Am I mad to consider camping in the easter holidays?

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It feels like the cold will never end. Am I crazy to be looking for a cheap camping getaway in april? Normally reserved for much warmer months in this house 🥶

Do you have ehu? If so I wouldn’t worry take a heater and enjoy.

Depends where. I live in Scotland and I wouldn't consider it until at least May, but then I am a total wuss.

Yeah we go lots of Easters. Get EHU and go to a site with a warm shared kitchen or communal space. More layers than you think and a blanket under the bed too.

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Quite possibly but I am.

If you stay somewhere reasonably close to home.you can ways go home if it is unbearable. I would also suggest somewhere close to a pub so you can sit in there all night nursing a pint. Or actually my favourite campsite in keswick has a heated campers room you can sit in until 10pm.

I despise camping and one of the best things about my divorce was that I never have to go camping again.

the few trips I did actually find remotely tolerable all took place with highs around 0. Cold weather camping, imho, is the only mildly enjoyable kind of camping.

We've gone away at Easter and had snow a few times... and one of these was in a static caravan with just a gas fire in the living room for heat. We went to Argos in desperation and bought some fan heaters but they kept tripping the electricity. When this happened overnight and no one could reset the trip until the next morning, Dad had a mammoth strop and we went home the next morning 4 days early!

There's no way I'd chance camping.

We did it when the kids were younger. It was freezing at night. We had a hook up so could make plenty of hot drinks and hot water bottles but I can't say I'd do it again.

We went camping last year at the beginning of April. The first night it was -3 and it rained a lot! We had EHU though, so had a small heater and the cold wasn't actually an issue. The wet and mud was a bit depressing though. I would do it again as it was nice having the campsite to ourselves, just make sure you have the right kit and clothes

Nights are freezing in April. And it's not just the actual night, when you're hopefully warm in bed, but the evening too, when you don't actually want to be huddled in bed trying to keep warm.

I've been in a touring caravan in -10 & blizzards but no way would I go in a tent unless it was warm. At least in a caravan we had heat & hot water.

Youth hostel?

Well I am so no, YANBU!

I've done it, it was cold. Fine in the day but could hardly sleep with a 3 season sleeping bag, heat reflective roll mat, and wearing all my clothes. I'd wait until May.

Depends. For years we didn't go to our caravan in Dorset at Easter because it always pissed it down and was freezing. But last year it was lovely. Cold though. We had an electric heater plugged in last thing at night and first thing in the morning.

We camped one Easter break and woke up to snow on the tent. It was miserable.

Having done it as lockdown eased and woken up to -3, I have to say the days were absolutely fine but the nights were COLD. I'd recommend an electric hookup (we never normally bother).

We went to a campsite in our caravan in Feb this year and were joined by a Belgium family who were tent camping- all completely unfazed by any adverse weather. They had the bear minimum with them too, just a tent each, backpacks and bbq. Quite impressive.

I'm too much of a wuss these days but can see how it builds resilience in kids to crack on in whatever conditions.

I did a youth hostel stay with my school at Easter in Wales as a teenager. Our accomodation was an old cow shed with a door with a foot gap at top and bottom and it was freezing at night but during the day it was cracking the flags it was so hot. We got undressed to put PJs on and then dressed up in everything again to go to bed. We survived!! 👹

Could you glamp instead? Cheaper than hotels and caravans but not as cold as camping and you can sleep in a proper bed. We glamped in Norfolk in a shepherds hut last summer. It was £75 a night and it had really comfy beds, kettle, fridge and a wood burner. Facilities on site were lovely too.

We camped in Scotland in July one year, it rained the whole time pretty much and was absolutely miserable. There;s no way I'd be camping in April in the UK, not only is it likely to rain it's also likely to be freezing over night. I'm always cold when we camp in the summer, April would be hell.

We've been every October for the last few years and it's super.

I have been looking at the peaks which would be about an hour away from home for pack up and come home as some have suggested.

Would also be high up and windy though!

Wouldn't leaving it till the week before be a bit too last minute? I would need to buy some extra bits

I did it 5 months pregnant with a toddler. We were lucky and the weather was glorious. We would have baled if it was rubbish. I would plan something not too far and have a back up plan.

Go hiking in Scotland (or Wales) and stay in bothies? At least they’ll have fireplaces : stoves.

From onee extreme to another 😂

Bothies are not bookable (so no guarantee of there being room)
Have no running water
No sanitary facilities

And I am potentially mad for considering a campsite with nice facilities 😂