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camping & General, Canvey Island Essex.

Cotswolds - Maidstone (Bearsted). 

Quote: Originally posted by petemillis on 04/8/2009

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CQ G4FNE, can't help with camping shops but felt like saying "hi".
73 de M3KXZ

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Quote: Originally posted by pfcbpfcb on 04/8/2009

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camping & General, Canvey Island Essex.

Cotswolds - Maidstone (Bearsted). 

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Definately camping & general. I live in canvey and have tried loads of camping shops including thenew go outdoors in basildon. but this shop wins all the time.

the only problem is you spend to much money. Went in last week to get insect repellant for kids for our trip next week and came out having spent £50 on some new pegs, and gadgets that we will probably never use.

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 I agree that Camping & General are far superior to Go Outdoors in Basildon.

We find that they are at worst, the same price as e-bay or on line stores, and often cheaper, without the added expense of postage.

Of course you will have to add on £3.00 for a round trip through the tunnel.

Stuart

If you find yourself heading into Sussex I can recommend Johns Cross Camping.

On the A21 Just North of Battle

There's a fairly decent sized camping place on Canvey Island I seem to recall, (I think it is), but either way here's the link for a huge place in Essex anyhoo and it has a Basildon area code so is somewhere hereabouts

http://www.campingandleisure.co.uk/catalog/

But then again you'll have the round trip toll for the Dartford crossing to add any bargains ya might get?

Howsomever, if you're coming this side of the Crossing anyhoo and want to make the trip worthwhile, there's also a Decathlon at Lakeside now too on the retail bit not the main shopping centre bit. My hubby loves having a wander around there and came back with two pairs of shorts he didn't really need t'other day. Gawd knows what he'd actually gone there for in the first place but he enjoyed himself

If you just do a googly thingy though, (as I've just done), and I just typed in 'Camping suppliers in Essex' you'll be amay-zzzzed how many options come up! Daresay it'd do the same for your side of the river too?

Happy hunting anyhoo. Oh and btw, that Camping linky thingy states on it's website that is has 50.000 square feet of display space so it MUST be humungous and it also refers to itself as being an Aladdin's Cave....sounds lovely eh? I love Aladdin's Caves me