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You'll be fine, stuff every nook and cranny, put your y-fronts inside the wellies and sit on sleeping bags etc.  Don't do what my OH did the last time though, leave the car keys in the boot before packing it up.

Clare

actually if it is raising the kid up then it is safer as the seatbelt would be in a better place - ie across the shoulder and not the neck

xoops

Quote: Originally posted by Cerevisiae on 18/7/2008

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We couldn't fit everything in last year, but we only had a 3 door xzara, so we left behing the chairs and camp kitchen, and spent the week cooking for 4 on a single burner and sitting on the floor .

When organising the packing of the car I had everything sorted into level of *need*, we took minimal food (enough for the first 24 hours).

Things will be better this year, we have a new car, a Zafira, but I am sure we will still fill it!

I'm sure you will be fine!

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My last car was a xantia and we bought roof bars for it.The long things like camp kitchen windbreaks on the bottom and tent on top all covered in tarp and very well strapped down!

Kids had sleeping bags (in their stuff bags) stuffed in their foot well and cool box between them.

Boot was jam packed with everything else.

Then one year we were having trouble getting everything on the roof, so decided for the extra £1 per night and a bit of petrol (we were only 1 hour away) was worth it!

Now got a Berlingo but no roof bars. The bloke who sold it to me gave me the dog guard too so I could fill it to the roof when camping.

 I'm going on my own with the kids so have to fit it all in my car, I'm taking the smaller tent, day tent, 3 chairs, table, camp kitchen, single gas burner, airbeds, sleeping bags, folding windbreaks which take up alot less room, food & clothes.

I am hoping that because I'm not taking EHU will have space for the loo rather than the fridge, kettle, lights, hairdryer etc

 I have a VW Golf , and 2 kids ( one is 17 and the other 13 ) and a Lurcher ( he goes in the boot )

 Somehow I managed to fit 2 tents ( 2 man and a 3 man ) ,Self inflating mat ,  3 roll mats , cool bag , 3 sleeping bags , a 'suitcase' type stove , pans ( all nesting inside each other ) folding basket , dog bed, dog food , our food , clothing , travel rug , 2 stools , small backpacking table , coleman corner type collapsible storage unit thing , kites, wash bag , towels , waterproof coats and loads more stuff .

 And somehow I ended up buying another dog bed while we were away( he looked like the 'princess and the pea' in the boot when it was on top of his other bed  

 I also bought a windbreak ( that was out of necessity ! ) , now that was a laugh fitting it in for the homeward journey  

 This year I have invested in a Thule Ranger roof box/bag and some Aero bars  It should make things a little easier for us