In a tent at Christmas?

[OhFortheLoveOv]

Would you, could you and ultimately should you?
Short story long… we are hosting two elderly relatives (70’s) this Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. They both need their own room and our home is teeny meaning we are out of bed space …we have as I see these options;
Us in tent in garden
or
the teenage kids in tent I don’t relish either but out of ideas. What would you do?

Christ no. Bed down in the lounge?

Hire a camper van and park it outside your house?

Blow up mattress in the sitting room?

I’d look for a local air B and B or similar? Might be cold in a tent

Teenage kids, tent, fairy lights, music, lots of duvets,s’mores and fire pit..sounds lovely and something they’d remember.

Why no one in living room or on floor? Is your home the only possibility for Christmas venue?

Depends where you live. North of Scotland - definitely not tent weather in December. Not even sure it's campervan weather, if you had access to one of those. Why not book a B&B for the elders?

I would not be sleeping in a tent at Christmas nor would I be asking my dc to.
Either your relatives don’t come, they stay in a nearby air bnb/hotel/guesthouse or you and the dc all squish into the front room.
I’d be going with the alternative accomodation. If they are okay to get to you for Christmas and spend the night away from home, I’m sure they’ll be okay in a hotel room overnight.

Hotel/ B&B / blow up mattress.
A tent in December will be bloody freezing, unless you already have suitable kit for winter camping?

How many rooms are you, and who are the relatives? One from each side of you and dh? Each of you share room with your own relative?

I’m a fairly hardy camper but not in my back garden at Christmas, I’d be down to the nearest Premier Inn

It'll be freezing but if I had to I'd go with pp and make it an adventure for teens. Loads of blankets, hot water bottles, fleecy PJ's etc ... But if sofas, Airbnb, hotel so option then that'd probably be better

@FreeElf

I’d look for a local air B and B or similar? Might be cold in a tent

Might? 🥶❄️🧊🥶❄️

Presumably bedding down in the front room isn't going to be ideal as that's where the tree and presents (and opening thereof on Christmas morning) are going to be.

Is there room on your bedroom floor for airbeds for the teens?

Otherwise, I'm afraid I agree with the hotel suggestion.

I think that would be miserable. B&B for one (or both) relatives.

Don't be daft. Sleeping in a van or caravan in winter in the UK you need heating, let alone a tent.

We sleep in our van over Christmas but there is no way I'd sleep in a tent! Can't you make a bed up on the floors of bedrooms?

Would the relatives want to come knowing that this resulted in someone sleeping outside in December?!

Far to cold to be sleeping outside in December. Air bed in lounge?

Absolutely not, nobody should be in a tent.

How did the hosting come about? Your idea, or the guests'?

I would book a cheap hotel.

Brrrr no way, it'll be freezing.

What? No. Your guests must book a hotel.

Presumably bedding down in the front room isn't going to be ideal as that's where the tree and presents (and opening thereof on Christmas morning) are going to be.
Not ideal for who though? Those who have turfed the teens out of their beds? I'd rather sleep in the living room and get up early than sleep outside and be awake cold and miserable at daft o'clock anyway!

You or teenagers on living room floor using whatever bed set up you were planning for the tent.