Mosquito nets in India.

Ok, so my girlfriend and I are travelling to India. We land in Delhi on 2nd Nov and leave from Mumbai 7 weeks later!
I have been looking at mosquito nets to help keep at bay the malaria spreading insects and was more than a little overwhelmed by the range of choices.
So I am looking for advice from someone who has had a similar experience already or is just in the know.
My choices are:
Double person hanging net? But I have heard that not every hotel has rooms with something with which to hang it. And indeed some deliberately not have a hook so they can try to convince you that they have no mossies. So of the hanging variety you have the bell (one attachment in the centre) or others with corner chords that form a rectangular prism of protection. These range from €40 to €80!
Or, and I thought this was a cool idea, a free standing net with thin, light poles like a dome tent. So it needs no attachment (but how good is the protection?). This was about €54.
Another range were the impregnated nets. That is impregnated with a mossie killer so that rather than just keep them out, it actually kills any that come into contact with the net. But not available as a free standing net, and again more expensive.
Is it possible to soak a net in some kind of mossie insecticide stuff?
Should we go for a double or two singles?
I dont know! too many choices!
The only store I found them in so far was Där camping store.
Any advice on type or style or price or place to get on would be greatly appreciated.

Thanking you in advance,

Baffled

I've been going to India regularly for the last 30 years and frankly, in the last couple decades I have never needed a net.
The reason is that most houses these daysm, especially houses frequented by foreigners, have netting on all doors and windows. The same goes for hotels; which are usually air-conditioned anyway, except for the very cheap ones. The times I did use a net, I seem to remember that the Indian style was the four-cornered one, with a frame for the net to fit over. I have never taken a net to India myself. Sorry i can't be more helpful; maybe someone knows more! I should add that I go mostly to South India -- Chennai, rural Tamil Nadu.

Unless you going to live in a village, no one uses mosquito nets in the city anymore.... What type of hotel are you going to be staying at 5 star or some hostel? Take one of those electric mosquito repellent thingies and some mosquito repellent sprays they work better. Also take all your malaria shots and you will be fine

Daerr used to be the shop to go to, but since Lauche&Maas took them over, it's often better to do the journey out to Alte Allee in Pasing (10 minutes walking from Pasing S-Bahn station), if you really need some gear.

I can't recommend Long Road Travel Supplies enough. I have used their Travel Tent all over Latin America and it has kept me safe from malaria and chagas while being super easy to assemble/disassemble, lightweight, and allowing the breeze to pass to keep cool. In my experience you will almost never find a place to hang a net when you need to (I don't know about India), so, self-supporting is the only way to go. It sounds like the Skeeter Defeater would be the most economical choice for your needs, however, both it and the Travel Tent come in 2 person sizes so I would recommend springing for a Travel Tent because the built-in floor will also protect you from bedbugs (a growing problem worldwide, even in nice hotels!). Long Road's site says it ships worldwide and I've found their customer service very prompt and helpful. If you have any questions feel free to send me a message. Good luck! Here's the website http://www.longroad.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.100.exe/?E+scstore

I am a regular visitor to India too. You don't need to take a mosquito net with you. You don't need to take anything against mosquitos with you in fact. If you are arriving in Delhi or any other sity you can buy everything there that you need. There is never any need to arrive in India with a whole suitcase full of stuff from the chemist chemist. Everything is available in India at a fraction of the price it will cost you over here. You can buy electric plug in mosquito repellent which take either mats (Good knight) 0r have a liquid repellent. You can get spirals too should there be no electricity. We bought king size mosquito nets years ago when our children were babies but never take them any more. You can buy odomos which is like autan which also stops the mosquitos biting. Have a good trip!!!

Well... in most places you don't need a net, and for some people a fly repellant works. But in all depends on where you go, and the kind of places you stay. When I was backpacking through India, I never needed my net... until one night in a guesthouse with open windows where didn't put up my net and I was bitten about eighty times. That was uncomfortable. And I'm allergic to fly repellants (at least, to the kind that actually work. That lemon stuff is useless.)

THe net I carried was a compact thing about the size of a tennis ball. You had to suspend it, but you could do that by stringing a line wall to wall over your bed. Good luck.

Suggest you spray your room and bathroom with Baygon or similar in the early evening, especially low dark areas such as beside furniture and under and behind beds. First close all windows and doors that are not netted. If you do it early then the spray will do its job but not be around for you to breathe in when you go to bed.

The electric mosquito tablets make you feel protected, but, even though I used them as well as everything else when we were in dengue season, I was never really sure that they helped.
A stick of tabard also helps (dab around neck, head etc), and use the liquid/lotion version to protect larger areas of exposed skin. If you wear dark trousers in the evening, you will find that you are more of a target for mosquitos than wearing light colours, even shorts with well anti-mosquito sprayed legs are better.

Mossies fly low and in darker places (except when bomb diving you in the middle of the night), so burning a fish coil or two under chairs and table in the evenings if you are sitting around is a good idea.

If you are camping or staying in very basic accommodation then definitely mosquito nets, impregnated is best.