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Cold/ wet time to put tent up when camping!!! Then we got a dog as well.

Nevertheless we enjoyed our time camping!!!

i was brought up with caravanning as a kid and at the age of 21,married and with a 6 month old daughter we got our first van.

never looked back,love it, although none of the kids now they are adults have taken to it.....they prefer grotty hotels in blackpool ,turkey and ibiza.

strange !!

started with a tent as many do,but a bit cramped and didnt enjoy the wet cold nights so in august decided to buy a caravan,got an abbey county stafford 1996 with awning etc,no looking back and looking forward to next year for some great holidays and weekend breaks

 I purchased a tent on the friday, sited it on the saturday at beaston regis blew away thursday.it was insured so when the new replacement came without unpacking it went in the admag.5 weekends later no sale then a phone call asking if interested in swapping for a caravan. we did and never looked back. 

atb.neil 

Quote: Originally posted by pumfretts on 06/11/2010

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Wow, I've got 3 tents if anyone wants to swap for a caravan

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my grandparents had a static when we were kids-we loved it and always had 3 hoidays a year.

Grew up,got married,had kids-and got fed up of working for 50 weeks a year just to pay stupid money for 2 weeks in a cottage somewhere.7 years ago hubby suggested buying a tourer-and we've never looked back.we love it,so do the kids and we have 8 hols a year for about the same price as that cottage.my brother in law has just bought one for exactly the same reason-a week in a cottage in cornwall cost him £850 and it rained all week!not happy!!

 I got so fed up of spending a small fortune on holidays and weekend breaks and left disappointed with what we ended up with.Despite trawling through the Trip Advisor web site most holidays never matched our hopes and expectations. Then I sat down and added up how much we had spent over the years...WHAT...how much !!! So me and wifey mused over what else we could do and remembered a lovely week we had years back in Wales in a static van. Then we thought of buying one but we didn't want to have to be stuck in one place all the time. Always though of caravans being pokey and shabby but the wife looked at some caravans on the internet and we were bowled over...they were more luxurious than most hotel rooms.

We spent the next year going round caravan dealers getting a feel for what would be the right layout, size etc. Traded in the car for something suitable to tow with. While we were still making up our minds we decided to spend a year camping. Bought a big Outwell tent and accessories and had a great holiday down in Burgundy. We watched others drive up onto their pitches and in no time at all, were sitting having a beer in the sunshine. Well that finally did it for us, that is definitely for us. So earlier this year we took the plunge and bought a Lunar Quasar 2 berth and we now spend all our time waiting for the next opportunity to get away in it. We are looking forward to next summer and taking her down through France.  

What wonderful stories. For us it was cheap holidays in a tent when our boys were small. Then we bought a small Ci Sprite, then a Compass Omega 5 berth. Due to Regimental commitments we had to sell that but we found an old Garland which we loved a few years later. Traded that for a Swift Corniche 2 berth which the Mehim Sahib loved but I hated. Sold that and bought a large tent and all the accessories, which I loved but the Mehim Sahib hated, went to France in September and again in October with it and came back with some kind of broncial issue. I have arthritis in most of my joints now so we looked around for another ' van. I sort of made the excuse that the Mehim Sahib wanted to get back to a  'van which let me off the hook.

Found a '93 Compass Rallye and will spend the winter tarting her up. Already booked for Holland in June. I shudder at the thought of airports and  the Mehim Sahib hates the very thought of hotels. Caravaning is the ideal compromise.

Hi All

 what got us into camping was the chance of cheap holidays so we brought a conway rio trailer tent & then moved onto a caravan & never looked back

 cheers eddy & co

Hi all, we got into caravanning after being told are next door neighbour was going to set fire to our folding camper, we’ve been campers for many years, so we sold the camper, got a caravan with the money, (but its got to go into storage) my wife like the idea of winter caravanning, so I’ve booked 4 nights away over the new year, just hope the snow stays away,

Steve