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It's up to everyone how they do it TV or not.

Personally never, ever can I see us with a TV. We go camping ot get away from everything. We Sky+ what we miss!

My only gripe is thought, it is annoying when people have their TVs on loudly with their caravan doors open.

But apart from that each to their own as we all go away for different reasons.

We do take a tv and we do have a satellite dish. My husband is very much a gadget man whilst I am happy to read he is not. We only have the tv on if back to the tent early and when the kids have gone to bed they are not aware we have a tv in the tent!  

Before kids we were very basic campers never had a ehu tiny tent that was sleeping room only. We only came back to camping in 2008 after a 6 year break and it is unbelievable what you can buy now although completely converted to sig and carpets!

(Sandra peeps round the door) we have a 19 inch flat screen tv with built in dvd and a satellite dish - we promise to keep the volume down but we are a self confessed family of film addicts with the occasional Corrie episode thrown in (we do read occasionally too - surprising how educational a tv mag can be ) however we do not drink copious amounts of alcohol nor make lots of drunken noise late into the night (not often anyway ) I think we all have our vices and we should not judge but we should celebrate, embrace and share (except the remote control of course )  our diversity. (Sandra leaves promptly)

Well like the OP said he now understand both sides of the argument for and against TV - its just a shame he couldn't balance this argument in his own head before posting such an inflammatory post!!!

For the record I kind of sit on the fence - sometimes we do sometimes we don't it depends on the weather, type of site and what we have planned.  I don't understand families who shut themselves away watching TV in one case a family behind us it was the parents who were sat inside all day watching the box whilst their tiny kids ran amok but if they think its worth buying a tent to do that then thats their business.

If people wish to take a TV camping then that is their choice, if they do not that is their choice.  It is simple and everyone likes to holiday in different ways and I cannot see why people cannot respect others decisions as to how to spend their own time on their holidays.

Cheers  Ratty