To ask what you think Glamping is?

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We're just back from a glamping weekend, having paid £110 per night for the privilege of staying in our "canvas cottage" and I feel a bit like I've been conned. Have I missed the point of glamping entirely, or am I being a bit precious?

I kind of expected a bit better service than we had - the tent was set up and the bed was made (with a duvet too small for it, which had a big stain on it), but beyond that it was very much camping in that we had to fetch our own water and look after ourselves. I kind of expected a bit of service for the money we paid - water tank being topped up for us rather than being told "there's the hose" etc.

I appreciate I sound ridiculous and there are far bigger problems in the world, but for the same price we could have had a nice room in a country pub.

So AIBU to think that glamping is just camping, not with extras or anything, just more expensive?

oh no - I'd never take my cats camping

Don't think cats would enjoy camping, it's beneath them surely...?

I went "glamping" recently and the tents were lovely, big bell tents with proper beds, duvets, rugs, log burners and barbecues outside for cooking with coals and crockery etc provided. However I did feel slightly more was needed in terms of the facilities to justifying the "glam" label. The toilet and shower facilities were VERY basic and there was no electricity, and only one tiny washing up/water point.

Glamping is featherdown farm type holidays, isn't it? Pretty luxurious I thought.

What about camping pods? We stayed in one this weekend. It had a heater and electricity and the most uncomfortable rubber mattressed beds ever. We also had to trek across a field to the shower block which although clean was blooming freezing.

It was billed as glamping. I'd say camping in a shed was nearer the mark.

I thought it was camping for the middle classes.

I went glamping earlier this summer..... it was a big bell tent with lovely beds and duvets, and a sofa and a hob, mini fridge etc, but you had to go to a toilet block for showers and loos. I was pretty thankful we had taken DS's potty though as it worked for me at 3 am.... :)

It was great! But also half the price of the OP's visit. Very comfy, probably quite cold when the weather turns though, but a fun adventure. If I were paying alot I would not expect hoses.

£110 a night for a tent! YANBU, it was a rip off. I suspect the site owner sees glamping as being camping for those with more money than sense.

Just returned from a camping pod holiday which was much more comfy and luxurious than a tent in a field but much cheaper and more outdoorsy than a hotel

I just paid a little more than that for a hotel in central Paris.
You were ripped off.

I would expect a camping pod or tiny wood cabin, or maybe a yurt, with a properly comfortable bed and good bedding, plus better facilities than camping proper. Would not be happy to spend that kind of money for just a tent in a field!

I don't really do camping but was talked into it for a couple of nights ths summer. The 2 tents (new from decathlon) cost about £50 and one night was €26. The other was free "camping sauvage". On that basis, you was had. We did have to put te tens up, but these pop up things were great... 2 second tent is right. Takes a bit longer to deconstruct!

My ghastly exSil likes glamping, but that's a whole other thread!

I think glamping, whether in teepee tents or little cabins is a rip off. For that money you could hire a nice cottage and have all the comfort and facilities and still sit out round a campfire if you wanted! Either you want to camp or you want luxury, usually a cross of the two doesn't work!

I'm 46 and have decided my camping days are done, I want more comfort and facilities, so we now have a caravan. That way I pick the duvets and the crockery etc. We only do quiet rural site, never big parks.

When I think of glamping I think of overpriced camping.

To be fair camping is my idea of hell on earth so stringing up a few fairy lights, having a proper bed, stove etc wouldn't change that. Unless they do yurts with a proper plumbed en suite in which case I'd consider it....but only if all the hotels and b&bs were full!

Yours sounds crap!

We went here -www.dorsetyurtcampsite.co.uk

proper Mongolian yurt with wood-burning stove and good beds plus a ring for making tea in the morning. Water from a mini tank outside. Separate building with a proper bathroom for each yurt, proper kitchen and big communal area with games and telly. Lovely hosts too.

We went glamping in the Lake District in April.

It was £40 a night for a small wooden (insulated and heated) hut, with electric and carpet. That was it - we still had to take sleeping bags, cooked outside on the camping stove etc.

It was fabulous and the dc loved it. We like camping anyway, but it was just camping without the stress - no putting the tent up and down, no draughts, warmer.

We loved it and would happily go again.

The level of 'service' varies but glamour means a lee erected bell tent or a tipi or yurt or other structure set up for you, with bed and bedding provided and some fairy lights and shit. Probably expect a picnic table outside the tent.

Apart from that, it's get your own water and cook your own food. Basically camping but without the put up take down hassle.

£100ish is cheap per night! Most of the nice glam pin places charge more like £200! I don't understand it personally, taking a tent isn't that much hassle.

Glamping is camping with the stuff I could not be bothered to do, laid on.

I mean what normal people take fairy lights and bunting with them? No, you set up your tent and then spend he rest f the time frantically trying to prevent your toddler from running off and falling in a pond while wearing no clothes. Or trying to stop your 12yo and 8yo from killing each other with willow sparklers and a fire pit.

While trying to dry out about 7 pairs of trousers that have all got soaked in one day.

Fairy lights? Pointless and time consuming. We do have a bell tent but only because it's quick and easy to put up when you're the only adult...

and yy to being happier peeing behind a tree than in a communal toilet

Where we went (utterly gorgeous place) they had two bell tents to hire for £70 each per night. They had bunting and picnic tables. I didn't get a look inside, wish I had in hindsight.

I would expect something on a par with the kind of hotel/B&B service you could get in the same area for the same money!

I am v suspicious of glamping - I do think that investing in the right camping gear and getting cheaper pitches can be more comfortable. Most tents now are well-designed and easy to pitch.

We took a Nespresso machine with us last time we went camping. That qualifies as glamping in my book. Still no fairy lights though!

I thought of Mumsnet when I saw our neighbours at one campsite this summer... 2 adults plus 2 tweens in a small-but-perfect VW camper, pale turquoise with white / silver trims. Fairy lights and bunting everywhere. Cath kidston print tablecloths, clothes pegs shaped like doves and painted... deary me.

We had the more usual accessories of multiple damp towels and dirt everywhere. As well as the Nespreso machine, bien sur.

I went to a glamping wedding expecting a beautifully made up tent with a comfortable bed. Instead we got crap single airbeds that deflated in the night and horrible student style brown bedding. It was fucking freezing and I couldn't even steal the hubby's body heat. I actually like proper camping, but not for £100 without any creature comforts. I'd say you were conned.

We went glamping, it was a bell tent, futon style bed, mattress and bedding, with crockery etc provided. As an earlier poster said it's just camping with the tent and stuff provided. It just saves you buying all the stuff and transporting it yourself.

The crockery was just random bits, and nothing had been washed apart from the previous tenant washing it. I did feel a bit ripped off! It's super expensive compared to a night in a B&B, but it's a different thing.

We stayed in a yurt a little while ago. The price included a three course meal delivered to us on our first night and breakfast cooked for us every day. It was gorgeous with the most comfortable bed I've ever slept in and all of the comforts mentioned in other posts but if you need a torch to find your way to the loo in the middle of the night it's still roughing it in my book.

Glamping could be anything from a pre-erected tent and bed upwards to a luxury yurt with woodburner and it's own bathroom.

£110 per night does seem a bit pricey, but then I think glamping tends to be overpriced anyway, as it's very trendy at the moment. And when you think that some campsites can charge up to about £60 per night in peak season, then maybe £110 isn't so bad.

Surely the website/brochure that you used to book would have details of what was and wasn't included? Although the stained duvet is definitely not ok.