Meerweh 74028 118 x 63 cm 2X-Large Inflatable Wheels Foldable Light Weight Sun Lounger Trolley includes Bag - Grey/Blue

PROS:1) Can safely carry (transport) 100kg2) Accommodates a 100kg person3) Large wheels allow traversing on sand, up and down stairs, and kerbs.4) Easy to construct5) DurableCONS:1) Wheel nuts need threadlock2) Wheels rub against seat material (unless material adjusted, see photo)3) Needs a stand to allow the trolley to be loaded on your own.I bought this Meerweh 74030 Wheeled Sun Lounger for our trip to the South West Atlantic Coast of France. I looked at similar offerings, but they all had ridiculously small wheels, and lesser carrying capacities. As our essential beach kit includes two camping chairs, an Easthills Outdoors Instant Beach Shelter Deluxe XL (see my review) a Dometic Cool-Ice 55Litre Coolbox and a bag of God knows what, we needed something to carry all that stuff. Especially after my wife refused to carry it all in one go and me and my son too...I don't know!Anyway, the only lounger with wheels that I found could carry that lot, especially the Dometic 55Litre Cool box (which is huge) was the Meerweh. It comes as a flat pack kit. which is easy to assemble if you have got some common sense (and/or an engineering degree). There are a couple of issues I had with it prior to getting it to the beach highlighted by our planning before the trip (like any good strategist). Firstly, there is no stand to support the trolley when loading. This means you either need to rest it against something, like a rock, or an angled bank, or get someone else to hold it whilst. you load it up. This is also true of unloading. It's a minor concern which does become annoying in 30degC plus heat.Secondly, when loading the trolley and trying it in the lounge I noticed that the wheels rubbed the seat (the longer of the two components) material. This was due to deformation of the chassis under load. I realised that dragging this for 2 weeks was going to damage the seat material and ultimately, the stitching would come undone. Thus, my wife who is not only stunning, but resourceful too, took to doing some adjustments to the seat material and re-stitched it to avoid the wheels rubbing on this part. (See Photo)Another slightly annoying element, though of only minor annoyance Is that the ratchet mechanism which allows you to alter the backrest position (and use it as a trolley) requires the backrest to be fully flat (180 degrees) to engage the ratchet. What this means is that every time you want to bring the backrest to 90 degrees to use it as a trolley, you have to extend it to 180 degrees before you can get it to 90 degrees. Making incremental changes from say 135 degrees (reclined backrest) up to 90 degrees are ok on the ratchet, e.g. when you're sitting. It's just when you want to get it to 90 degrees. Additionally, the wheel nuts need careful monitoring for tension, lest they come undone. Simple nylon threading on the wheel nuts would overcome the need to carry a ratchet wrench in my beach bag!These gripes aside this Meerweh Wheeled Lounger comes very highly recommended by my wife and myself because the trudging from car park to beach has involved 30 steps (up and down) in Saint-Jean de Luz, a 60m ramp in San Sebastián, a 400m trek across sand in Uhabia beach near Biarritz, an incredibly steeply inclined road and beach track of 150m just past Guathery etc etc. The trolley/lounger easily handled the stairs at Saint-Jean de Luz in both directions. The diameter of the wheels is easily big enough to handle the majority of stair cases. I even tried it in our house staircase. The throw of house stair cases is much bigger than those encountered outside so the trolley copes perfectly. I have added a couple of bungie cords to ensure that the cool box stays in place, but other than that nothing else has been needed.Going across sand isn't as easy as firmer surfaces despite the large diameter. This is more of a function of wheel width and diameter. Those with the pull carts (like the Americans like) and the inferior loungers with small diameter wheels of a fifth of the width of our Meerweh were struggling exasperatingly across the sand. We found that if both pulled and kept the momentum, it was relatively easy to negotiate soft sand. If we didn't have our 35kg cool box, with tent, beach chairs and beach bag loaded, and we were less prepared, it would have sailed over the sand.My wife, who used this for sunbathing reports that it's comfortable lying on your back, reclined or more upright. However, lying on your tummy is less comfortable. It got a lot of admiring glances (the lounger not the wife) from French and Spanish (predominate in the Basque region of France and Spain) tourists, especially when transporting our gear. Even with its shortcomings, and the alterations, and the design flaws, there is nothing anywhere near the price that compares and so we highly recommend this lounger.One last point: this trolley/lounger is big. In a current model Mercedes E-Class Estate (which has the biggest load area of any car on sale) this would not fit without the seats folded down. If you remove the wheels, as I did it would fit either side ways or lengthways in the E Class' boot. Bearing in mind that this car is the only one in the world which you can load a Euro Pallet into, you may struggle to get this item in your car boot without taking it part assembled to the beach. There are two retaining screws on the long handle/seat frame which you could remove to help you fit it into a smaller car. So check the dimensions before you buy it.If the manufacturer Is reading this and genuinely wants to improve it here are my suggestions as a manufacturing engineer:1) Nylon threads for the wheel nuts!2) Longer axles for the wheels both protruding (plus spacers, for clearance from material) and internally for strength.3) Wheelbearings to improve movement.4) Thicker gauge steel for the ratchet to prevent deformation under load.5) More fixing points (screws) where component parts join for added rigidity.6) A flip down stand for loading and unloading.7) Bigger wheels (definitely wider, and possibly increased diameter) balloon tyres.Even if this added £30 to the retail price, this improved product would definitely sell.

The trolley was want I wanted. It was sent from Germany, but doubt that it was manufactured there. The instructions were only printed in German, although a diagram was also enclosed that would allow most people to assemble it.One of the two stub axles for the wheels to be attached was poorly machined, with the thread only cut up half the length of the stud, and the poor machining had also stripped the thread, making the nut inoperative. Amazon do not have a facility to contact the manufacture for a replacement part, meaning that the trolley had to be returned for credit.