Hi everyone, We are considering whether to buy a trailer tent. When we go away camping we like to take our bicycles (all 4 of then - 2 adults 2 teenagers) and they go on the car roof. But I don't know where would you put your luggage, pots, pans, cutlery, badminton rackets, fishing rod, wind breaks etc etc etc? You get the picture. Once the car boot is filled and the kids are squashed in where do you put the rest? Can you store things in the trailer tent whilst travelling?
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Hi, TT has lots of space for storage. There is storage under the beds and you can use the floor space in between your canvas, poles etc. Also the kitchen unit can hold quite a lot. We brought a TT this year and have found it great so far!! We are 2 adults, 2 kids 11+8 and take all 4 bikes when we go. We have seen a TT with a frame over the top which was carrying the bikes. The driver then had a roof box on the car for additional storage!!Good luck
Why not get a cycle rack for the towbar (one that you can still tow the tt too!) and a roof box for the car. We have just bought our 1st tt and have 3 kids(who come on holiday with us) so are now on the look-out for bargain roof box and cycle rack ready for our first trip booked for next year. We ar looking at a few on ebay and hunting the classified ads, as you seem to see a few for sale where they have only been used once or twice. We rang about six yesterday but unfortunately they had all ben sold. Halfords have a sale on camping stuff at the mo and the smallest roof box is half price at about £65.
our tt is fully packed apart from food and personal items so we can just hitch up and go.....chairs,table,kitchen stuff,air beds,bedding etc are stored in there at the ready all summer.....Lynne
They're like a tardis. We take four cycles - all on the top of the tt. We have a four cycle carrier that fits onto our car tow bar but can't use it with the tt as there isn't room for it to turn around corners without crashing the bikes into the tt!!!! We carry the cycle rack in the car's roof box so that we can drive to safe cycle routes from the camp site.
Don't worry, you'll have plenty of storage space in the tt itself especially if it has a large fridge box on the A frame. Hubby made ours - it's much bigger and cheaper than the ones you can buy. We keep most of our stuff in the tt permanently (all the cavnas and liners, sleeping bags, bed rolls, under bed tents, pillows, windbreak, table & chairs, stools, BBQ and stand, oven, various toys and games, heater, Tv, all the poles - and there are lots as we've a middle extension and a sun canopy all of which have their own poles!) We keep the fridge, gas bottles, ground sheets and electic hook up in the fridge box instead of the fridge! If you pack well then the kitchen unit can hold all the pots and pans, crockery, cutlery etc. that you'll need. Then all you need take in the car is clothes, food and wine!!!! Oh, and the kids!
I'd say "Go for it". We've not regretted it for a minute.
We're considering buying a trailer tent. I grew up in a caravanning family, and have done basic camping, but a trailer tent seems to meet our needs now. Don't fancy sleeping on the floor, and neither of us fancies towing a caravan (haven't got room either).
My question's this: can you get access to the storage lockers under the seats when the tent is folded up? If not, presumably this means all clothing etc has to go in the car?
Not in ours so we have bags which exactly fit the locker space. They go in the car or roof box in transit and then swop places with the awning etc on arrival. We also need to keep the fridge contents in a cool box till we get there. You could open them up load and do the reverse on packing up but I always pack up so I don't need to touch her till we arrive on the next site.
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hi there , the nose weight would be in your car handbook . we cut a pole of wood the same hight from the ground as the hitch when level , put one end of the pole on our bathroom scales & the other on our hitch to give you the weight ( cant take credit for this , got it from an old post ) .re storage , bigscott did a great post using a b&q garden box which was cheap but looked the part ( sorry scott , haven't put the lace curtains on yet )
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Topic: Storage when travelling.
