Camping

Lots of potential for a great thread this one, Ive been taking the kids camping since they were able to walk, we have done loads of festivals which are great fun, but not really relaxing!! We did quite a few of the big holiday park ones when they were younger, as they loved all the kids shows and whatnot, oh and fleecing me for whichever character teddy they fancied at the time!!
The girls are now both 8, and "too old for the baby stuff daddy!!", we've been to a great one in Caernarfon, with fire pits for hire and a quite decent bistro on site, and last weekend we went to one in the peak district, again with firepits and also had goats and llamas on site which the kids loved.
Anyone with any recommendations for anything similar?
 
blue44 said:
Interesting thread this for me
Iv just recently stumbled on camping vids on youtube about wild camping.There are loads of channels,Iv been trying to inspire and motivate myself to buying all the equipment needed and go and hike somewhere,mrs isnt up for it though.It just seems better than binge drinking on my days off.
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Patrick Dickinson is good on Youtube
 
Used to like going camping in Edale when I still lived in Manchester. First time I went was with an ex and we didn't have a car, so took the train there. First morning we got up and walked over the ridge to Castleton. The Hope Valley is probably my favourite part of England.

I bought a Vango 450XL in 2019 and we went camping in 2019 and 2020 at the same site in Killarney. The 2020 trip was very very quiet and there was only us and one guy in a solo tent in the field, compared to the year before where we were stuck at the far end of the site. I think I got this tent for just under 200 quid at the time and to be honest I try my very best to take good care of it, as its a nice bit of kit. The mrs had a mate come and stay last year and her two kids had been pestering to camp in the garden. I made up a lie that I'd borrowed it to someone because there wasn't a chance I was letting the kids destroy it.

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blue44 said:
Interesting thread this for me
Iv just recently stumbled on camping vids on youtube about wild camping.There are loads of channels,Iv been trying to inspire and motivate myself to buying all the equipment needed and go and hike somewhere,mrs isnt up for it though.It just seems better than binge drinking on my days off.
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If you do wild camping right up in the hills, mountains it is brilliant. A decent tent is only £250. You spend that on 2 nights in a hotel so if you only go occasionally you haven't wasted your money.
 
bellbuzzer said:
w[th our weather, camping is a hit-and-miss affair. Compared to a week in southern Spain, camping there in a rented tent can be as cheap as a week in Devon/Cornwall,including flights, and fine weather is almost guranteed. Peak times pre-booking at our sites is essential, as is some form of awning to keep wet-weather gear out of the living area, and also bbq/cookers and a table. A tent full of dick-heads can make the whole thing a nightmare, camp-sites seem to attract more than most , sadly....
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Cheap holidays attract cheap people sadly
 
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