What's security like in Canvas Holidays or simular tents

[MrsBish]

Am contemplating a holiday with Canvas Holidays in the Vendee with DS(3) and DD (9mths)in June.

I know we need to store any expensive items in car etc. Just wanted to know if its possible or necessary to lock the tents. I don't want to stress every night and be worried if the kids are safe when we're all in bed.

Silly I know, just please set my mind at rest and let me have any security tips etc

Thanks

i've been to france in a canvas caravan and that to be honest worried me to death never mind a tent. i could hardly sleep thinking how easy it was to break into a caravan esp with all the madeliene mccann thing going on - the year we went was the year she went missing. i wouldn't stay in a tent tbh. you can lock the door think its a padlock (have seen their tents) but all tents are the same. i still worry that someone can lift up the flap.

The thing with a tent is it has no walls and therefore everyone around also in tents can hear what is happening far better, this in its own way makes things safer. If someone at night came upto your tent not only would they have to be careful to be so quite not to wake you up they would have to not wake everyone around you up.

if you were to shout when in a tent there would be lotsof people wanting to know what was happeing - not like when you are in a house and someone breaks in and the neighbours cant hear in the next house.

I have been on holiday with Eurocamp and keycamp which are similar holidays. The security of a tent is about zero. I think the risk of a child being aducted from a tent with parents in is extremely low. It has to be remembered that the McCanns completely abanoned their kids in a flat on their own and went down the street.

Is your partner coming with you? Or is it just you? Ie. if you need the loo at 4 in the morning are you going to worry about walking to the toilet block?

I don't think that a padlock at night would be a good idea. The chances of your child being aducted from a tent are smaller than can your child being killed in a fire. And as youhavegottobekidding has written its very easy to to get in and out of the tents by other means. If someone was hell bent on kipnapping/ murdering/ raping your child then they easily could cut through the fabric of the tent with a bog standard knife.

If you are concerned then the simplest answer would be to share a room with your child. most these tents allow you to unzip partitions between rooms. If it is going to wreck your holiday worrying about a risk that is tiny then I think it isn't the holiday for you.

We have been in the canvas mobiles for years and have always felt safe. The people in the pitches around you will be other families, many english. They would notice anything strange or help out in a 'situation' i'm sure. I really have not worried about my DC cycling around the camp to the shop etc from quite a young age. Not sure about the tens as not been in one, but have never heard of anything untoward happening on a canvas site.

The only dangers I have heard about are if you are driving through france and get carjacked or whatever they call it. They come alongside and flag you down pointing at your wheels or whatever then grab your belongings, also happened in those service stations so we have always parked close to the station itself and never on the picnic areas if we were having a sleep when driving through the night.

We had a keycamp tent last year the two bedroom parts are oposite each other and are zipped off from the living area.
TBh - i neer even considered security of my kids.
The zips are so noisy you would hear if someone tried to get in, but the chances of that must be pretty low.

sleep near your little ones if youre that worried. or place noisy stuff near the entrance i.e crisps so that if anyone got in you would hear them crunching! but believe me that wont happen. never heard of it!

Many thanks all. It was a silly thought really i think, it had just got me wondering!

Am going with DH, so we should be OK. I went on Eurocamp holidays as a child and always felt very safe.

Prob best to forget about it and get on and book that holiday!!

Go on go on go on!
Wish we were going this year. You will have afab time¬!