Camping in the rain

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It’s shit isn’t it?

everything is wet. The sound of the rain on the tent is too loud to sleep.

@OneTC 😳😳

Im so over camping, used to enjoy it when the kids were small but only if it was good weather.

We went in a big group with friends with similar aged kids which made it more bearable. Although thinking about it I did used to get pissed off with DH as he used to claim he was soo busy at work and rock up when the tent was up and all the gear sorted, then fuck off early on the day we were packing up 😡

Oh my god that thunder last night. Thought I was gonna die! Hope everyone else was ok

It's the UK we don't really have any .

There certainly are bugs in the UK - ticks, horse flies, mosquitoes to name a few 😬

That sounds more like purgatory than a treat! Small tent, torrential rain, no electricity or toilets and the icing on the cake - teenagers.

I mean we don't really have anything I fret about much. In some countries I would be much more cautious (but still mostly sleep out)

Many years of camping and I always took a hot water bottle - even in August.

It's really miserable when it rains

Camping is where I sleep while I'm doing other things I enjoy. In this case climbing

Do you not get bitten then?

I'm not really cautious about bugs either (I work outside year-round) but being bitten and having them swarming all around you is so unpleasant to me

Put a box in the car for footware. Swap only, so no missing shoes.
Bag up outfits. Everything so grab and go.
Laundry in sorted bags....
Food and drink in boot.
Keep as much in the car as possible, so it never gets wet .

God - I had hired a six person belltent for this weekend, looked at the rain and thought NOPE

wet grass wet feet. Yuck

my house is nicer

We went camping to a Haven in May. During the night someone started shouting and then drove off at high speed in a massive motorhome. It sounded like it was coming towards us, we were next to the little road out. I nearly shit myself. Everyone in the tent was asleep and I was shouting DH saying I think we are going to die. I honestly thought it was someone coming to drive over our tent. In the dark you don't know what's going on. I still don't know what happened, an argument, a mobile home being stolen??

Then it bloody rained. Once you touch the inner lining you are basically fucked. Everything gets wet inside. I guess it depends what type of tent you have. Mine is meant to be waterproof but it really was not. During Duke of Edinburgh it got wet inside the tent including our sleeping bags and matches. We were starving and it was really shit. Camping is great when it is warm but rain. Ugh no thanks.

We go in August (UK) for a week with teens. I dont' even drink so God knows how that will pan out. We want to save money but also try something different.

As for bugs, keep the tent closed as much as possible. One of the nights at Haven a little girl ran off out her tenting screaming the place down. I heard her dad trying to coax her back in but she was having none of it. Edit: she was yelling spider.

It's a special kind of hell when it rains.

I am lucky in that mosquitoes aren't very interested in me and the times I do get bitten I don't get much of a reaction like some people do.

I've had ticks before but picked them up walking.

Horseflies I think go to sleep at night, I've been bitten by one but it was daytime sat by a stream.

If you have a car with you, drape your wet things around it overnight. The residual heat will dry stuff.
I use this at festivals!

Power banks are your friend tbh. 2 x 20000 ones last my iPhone a week!

How is that a treat?!

Or you could just stay home 😂😂 I would rather one night in an average hotel than 5 nights camping 😂

We live in town where major music festival takes place. We are only 20 minutes walk from the site but DD and friends like to camp 'for the atmosphere'. Lost count of the number of times we've had the call in the middle of the night:
'Dad can you...'
or been woken at some ungodly hour by a troupe of young people stopping by to use our shower/loos as the festival ones are so gross.

Interestingly DD has decided this year she's too old to camp - at the grand old age of 24!!

Can't say I'm surprised.

See, this just sounds like so much faff and effort for me.

I just don't see the appeal in paying to live out of your car or to sleep in a damp tent in the pissing down rain for a week. I'd much rather stay at home

How is camping 'a treat'. It's shit. I packed it in years ago.

I just think about packing everything up on the last day and that's enough to put me off.

Pretending you're living in emergency conditions is not a holiday.

Even if you have a massive tent to play board games in, you're still getting wet muddy feet walking to the toilet and shower block.

It's a bit rubbish.

We were in the Alps last year. We just got the tent up and then we had a massive thunderstorm.

We stayed in the car whilst it passed.

I do like camping though - on a nice campsite in Europe. With a pool, a bar and warm weather

Why would you even stay? Just go home.

Camping is miserable full stop. Even when it's dry. Why would you put yourself through that when you (presumably) have a dry house with a non-chemical toilet and a shower you don't have to share with all and sundry?

Yuk. Get in the car and report back from the sofa with a cup of tea.

I have been on two camps so far this year and my current combination is using the van as my bedroom, so I am up off the floor on a fold up chair bed, with plenty of dry bedding; and having a three sided gazebo (with a window) over the van, with all the home comforts of chairs, rugs, kitchen stuff, books, dogs, etc.
It got pretty hairy in the wind but I travel with about 132 bungies, and stopped it sailing away over the hedge. It made what rain we did have more bearable, as I could make tea and sit with a book.
Excellent set up. lots of inflatable car (if no van )mattresses available. put them in the tent you've also brought during the day.
The trouble with big tents - which I agree you need to be able to stand up in is that with rain you frequently get high winds.
My preferred and financially possible solution is dedicated tents .small one as a bedroom ,bigger to use during the day.

I am camping with two teenagers as a treat

CAMPING AS A TREAT. I really have heard it all. Poor poor kids.

I voted YABU because the sound of heavy rain on a tent while I'm tucked up and cosy in my sleeping bag is one of my favourite things ever.

But you're not unreasonable to find soggy camping makes you downhearted. I am a camping fan but too much rain gets exhausting.

I’m done with camping. It’s not even cheap anymore. The excuse I use is that the dog wakes up as soon as the sun comes up, but in reality it’s because it’s just shit. It’s awful when it’s hot, it’s awful when it’s raining and I need to pee in the night. You have my sympathies.