Camping hacks

[Silverbirch2]

Camping for 10 days I summer with 2 dc 6 & 8
Any tips, tricks or help

Thanks all. Yes we have electric hook up.
Weve both camped before and did when kids were babies, we do caravan/ premier inn hols sometimes but theres something special about camping. I feel our kids at 6 & 8 will love it! It's an adventure.
I appreciate all your wise words and I'm quite excited!

@PrincessInPyjamas

We used to do camping. We don't anymore. It just got too expensive and daft. We found that we were having to take so much stuff with us because the sites we used just didn't accommodate us.

We now use hotels instead. Premier Inns and Travelodges are fairly cheap. We can stay there and travel.

Agree.....not a cheap holiday any more - we paid 3 x the amount to camp that we paid to stay in a city centre Premier lnn last year. Mental.

Lots of big bags for life! Really useful for chucking stuff in (eg shoes/trainers) to keep dry when the ground is a bit damp, plus use to take clothes and towels in the showers then hang on the door so it keeps everything dry whilst you are showering. Also useful on beachdays so you can keep wet towels and swimming kit separate from spare clothes and extra jumpers (assuming its UK you are going to!)

@Silverbirch2 it may be considered akin to child torture these days but when we used to camp in the 1970s, we had a shorts only rule whatever the weather as wet legs dry more easily than wet trousers! Meant there weren't 6 pairs of jeans to get dry on rainy days (of which there were many!) and we wore wellies and socks so our feet were warm.

I tried to carry on the same ruling on with my own children but unfortunately my now ex Husband wasn't made of such stern stuff and they and him were running around in tracksuit bottoms on wet days which meant I had the joyful job of finding a launderette to dry the bloody things in - which was unnecessary apparently as wet clothes can easily be kept in a plastic bag for 10 days until we get home to wash them and don't get mouldy and smelly at all! 😩😩