Like other reviews have mentioned, it’s not soft. We have it under our bed and it’s fine on feet. However, I would NOT want to have children crawling around on it. They’d scrape all their skin off. We added a rug pad  for added softness. The color is great and it’s perfect for what we wanted. It had a somewhat chemical smell but that went away within 3 days. The edges also laid down within 3 days.  No issues with packing.