Your post brought back a very funny recent memory for me. We actually had large tubes at home, so we spent quite a while deflating them to bring them (to save money). When we arrived at the BCV, we had them inflated for us, then we NEVER used them in 8 days, had to deflate them again to pack up. Then we got home and had to inflate them again for our pool. LOL!!!! My husband said "it's a good thing we brought those tubes with us!"