Quick CAMPING query...do i take DUVETS???

[noonar]

ok, this might not sound like proper camping, but should i take the duvets, or will the basic sleeping bags that we have be warm enough at this time of year?

have never been before, and i'm hastily trying to organise a trip this weekend.

tia.

yes, duvets and blankets - it gets very cold at night.

good to sleep ontop of aswell.

Take both LOL!

Seriously. You can choose which works better for you, and you can sleep on one and under the other for greater comfort.

#Have a nice time.

DUVETS? Call yourselves proper campers? It was sleeping bags and sleeping in a tracksuit over your pyjamas in my day!!

I think you are warmer in a sleeping bag, with blankets wrapped round you. Layers above and below are the key to keeping warm.

Dh and I sleep under a duvet and kids sleep in sleeping bags but we also take blankets cos it can get cold. Also we put blankets under airbed/campbeds as insulation from cold ground makes a huge difference.

YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!

'Why suffer?' Is my motto

Have fun!

thanks folks. i' starting to panic about what we need. i'm of to argos in a min to return the single burner dh bought, to swap fro double. any tips-what 'must haves' should i add to my shopping list?

When it was just the two of us we used to take a tent and a mallet (and sometimes we forgot the mallet and had to use the half brick that had been in our car for years). Now there are two children we take a friend who has ALL the gear and we share hers! We are going on our own this year and I am seriously stuck about just how much of her stuff I should buy myself - she has chairs, tables, water barrels, a fridge, a hairdryer....etc,etc.
DEFINITELY need a torch, easy-on clothes (for the midnight trips with a 4 year old for a pee behind the tent) a wine box and a blanket to sit on. I think the risk is you pack enough for every eventuality and it all gets away from the spirit of the thing.

collapsible boxes
take proper pillows in those vacuum type bags

what have you got so far?

'How big is your car?' is the important question I think. Old rectangular sleeping bags take up less room and open out like a double duvet - you can borrow them or ask on Freecycle.

thats for the tips. we have a big car with roof box, but we are only going for the weekend, so dont plan to fill it!

ok, next question, do you think all the other children will be cycling or scootering round the site? will we regret it if we dont take some form of 'wheels' for them to potter about on?

IME you don't take much less for a weekend than you do for a whole week camping

I have seen children on scooters and bikes at campsites. Some campsites have each pitch with its own little hedge or fence defining it, and the access road winding through the pitches (a bit like houses on a modern development), whereas other campsites have camping fields with 10 or more pitches on each field and a fence or hedge around the whole field, in which case the access road doesn't go past each pitch. If your site is like the first I described, then personally I would have no objection to bikes, but if it's like the second then I would not want bikes around. With very young children we prefer the field-style campsite because it's safer for them to wander around as there's virtually no traffic, the only cars passing the tents are those of the people actually camping in that field, and the drivers are aware that there may be children around so they naturally move slowly and carefully. Having people zipping around on bikes and nipping between and behnd the tents (which o f course they shouldn't but children will do these things) would not be safe for the LOs playing on the field. Scooters IMO are not a problem though.

Good sleeping mats, a sleeping bag liner (I used my shawl inside instead) for the sleeping bags, long pyjamas and socks.