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Love camping but only done it during the late spring and summer so far.  want to go in october during school hols, but scared it will be to cold.  What do other campers do out with the tent during the cold weather (I can deal with the rain), we are going with my 2 sons who are 7 and 10, they get bored in the tent, although I would be happy staying in my sleeping bag or by the plug in heater with a bottle of wine. 

Were thinking of going to a site near us with a indoor swimming pool (used it many times), but now have a bigger tent (7 man and their restriction is 6 man). 

I am talking about camping in scotland and going only about 1 - 1.30 hours away from fife, does anyone have a suggestion?

Rubbish its all about preparation. Just come back from a glorious weekend in Cornwall where the weather was extremely warm during the day and consequently very cold (4 degrees) at night. However, we had extra sleeping bags to cover the airbeds and fleece fitted sheets. We also had 3 season bags with bag liners and we were quite comfortable overnight. You will also need some form of heating, we had an electric fan heater which we used in our day tent along with the jumpers and fleeces. It kept us warm during the evenings even though both th day tent and our VV500 have no SIG.

Quote: Originally posted by bryan_k on 08/10/2007

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& yes it is too cold (for an Englishman)

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hi marynov

Tent is big (at least bigger than what we had previously- vango diablo 400), far more space which I love.  Yes it is one of those tents that has 700 stamped on the outside, which kind of gives it away, wish manufacturers wouldn't do that (have thought of covering it with tape), you could be right about campsite owners not wanting masses of people inside them, we only bought it for us and the 2 boys and use the middle pod for storage.

Would take extra blankets, duvets, hats etc if we do go.

We stayed at Sauchope Links at Crail two weekends ago and had a great time.

Can highly recommend it - there was a family there with a Vango Diablo 900 (absolutely huge !!)  so I'm sure they would accept your tent.

Check out the reviews of this site - they are all excellent.

Rod

Quote: Originally posted by irn bru on 08/10/2007

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Blair Atholl?? or Faskally just outside Pitlochry.

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My goodness !!!! Blair Atholl brings back some happy memory's ....we went there and booked in for camping for two nights at Blair castle....god...it is up there as one of the 'poshest' camping places we have ever be to...park like this....don't do that...blah blah blah....and it cost a bloody fortune....nice place though....and the castle is fantastic..... try killiecrankie hotel ( famous for 'The battle of ' ) just down the road...for their fresh water trout....hmmmmm

Rod & Ali

Had a look at Sauchope Links previously but was alway put of as they quote "Please Note:Tent bookings for tents no bigger than 12ftx6ft (2 people)", so I have never tried the site and its only 30 minutes away from home.  Will definately give it a go next year as I love where it is and know that they do take bigger tents.

Thanks