Anyone gone camping in a tent on a site with no toilet??

[hercules1]

Thinking of going to one of the new forest ones without toilets as soo much cheaper. I can liev without the showers but not sure what you do without a toilet. Can anyone explain to me how it works!?!?

you take a chemical portaloo and a toilet tent

Ahhh, I didnt know about the toilet tent. WHere do you dispose of the doings?

there will be a chemical disposal point on the site

Squat in the bushes! That's what we did in a small place in France.

Yes!

And we had no chemical toilet or anything. It was in a farmer's field (but it was only for 2 nights adn pre-kids)

You could try getting hold of some of these:

www.thepett.co.uk/wag.html

We bought one at an outdoors show and it was basically a large double plastic bag with some gel in which gets rid of odours etc and you can dispose of it afterwards pretty much like other rubbish. They sell a folding loo to use with them but I would have thought you could put them inside a bucket and that would work as well. The good thing, I think, is there is no need to deal with the cleaning etc which a chemical portaloo involves.

Must admit we were only away for a couple of nights so didn't really put the bag to the test as it were , and I don't know how many you would need for a long trip (they work out about £2.57 a bag (£30 for 12)I think. The website does give some info on that though.

i used to. often.

but not with kids.

my pal used to arrive at the site, unfold a metal shovel, throw it into the ground and say, 'there's teh turd shack.'

As a child our family used to the whole time. But it was more of a field in the mountains, not a site. We all had our own trowel and would set off into the woods when the need arose! .

In fact, my little sister went back to primary school and did her 'my summer hols' drawing of her with her trowel. My parents were slightly

I can't imagine the sites in the New Forest will take too kindly to you squatting in the bushes though!!

Gosh, all the time. As a child I travelled the world with my parents just camping anywhere, got very used to simply squatting behind a rock or a bush, we always had a little trowel and babywipes too.

I thought this was what camping was all about until, as an adult, I first encountered the camping in campsites with loos and showers in the UK and was quite at how un-outdoorsy it all seemed. Now of course I like a campsite with a loo on it!

In the summer holidays we'd often spend three weeks camping on the beach. NO loos, no showers. It was bliss.