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We find most sites have a set price for a tent and two adults, then you pay extra per child and sometimes more the older the child is. Some sites include EHU in the price and some don`t. Some sites also charge extra for large tents, some even charge for TWO pitches which makes it unviable for us to camp there, which is we bought the Monty 6.

Saying that though, for the first time ever we were told by a campsite only last week that the Mony 6 was a large tent and therefore we would be charged an extra 50% of the pitch fee per night. I have never had that happen with the Monty before and it is a very popular tent.

Camping is becomming more and more popular, so some site owners will see the chance to make a few more quid, if they can! I dont mind paying a fare price for a fare site - but if your campsite is near a very popular city i.e York, then some will jump on it. However if you have found a very cheap site near to York you can guarantee it wont be for long - they are probably trying to drum up interest - once that has happened people will demand more from the site - then the site owners will have to invest in the site and then fees will rise. Unless they are a big concern and do a lost leader (like Haven) charge little for the tents, they mean nothing too them, but what you will spend on site does!

If you pay £15 per night its still a huge saving on £100 + per night for a room in a hotel in York for the night. And youve got freedom!

Reality check on prices elsewhere is always worth it.

I`ve got 6 nights in York for four of us for £96. We are in our home from home as both our tents are, we have all our own stuff around us, plenty of room so we aren`t on top of one another (been in some hotel rooms where our beds were two inches away from the other) and we are a two mile walk from a wonderful City, I couldn`t ask for more.

A girl I work with went to York last year with her Mum and younger sister. I told her we were going to York at the same time and she asked which hotel. I told her we weren`t going in a hotel, we were camping in our tent and she sniggered at this. I was told she wouldnt be seen dead in a tent, B&B`s were the lowest she would go, but hotels were far better, camping was a cheapie holiday etc etc.

A week later when we were back at work I asked how her holiday had been. It seems they had booked a B&B for two nights then had to find somewhere else to stay for the rest of the week. The B&B cost them £60 per night for all three of them which she though cheap. When they tried to find another B&B they couldn`t so were stuck with hotels, one wanted a staggering £240 per night. Eventually they found a tiny apartment for £100 a night and she said the bed was lumpy and the bedding smelt damp, the bathroom wasn`t the cleanest she had seen and also smelled damp,plus the water wasn`t that hot. The lounge was pretty basic and they needed to clean the kitchen and the pots etc before they could use them and the place was so small they felt cramped.

I listened to all this nodding sympathetically now and again and eventually she asked me how my holiday had been, in a condescending kind of way because after all we were only going camping.

I told her we had a fabulous time, the beds were comfy and we had spotlessly clean, fresh bedding. The showers were also spotlessly clean and had constant hot water. We had masses of room in the tent to spread out in, all the kitchen equipment and pots were extremely clean as they came from home, as did everything else and it cost us £22 a night for all of us. I then added of course we were only `slumming` in a tent, a cheapie holiday (all remarks she had made about our holiday before we went away), but it sounded like we had a better time and FAR better accomodation than she had enjoyed and at less than a quarter of the price she had paid!

Breezy,

Have read a few of your posts now, and you often refer to your workmates, they sound like a pile of c--p too me! Always sniggering at you etc.. for camping, sounds like your working with a right load of numpty heads - not in this century anyway! What sort of work are you in for so many numpties to be so negative about you camping?

I actually work in a shop. You`re right about some of my workmates though. Most are fine, but some are the type that will snigger at other workmates and poke fun of them if they think it will ensure their place in `the group`.

The group being a few people who have been in the shop since it opened and think no-one else is as good at their jobs as they are. This is the group that talk more about what work they are going to do than actually doing any work, regularly take a 30 min tea break when we are only allowed a 15 minute break, come back from their lunch at 1.20 when they are supposed to be back at 1pm so therefore they are making you wait 20 mins extra for yours, yet create merry hell if you are so much as 5 mins late back when you are on first lunch.

This is also the group than accuse me of dictating rotas, because I can only work weekends when my OH is off due to our having no-one to look after our kids. This mean I work 2 weekends out of 5, those weekends being both the Sat and Sun, yet the group rarely work a Sunday (one hasn`t worked a Sunday since before Christmas and the other one on my section has worked two since Christmas). If they are rota`d in to work a Sunday, they moan so much the Manager makes sure they don`t do another one for months as she can`t stand the hassle............................but I`M the one dictating rotas!

 Well done breezy! Your one strong person, most would loose their rag or quit. Keep your chin up - A good one too keep in your head is - when youre thinking of all the names under the sun to call them - just think " dont mock the afflicted"

Old mate of mine once said that when we were challenged by some cavemen in a pub! How I laughed at the time!

John

Thank you, I just refuse to let the muppets win. I had a real giggle to myself one day, when one muppet said my tent sounded so big it was a wonder I didn`t get lost in it. I turned round and said "Well I have had to get one of those cordless doorbells, so I know when someone is at the door, `cos if they shout yoo hoo when I am in the back bedroom I`m too far away to hear them"  I nearly crippled myself laughing when she scurried off to inform the other muppets I had only bought a door bell for my tent!

The icing on the cake was when she came back and said "Y`know, I`m surprised you haven`t had a letterbox put in as well!"

I replied "I didn`t have to, there`s a zipped slot where the EHU cable comes into the tent and the postman usually puts the mail through there". Needless to say her face was a picture!

Nice one!  Shame you have to work with it - but at least your strong enough to ride over it! Keep smiling Breezy

John