Hello all
In our fifties and we are looking at starting our camping adventures again. I have one requirement and that's comfy bed with a nice memory foam mattress. We started looking at a tent box type tent, then a car tent (which I'm not even sure is legal or whether sites allow them) and now I'm thinking a normal tent with put up beds.
Any advice would be very much appreciated. I don't want to sleep on the floor or anything that feels like the floor.
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If you are still capable of putting up a tent, then perhaps consider having a different sleeping system.
I did not wish to sleep on airbed (due to risks of puncture), and SIM (self-inflating mattress) directly on the floor due to reduce in mobility.
I switched to a camp bed with a SIM on top, secured using a flannel fitted sheet with additional sheet clamps.
How about a trailer tent with a bed that is off the floor?
As for a roof tent, personally, it is not practical for me as I do not wish to climb up and down a ladder in the middle of the night in order to go to the loo.
I also have a dog and cannot imagine him wanting to climb up and down a ladder. Of course he can sleep in the car, however, at home, he sleeps next to me on the bed.
With a roof tent, I would need to find a way to cook, eat and to sit down. Therefore, I would need some kind of awning or event shelter of some sort so that I could have a living and cooking area.
As for car tents, I have only seen the ones for a small van like a Citroën Berlingo.
Probably more practical than a roof tent without the need to climb up and down a ladder, however, the same issues exist in that I would need some additional space for cooking, eating and relaxing.
Hence I opted for a motorhome with her own facilities as in a kitchen, toilet and shower. Not a VW T5 as I don't want to have to make up and put away my bed every time I use it.
Hope the above helps in some ways.
DK
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Trailer tent or folding camper looks like the answer I have a campmaster air trailer tent very small light to tow but large when set up basically an air beam tent which the trailer goes into and opens out into a double bed look on you for campmaster air trailer tent and you will see what I mean.
I did not opt for a trailer tent or folding camper as I do not wish to tow.
In addition, for a trailer tent, it means I would need to peg it out and I was done with tent set up and wanted an unit that was quick and easy to pitch, hence a MH.
I had been eyeing a Camplet for years, however, the need to tow, having a kitchen inside the tent and the need to peg out, put me off getting one.
DK
------------- Apple The Campervan - A Van For Work, Rest & Play!
- 2027: ? NL+DE+FR
- 2026: FR+DE
- 2025: 17/77
'24: 10/49; '23: 9/47;'22: 8/46; '21: 9/34
* Ex-tenter
* Treat life events like a dog: if you can't eat it, play with it or hump it, p1$$ on it and walk away!
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