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To cancel camping because of the rain

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StJamesInfirmary · 14/04/2025 03:21

Camping in the lake district, rain from now till we leave, all day and night. Not slept a wink tonight, everyone is so cold, barely slept last night (first night). Will drop to 5 then 3 degrees at night before the end of our trip. Both DDs unwell. DH will most certainly want to stay until the bitter end but I can't do 3 more nights of this. AIBU to insist we leave tomorrow? We have another holiday in a few weeks and another in the school holidays

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TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 14/04/2025 07:27

FortyElephants · 14/04/2025 07:04

Most people don't have cold weather camping gear

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My sleeping bags aren’t four season which is why I use two. Alternatively you could take a sleeping bag plus a duvet, or borrow extra.

Planning for the appropriate conditions is a standard part of camping in any climate and at any time of year.

Swiftie1878 · 14/04/2025 07:26

GO HOME.
It’s miserable and will put the kids off camping forever!

Hillarious · 14/04/2025 07:23

Camping in the summer when it’s wet has been great fun with the kids (with a pack of cards and supplies of tea and cake to hand) but if you’re cold and not well, that’s no fun.

TheChosenTwo · 14/04/2025 07:08

I hope you’re all packed up and on the way home now op, that sounds so bleak. Mind you u think camping is bleak at any time but throw terrible weather and poorly kids into the mix I don’t think anyone would be staying and having a jolly old time.

FortyElephants · 14/04/2025 07:04

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 14/04/2025 06:37

It’s fine if you are properly equipped!
Some of my favourite camping trips have involved frost on a tent. And using two down sleeping bags, one inside the other.

YANBU to go in April but YABVU to take kids and not enough bedding. Definitely go home.

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Most people don't have cold weather camping gear

FortyElephants · 14/04/2025 07:03

MumChp · 14/04/2025 06:08

It's great if you have the rightvgear. If not. No.

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I'm talking about regular camping with average camping gear.

Ineffable23 · 14/04/2025 07:00

It's pretty expensive to have the right gear to camp in April. I have camped between the start of April and the end of October and I reckon May to very early October is okay if the weather is decent and beyond that you really need a 4 season sleeping bag.

I'd be heading home and spending as long as humanly possible in a hot bath.

ClaredeBear · 14/04/2025 06:58

I’m a pretty hard camper but that’s not enjoyable, particularly with children. Feel good about going home and making the most of the remaining days.

Londonrach1 · 14/04/2025 06:56

Go home. What's the point of you are ill, cold and wet!

mounjaromarc · 14/04/2025 06:54

Credit card a premier inn near a indoor waterpark.

TenThousandSpoons · 14/04/2025 06:45

YANBU. Go home asap!

pizzaHeart · 14/04/2025 06:41

Bellshellss · 14/04/2025 03:39

Yeah, fuck that.

Wha is the fun in being cold, wet and miserable? I’m no fan of camping anyway, but in shitty weather, it’s just hell.

Where is the fun?

This^
go home, at least you will have this week to recover.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 14/04/2025 06:37

FortyElephants · 14/04/2025 04:30

YANBU - camping in April is not a good idea in the UK, it's always too cold at night and weather too unreliable.

It’s fine if you are properly equipped!
Some of my favourite camping trips have involved frost on a tent. And using two down sleeping bags, one inside the other.

YANBU to go in April but YABVU to take kids and not enough bedding. Definitely go home.

UndermyShoeJoe · 14/04/2025 06:35

Yeah I’d leave. We camp sometimes but we always go with hook up and a heater even in August.

countingthedays945 · 14/04/2025 06:34

Why camp in April? Especially in the Lakes! You’ve already proved you’re bonkers. Go home.

Cookielover64 · 14/04/2025 06:33

Isn't being wet, cold, tired and miserable the default setting for camping in the UK?

But yes, go home, it sounds miserable.

Jblack · 14/04/2025 06:32

I love camping, I'm a big time outdoorsy gal, and I would absolutely 100% pack up and go home in your situation 😂 different story if I was out solo or adult only camping, but with the kids? Nah, I'd be out of there, doesn't sound fun for anyone

FrenchandSaunders · 14/04/2025 06:31

I just had a flashback to a Cornish camping trip like this when our DDs were young. Hideous. Go home.

Bigfish51 · 14/04/2025 06:26

Go home leave your DH there. Camping and skiing are the same, if the weathers not good I abandon ship! We do have ski slopes near to our house so it’s not like we are trapped on a holiday package. Camping, it’s not worth being miserable, rain is bearable but cold and rain is not!

CaptainFuture · 14/04/2025 06:19

Where in lake are you? Last minute air b.n
B?

SpanThatWorld · 14/04/2025 06:18

I absolutely love camping.

That sounds awful. Go home.

LoudSnoringDog · 14/04/2025 06:14

We don’t camp anymore but did it loads when my sons were young. I can recall the misery vividly. It’s grand if the weather is good but utterly awful when it rains. I would pack up ( another miserable task) and get home.

Zanatdy · 14/04/2025 06:11

I’d be insisting on leaving if the DC are unwell. Who wants to be in a freezing cold tent when unwell, where everything is damp? He is incredibly selfish if he insists on staying.

MumChp · 14/04/2025 06:08

FortyElephants · 14/04/2025 04:30

YANBU - camping in April is not a good idea in the UK, it's always too cold at night and weather too unreliable.

It's great if you have the rightvgear. If not. No.

Natsku · 14/04/2025 05:43

They're ill so of course you head home!
Camping in any weather can be fine (in scouts DD camped in winter when there was snow on the ground and it was below zero) but only with the right equipment - if you're cold then you don't have the right equipment and you're just going to be miserable