Over £1000 for 6 nights for a tent in a field!

[mrspainful]

I expected it to be £500 to £600 per week as I was looking at a week in August for next year. But £1100 for a week for a glamping freaking bell tent with no toilet/ shower etc??? It doesn't even look that nice 🥺

I've booked 3 nights in a travel lodge for £75 excluding breakfast. Or look at YHA, I stayed at their hostel in Ambleside a few years ago. Ensuite room right opposite the Lake, which was a beautiful view for less than £400 for 3 nights.

I'm also eyeing up a bell tent! Not sure if they are just an Instagram trend or if they really are practical.

You can buy your own bell tent for half that, pack it up in the back of the vehicle and head off to campsites with showers. Some campsites are only £16 a night in Dorset. Just got back from one.

It is crazy.

@wigornian

Don’t book then. If nobody books, they will lower their prices.

Exactly this. Nobody's forcing you to go glamping.

Id just do premier Inn. At least you've got a solid roof over your head and hot and cold running water. For a fraction of the price probably

Are they really a doddle to put up? I am really tempted by a bell tent but there would just be me as the only adult to put it up.

My DH can get one up in 15-20mins but I wouldn't be able to as they are quite heavy. If you have someone else to help it really is just a central pole and then pull out and peg bottom and guy ropes.

How do I access my PMs? Can't see how, but is it because I'm on the mobile app?

Sorry not sure how it works on the app, I just clicked on message poster

Re camping as a single parent with 2 children. I do it as it is the only realistic way we can get a holiday due to limited budget. We go for a few nights at a time to inexpensive places. I can manage the tent on my own though my 10 year old does try to help now. It probably takes a couple of hours after arrival to have everything fully set up, bags and boxes stashed back in the car and ready to explore. The key is to have everything well planned. Unlike at home everything on camp has a purpose. The whole set up is streamlined and practical and easy to use. I like going now and it gives me a sense of achievement when we've pulled off another good trip. But £1k, no way. We went to Barcelona stayed at a hotel with a pool and room service tapas for about that a few years ago.

Be aware that bell tents need room at home to pitch in case it's rainy when you're going home, they need care and to be completely dry more so than normal tents.
Plus, they can be heavy.I've still always secretly wanted one though!

We're camping in Derbyshire for two nights middle of August for £52. We've got a huge pole tent , which at a push I could just put up myself. Air beam tents are a doddle, not mortally expensive and you could do that yourself.
We've helped single ladies put tents up before. We helped a lady with her arm in pot whose husband was late to the campsite. Her and the kids were all settled in by the time he arrived. She was far from happy with him.

You’re glamping…not camping. Perfectly normal price in August.

Take your own tent and you’ll pay much less.

ouch! Never would I pay that much!

For that price, I'd expect a "real" glamping experience, something more than you are describing. One of the loveliest glamping experiences I've run across is a treehouse experience in our Pacific Northwest. Many have private bathrooms. Or a yurt with comfortable furnishings and conveniences (shower, toilets) either attached or very nearby. What you are describing does not sound like "glamping" to me in the least, and there is NO WAY I'd pay that amount for a sub-par experience.

It's a lot of money for a tent. I think these "glamping" holidays are seen as rather trendy but I really can't see the attraction.

However it's an absolute bargain when compared with this report in the papers at the beginning of July:

"A father of three was allegedly quoted a price of £71,000 for a week’s stay in a holiday home in Cornwall.

"Paul Nickerson, a Conservative councillor for East Riding in Yorkshire, was searching for a property that could sleep a family of five on the booking site Vrbo when he came across the costly cottage.

"He took a screenshot of the listing, which was advertised as a “Wonderful, contemporary, waterside house” sleeping six across three bedrooms.

"For a week’s stay from 14-21 August, the screenshot shows the holiday home’s price set at £10,232 per night – a cost of £71,627 in total for seven nights.

"Mr Nickerson shared the screenshot on Twitter, writing: “£71 grand to take my kids for a week away in Cornwall – a bit of a p* take from some holiday home owners and companies this year.” "

I think it must have been some kind of mistake - but perhaps not.

@Illogicalmadness

I've booked 3 nights in a travel lodge for £75 excluding breakfast. Or look at YHA, I stayed at their hostel in Ambleside a few years ago. Ensuite room right opposite the Lake, which was a beautiful view for less than £400 for 3 nights.

YHA Ambleside will be booked to the Nth degree. Some places have bookings till 2025!

@Sapnupuas

Wanna stay in my garden?

I'll do seven nights for £800 and you can use the bathroom.

Seven nights for 700 and you can use the loo and I’ll run an extension lead out the window.

We always go Air BnB and have loads of nice places to stay for very little outlay

I paid less than £700 for a two-bed apartment in the heart of Edinburgh.

Someone is clearly paying that otherwise they’d not be advertising it for that eye watering price.

£1100 to stay in a tent!!! That's horrendous.

October 2019, pre covid, I paid £1650 for 2 weeks 5☆all inclusive to Mexico for 2 of us!
So £1100 to sleep in a tent, in a field.....

Go abroad. These places have lost the run of themselves.

@Sapnupuas

You're in a tent in a field, it's camping.

I don't care what bloody silly name it's given, it's camping.

£1100 for a week in a tent in a field? No loo, no shower. No thanks.

Camping would be a lot cheaper than glamping. We're away for 15 nights this month and DH thinks he paid £400-500 (Can't quite remember)