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The Big Chill 2006

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ruthydd · 23/07/2006 21:12

Is anyone going ?

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spidermama · 23/07/2006 21:18

Get an inflatable mattress ruthydd because the ground will be hard.

It'll be fab though. Really fab.

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ruthydd · 23/07/2006 21:25

I have a pump-a-bed, and have just ordered Ready-beds for the kids. I think ds2 (11 months) might be a bit little for his one with the side bumpers, but failing that he'll end up in with us.

Thanks Spidermama!

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aDAdOnMumsnet · 31/07/2006 10:21

Inflatable mattress good idea. Have found that the eastnor site gets REALLY cold at night, once you move away from the centre of the festival - and would recommend camping as high up the family camping field as possible, as the cold/damp is much worse lower down in the valley.

I don't know if you need any advice, you've probably been before, but try to get there Thursday to get a better spot. It seems really busy come Friday now.

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emmagee · 02/08/2006 10:54

We last went to the Big Chill two years ago and were in the vehicle camping bit which had loads of space and wasn't too far from the car park - how far is the family camping from car park and is it quite spacious?

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aDAdOnMumsnet · 02/08/2006 11:20

Hi Emmagee,

The family camping has its own site entrance and car park, and is an enormous sloping field. So you can camp pretty close to your car if you want, however that means that each time you go into the festival you have to walk that much further, so I'd say it might be better to camp nearer the festival end of the field, although those initial journeys will be longer - and even then the distance to your vehicle really isn't huge if you compare it to a glastonbury or something.

We were in the family / live in vehicle enclosure last year which is at the bottom of the family camping field, and actually it was quite cramped - maybe it's getting more and more popular to take a camper? Also there was no organisation to it, so had we wanted to leave early, it would have been totally impossible due to vehicles all around. The shrewd people had just driven their campers into the main family camping field, where there was much more space.

Hmm will miss it this year! Have fun!

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ruthydd · 02/08/2006 21:42

Thanks everyone. We leave tomorrow - wahaayyy!

Suppose I really ought to do some packing.