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 Please can you help, last year a friend of mine, ask me and my family (me, my husband and little boy age 3) to go camping but when i saw ther tent it put me off, it was a two man tent and really old,

A few weeks ago, we were out on a day trip when we past barretts of feckenham at measham, i fell in love with this tent (montpellier 9 made by royal)

The problem is we have been camping but it was many years ago with a group of friends and we did not take anything with us not even a knife and fork,which put me off, 

Please can you gave us same advise on what we need to take with us from tents to knife and forks, this would be really helpful

Thanks Claire and Mark

Hi Claire & mark, welcome to ukcs.

Basic things you will need are

beds : airbeds & pump,on special offer in tesco at the moment,  or foam mats or camp beds.

Sleeping bags, pillows.

Cooker & gas, either a 2 ring burner and gas bottle or you can get a single burner suitcase type which takes disposable gas cannisters, On offer in woolworth for £15 . A table to put the cooker on, also £15 at woolies

Table & chairs - the folding table with chairs attached are around £20 most places

Plates, cups -  plasic sets of 4 for 69p in tesco

Pots & pans, cutlery,  take the ones from home or get the value range of nonstick ones from tesco or asda about £3 each.

A light, battery or gas lantern, unless you are going for en electric hookup lead.

Bucket with lid, saves going to the loo block in the middle of the night.

Thanks that really helpful, when we were at barrets of feckenham lookin at the tents, we asked the chaps there what we needed, and they tryed to sell us all the named appliances like royal, coleman and aztec, it is all a bit confusing, i have seen the air bed in morrisons £10.00 each do you think these are just as good, as he was telling me only by the best, not sure if  he was on a commission.

claire

you can get other equipment cheaper than the camping shops, lidls have some good deals on camping gear starting tomorrow,  and the great thing about this site is that people will recommend whats cheap ,whats good ,and what's not. Check out the equipment forum and use the search for specific items.

Most people here recommend the coleman comfort dual chamber airbed as being the best, although i've only had the argos ones myself, with varying experiences, some go down in the night, others have lasted years..

have you a lidl near you ?.

camping items goes on sale tomorrow .

check out their web site for further details

cheers maisy

Hi please can you let me no what are the best kind off lighting, gas or batteries

thanks claire