Camping.... tomorrow....

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Me and two kids, Lake District..... would you go?!
Weather warnings, rain all day today, and I’m looking up hotels

Hard no to camping in this and I'm a seasoned camper. Hotels maybe, but if there's nothing much to do given the weather, I'm not sure is bother at all tbh. Get some popcorn or sweets in, draw the curtains and have a home movie session.

We cancelled last week based on the forecast for last week - and it was a good idea.

Camping in heavy rain can be shit.

Camping In heavy rain just makes it not really fun.

I'm sitting in my own living room drinking tea listening to the howling wind and pouring rain as the DC watch cartoons on Netflix upstairs on my laptop (rare treat for them!) Which seems a hundred times better than being cooped up in a poky hotel room and about a million times better than huddling in a tent wondering if it will blow away. I'd stay home.

I live about 12 miles from Keswick , it's been raining for a good few hours already and we have a yellow warning for more rain / wind.
Yesterday was really lovely though . I guess you will have to weigh up the pros / cons and length of your stay.

I am camping on Dorset now. It is horrendous.

It's not really the rain that bothered me (Lake District a few weeks ago), it was the bloody wind. We had one night of 50mph gusts and I genuinely thought we'd blow away (we didn't, clearly, but it was the worst night ever). I love camping, we stayed on because we needed to be somewhere other than at home and the weather did improve but my god the wind is scary in a tent.

Camping in nice weather is awful, so camping in this weather is shit.

We have severe gale warnings here for the next two days, I definitely wouldn't want to be camping in it.

I would still go. Tomorrow is looking better than today isn't it? I'd be more inclined to look at the wind than the rain though. Putting up a tent in the wind isn't great. Once it's done you can be cosy and I doubt it will rain every minute of the day.

Camping at the moment but in a campervan. Preteen Kids decided against their tent are in the awning (which we know is rain and wind proof!) and are still sleeping soundly!
Tomorrow looks better, but unless your seasoned campers, who have the ability to put a tent up in the rain, and dry yourself out before dark don’t do it. Can you delay for w bit?

Sorry not in Lake District though!

It's looking quite shit isn't it. Unless the weather is glorious it can be hard work, you never seem to dry off once wet.

Striking camp in the rain is not to be recommended either. I can't think of many things I would rather not do than packing up a wet tent.

No. We camped in storm Ellen last week but Francis is in a different league, we've cancelled our trip for this week.

I'm a pretty hardened camper, but when our static caravan was being buffeted by 50mph winds and horizontal rain last week, I was glad to not have to regulatly go out and check the guy lines!

It's harder this year as there's no practical indoor alternatives. Less choice, less capacity, no spontenaity of turning up, plus you need to be willing to gag on your own stale breath for hours- even DH drew the line at that, and he's far more accepting about it than me. We spent last Wednesday rained into the caravan before venturing out at 4pm when it has settled to a stiff breeze, hill fog and lots of drizzle/ sea spray which was fine for a burst of fossil hunting.

The weather is forecast to be lovely at the weekend where we are, how long are you booked for? Could you go a few days late?

I wouldn't be keen right now, my friends went camping the other day and lost an expensive tent after the wind ripped it up. The campsite they were on was pretty exposed on a hill.

I personally wouldn't, I love camping and have camped in terrible weather however with kids would never do the same. Even if it stops raining for tomorrow which seems highly unlikely, the ground will be soaked, making putting up and packing down the tent a pain. The high wind and chance of being stuck inside the tent with kids who may not like it would out me off

I'm sitting in a campervan right now listening to the rain beat down and feeling very thankful that I'm not in a tent!

Decision made thank you all! Hopefully the site will let me shift the booking

Absolutely! We are currently camping

I’m going... in a caravan on a serviced pitch. No to a tent, just too hard a slog

Loads of listeners on R2 this morning writing in about their awful camping experiences in this weather.

Having experienced a tornado while camping in France several years ago I am terrified of high winds.

No chance but then i loathe camping anyway....I also wouldn't want to pay through the nose for a hotel either...i'd be tucked up in the comfort of my own home.

I always book camping with a view to cancelling if the forecast is bad, even if it means losing money. Camping in the rain is unbearably shit.