Self catering holiday tomorrow - what have I forgotten?

[Blastandbollocks]

As I've got a horrible feeling there's something missing!

I've:

• organised a food delivery,
• remembered corkscrew, extension cable, sharp knife,
• packed extra towels,
• clothing and entertainment stuff sorted.
• PIL looking after house so no worries there.

What's missing?!!

Slow cooker?!

Cooking oil

Oven gloves! Never any oven gloves and I hate trying to use tea towels to get things out of the oven, thus burning my hands

If the place is such that you really need to bring your entire kitchen and laundry room then I agree, book a hotel

Really? That's out of a lot of people's price range. We're not all talking about luxury villas or delightful thatched cottages. I'm guessing that KatharinaRosalie has never had to spend her holiday in a budget caravan

Bowls/plates and cutlery of the right dimensions for small DC (if required)
Bite and sting cream, plasters suitable for rubbed areas of feet!

I barely use a measuring jug, potato peeler and whisk at home. There's no chance I'd use them on holiday!!

A thermometer and calpol/paracetamol

You might want to pack some clothes ...

Oh I love a self catering packing list!

• Loo roll
• Kitchen roll
• some extra snuggly slippers (or practical flip flops...in case the floors / bathroom is less than spick and span)
• tea towels
• all purpose spray and roll of j cloth
• washing up liquid and sponge

OK I sound like a clean freak... I'm better off in a hotel which is so germy it's not even worth trying

I only need to read these lists to book another AI. Fuses!

Cool bag and iceblocks for picnics

ithink you are right, I haven't, I'm in a lovely villa in Dordogne that has everything. That does not mean I haven't travelled on a tiny budget, but I don't think I would go for a budget caravan if I had to do it again, they don't sound too appealing based on this thread.

I am amazed how much people take.

When we go I only pack clothes and toiletries.

If I had to bring loo roll or towels I would certainly not be too impressed at the place.

Every holiday let we have been in has been better stocked than my own house

I barely use a measuring jug, potato peeler and whisk at home. There's no chance I'd use them on holiday!!

That's great, but apart from the fact I quite like an Angel Delight on holiday, we are limited in places to go out to due to the autistic child, so we have to cook.

The list of things we forgot this time were Calpol, DVDs and any toys at all (excluding night time fluffies which is obviously a separate category). In previous years I have forgotten pants, earplugs, any tops at all for DS, wellies, and multi-plugs (often only enough sockets in the master bedroom for 2 bedside lamps, the baby monitor cradle and one phone recharger. If we both want our phones we need a multiplug.)

We take knives, extra towels, bin bag for dirty laundry, toilet rolls and the kitchen gadgets that are used regularly at home.

I expect the owners to provide cleaning materials etc. I expect extra blankets in case the weather is cold and I want efficient Wi-fi, decent TV and sufficient good quality crockery, cutlery, glassware and furniture.

The last place we stayed in was the opposite. It was not a success. Needless to say, despite asking several times for a review, the one we gave hasn’t been published. Last year, the place was delightful.

Kitchen surface cleaner
Air freshener
Own pillows
Board game
Couple of dvds
Wine!

For Eurocamp:

Decent knives
Chopping board
Knife sharpener
Multipurpose cleaner
Cloths
3in1 dishwasher tabs
Washing up liquid
Rubber gloves
Bin bags
Proper mugs

Clothes pegs
Salt
Pepper
Chilli sauce - its never hot enough in France

I know you can buy these things at French supermarkets but I resent doing so if I have plenty at home. And the euro/£ rate is shocking.

We also like to bring our own pillows and duvets. I don't like those Eurocamp thin quilts.

I don’t own half the stuff people list.

I don’t own a chopping board, tea towels or a knife sharpener let alone clothes pegs or a measuring jug

As for air freshener, why ? I am a firm believer it makes you depressed. Surely opening a window would do the same job

I don’t own a chopping board, tea towels or a knife sharpener let alone clothes pegs or a measuring jug
So how do you chop or measure or dry non dishwasher items?

Oliversmumsarmy
I don’t own a chopping board, tea towels or a knife sharpener let alone clothes pegs or a measuring jug

Presumably you have staff or you live with your mum

Or you live on ready meals and eat them out of the plastic tray with disposable cutlery?

I can't remember the last time I used a tea towel to dry anything, they are used to take stuff out if the oven and train food. Dishwasher or air dry here. Last self-catering place was well equipped but we forgot tea/coffee/sugar cubes. I like my own.

We don’t use tea towels for regular old-fashioned “you wash, I’ll dry” type drying either.

But for drying hands, rinsing/drying during cooking, occasionally mopping counters (not by me obv ), drying random plastic bags before adding to recycling etc...I have more than half a dozen used regularly in rotation.

Can’t imagine not using them, ever.

Are people wasting kitchen roll instead?

No definitely don't live with my mother.

Never owned a tea towel.

We have a dishwasher now so dishes etc always come out dry and before the dishwasher we let plates etc drain

I don't like tea towels I think they are a germ magnet
Should say we have never had a stomach bug ever

I measure everything by eye so never needed a measuring anything.

Never used a knife sharpener

And instead of a chopping board I either use a plate or chop over the pan

Dc find it fascinating when they visit friends and see a fridge full of food

Dc say I am like a disinterested student when it comes to cooking.