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Why is camping the only kind of holiday people like to judge in this way? There are dozens of different kinds of holiday, nobody says that renting a gite and booking your own ferry is any more or less of a holiday than going on a package break, or that staying in a hotel in the country is more of a holiday than staying in one in a city.

 These are just arbitrary judgements, i am not sure why they occur. Are some of those who endured uncomfortable camping holidays as children occasionally resentful of the creature comforts available to the modern camper? Are some of those who spend a fortune to stay in a tower block by the sea on the Costa Plenty secretly frightened that they are wasting their money? Maybe, but ultimately what does it matter? I have camped in a tiny tent, with stove, lantern, airbed, hubby and hound, I loved it. Now i camp in an ancient folding camper with daughter and 3 hounds and i still love it, i just no longer have to crawl about on the floor quite so much!

I,m some where in between with the Rapido Recordmatic 'Wooden Tent' although I also love my Creighton Binns chalet tent.   I love the sound of rain on the canvas or wooden roof, the smell of grass and the freedom to set up 'somewhere over there'.  Not not having to rely on EHU gives that much more freedom.  

I find that the 'solid' doors of the Rapido are more secure for keeping the mutts in and quiet at night.  Probably the same for FC and other folding caravans.  OH not so keen on either and doesn't even want a proper caravan unless it's a humungous mobile penthouse!  That's a definite no-no.  Camping is feeling the naturural around you not looking at it through a window of a box on wheels.  I look at caravans (to molify OH) and am saddened by the fact that the seating area is the furthest away from the door.    How can you interact from the end of a cupboard?  And you have to make sure you door is facing the right way on your alloted hardstanding.  Ugh.