We have booked a "luxury" Eurocamp type tent for the first time. Are there any tips you can give us? I am already planning to take a fan heater and porta-potti. Hope these accessories won't be frowned upon? Nobody need know unless they hear incriminating sounds.... I'm talking fan heater!
Benski X
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If you're going in the summer you won't need the fan heater and from what I've observed heading towards the toilet blocks in the mornings, most Eurocampers use the cleaning bucket provided!
------------- Ollie
2016
Monplaisir - Provence
Camping Les Gorges du Loup
If you're going in August the fan heater won't be needed, it's scorchio! The site we have stayed on for the last 2 summers had loads of loo blocks, I'd ditch the loo and then you can fetch more wine home!
It depends where you are going. Certainly the Dordogne can have cool nights even in mid summer so a fan heater could be an idea. You would need ehu of at least 8-10amps tho.
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It depends where you are going. Certainly the Dordogne can have cool nights even in mid summer so a fan heater could be an idea. You would need ehu of at least 8-10amps tho.
We took a fanheater on our Eurocamp tenting holiday a few years ago, and blew the electrics when we plugged it in. We had to unplug the fridge after that if we wanted to plug the heater in. Ditto with eurocamp vans, I think they have them on a miniscule amount of ampage.
You have to be careful not to overload the electric socket in a tent or else the electric will trip out.
A few years ago I took my high powered hair dryer and that is exactly what it did. I now take a travel one
We have spent many holidays in a Eurocamp or Canvas tent and they are superb. We always took our duvet + a blanket and sheet so we were prepared for all weather. If it was cold at night we would use the duvet and if hot the blanket and sheet.
As we are now older we tend to go for a mobile home, but look back with many fond memories of our Canvas/Eurocamp tenting days
We as a family went on Eurocamp hols for 10 years and enjoyed it most. We even as teenagers put up a pup tent with no issues from the campsite owner of EC.
The staff on site do the cleaning, if its not up to scratch or you do have an issue with items missing you need, do ask, they are their to help you. What can't always happen (but it is possible) is to be located to another tent should you not be 100% happy with the one you have, all depends on the busyness of the site at the time.
Enjoy, it is great to turn up and have a cold drink ready for you on arrival with no hassle of pitching a tent.
------------- Rich
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Takes me back, in 1978 me and my then girlfriend, now my wife, booked a fortnight at Camping Du Pylon, at Biot near Antibes, that was with Eurosites, back in those days you could go and view the tents in Rawtenstall they had a display up in an old mill.
Anyway we arrived at the site after 3 day drive from North Manchester, only to find that we were the only ones in the Eurosite tents that had driven, everyone else had come down on the coach, I spent two weeks being a free taxi, although we never had to buy any wine, or put our hands in our pockets at the bar, it was a great experience, I was was only 18 at the time, happy days.
Early camping experiences.... now that's an interesting thread. I can remember hitching around Cornwall, 2 of us squashed into a one-man tent, pitching on cricket pitches in the dark, waking up with the tent covered in slugs, pretending to be foreign when hostile cricket man approached us, pitching in the dark in what must have been the Land's End Car Park and then waking up in a big puddle with my canvas rucksack saturated with rainwater. Happy Days!
Back to the safe, middle aged days of the Eurotent.... thanks so much for your posts. We are all really looking forward to it.
Any more early camping experiences would be fun to hear about.
We camped in Eurosites and Euorcamp tents when the kids were little. Once went in September when it was quite cold however we just used the camping cooker rings for warmth. I know this is generally not advised in standard tents but the cookers have four rings so throw off quite a heat and the tents themselves are large enough to cope with condensation and also easy to get out of in the event of a fire.
I would take extra fleece blankets rather than a heater and we have had plenty of hot camps in these tents too.
You may want something to wrap up in on your chair outside at night if going in the chilly months though. Again a fleece or spare blanket does the trick.
I would only worry about a porti potty if you have little ones or oldish bladders.
Quote: Originally posted by Benski on 19/1/2011
Early camping experiences.... now that's an interesting thread. I can remember hitching around Cornwall, 2 of us squashed into a one-man tent, pitching on cricket pitches in the dark, waking up with the tent covered in slugs, pretending to be foreign when hostile cricket man approached us, pitching in the dark in what must have been the Land's End Car Park and then waking up in a big puddle with my canvas rucksack saturated with rainwater. Happy Days!
Back to the safe, middle aged days of the Eurotent.... thanks so much for your posts. We are all really looking forward to it.
Any more early camping experiences would be fun to hear about.
Benski X
Went to see Dylan at Blackbushe in 1978 & everyone camped on the runway. I got sunstroke and ended up in Frimley Green hospital. The man who is now my husband had to take down the tent and carry it and 2 frame rucksacks to safety before the RAF reopened the runway early the following morning. Then he had to hitch to Frimley with all that so he could get me.
Was anyone else here at Blackbushe?
Liz
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My first ever proper camping holiday (in Britain) was with a boyfriend, who had an old Austin (round-bodied type, pale colour, like this one) and we took a borrowed tent. This was in 1967.
Our first night was near Gretna Green, the campsite was on a hill - we were at the bottom, and it rained torrentially. We were literally lying in muddy water - and got up eventually, nearly drowned, and went to sleep in the car. In the morning everything was wet through and muddy, us, the tent, our luggage, sleeping bags, and of course the inside of the car where we'd slept in wet clothes. We had such a row that I took off my engagement ring (you did it young in those days) and threw it away. It took ages to find, but bless him the boyfriend kept looking until he found it!
We packed everything away, and drove to Glasgow where we found a launderette in the Gorbals area, and washed and dried everything. Then we went to into the centre of Glasgow, where in those days there was a public bath (my recollection is that it was in, or near the railway station). We had a bath each and I can still remember how wonderful it was - hot, deep, and you were given fluffy white towels! Bliss, and I think only at that point did I warm up. Our holiday continued - but the camping didn't! We stayed the rest of the fortnight in bed and breakfasts in various places around Scotland.
The second was just the opposite - we did a Thompson's Wanderer Holiday (anyone remember them?) to the Greek Islands - and took a tent. It would be in 1975 I think. Our first night was in a campsite just outside Corfu town - in a nylon tent, and it was so hot as soon as the sun came up (about 4.00 am) that we just boiled up!!! We decided camping was not the thing in such heat, and spent the rest of the time 'wandering' but sleeping in guest houses instead of camping. We had a great time, though, and had a second Wanderers holiday the following year when we went to Crete - but without the tent.
I didn't do any more 'camping' holidays, until our first Eurocamp holiday in 1980 - and after that we never looked back - and have camped or caravanned every year since!
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Topic: Rented Eurocamp type Tent advice
We had to unplug the fridge after that if we wanted to plug the heater in. Ditto with eurocamp vans, I think they have them on a miniscule amount of ampage. 
