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Has anyone had to move their tent whilst on holiday?  I spent 2 weeks in Cumbria last year  but during our stay we had to pack everything up, move tent and unpack again on another pitch because site owners didn`t want grass damaged.

Our tent is a Vango Diablo 600, so to move that and everything else is no easy task, not to say an inconvience. If campsite owners worry about grass damage then why don`t they provide 10m x 10m pitches for tents with a sand or bark covering!!.

I was going to book a site in mid wales for the summer for two weeks and they want me to lift ground sheet, i have not got one as it all integral or i have to move tent on the 5/6 th day of stay.

Can anyone recommend a good quiet site that takes large tents where you don`t have to move it , excellent walking for my family and dog that also has electric hook up.

All ideas welcome.

Thanks

Paul

Hi Paul

hmmmmm you've made me think now about what materials we could use other than grass to pitch tents on....... bark - I wonder what cost it would come in at and whether the bark would rot down in adverse whether being convered??, sand won't work as you'd end up with a giant sand pit for a site, plus the local mice would have a field day - it would carry on car tyres shoes be in the loos/showers and carrying everywhere - yuk!  Anyone with experience of sites using anything but grass for there pitches?  WE have a geotech ground matting that we put under the grass for ground stability but it doesn't stop the problem of the grass dying off .

DO you have a breathable ground sheet - they help when pitch for lengths of stay at a time ?

Liz

I have a foot print under the tent, but as i mentioned the tent has an integral ground sheet so impossible to lift on daily bases to air grass.

We took up camping to do our bit for enviroment and sold our caravan to cut down on using more fuel towing and  now we can`t pitch our tent any longer than a week on a bit of grass without disturbing our holiday to shift it! We have been to sites in france and  austria camping for between 2 - 3 weeks and never been asked to move the tent !! But in good old blighty we have to be different.

Surely in peak summer campsites don`t keep pitches back to allow for weekly tent manouvers, it would be absolute chaos. Everyone packing up and moving a few pitches to set it all up again. Talk about carry on camping , it would be laughable.