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Is it mad to put a family of 5 in a very small caravan?

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poocatcherchampion · 25/04/2016 10:19

Tell me you have done this..?

We've got a 4yo a 2yo and a 6mo and a caravan the size of your average super king sized bed.

Last year we only had the older two - and they slept on effectively two very short singles, but now we need to squeeze the baby in so we are going to have to put his travel cot in the remaining part of that double.

Our bed is very narrow too so co sleeping is not an option.

The problem is that he wakes at least twice and normally fusses from about 5am. And the camping season has crept up on us....

Dh keeps kindly offering Hmm to sleep in a separate tent and leave me with all the kids.

Other options include taking a small tent for me and the baby - but the whole point of the caravan was for me to wee in luxury to not get wet and miserable in a tent.

We could go back to our big tent too as an option but some of our trips will be in UK and I can't handle 3 crying children.

We can't afford any other type of holiday so it is this or nothing...

What would you do?

OP posts:
poocatcherchampion · 04/05/2016 07:30

OK I am just coming back to this thread to announce that I have decided this is impossible and we are going to see if we can scrape together a bit of ££ to get a bigger caravan.

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MrsJayy · 04/05/2016 07:36

Aww you could have played tetris trying to fit them all in😊 but a new 1 is exciting

rexrabbit · 04/05/2016 08:01

we lived as a family of 5 in a small caravan for several months when I was 9ish. Only problem was not having a TV so not being able to join in with school conversations. Don't think it was much fun for my mum tho....

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