Camping, Please Help?

[Mishelle]

Hiya Everyone,
As a child I used to go camping every year with my mom, dad and sisters.
I havent been since I was about 11 and I really wanted to ty it out again now I have children.
Me and my partner were going to go for a weekend while the children were with family but I chickened out of it because I got a little nervous about the safety of being in a tent with no doors to lock.
We have a holiday to Butlins planned for June but I was thinking about taking the children camping for a couple of nights in the May school holidays.
Can anyone recommend a nice safe campsite for us to go for our first time?
Any ideas/tips anything will be fantastic!
Thanks =)

YOu'll have to call around to get a booking at this notice but they will be out there

Area of the country required?

Erm, not sure really, We live in Birmingham and I drive so anywhere with plenty to do within I'd say a 3 hour drive?

Dont know how booked up they will be but loads of birmingham poeple go to this site

You need facillities at least at a basic level fiorst time

Also try fiorest holidays forest of dean, and pont kemys in Raglan, south wales (both have websites) as I think you could get to all of those in well under that and theyre all nice

the camping and caravanning club. The happy campers

If these links work, they've got lots of good information about camping.

Hi
We live in Brum too and a have recently started camping with our 3 DCs. We took our first trip at a really local site just in case we hated it - we went here. Very close to home i know but a great start for us and we love camping now.
Try here. Not too far from home and a lovely place to stay with children. The last place we went to was here only a two hour drive from birmingham and a really nice site. All 3 have lovely facilities.
Agree with BlaDeBla on looking at both those websites i found some useful info on them too.
Go for it and have fun x