"This is due to the heat-sink effect of thermo-negative hollow air mattresses. They are only for use in heated enclosures, because they exchange heat to be the same temp as outside air, so if you're sleeping on them, they're working 24/7 to suck the warmth out of you. A cellular foam mattress would need to be 5.0 R-value or better to overcome this, while a hollow air mattress (or cot) is measured at a negative 0.75."
One of the coldest nights I ever spent was sleeping on an air mattress on concrete in an overcrowded youth hostel garage floor in Paris in May of 1973. (And I was in a military down mummy bag!)