Reply to: I'm thinking about getting a bigger tent

[d000hg]

Personally, I don't think you could beat the old fashioned phone box for a night's kip for the cost-conscious traveller wanting to travel light.

Once you'd got over the smell of wee, obviously.

I don't think Wolf Grylls has a problem with the taste smell of wee.

[TimberWolf]

This looks like a nice tent too:


It would be handy if one could rely on the dimensions given in the sales bumf, because on paper it looks well big enough. But then again, so did my current tent. This disparity I assume derives from the dimensions being given when the tent is flat on the ground, unerected. But once it's up, part of the floor curves into the lower sides and then curves upward at quite a steep angle to the roof. This angle makes all the difference. So at head level (when lying down) you've already lost perhaps a foot of floor length. The rest of the disparity perhaps arises from figures they've just plucked out of thin air.
Coleman Rock Springs Three Man Tent - Green/Grey: Amazon.co.uk: Sports & Leisure

However if you are taller than 6 foot I would recommend even bigger tent - me and my boyfriend are quite tall and just about fitted in lengthwise.

Darn it.

[sasguru]

I like the idea of having a nice holiday abroad for sub £50, and camping has pros as well as cons. Often campsites are situated in nice places and you don't have maids coming to clean your room, or waiters hovering over you or a room smelling of piss (not of your own making). The very idea of using a room that has been used by thousands of others before you and paying huge amounts of money for a bed for the night doesn't appeal at all. And then they'll rip you off on food; some even charge £2 for a teabag. Oh no, ghastly places all round. But in answer to your question, yes

Why not earn proper money and go to a 5 star hotel where your every whim is catered for?
Tents are for plebs and teenagers.

[TimberWolf]

My childhood memories of camping are COLD. Cold tent, cold everything while trying to sleep. Put me off for life.

Sounds like Britain in summer. I've not camped there.

[MaryPoppins]

I only go to warm places. What kind of holiday would it be to go someplace cold? Ok, skiing, maybe. Or do you mean the showers are cold? Yeah, that happens. Warmish anyway.

My childhood memories of camping are COLD. Cold tent, cold everything while trying to sleep. Put me off for life.

[minestrone]

I only go to warm places. What kind of holiday would it be to go someplace cold? Ok, skiing, maybe. Or do you mean the showers are cold? Yeah, that happens. Warmish anyway.

I usually camp here...



THey had to airlift people out a couple of years ago when the burn broke its banks.

There is a funny video online somewhere of tents being washed away.

[TimberWolf]

But, camping? Ugh. Freezing cold and communal shower blocks.

<Shudder>

I only go to warm places. What kind of holiday would it be to go someplace cold? Ok, skiing, maybe. Or do you mean the showers are cold? Yeah, that happens. Warmish anyway.

[SupremeSpod]

You ain't going to find Belluci washing her pits in a campsite shower

Don't destroy my fantasy!

[MaryPoppins]

That could have its attractions...

You ain't going to find Belluci washing her pits in a campsite shower

[SupremeSpod]

But, camping? Ugh. Freezing cold and communal shower blocks.

<Shudder>

That could have its attractions...

[MaryPoppins]

I like the idea of having a nice holiday abroad for sub £50, and camping has pros as well as cons. Often campsites are situated in nice places and you don't have maids coming to clean your room, or waiters hovering over you or a room smelling of piss (not of your own making). The very idea of using a room that has been used by thousands of others before you and paying huge amounts of money for a bed for the night doesn't appeal at all. And then they'll rip you off on food; some even charge £2 for a teabag. Oh no, ghastly places all round. But in answer to your question, yes

But, camping? Ugh. Freezing cold and communal shower blocks.

<Shudder>

[TimberWolf]

You love a bargain don't you TW?

I like the idea of having a nice holiday abroad for sub £50, and camping has pros as well as cons. Often campsites are situated in nice places and you don't have maids coming to clean your room, or waiters hovering over you or a room smelling of piss (not of your own making). The very idea of using a room that has been used by thousands of others before you and paying huge amounts of money for a bed for the night doesn't appeal at all. And then they'll rip you off on food; some even charge £2 for a teabag. Oh no, ghastly places all round. But in answer to your question, yes

[MaryPoppins]

That's no better than a hotel room though, except in price.

You love a bargain don't you TW?

[TimberWolf]

Personally, I don't think you could beat the old fashioned phone box for a night's kip for the cost-conscious traveller wanting to travel light.

Once you'd got over the smell of wee, obviously.

That's no better than a hotel room though, except in price.

[gingerjedi]

Why bother with a rucksack when you have a perfectly serviceable wheelie bin?