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Hi All,

Following some advice from this site last month i picked up a Gelert Corona 6 from Tesco, we now have a collection of gear, foliding picnic table/seats, folding chairs, cutlery, plastic crockery, readybeds, hand pump, windbreaker, etc... lets just say this camping things addictive.

Anyway, we are now booked in for a 3 night 'trial' run at Haven Blue dolphin at the second half of next month. i dont know if this is correct thinking but the plan was that this would be a safe and relativly easy start to camping with a 6 & 2 year old, the thinking was that it gives us activities, swimming, bar, restaurants all within a very small distance meaning we dont need to think about too much and the recent reviews all say the wash facilities are clean and hot.

my main concern is i have not idea what i am doing, we did a trial run putting up the tent that went well concidering the limitations of my dads garden, which we used as the tent measures bigger then our whole garden! and im very pleased with the size and ease in which it all went together (from arriving the tent was up and full within an hour including all air beds)

things like what way to you point the tent, campsite etiquette (SP?), where to park, charging phones are all of many concerns i have.

We are all really looking forward to it and after spending a week in a caravan with the full family (8 in all) in cornwall a couple of years ago at a haven site we are looking to enjoy it with just the 4 of us.

any advice you can offer to a newbie camper... as its only about an hours drive away i did suggest to my wife that i could go up in the morning and get set up then go straight from collecting the eldest from school but we need to look into arrival/departure times

anyway any advice or reccomendations would be great as this is a trial for a planned 7-10 day escape later in august if all goes well :)