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14/5/2015 at 3:19pm
Location: North Yorkshire
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I have brought this thread back to life to say that we have camped for the last two weekends.
The first one at a marina (Waveney) and the second at a simple, no facilities campsite (Wardley Hill). I have just reviewed both.
Anyway, I paid £34, gulp, for a tiny pitch for 1 adult and 1 child the first weekend (could have been £42 if I had felt like pushing the boat out after I had keeled over).
£13 for two adults and a child the second weekend. The first had lots of facilities (that we didn't use apart from the pool). Proper pitch lighting (so that you couldn't tell whether it was day or night), and swish wet rooms.
The second had as much room as you wanted, campfires, a little wooded glade and a compost loo, nothing else.
Obviously the difference in facilities was massive, but so was our enjoyment, we had an absolutely fantastic time at Wardley Hill and a much less than fantastic time at Waveney.
I must be braver - I look for more structured campsites when I take my daughter on my own (8), pay through the nose and then neither of us particularly enjoys having less room than we have in the garden .... but I always wimp out and never learn.
A great camping experience can still be had for less than rip off prices, just a bit harder to find.
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14/5/2015 at 7:29pm
Location: cornwall
Outfit: vango maritsa 700
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Having been camping a lot as a child (but abroad) and as a teen (sodden days doing youth clubs) - I like my home comforts. I am a real wimp, I hate the cold, I don't like public toilets, cannot stand shower floors that are dirty, want lots of surfaces when I am cooking, like peace and quiet and am quite a grumpy, unsocialble person. I do love going outdoors and for days out and for walks, always have done, provided I can return to my comforts once done. I married my husband and we decided to have 4 children, he works very hard in the forces, but we don't have a lot of money due to having had 4 children. We hadn't had a holiday since going away for 4 nights to wales in a caravan whilst I was pregnant with my second. Shortly after I had my 4th the older two children (then aged 5 and 7) really wanted to go camping, so hubby was duly despatched to a not too expensive, but with all the mod cons, campsite about 40 minutes away in cornwall in my old teen 3 man gelert tent. They had an amazing time and when they came back and shared their tales and pics with me I was very jealous I was not with them. We decided that it would be a fairly cheap way of having family holidays, so saved up what we could and bought the basics and cheaply too. Yep, we are one of 'those'people who thought that it was an alternative to the holidays we thought wed like to go on. We didn't invest much money as we simply didn't have it to pay out. We also went to the cheapest campsites we could find. We went to one 'comercial' campsite for a weekend and vowed never, ever again, too many people just getting drunk and screaming and shouting til early hours, sitting in the pub watching sky sports, whilst their kids spent a fortune on the games machines. Totally not our cup of tea. We like the campsites which are a field (maybe some slides or a swing) with a (CLEAN) toilet/shower block - only essential for us is an ehu. That's it - our favourite ever has to be moonfleet farm. We spent 4 weeks last august camping, along with several weekends from late may to early sept, and we loved it, for me I love being outdoors, the kids need no reason - its camping! yep, we are still only buying the cheapest equipment - but that is due to our budget not because we don't think its worth the investment as we will be going for years to come such is our love for it - even when we can afford these other holidays, we will always choose the quieter, much nature friendly campsites (and cheaper!) over the larger commercial ones - that's not snobbery - that's our preference - and so just because we started because it is a cheaper holiday and we can only afford to spend a litte bit on the equipment please don't judge us - for were entitled to camp and enjoy it too :) we may have pushed the prices up - but we too have to afford them on our very limited budget :) we love all our fellow campers (apart from those idiots who sing innapropriate songs at 2am or those who have all the best gear but obviously no idea when they come banging on your tent at 9pm screaming that your children should stop laughing so loud haha) to finish weve fallen in love with camping even me - so long as I can wear my flip flops in the showers! :)
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June 2015: seaview international 2 nights
July 2015: little winnick 2 nights
August 2015: lower polladras 5 nights
august 2015: tollgate farm 5 nights
august 2015: oakdown 3 nights
September 2015: tregarton park
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15/5/2015 at 9:54am
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Now that my DS has become a student and has decided to spend all his camping time in a selection of cheap (bought by mum in jumble sales) 3-man tents in Festivals, we're down to just me and DD wanting to camp. My OH has gone lazy, he can't be bothered to drag his bum away from the telly and pub at the weekend. So we're back to pitch + 2 adult prices which is really very nice after some years of 2 adults + two older kids, it's widened my range again.
It's a school holiday on Monday up here and DD and I are off down the Borders for three nights to a very nice campsite costing £13.50 per night plus £2 per night for EHU. It's got a clean loo block and not much else on site but there's plenty to do locally, great fish and chip shop down the road and neither of us bother much with elaborate meals so we only need a one burner cooking set up. We take a 4-man tent with head room and a sitting area, takes us 20 minutes to put up. (At 13, DD is five inches taller than me.)
I've done the full trailer tent plus kitchen sink 2-hour set up thing, I've done the eight week all summer family trips to France, I've even gone to an all singing all dancing club site once, though that was a mistake never repeated. But there are still quieter, more modest sites around if you look and especially if you don't need EHU, which isn't essential for me for short trips. I started off my camping life in a 2-man tent while cycle camping, I've done the huge unit with family thing, I feel I'm now coming out the other side with a more modest setup and fewer demands of a campsite. It's quite liberating actually not to have to drag so much kit around and be able to set up in half an hour.
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