The Aquaglide Navarro 145 is a sturdy and easy-to-manoevre tandem kayak. While it comes with no included accessories and has poor tracking abilities, for the price, it offers great performance for leisure and multi-day excursions, especially when you need the added comfort of durability.

The Advanced Elements AdvancedFrame Convertible Elite is a fast kayak that has a huge weight capacity. It’s tough and well-built constructions means it has a slow setup and it’s also a bit heavy when packed. So, while it has some downsides, it’s a fast and stable kayak.

The Innova Rush 2 has a sturdy construction and handles well in the water, cutting through seamlessly. While expensive, it’s a high-end kayak for top-level performance that’s equipped with all the right features you need when out on the water.

The Sea Eagle 330 is a great kayak for families wanting a budget kayak that’s easy to set up, dry and then pack down when out by the water. It’s quite small and can be unstable, plus, it’s a bit uncomfortable to paddle in, especially for long periods of time. While it needs improvements, it’s a great inflatable kayak for the price.

The Tommy Bahama Backpack Beach Chair is a high-quality, good-looking and lightweight chair. While its backpack straps are a bit flimsy and the back of the chair is quite low, overall, it’s great for lounging with everything at hand.

The Fiam Dondolina Steel Frame is a sturdy and comfortable beach or desk chair. While it can creak a bit, it moves with you as you recline and it’s easily portable and stackable.

Part of relaxing at the beach is that you shouldn't need to go anywhere, and the Homevative Folding Backpack Beach Chair delivers on that. With more pockets than Mary Poppins' handbag, this chair makes sure you have everything easily accessible.

The Brunner Bula Beach Chair Pros is wide, cosy and robust, and while it’s not adjustable and has no armrests, overall, it’s a very comfortable and easily transportable beach chair.

We enjoyed relaxing in the RIO BEACH Folding Beach Chair. The wooden arms lend a touch of luxury and refinement to the chair, perfect for sipping cocktails by the seaside. The chair features an innovative system that allows the back position to be adjusted by moving the armrests, which was a win and was easy to carry to and from the water.

If you’re after a good looking, sturdy and transportable beach chair, the Utopia Deluxe Beach Chair might be for you. While the wood may eventually start to rot in the elements, it’s a very comfortable chair to sit and recline in, albeit a little expensive.

If you're specifically after a chair with built-in sunshade, then the GCI Outdoor Waterside Sunshade Backpack Beach Chair is worth a look. It folds down into a fairly compact size for storage, so as it fulfills the role of part beach chair part umbrella, it's not a bad option.

The Ostrich Deluxe 3-in-1 Beach Chair is a sturdy, comfortable and reclining beach chair that’s perfect for lounging in the sun, but it’s heavy.

The Kijaro Beach Sling Chair is comfortable and has good pockets, and is a great priced chair for what you get, however, the seat is quite low and the mesh is less durable than other materials.

The Oru Lake is extremely lightweight, portable and easy to set up and pack down. It’s also the most accessibly-priced of all Oru’s kayaks. However, we found it lacked straight-line tracking and stability, and was uncomfortable to sit in for any period of time.

The Aquaglide Blackfoot 130 DS Angler is perfectly designed for all-day fishing. It has a huge amount of well-considered features, great stability and high weight capacity, but comes with a price tag.

The first thing we noticed about this kayak in the water is that it is bulky. It takes a bit of wrestling to get it moving in a straight line. It's probably more durable than other budget models but it's also hard to handle.

This is definitely the cheapest kayak we tested and in our opinion it does feel more like a pool toy than a kayak. It handles ok and is easy to dry but the cockpit is hard to squeeze into and the thin materials make it susceptible to puncture.

For the price this kayak tracks surprisingly well, is fairly stable and isn't too hard to handle. Our main knocks on it are that it's made with thin materials that may be susceptible to puncture and it's slow in the water.

We love the stability and comfort of this kayak. It also has some great storage for taking on an overnight trip. Our main issues are the setup/ pack down and speed in the water. We really noticed the width and it was a bit hard to manoeuvre this kayak around.

On paper this should be a great kayak. It certainly delivers on the speed and is the closest inflatable kayak in terms of design to a hard shell. It's a bit heavy to carry but the main issue we have is the lack of stability and less than great finish quality of the build.