple games (king of the hill football catches into the water spikeball etc.) and they stay out there for hours even using the surface to rest and relax in the sun."