Toasties Anyone?!

Advantages: Works really well, lightweight and easy to set up.
Disadvantages: The grill is a disappointment.

...Having planned a short one week camping trip last April in order to try out the new Soul Pad tent we?d been given for Christmas by my extremely generous in-laws, [thank you! thank you! thank you!], my husband and I decided we?d take the opportunity to try out some new gear as well? therefore, having browsed through hundreds of online shops for the best deal, we settled on the Campingaz Camping Chef stove found at Amazon. With a price tag wavering between £40.00 and £60.00 at most online shops, and coming in even more expensive in high street shops, I was amazed and well chuffed to come across the stove on special at Amazon for only £25.95! With one week left to go until payday, I crossed my fingers hoping that I wouldn?t miss the sale? alas, when payday came along, the stove had gone up to £49.95! I was gutted. Once again browsing...

GoFigure 07.07.2009 · Read review
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Camping Party Grill, Ramsey move over

Advantages: Price, quality, easy to use
Disadvantages: may be a little small for extended use.

...My mother bought one of the Campingaz Part Grills from Germany on her visit earlier this year. She spent 5 minutes on the phone trying to tell us what it was and I still didn't understand what she was on about. I was a little apprehensive as I already have a lot of camping gear including a hob type gas cooker so I wasn't sure how much use it would be for me. At the time I know she paid 35 EUROS for it but I have seen them over here in Millets outlets for £29.99 for the hob and about £7 for the gas can. There is another model available but its between 60 and 70 quid so it gets a little to expensive without many benefits. THE HOB AND ASSEMBLY The instructions were fairly good, providing enough instruction to get you going but not enough to explain everything. I was a little disappointed with these and thought that some more...

skrg28 05.10.2006 · Read review
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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 review
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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...

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Camping it up

Advantages: Good cast, some funny lines
Disadvantages: Dated and crudie in parts

...became unfunny and a little crude. So where does Carry On Camping fit in the series? CARRY ON CAMPING ************************* Carry on Camping as the seventeenth film of the series was released in 1969, in full colour. At the time it was a huge box office success in England, which I seriously doubt it would be today. In fact it would probably be frowned upon these days and seem a little like dirty schoolboy humour. Carry On regulars who were in the cast of this film were Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Joan Sims and Bernard Bresslaw. Barbara Windsor had a leading role in this film and there were quite a few other actors in small or minor roles. In line with the other Carry On films, Carry On Camping has it's 'memorable clip' This time it is a busty Babara Windsor flinging her arms out as part...

grafter123 23.12.2007 · Read review
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Camping- What a Carry On !!

Advantages: Great fun, central location...
Disadvantages: The Midgey.....

...It's getting to that time of the year again, when hubby and youngest son are contemplating a camping weekend away. Suffice to say I am far from overjoyed at the prospect, I am a woman who enjoys hers comforts, hot running shower, toilet just next door, civilisation really!! Not being one to be a pooper of fun I paint on a false smile and shout goody (through gritted teeth) and resign myself to the prospect. I have through the years had varied experiences, some good, some fantastic and some down right awful!! I shall extol the virtues of the said fantastic experience, taken two years ago, during the glorious summer of 2006, when the summer seemed endless and the sun shone continuously even here in Scotland. Immervoulin Caravan & Camping Park /Strathyre nr Callandar. On arrival we checked in without booking and were met with no...

kath66-2008 09.07.2008 · Read review
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Camping it up

Advantages: Quiet, Peaceful, Relaxing
Disadvantages: Insect bites, Scary noises at night

...I?m sure that most of us have been camping at sometime in our lives, whether it be in the garden in the height of summer when we were just youngsters or out in the middle of nowhere with just your thermos flask for company. My experiences of camping have always been relatively positive and I loved to camp in the garden when I was a kid. I was ?forced? into liking camping, as that was what we did for 51/2 weeks every summer. My mum and dad started taking my sister and myself camping when I was just a toddler and Cate was a bit older (as she still is I might add). I believe that we started off in a blue frame tent, progressing into a larger brown frame tent with 2 inner tents and a wardrobe section, next came a caravan (children inside) followed by a caravan that was an adult domain only. A series of tents followed including a brown 2...

josarah 03.02.2005 · Read review
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Review of Camping - General

Real Camping

Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: None unless you are a bit of a sissy

...hello.... I was looking at the camping reviews and decided that although they were all really helpful, the subject need a review on another side of camping. I love camping and plan trips as often as posable, and like most people I would feel cramped in a site full of people. This review is about the more adventurous type of camping. WHERE In my opinion camping is all about location. I am one of the lucky ones had happen to live in Devon where i am surrounded by beautiful landscapes. Before you plan a trip you should thing about you want a scenic/ relaxing trip where it will probably just be and your friends, or something slightly more active. One of the first places people look to go camping is somewhere like The New Forest. This is a nice place but I feel it has become too popular; especially in the summer. When walking...

tomseear 25.04.2005 (26.04.2005) · Read review
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The sissy's guide to camping gear

Advantages: Everything you need to be as comfortable as if you'd never left home
Disadvantages: Ah, wilderness!

...I've been camping for about 15 years, which is pretty amazing when you consider that I'm neither very fit nor very athletic. But I'm blessed with friends who are both, and who insist on including me in everything they do. So one day in 1985, Sarah called and said, "Save the weekend of May 12 - we're going backpacking." Excuuuuuse me? Did you say BACKPACKING? As in - carrying everything you own on your back as you climb an 89° incline, only to feast on freeze dried gunk and repose in a teeny tent that wouldn't keep a self-respecting gerbil out, when you aren't groping through the trees in the dark for a place to pee in the middle of the night where some critter won't bite you on the butt as you're trying to bury the TP after pissing down your own leg and into your boot, into which you have stuck your bare foot so you won't get bitten...

DaisyRose 23.01.2004 · Read review
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Graeanfryn Farm in North Wales - camping and caravanning site

Advantages: Not too far from Portmadog, sandy beaches around 1 mile away, prices quite reasonable
Disadvantages: Toilets/showers could have been a lot cleaner, terrible Welsh weather, not much space on site

...Graeanfryn Farm I stayed here earlier this Summer holiday with my family. We had just bought a new touring caravan and this was the first place we tried it out in. We have been to many camping sites before we bought our new caravan, staying in a tent, but after freezing half to death and getting soaking wet (as well as having to listen to the whole sites arguments/ snoring etc through the thin fabric walls of a tent) too many times in our "waterproof" tent we'd just had enough, and decided a caravan would be better to suit our needs. Location Graeanfryn Farm is in Nefyn, we had stayed in this town before and that is why we choose to come to this site for our first trip in the caravan - if anything went wrong at least we knew the town quite well and wouldn't get lost on our way back home and also its a lovely place...

Ruby.xo 24.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Graeanfryn Farm Caravan and Camping Park, North Wales