Family Size Tents

'Glamping' is camping for wimps! Chandeliers, hairdryers, even room service

Camping used to be about freezing to death while kicking yourself for not earning enough to stay in a nice hotel.

Crouching over a one-ring gas heater while pelting rain filled our pan of beans, the battle to complete even the most simple task reminded us of the value of the luxuries in our pampered lives, and told us that if push came to shove, we could survive with little more than a can of pineapple chunks and a tatty tent.

But now, hijacked by the middle classes, camping has become ‘glamping.’ A smug competitive exercise in one-upmanship and fending off  nature, incorporating a degree of pointless  expense that would put a highly-strung Arabian princess to shame.

What surely started out as a recession-prompted fad has mutated into a ridiculous craze, whereby deluded groups of wealthy families claim to rough it.

‘We’re going camping!’ they squeal, and you are reluctantly impressed that Louisa and Jeremy are prepared to quit their vast, white house for a week of cold, damp nights in a sleeping bag, not to mention those hideous midnight trips to the wash-house with a loo roll under one arm.

In fact, Louisa, who hates discomfort, has bought a Lawrence of Arabia level marquee.

It boasts a chandelier — a large three-ring tea light arrangement that hangs from the central pole — a huge, inflatable double bed, a canvas wardrobe, a coir carpet adorned with a Turkish rug, and hand-painted Indian tables that display figs, dates... and hastily opened packs of Immodium.

A friend, forced by her social circle to attend the Latitude festival — a la-di-da version of Glastonbury — explains a typical set-up: ‘Families do a food rota, and all the women turn up with competitively baked Nigella cakes and packs of haloumi.

'The idea is that the kids run around together and have fun, and we get three days of wafting around like a bunch of Bedouin WAGs.

‘The first day is great, but then the children disappear in the crowds, and no one wants to be the un-cool mother shouting “Cosmo! Barnaby! Coriander! Come back!”

‘The only way to deal with the anxiety is to drink. After you put the kids to bed at quarter to midnight, you’re so relieved to sit down that you inhale a bottle of wine. The next day is hell: the Nigella cake is all gone, and everyone is hung over, dehydrated and being mean to their kids.

Camping Tents For Families | Sporticus

During summer vacations, families usually go to the woodlands, set up their camping tents and go on hiking in the wilderness. It is a wonderful time of bonding for most families and also a great time to commune with nature. Family camping trips and even other camps are never complete without tents, whether they are the expensive type or just the cheap tents .

Camping tents are always a must have when you go on such trips. Of course, if you do not set up your tents and go on staying indoors, then the purpose of communing with nature and be away from the world’s modernization is meaningless. Setting up a tent is actually fun, really. It just seems to be a difficult work but it is a fun activity because you are setting up your home for the duration of your trip.

Now, the problem of some people in setting up their camping tents is that they often bring the wrong size of tent. Of course, if there are five of you out for camping and you brought a dome-sized tent, then there is a possibility that two in your group will be tent-less, or in other words, like homeless. You need to know the size of your tent before going on your trip.

Apart from the dome-sized tent, there is also the family size wherein five to six people can fit. If you do not have the family size one, then two dome-sized tents are fine for 6-7 campers. The most important thing is that no one will be left outside of the tent to sleep on his sleeping bag. You never know what can happen in the middle of the night. An animal may enter your camping grounds or the skies may not be that friendly for your camp and send you rain.

That is why setting up your tents is really important. Do not think that it is a waste of time or that it is just an addition to your things because it is worth the time and effort to bring and set it up. In addition, parents who set up tents with their children tend to create a building block for their relationship. See now, how important tents are in a camp? It fosters relationship or friendship and also provides a home in the midst of the wilderness.

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