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got ourselves a vango event 5 brilliant,

 but raised a moan at ty mawr last year

tried to charge for two tents

Looks like I have to work on OH then!  Sounds like a good investment.

Just have to decide which one.

Hi

Just bumping this up rather than start a new thread. We are thinking of getting a utility tent to free up more room in our living area.

We've booked for a week at Polmanter in the summer but just for our actual tent. There appears to be a charge for gazebos and pup tents - should I chance my arm and just pitch the kitchen tent or would it be better to let them know in advance I am bringing a kitchen tent? I have reserved a defined pitch area, our tent is only small compared to a lot of others and it won't mean any other people are stopping on the site...

THank you!

Am i the only one who's found all the sites that charge extra for pup/utility/gazebo's?

And the prices have ranged from £3 per night to 50p!

Oooh, thank you for the link, Anorak, that looks just the kind of thing we (I say we, I mean I!) am after.

Quote: Originally posted by mrselvis on 27/2/2008

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Am i the only one who's found all the sites that charge extra for pup/utility/gazebo's?

And the prices have ranged from £3 per night to 50p!

 

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I prefer a kitchen tent to a day room because one of the prime reasons for me to have an annexe is to keep the cooking totally seperate from anywhere the kids are allowed. They do not go into the kitchen tent, period. That saves me a lot of worry about them bumping into cookers and perhaps getting scalded, and also if I do set the thing on fire I only have to worry about getting myself out.

Day tents look nice, but I'm quite happy to eat and sit in the porch or under the sun canopy of the main tent.So I don't feel the need for one over and above the kitchen tent. And I would say that while a lot of campsites will allow a small kitchen tent through for free, they're far more likely to charge for a structure that takes up nearly as much room as a medium sized main tent.

We've just brought a Wynnster Leisure shelter - looks like a rounded gazebo but with 4 zip in sides and a clip in groundsheet, will probably let the kids sleep in it in the garden as well as using it on campsites as a day room.

We have a Sunncamp day room which sits on the front of our massive Wynnster Antares 9 to act as the kitchen.

We've only used it on the continent and have never been charged extra for it.

When we're at home it stays up most of the time in the garden to provide shelter for the old folks and it also gets an outing at the village fete when we run a stall.