You’ve bought the designer tent, slept under canvas and just maybe it wasn’t as bad as you expected! Whether it’s waking up when the sun shines through your floral fly-sheet, the smell of bacon sizzling on a gas stove or the whole free and easy back to nature experience, camping definitely has a certain charm.
Perhaps it’s just that more and more people are living in towns and cities and we’re all following a basic craving for fresh air, open spaces and greenery.
A recent Mintel report has shown that there has been a sharp increase in short-break camping holidays. Membership of the Camping and Caravanning Club has increased by 10% over the last three years. And, according to research, over the last three years 23 per cent of Londoners have been camping.
Camping is definitely back on the agenda.
What’s more it’s got to be the cheapest, easiest holiday around if you’ve got kids.
But if you think you might need a bit more than fresh air and sunshine to keep everyone happy take a look at some of the holiday parks that offer camping and caravanning facilities as well as the more familiar static holiday homes.
Book a break with Haven and British Holidays and you’ll not only get all those fresh air joys but a whole range of first class facilities from heated indoor leisure pools to tennis courts, go-karts, bowling and multi-sports courts.
What’s more there’s a full-on entertainment programme with kid’s clubs, organised sports and activities and daytime fun that includes summertime pantos, wrestling, talent contests, circus workshops and a whole lot more.
And in the evenings the entertainment venues have a something different planned every single night with live shows, music, dancing, cabaret and family shows that the kids will love.
Or you could just relax outside your tent and watch the stars.
Haven and British Holidays have touring facilities available at 21 of their 34 holiday parks around the UK – all with well maintained showers and toilets, baby changing areas to make camping with little ones easier, park security and a choice of pitches that range from the basic grass or hard standing to the Premier pitches that have a turret for electricity, mains water and waste drainage.
At Perran Sands on the North Cornish coast you don’t even have to take your own tent – their pre-installed tents include sprung beds, fridges and cookers for outdoor living with indoor comfort.
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