Sleeping bags vs duvets

[Rakoffscott]

Halloo!

New to camping, but have booked for this summer. Is it ridiculous to take duvets instead of sleeping bags? I'd have to buy 3 sleeping bags, but would only have to buy one extra duvet.

Thanks in advance!

Thank you all so much for all this brilliant insight I'm definitely going with duvets, and if I can get the foil blankets for underneath those too. And some cans of greenall's gin and tonic. This has nothing to with duvets of course, yet it seems to be high on my essentials list

Duvets for car camping, for all the reasons above. Sleeping bags if you're lugging the gear!

If any of your dc are prone to accidents, though, it's a damn sight easier to handwash & dry a cheap nylon sleeping bag. I always take a couple for the dds, either of whom can occasionally spring a leak in the night . Just B&M bargains type bags - less than a tenner each - & then chuck a duvet over the pair of them for extra warmth.

Ds loves his mummy bag, so he takes that. It's just a cheap one again - posh mummy bags tend to be too hot for family camping (summer, all of you in one tent = not cold) & he used to squirm out of the good one I originally bought him! That's now saved for his future solo Everest expeditions .

For that first trip I got foil blankets, like the ones given to marathon runners at the end, from poundland. I have picnic blankets from Lidl now which double as carpets, but they won't be back in for a while.

Duvets all the way. Unless it's May, which is officially too early to camp for me, when it's a picnic rug under the Thermarest, a onesie with a hat and thick socks, a sleeping bag and a duvet on the top of that.

Pillows as well of course. And all of a sudden camping seems feasible.

Mmm ,sleeping bag with duvet on top .
Now that's an idea .

I do use sleeping bags ,but unzipped ,and blankets .
Duvet might not slip off as much as blankets ,tho blankets are wool ...