Festivals with a toddler?!?

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Would like to brave one and test the water by taking dd to one this summer, in fact I'm determined!!

Was thinking of camp bestival or big chill for family friendly factor (obv not leeds/v!!)

What do others think? Have other mns been to festival with their dcs that have been great/best avoided??

And what about accommodation? Would a campervan be a good idea (dps have one) or would hiring one of those "boutique" yurt/tippee/podpad things be a good idea??

Please give me some advice because we really want to do this!

Been following this thread with interest. Been to lots of festivals in 'my yoof' (sigh). Would watch parents with LOs and think what lucky kids they were, having such cool parents at using cool!
Anyway, now thinking of doing it myself, but wondering (stupidly, probably) about one little detail - DD will be 2 at end of July, has always been a v good sleeper, goes to bed awake, nods off and sleeps 12hrs straight. Can anyone who's taken a toddler to a festival tell me if the bedtime was difficult at all? Has a couple of nights all sleeping in a tent made any difference to your LO's sleeping when back home?
Main reason for asking is that this is DH's main worry/objection about going. He doesn't want us to have sleep 'issues' when we get back .
I have told him not to be so daft, and that 2yr olds will prob get sleep problems about all sorts of things at that age anyway, but he's not convinced!!
Thanks for putting up with my daft questions ....

We did the Big Chill with ds at 10 months, enjoyed it but he was v portable at that point.

Decided that it was too big and not chilled enough for us last year with ds [2.5] and dd [6 months] so went to The Green Man in the Brecon Beacon - smaller, folkier, friendlier imo. It p-ed it down for three days but we had a fab time. Going again this year.

My top tip is to go with friends who also have children. You can babysit for each other whilst parents indulge in a little light clubbing and kids have fun whilst back at base. View it as camping with entertainment in like-minded company rather than trying/expecting to do too much. Take play-dough and duplo for rainy days.

took dd then 2 to Latitude last year going again this year pretty good small scale family kids friendly

my ds has never had his sleep affected by the weekend break at a festival......he does stay awake til much later at festivals, usually nods off in his pushchair about 10.30 and we then had a wander till about 11.30 and then back to tent.

the only problem we had when we got back was ds wanting to sleep in our sleeping bags rather than his cot