carpets in tents? WHY? WHY? WHY fgs?

[fillyjonk]

Why?

do you take also a satellite dish and a doorbell?

i just Do Not Get It

Confused of South Wales

We had a big cabanon tent , and used to take a large-ish rug with us to change dd on etc, and she would sit on it to play, no damp bots.

it was luxurious to say the least. cant see the prob with a bit of comfort. Esp when its peeing down outside, and as i have spd and bad back since pregnancy, it was comfy to sit down with her.

Best luxury we have rented was a full size fridge with freezer ice box. Ideal when we were in France for 2 weeks. One simply must have one's white wine chilled darlink!

Too much chilled wine and you'll be needed that loo

One of the good things about the vampsite we just got back from was that they mounted ice boxes iin a few palces for free ice pack freezing 9and as most people popped theirs in a carrier first nobody knew if the bag contained, say, food instead LOL)

vampsite

yep

red lippy compulsory

I adore the fully equipped yurts you can rent these days, we have one booked for the summer. But don't really count it as camping.
Camping is all about peeing in bushes, borrowing loo roll from fellow campers, trecking up hills for hours with a heavy pack, and the enormous almost orgasmic sense of satisfaction you get when you have set up your tent against all odds and are busy cooking soup and cracking open a bottle of wine.

As faras I'm concerned you can drop the first two words of this thread title:

tents? WHY? WHY? WHY fgs?

I would just like to say that if it's not en-suite with room service it AINT happening

tents are marvellous, soupy, marvellous

you need to keep away from the gnome-and-carpet toting riff raff though...

(did someone not say once that SOMEONE they KNEW had laminate ?

seriously its this "recreate a Surbiton semi" approach that has me ROFL

ps peachy-PLEASE open a campsite and PLEASE sell real coffee. And good tea. Not from a machine, from a cafetiere or whatever.

Should we ever get the cash together DH and I would love to open a campsite! With proper coffee , a little shop selling decent local foods and fresh croissants / soup on cold evenings etc. Whether we'll ever afford it I dont know but its our dream. Oh and with pitches for diabled people (seems to be a lack of those about) and SN equipment in the playground, and when ds3 grows up even if he cant 'work' he can still help out and earn a bit of cash for independence.

See? Got it planned now just need some dollars....

Peachy so would we!

with little toilet / shower cubicles on every pitch, hedges inbetween all pitches which are at least 10m square and yes proper coffee and a decent little shop selling local food.

and someone to clean the toilets for us too

I like my carpet Its hardly shagpile anyway - more a large picnic blanket.

Tent near my house. Huge one for Arabic wedding. Carpets, sofas, lighting rig, air conditioning, speakers in the fabric of the tent. Separate tent for women with mirrors inset to the walls. Own generator and water supply. Separate camel tent.

Now THATS camping.

lol meowmix - where are you?

peachy, seriously, is it not something you can get a bit of funding for? Have you looked into it? Business Eye is good.

am thinking of SN thing here, esp.

i can see that an SN-friendly playground might be the thing that you could get grant funding for

Middle East. So tents are very important. They have displays of them in the supermarket, admittedly not to that scale, just your average 10 man size ones.

Filly we have a plan ol

I have to qualify first, was looking at a flexible PGCE today so to make it easier with kids
Then I ahve to feed house us whilst DH does his degree in stage lightinga nd electrionics at Glamorgan

At that point, he sets up small usiness (or rather expands existing ebay business) to part time, I kep stable job and we start to look for somewhere to base it all- all DH needs is a small worksop and internet connection and can set own hours, so would combine well with a cmapsite, whereas I would be there for most of main season anyhow

IYSWIM

you're right about Sn funding tho, good thinking batman!

god no to carpets but we are contemplating a windbreak this year - mainly to use as a windbreak funnily enough, rather than a fence

on the subject of loos...DH and I stated on a fab site in France when I was pregnant where you could pay a bit extra for a pitch with a loo/shower/wash cubicle all of its own - FAB and v useful when preg

we stayed actually, but we did state that it was a jolly good idea