Camping dilemma since fire alert

[SaturdayGiraffe]

Off camping next week but been told no cooking stoves allowed now - so no hot water, no hot food.
There’s no pub or shops nearby either.

The site is saying we are inside 14 day cancellation so they are charging to move the dates back and we’ll lose full amount if we go elsewhere (although not even sure where else since the phone alert).

Camping with kids, with no hot food or drink - would you do it?

Does anyone know a site where we could cook still?

What really xxxxx me off

I used to visit a well known National Park frequently

There were 100s of signs saying
No BBQs
No camp fires

People would arrive with huge BBQ cooler boxes & set up to cook
Totally ignoring all the signs

The park rangers would walk round & tell people off. I have seen with my own eyes.

People would also wild camp on the hill tops & set fires

Some people are selfish !

Some people do not care !

Several wild fires have occurred each year

People should enjoy the countryside & "leave no trace"

I really do hope you are joking. How can anyone not follow this?

I agree!

I've camped in the middle of a pine forest in the Landes before, and although understandably camp fires were banned, it was perfectly fine to use gas stoves and there was a central communal barbecue area for campers to use.

The ground is so dry and forest fires can travel very far and quickly under the ground because the tree roots are on fire. So even if the air is cooler it has nothing to do with it.

Really? Tea and coffee, hot chocolate sachets, noodles, tins of soup, chilli, beans etc. Do you keep those in the fridge?

And so the campsite should refund the booking as it’s not what was booked. You can’t sell somewhere to camp with cooking and then ban cooking food.

Sandwiches and cereal and goodies would do the job surely? We had to go a week without electricity in the storm last year

Agree with the people saying they have changed their terms and conditions and you should send them some sort of legal letter to get your refund.

That’s the way it is when you run a business unfortunately.

And like a pp said, call other local sites to ask how they are managing it. Try to get in touch with the site to suggest that, but ultimately you should be refunded if they won’t budge.

Probably- I suspect- people who have never camped.

Some of these suggestions are making me hoot. "Surely there's a Dominoes nearby...just get an EHU...just get Reception to fill you up a flask...." My favourite campsite is a field in the middle of Dartmoor, and boasts a toilet and a tap. The farmer turns up every evening for his tenner in cash 😆

Are there no options for electric hook up pitches to move to at the same campsite? How are you keeping food cold etc without an electric hook up for cool box/fridge?

We’re camping at the moment - there’s no reactions on using gas stoves. It’s just charcoal BBQs and fire pits.

report to who exactly?

i did report a man down the road for using a hose pipe on his front grassed garden, he was blatantly using the hosepipe
i reported anonymously, turns out the ban started the next day!

I'm shocked that someone who's a regular camper doesn't know this. And it makes me wonder how many people take this risk when camping.

Yes, I double checked the wording of the emergency alert. People are urged not to "undertake any activities that could cause fires", and disposable BBQs, firepits, garden incinerators and fireworks are mentioned.

I don't see how a gas cooker, off the ground, that is by its nature constantly monitored while on and goes rapidly cold when switched off, constitutes a risk.

Does the site have a designated communal cooking area…….i know places do in Europe……..and might be an option in this case??

Where are you plugging that in?

Not all campsites have electric points on the pitches.

😂 True. If Armageddon only lasts for three days. It would probably only take one tbf.

Camping is not for me but OP is determined to go, so just a few suggestions that would work.

Completely agree. I’d take a stove, use it on a suitable unit and carry on. I’ve camped for over 30 years doing this including in hotter and drier conditions on the continent with no issues.

If there was no way of even making a cuppa, I wouldn't go, I'm afraid.

I absolutely cannot function without several mugs of tea in the morning, and being able to boil a kettle would at least give you an option of cuppa soup and sandwiches now and again rather than eating out.

Don’t you get fined in the UK? Where I live one of my neigbours had a fine or 2K for having a bbq in his garden a few years ago when there was a ban (with a big pool next to it filled with water).

You can get kettles that plug into your car via USB. Also food warmers/coolers. I'd probably be eating lots of salads and sandwiches etc in this heat anyway!

This is literally playing with fire. I hope it rains that weekend.

But it’s the campsite saying no cooking stoves allowed. So yes they could take one then get chucked out for breaking the rules.

Why not just have cold food? It's not really much of a hardship in this weather.

But if the campsite has said no it doesnt really matter what you have done elsewhere. Its thier land and they have chosen to say we saw the alert and think this is a risk, so no camping stoves. They might change thier mind on reflection but it us up to them.