Cool Camping Scotland: A Hand Picked Selection of Exceptional Campsites and Camping Experiences - Robin McKelvie

Carry on camping.

Advantages: See text.
Disadvantages: See text.

I would just like to write a review on camping, from my own very many years worth of experience! If you have never been camping, then you don't quite know what you are missing - yet. Camping usually means spending up to two weeks in a tent that leaks, with another person who snores and so keeps you up all night - or a dog that also keeps you awake by farting and licking you all over the face all night. But there are some advantages to it, but I have yet to find out what they are! However, with all said here are some thoughts on both sides of the matter. Because I love it really! Camping can be in anything from a glorified filed rented out by a local farmer, to a proper concern by means of a full-on camping site with added facilities. Depending on what you want can decide where you stay, and what you want close by. A lot ...

dynamicnurse 14.12.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Member Advice on Camping

Leadstone Camping - Great

Advantages: Quiet, pleasant staff, great place to get the children out and playing
Disadvantages: Hill up from the Warren (but catch the bus!)

I think the other reviewers of this campsite must have had some strange concepts of what camping is about! Have used this site for a number of years (not exclusively - I camp at least 6 times a year). Only once have I had a problem with tent guys overlapping and that was because the person who pitched next to me had a monster of a tent and no idea how to pitch it so it didn't encroach. In fact, on many sites, they would have had to book 2 pitches. One reviewer complain about a party next door to the campsite - I was there at the time and the time - the property adjoining the site is NOTHING to do with the site. Andrew did his best to negotiate with the residents but they were unco-operative at the time - the police had to be called in the end. We, and anyone who asked, WERE reimbursed for that night. The loos do get mucky when ...

Dawnpage 19.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Leadstone Camping

Its cool to camp

Advantages: Likely to inspire you to make that camping trip
Disadvantages: The reality of camping can be very different

a "coffee table book" that is likely to inspire you to go camping rather than to keep in the glove box of the car for when you know you are already going. The AA camping books are more likely to be the one you would keep in the car as a reference because of the large list of sites they carry. Other books which feature hand picked sites such as the Alan Rogers series are a little closer to Cool Camping. These tend to be based on facilities such as having clean showers for instance rather than the "unusual experience" I quoted earlier. A site with no facilities would not make it into that book - but if its unique it doesn?t matter if your in a farmers field with no toilet - as long as its cool it will make it into this book. If one book could persuade a non camper to give it a go then this might be it. The pictures in the book somehow awaken ...

Pookie_Rabbit 15.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Cool Camping: England (Second Edition) - Jonathan Knight