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if you see my post 'back from red shoot' you will see that we had a heater and ehu for the first time this weekend. Made a huge difference at night. We had the outwell one and also had it on thermostat through the night.

would highly recommend.

Good luck. Nothing worse than being freezing - been there and I can't blame yo u for coming home.

We were frozen too. We went to Dobrudden near Leeds and they've stopped doing EHU for tents.

Cold sitting round for us, not so much in bed as we have a blanket under the airbed, then a fleece under the sheet. As it was so cold we had a sleeping bag opened up over the sheet and then the 11.5 tog duvet over the top. We were toasty til we had to get up....

Definately too early to camp without EHU or any other form of heating IMHO!

PGxx

I went  non ehu  camping in early  April when there was frost on ground and  was  warm enough at night to  just be in t shirt and underwear in  sleeping bag  .  I had  airbed ,  a  fleece blanket on it then  a thick  400 or 350 gsm( i think )  sleeping bag with a hood thing on and  on top of that an  old  square  sleeping bag  laid over like a quilt and got  too  hot at one point  but wa  neevr cold at  night . 

BBQ   got stoked up  with lots of charcoal  to  throw off heatin  evening   and also  some wood  as  we were  only ones there . 

Quote: Originally posted by phil w1 on 04/5/2010

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thanks for all your replys what is a good sleeping bag? me and my other half normally sleep together but on the second night we slept apart in separate bags but we still wore lots of clothes we were abit warmer  but had that much stuff on other half couldnt move or turn round

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Never yet had a heater in a tent, not in 30+ years of camping. The secret is clothes, lots of layers of them. Good old fashioned woolen jumpers work better than most microfleece layers, unless you buy the hi-tec mountain stuff. Chain store thermals are okay though. Wool socks for wearing in bed are less sweaty than fleece ones.

A good sleeping bag is another essential, with some sort of insulation layer between you and the airbed if you're using one.

Hot water bottles and hot drinks before bedtime also help. If you change into your jammies over in the toilet block where it's warm then put your top clothes back on over them till bedtime, this will stop you...and especially kids...getting chilled.

Close the sleeping pods up before evening time. This helps conserve warm air inside. Keep them closed as much as possible at night...if you get up to go to the loo, for example, close the pod behind you. And keep your sleeping bag closed to save you having to warm it up again.

Keep the tent zipped down too if it's really cold outside.

Finally it's a fact that almost all camping newbies underestimate how cold it gets at night outside, even in high summer. Just because you can sit out in your garden in a t-shirt at 9pm  doesn't mean you won't be freezing at 2am in your 2-season sleeping bag at the campsite down the road. Even in August, let alone the start of May!