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Hello,

I wonder if anyone can advise on the best battery lantern for use in a tent?

We have a gas lantern which also gives off a lovely heat. However, this time we will be camping with the kids and I'd like something safer. I'd also like something that could be used as a nightlight for the kids to take into their "bedroom" at night.

We won't have EHU so need something battery operated.

Are the ones in Argos any good?

Thanks!

My 2 have their own little torches which go next to them at night, they actually use them less and less in bed, but they find it reassuring.  When we started we had a big recheargable lantern that had a nightlight, but the nightlight was a torch bulb, and I was constantly having to replace them.  Not a huge expense, but a nuiscance.  Another of our reasons for an EHU was the amount I seem to spend on batteries.  I thought with electricity I could invest in recheargeables.

An idea which I picked up off a different thread was to use garden solar lights (without their spikes) as nightlights in the sleeping pods. Leave them out during the day to charge and then bring in at night.

We're soon off for our first camping trip with toddler so will try it then. I bought our lights last year at In Store for £3, lots of places probably do them cheaply.

Ruth

i bought a battery lantern today from argos , its remote  contoled so you can switch it on when you get near your tent on a night  and wait untill your snuggled up in bed before you turn it off.   be handy for though the night too , wont have to stumble about in the dark to find it ,

it was 14 99 which i  thought was reasonable , seems bright too. going to test it this weekend .

Quote: Originally posted by greenhill on 25/5/2006

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I bought our lights last year at In Store for £3, lots of places probably do them cheaply.

Ruth

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My kids love glowsticks so I take some cheap ones to play with on the campsites in the evening. At bedtime we leave them in a tangle outside the bedroom pod or loop them from the toggles. They give out a nice low-level glow and look pretty. Just enough light to find the bucket as well.

(I don`t let the kids take them in the bedroom pods as my four year old still has the odd chew at things and the thin glowsticks will split under a determined chew! They are non-toxic but make a peculiar sort of luminous mess. Would be OK for older more trustworthy kids, but they do work as a nightlight if kept outside the pods.)

The Mrs got some cheap 6 inch thin glow sticks from the pound shop (15 in a tube for 99p each).  Kids activated one yesterday afternoon, was still glowing at 7am this morning.  Fortunately our kids know not to chew them and to be aware in case they leak.

Peter

Quote: Originally posted by Camping nutcase on 25/5/2006

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We use a battery lantern that has 12 LED bulbs, it also has a dimmer switch on it. Sorry can't remember where the O/H got it from so will have to ask her when she gets home. I think most camping shops sell them though, not overly dear as I recall, uses 4 D cell batteries.  

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