Oh so cold at night. I need warm pjs

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I need warmer pjs for camping. (I suggested bring along an electric underblanket, but but fir some reason dh just laughed .)

Cotton just doesn't hack it, and I can't wear synthetics. I wd quite like this but £50+ for a pair of pjs is too much for me. I'd rather spend that on an electric underblanket!

Any suggestions? (Other than camping in a 5* hotel, which wd be my prefered solution. But I don't think that is going to happen. )

Jogger bottoms and tops? That's what I wear, several layered sets tbh.

thermal underwear

I received a 'Nauticalia' catalogue through the post. They sell lots of sailing things including cosy looking pyjamas. I think they are for men really, looking at the models but I think I might get some for cold evenings! They even sell night caps! There is a website if you put Nauticalia in a search engine.

Some if the Nauticalia stuff looks nice, but wooooey expensive! I'm not convinced that cotton flannels would be any warmer than the cotton layers I currently use. The trouble with layering is that I often find myself twisted up within the layers. The innermost layer has twisted with me, while the outermost has stayed with the sleepingbag.

Last summer I was so cold that I wore a wooly jumper to bed. On the last night temperatures rose but I didn't realise. I kept waking in the night, far too hot, but didn't remove any layers because I thought I was just having a hot flush!

Themals are usually synthetic, aren't they? I can only sleep in cotton, silk or viscose, though I can cope with very soft wool (eg merino) if it's not next the skin. I sound like a pampered fusspot but I'm not just being fussy - synthetics genuinely bring me out in a painful it hy rash. Antihistamines with your bedtime cocoa anyone?

M&S had thermals with silk/cottion and I thought merino --still available online (unfortunately not in store so no good for me this weekend ) hth

www.marksandspencer.com/gp/search/279-7410831-2566102?ie=UTF8&rs=42966030&fromPS=&sort=relevancerank &keywords=thermal&mnSBrand=core&viewID=results&pos=srchpagShow%20all&showAll=1&rh=n%3A42966030%2Ck %3Athermal

blimey huge link........ if doesn't work just search on thermal.. you can definately get merino layers as dh used to wear when rowing....and says were fab

Yes, the Nauticalia pjs are too expensive for unglamorous night wear! I wonder whether they are really any cosier than M&S. Perhaps we should think about wearing men's pjs. They always look warmer.

Just get merino or silk thermals. You will have them all your life. I think £50 a set is reasonable. Google for "baselayers"

Fine merino is soft as silk not at all scratchy or "woolly". I have a lovely merino top that I sleep in, although my sleeping bag is packing up (or I'm getting old and feeble) and I did need a fleece over the other week. Cheapie long johns were fine.

You do have a decent sleeping bag/mat as well don't you?

We have been camping recently and it was freezing. I ended up wearing pyjamas with tracksuit over the top and wooly hat the first time. Second time I had leggings and thermal vest, then pyjamas, then tracky top with hood up!!! Socks on too of course!

Looks like I might get the patra stuff, I thought it was expensive but it seems fairly averag for what it is.

We have a pair of fairly decent sleeping bags which we zip together to make a mega-double, and an airbed which we put on top of campermats for extra insulation. But best of all I have my 6'3" hottie: dh!

Try the campermats on top of the airbed next time. My theory is that the airbed is cold (a heat sink) so will suck heat out of your body - try insulating yourself from it. Irrelevant what's between airbed and ground, both are equally freezing. I'm sure I have read this explained scientifically somewhere.

Also if your sleeping bag isn't mummy style you might need another layer on your top half where the draught is.

Definaetly the AIRBED matresses are colder than the mmats.

have done 2 camping trips so far this year and have self-inflate 'mats' covered with a sleeping bag, 12 tog duvet and 2 woolen blankets. I was then in pj bottoms, socks, tshirt, fleece and extra jumper which came off later - pulled my hood up through.

Kids have toweling 'cozies' or those long towelling beachdresses with hoods that they wera on top of fleecy pj's woth socks. They have air mat, sleeping bad and duvet combos with extra blanket in case )IKEA do cheap fleece blankets for £2)

I suggested to dh that we put the campermats on top of the airbed bvut he looked at me like this . It does make sense, though.

I have to insulate myself. I can't make the sleeping bag warmer because dh is such a hot-bod. He is already liable to push the bag off himself half way through the night as he is too hot!

Are men always warmer than women?

I think yes, men on average sleep warmer than women in sleeping bags.

Only way is to try it out - let us know the feedback.

hot water bottles, easy to heat the water on a camping stove and great to keep you warm! Use ones all the time (camping in Scotland)