Glamping with a toddler

[Luxembourgmama]

So i've never camped but i have fantasties about how remarkably wholesome and instagrammable the whole thing will be so i'm going to risk 2-3 nights this summer. Just DH myself and our 3 year old. Any tips for what to bring? What to plan? We'll be going for nice accomodation like a mobile home or some sort of glamping and the campsite will have a playground

We did it with a 3 and a 2 year old (a glamping ‘pod’). We didn’t take anything in particular! They had beds, a small fridge and a mini oven but we mainly ate out. So we just took what we’d usually take for a few days away.

We did it with our two and four year old a few times last year. They loved it. The less stuff you take the better. We took a few things for breakfasts and charcoal for a BBQ. They had proper beds for the four year old and we took a travel cot for the two year old so they weren't sleeping on the floor and liable to escape.

I think the thing is to accept routine goes out the window. We were in a yurt, wigwam and safari tent and it was light until 10pm. So they stayed awake running in the field (which we had to ourselves) until they crashed. We literally had to find the two year old in an apple orchard after an excessive game of hide and seek. He'd fallen asleep in his pajamas behind a tree.

Take lots of things to keep them occupied quietly inside the tent/pod if they wake up early but you still want to doze! Same for if it rains.
We also took quite a few bits for outside play: some stilts, a bubble wand, a kite etc...

Please don't take bubbles to a campsite! The bubbles destroy the waterproofing on tents if they land on them.

You will be massively unpopular taking bubbles / bubble wands to a campsite!

If you let them near anyone else’s tent, anyway.

Maybe look for somewhere that has woodland, rope swings etc.

Look at the Shepherd’s Huts at Nethergong Camping or Pop-Up by the River.

Somewhere that has fire pits or allows camp fires.

Wellies for walking through dew. Flip flops for showers.