Ours was the only tent left standing on our Cornish trip last week - I think I am going off camping.

[MehgaLegs]

The wettest of wet weather ever. The site was flooded when we got there. We piad £250 to camp on a flowing stream.

Mud, wind, strange smells.

Gale force winds on Weds meant 1 in 5 of the campers went home. The skip was full of tents. Our friends salvaged enough poles from the skip to fix there tent.

I am knackeres. I would like to lay on a sunlounger and read a book.

Bizarrely I look back on last week with a strange fondness.

Also wondering where you went. Am just registering with uk camping so that I can leave a review of the 'site' we stayed at.

i have to live here!(in cornwall but not in a tent)today i was so desperate that the children have been out playing in the rain wearing wellies and coats-keep telling them its summer,we live in cornwall,were lucky etc

Have just done a review on here. It is a North Cornwall site and probably bottom of the list after the score I gave it. Have looked at reviews on UK campsite and most say same. Expensive, packed and too many rules.

MehgaLegs - i think weve discussed your ds lovely hair before.my ds2 needs haircut[sob]-im thinking similar style.sorry for hair hijack!

Meghalegs- I had a look at your profile to look at the state of your campsite, I ended up falling in love with your children. They are adorable.

have just got back from isle of wight, megga winds in middle of week, tents dropping like ninepins. Nearly strangled a woman in the showers who delighted in telling me that she had been coming to site 9 years running and the weather had never been like this
yea, thanks for that love!!

sat in the car for 3 hours watching tent making lots of shapes it really wasnt designed to do, then buggered off to pub to drown sorrows for another 3 hours.

It was more of a Ray Mears survival experience than a holiday, got away with one broken pole (thanks khyam) so cant complain especially as tent next door collapsed completely.

did bring out the best in people as rest of campsite rallied round and rescued poles from abandoned tents to mend said collapsed mess and allowed family to stay on and face yet more winds!!! But really not sure if Dunkirk spirit and stiff upper lips are what I want from a holiday!

my parents own a b and b near padstow, and the wet windy weather is great for them!! The B and B is full of people whose tents have floated away

Stars that they are they wash and dry clothes and reduce prices, you cant help feeling sorry for the people who are paying for their holiday twice over!

Im sure they would be much happier if the weather was nicer, but im not sure they would be making as much money!

Meghalegs, £250, tell me that wasn't just for a week . Also, I thought there were laws against packing tents in that tightly because of the fire hazard.
Dh and I were discussing making the effort to go to Cornwall next year (very long drive with autistic ds ) but suddenly I'm not so sure...

Thank you for sweet comments about my boys. I think they are very lovely too

Yep Pixel £250 for a week - mad - but we have seen the error of our ways. The drive was a lot more bearable this year as we left very early and missed the queues.

£250 for a week's camping is outrageous imo.

Sorry you had a crap time.

We tried justifying it by kidding ourselves we weren't paying for beach car park etc but I spent over £40 on washing machines and dryers.

We have learnt our lesson, honest

How much?????

I paid £20 a night, and that was for a site with a pool, adventure playground, BMX bike track, climbing wall, resturant and bar!

We paid £115 for 6 nights for 4 of us and a largish tent (pic on profile). As you can see the site was still lovely despite weeks of rain and we had plenty of room. Dh always moans that I want to go to the same site every year. Meghalegs, I will show him your photos so he can see how lucky he is .

Our tent was blown away last year. Our lovely vintage seventies frame tent

Fortunately we are back this year with our brand new (!) eighties frame tent, which has just survived a bit of a battering in Brittany. V. windy, but not as wet as Cornwall by the sound of it.

Oh no FallenMadonna . Was that the orange frame tent with the flowery orange and brown curtains. I'm sure you were on that frame tent thread last year.

What type of frame tent have you now?

It was

We now have a Cabanon. With stripey curtains

Still orange, but not such a vibrant hue...

FallenMadonna, a good choice. The Cabanon orange is a subtle restful hue indeed