So tell me your secrets, how on earth do you get a good nights sleep when camping ?

[rookiemum]

We bought our tent a few weeks ago. V. excited meant to go away last time but cancelled as camp site flooded. Weather reports very mixed for this weekend and as we have a 15 mth DS decided to pitch tent in garden to try it.

Anyway DS slept like a baby right up to 1.48am when we decided to go inside because we couldn't sleep at all.

We have a double air bed and linked the two sleeping bags together. We found that the air bed lurched us both into the middle, and every time one person moved the other one did as well. Also we have camped in a two person tent before, this was a family tent with rooms and it was a lot colder than we were used to.

We have two separate air beds and are thinking about using these instead as might be better.

What arrangements do you find work best for you to sleep ?

[Lucycat]

Hello eurocommuter! everything I said 3 years ago about camping being the best holiday ever still stands

[eurocommuter]

As I said I'm new to this and have already made a mistake of positing on the wring thread. Sorry

[eurocommuter]

Hi all
I'm abit new to posting on here but have been a lurker for a while now.
We have one of these
and it was great when we used it last year that i can't wait for our next camping trip next week.
We also had a sexy french guy help us with it.

[catchpjd]

Decades of camping, pre and with DH, and now with DD (19 months), and honestly, the only trick to enjoying the whole experience is a good night's sleep. Get that sorted and you're made. For me, it's a Thermarest (an ENORMOUS thick one) and earplugs to keep out the dawn chorus (bless their little hearts - the birds I mean, not the babes!). Thermarests aren't cheap - but what price a good night's sleep, and they last for years over many trips. And trust me, the earplugs will keep out the birdie song, but not DD waking in the night, so no prob there.

Wishing you all a lovely cosy nights sleep on your canvas hols.

[xlalex]

We always sleep on lambskins, warmer & more comfy than airbeds. A bottle of wine helps too!

[StripeyKnickersSpottySocks]

phenergan

[scattyspice]

Speccy, hope the divorce wasn't related to the aniv camp.

[Lucycat]

I mean that when you go away in a 'cottage' then it's just another house and you still ahve to clean the toilets.

I hsve someone who does it for me twice a day - and puts nice flowers in there

[Lucycat]

mmmm some bladder development seems to be required here - dh comments I must have a bladder the size of Lake Titikaka (sp?) once I'm asleep that's it. The dd's are the same.

Camping is the best holiday - you really feel as though you've been away!

[scattyspice]

speccy our honeymoon was wild camping in Scotland.

Its not a holday.

Its an ADVENTURE!! (LOL)

[scattyspice]

Still haven't camped since DCs (can't get them to sleep in a bed never mind a TENT).

But preDC: selfinflate matress (thermarest thinggy), earpluds, warm clothes and a hat and whisky.

[twinsetandpearls]

dp doesn't drink and has never had problems getting to sleep when we are camping.

[FrannyandZooey]

arse

[FrannyandZooey]

Am terrified. Next month, first time camping since we gave up drinking. Am I going to need sleeping pills?

[twinsetandpearls]

lol at weed and earplugs.

[twinsetandpearls]

Since buying a decent tent and airbeds we have never had trouble sleeping and we use a double airbed, the fresh air and lots of walking see me off at night.