1 night

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If you had the opportunity to go camping for 1 night would you do it? We really don't use out tent enough, and have the opportunity to go away tomorrow for 1 night but I'm really not sure it's worth taking all the stuff we need for just 1 night. I'm tempted to just drive there and back on the sat. It will be ds first trip in tent so good to see how he is, but would we be better waiting for a longer trip?
DH doesn't think we'll need much but we will still need bedding, towels, cooker etc.

It would depend on the weather/distance for me.

High chance of good weather +

I've done camping for a single night - if you get lovely weather and don't have to drive too far it's worth it. It's not worth cooking though imo - plan to eat out and don't bother with any of that hassle. Or you can take cold food (pasties, sandwiches, etc if you need to)

It's 130miles away. We would need some form of cooking as ds still on morning and night time bottle so will need to heat water/milk.

Oooh 130 miles - right on my 2hr cusp! It'd depend on the weather then. What's the forecast OP??

I've done it going down to Brighton when we woke up and the weather was gorgeous, but that's 'only' 73 miles from us (although it's a 2 hr drive as we have to negotiate London), it was well worth it, a lovely mini break. We took v. minimal kit and the firepit so we could sit out at night and extend the break and also have something to cook over. We also got up very early to go!

Forecast looking good. The reason we would cut it to 1 night instead of2 is 2nd night is forecast heavy rain. So taking down tent plus keeping 13m old dry won't be much fun !

I don't think I would. The amount of time needed to pack, drive, unpack, pitch, pack, drive and unpack back home. I don't think you will get any time to recover after that especially with a toddler. Would it not be easier just to drive somewhere for a day and relax?

That's a lot of hassle with heating milk. When I camped with DD when she was still on bottles I used the little cartons - you don't need to keep them cool before opening them so they aren't too cold. DD was fine at taking milk that wasn't warmed - which makes life much easier. Though a know some kids are more difficult about milk.

We do it a lot, and always cook, I love camping cooking though. Is your tent quite easy to pitch?

Thanks for all your replies. Ds came some with high temp and tummy bug so we went no where
Definitely need to get our tent out more, every time I see a camping question in active conv it reminds me so must book somewhere!

Oh, poor thing :( Hope he's on the mend soon and you get to go camping!

Done it several times. Well worth it as one night feels like more by the time you get back