advice for a potential first time (cheat) mobile-home holidayer please!

[harktheheraldheidlesings]

You guys seem to have tried everything, so I'm hoping you can help me here.
as Child 3 is due next year, we will no longer fit in your traditional 'self-catering' 1 bedroom apartment: you know, the kind of holiday that costs you three grand before you get there and then your kids have to sleep on a bed settee?
My great idea is to persuade DH to try a canvas/keycamp/eurocamp mobile home type of holiday - where we can have kids club for the 4 and 6 year olds, pools, beaches, nice restaurants, and hopefully a bedroom of our own!!!
Problem is persuading DH that this is a good idea - he's 6'5", so will he fit in a mobile home, esp the double bed?
Also, have any of you experience of new baby in said mobile home type of thing - can you fit a carry-cot in your room with you ?(baby will be 4 months, so no doubt still bloody night feeds)
Hope you can help, sorry if this has all been asked before, as you can probably tell, I'm new!!!
I'm not even going to consider trying to get him in a tent - no offence to those of you who live to camp - I love a tent almost as much as you, but I think I'm pushing it as far as I can with the mobile home option!

[scaryboobs]

Evening hark...

We took a group of 25 teenagers to a festival in August and couldn't face a week in a tent with an 18 month old DS and a 20-week bump so we borrrowed a friend's 4-berth caravan.


DS loved the caravan and the freedom to come and go in and out of the awning, and especially loved bedtime baths in a washing-up bowl on the grass! We were dry, comfy and warm. Helps loads if you have an electricty and water hook-up but I assume you do with a Eurocamp-type set-up. Had room for travel cot on 2nd bed and space for all a toddler's paraphenalia outside in the awning. With a new baby a fridge and access to boiled water will probably be your main concerns but if you have these then I would say go for it! We actually found the whole experience much more relaxing than our 2nd week's holiday which was in a luxurious townhouse in Devon - something about all the fresh air that helped us all unwind and sleep really well.

Oh, battery-powered monitors with a decent range were really helpful too so that we could put DS to bed at normal time then enjoy watching the sun go down with a glass of wine...lovely!

Hope you find what suits and have a great hol x

[harktheheraldheidlesings]

thank-you scaryboobs, fresh air sounds great - especially at this time of year!

[harktheheraldheidlesings]

is it bad mumsnettiquette to bump your own thread?
sorry, but dh has just said ' no way am I sleeping in a bloody caravan' but of course it's fine for us all to share one bloody room in a complex with all the other sheep........men!

[Lucycat]

We did 'mobile homing' when the dd's were babies, try to get a big one ie at least 12 foot wide and 3 bedrooms.


We went to Saundersfoot Bay when dd2 was 12 weeks old.

As she was in a samsonite travel cot, we would put her down to sleep on our bed while we were in the lounge area, then as I gave her her last feed at night dh moved the travel cot into the lounge so we could go to bed. The year after we hired a travel cot that fitted into our bedroom (just!!) they also provided free high chairs and the like.

We liked caravans for things like having a microwave for sterilising if needed - oh and your dh might just fit into a bed!!

hth

[Lucycat]

At the time we didn't need a park and the like so that site was great. we have also stayed here on Anglesey in a caravan - we liked this site so much that we now go camping there!

[Skribble]

Has he actualy looked at the caravans theses kind of comapnies rent out. Perhaps he is still having flashbacks to holidaying in a 70's style touring caravan, the big statics are totaly different. Keycamps top of the range ones put my own home to shame.

[slalomsuki]

we own a mobile and have a baby who slept beside us in the main bedroom. It just takes a little bit of furniture removal ie taking out the bedside table to the other side and moving the bed over. She has been in there all last year and will be in her own bed this year