Recommendations for family camping table?

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Can anyone recommend a good table and chairs set?
I am looking at Tescos one with all linked chairs and this one with benches. Anyone have a preference either way or know a better (but not mega expensive) one?

We've been camping as a couple for years and have all the "stuff" from backpacking and festival going. Now have been camping with two kids and again have pretty much all we need. We usually sit on the ground to eat but I am thinking it would be nicer to sit at a table ... so any help from people in the know gratefully received.

You'd be better off buying a table that is just a stand alone camping table with 4 independently adjustable legs and using your camping chairs to sit at it.
I can't see your first link but the second one with the benches will probably be wobbly and kids will fall off the benches and mess around on them (if they're anything like my lot!)
Can't link to one at mo as I'm on phone but will try to link from laptop later. I paid about 40 for mine and I know it will last years.
Those plastic tables that sell for about 20 with the integrated seats are a pile of rubbish. If I had a pound for everyone I've seen abandoned by the bin at campsites...!

Just a very quick search brought up this one
Hope this helps

Tesco one is better.We have a fold up table with adjustable legs,3 fold up stools for the kids and dp and I sit on our camping chairs.

IME chldren 6 and under fall off those little stools. They fall backwards off them, they tip them forwards or backwards and fall over. But also children sitting on folding camping chairs that are too low for the table tip them forwards to try and reach and fall off.... Our camping trips are punctauted by small children falling off stools and tipping chairs over at the table.

We got one of the table and 4 stool sets last year, where the four stools pack up and fit inside the table for ease of transportation.

Sorry am struggling to remember the make. It may come to me.

Blu is right, mine (aged then 6 and 7) did fart arse about and fall off them occasionally but tbh that was the downside for having a really neat and compact piece of kit that fitted in the bottom of the boot like a dream. The table has adjustable legs so on the lowest setting the dc were at optimum height for food-mouth interface but we could still get our knees under.

LOVED having the stool separate from the table so I could take it off to my Cobb zone and totally excuse myself from all childcare get on with cooking safely away from the table.

It was a VANGO. Hang on...

Vango table and chairs set

Although chairs is pushing the reality a little.

You'd think that hammock thing underneath would be a pita. Oh no. Mossie/wasp coils and spray, colouring books, pens and UNO lived under there all very happily.

Our set up is pretty much the same as Slubber.To be honest my dc never fell off much or if they did they just learnt to take care.We have 1 for in the tent to colour on and 1 we use outside,said stools can be swopped about inside and outside.

make sure any table will fit in your car - mine was 3cm too long! bought one that filds in half instead...

We have a similar set up to the one Slubber linked (doesn't pack together but same idea). The DC are really too small for their stools so we tend to have the table at lower height, they sit on plastic boxes and we sit on our armchairs. The stools double up as footrests and handy to sit on at the cooker etc.

Adjustable legs also mean you can accommodate a sloping pitch

We have been looking At a table and stools set in decathlon

www.decathlon.co.uk/table-4-6-persons-4-seats-id_8030285.html

There are lots of stool/table combos here. Are stools higher than most chairs? I'm thinking for adults, rather than children. We have two of those folding canvas chairs like <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=www.thetoolboxshop.com/ekmps/shops/adrcomponents/images/08159-folding-canvas-chair-4865-p.jpg&imgrefurl=www.thetoolboxshop.com/08159-folding-canvas-chair-4865-p.asp&h=800&w=669&sz=136&tbnid=OKE4kWDzdFgVmM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=75&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcanvas%2Bchair%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=canvas+chair&docid=XnmEr4POVHAMaM&sa=X&ei=9hiZT_OJHIPG0QXXu7H7BQ&ved=0CG4Q9QEwAQ&dur=333" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this but nicer. They are really comfortable but far too low for our table.

I really like the Vango set but I can't justify replacing our table. But I could buy three stools.

We bought a blue Tesco one in their sale. It has held up very well tbh... I thought after one camp trip it would be unstable... wobbly and ready for the bin. Gets my recommendation. HTH

sorry, meant the all in one, seats attached, fold into self... one.

will the tesco one with the stools be absolutely rubbish, do we think? it's sooooo cheap.

Oh thanks all - really useful comments. (Sorry delayed replying - laptop broke completely! fubar and carted away)
I really like the Decathalon one and the Vango (good make) so wavering on price. Thanks all.

hold your fire, i've ordered the tesco one and will be able to report on quality etc as of tomorrow.

Brill ...

i hope it's good... i've got a bungee net in the house that i'm hoping i can sling underneath it like the vango one. or i can fashion something, i am sure.

go on then ... has it arrived???

hmm. yes, it has. i think it's worth every penny of its thirty four quid, for sure... but maybe not much more? for me, it's fine, though. in fact we ate our dinner off it tonight. but i might put a bit of wd 40 on the hinges etc as they felt sufficiently flimsy that they could actually just have bent, iykwim?
for me, it's great. do i wish i'd spent more on it and got something a bit tougher? not sure... not seen the vango or decathlon ones. table's fine, chairs fine, it's the hinges that i'm not sure about. but would the other hinges be worth the extra 20 quid?

Ah - with two children who like climbing and trashing everything dodgy hinges may be a bit worrying. Have been lent an old table for now so the panic is off but I am veering towards that Vango one now.

Thanks!

no, climbing is fine actually. i found the dd's playing 'operation' on ours. it's very solid when it's up. putting it up and down, though, it might be a little delicate. but i will wd40 the hinges and see if that helps.

Update on my blue Tesco table... after 2 uses, incl. one this weekend at River Dart in Dartmouth, it is totally trashed n useless. Two little 3 year olds, knelt on the seat, little arms on the table and the whole thing collapsed, buckled metal... the lot. One little leg trapped, and one foot trapped, and wails of woe.

Have no receipt, and it was bought in their sale about 18 months ago, so doubt there will be any refund. Avoid, avoid, avoid!!!!!!!!!

Friends had one from Argos, about £40 I think they said. Was very sturdy!

HTH

gosh, what a shame, i hope small child is okay.

my update is that i'm sending back my tesco one sooner rather than later. just think the hinges are a bit flimsy...

We had one from Argos like this a few years ago. We set it up in the back garden for a barbeque. Ds1, ds2 and I were sitting at it quite happily, then dh came along and sat down and the whole thing tipped over! But I suspect dh is probably well above the recommended weight for the thing.
I had thought perhaps we could still use it for the kids but eventually it totally fell apart.
Have just bought www.amazon.co.uk/Kampa-Espresso-Table-Stool-Set/dp/B004RN9TNK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336554784&sr=8-1 and am hoping we get a bit longer out of it!