What to pack for Eurocamp/Canvas tent holiday?

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I'm packing today, to leave at 4.30am tomorrow so want to make sure I've thought of everything. We are going to the Loire Valley in a tent with Canvas Holidays, so they already supply kitchen stuff + tent etc!

So far I have thought of:

• Passport, tickets, insurance docs, breakdown docs

• Clothes for us all - including rain coats, tight swimmers for the boys as no loose trunks allowed, crocs for all.

• Toiletries & first aid kit, including insect repellent, sun cream, bite cream

• Bedding - pillow & blankets supplied, will take sleeping bags for boys, sheet & pillowcases for me & DH.

• Shower towels each plus 1 swimming towel each.

• Adaptor plugs

• Toilet roll

• European driving kit

Anything else?

Have you stayed with them before? My priority items would be

• your own pillows (theirs are really flat!)
• extra towels
• an extra bathmat
• decent kitchen knives
• two proper mugs
• two or three teatowels
• cloths and green scrubs
• clothes pegs
• spare chopping board

They do theoretically come with everything you need, but it’s not really adequate.

We have, but not in a tent with the DC. Good ideas there thanks.

Ah maybe you won’t need the bathmat if you’re not in a mobile home. The main battle we had was getting pool towels dry when it rained, and keeping the floors from turning really dirty, having a good bathmat would have helped the floor. Do they supply a clothes horse? Do you have anything similar you could pack? I found one clothes horse wasn’t enough for four wet pool towels, costumes, wet bath towels and raincoats.

I have a length of clothes line plus pegs, so hopefully there will be a handy tree to tie it to.