Join The Hadwins on our family camping trip in Devon. On this video we let you see exactly what camping gear we have in our Vango Casa Lux Family tent. From what we use for cooking to what we sleep on. We also give you a full review of how good it all was.
This was our 3rd ever camping trip and each time we go camping we always find that we are short of bits, or some of the gear could be better.
We give you a tour of our tent and let you see what camping equipment we have found to be a must when you go camping with a family.
We have a griddle for cooking and we also take a small rice cooker that we purchased. This allows you to make not just rice but boil food such as eggs, noodles or even a chilly.
We purchased small pop up kettle, hoping to save ourselves space in the car, but we did find that it did not actually boil enough water to fill both our cups, so next trip it will be bigger kettle or smaller cups?
We bought and christened a Yawn king size inflatable air bed, what a great addition that was and we all agreed that it was probably the best thing we have bought for camping, so comfortable and easy to use, if you have an EHU (Electric hook Up).
We also bought the Outdoor Revolution Campese Inflatable sofa. Again we found that this, although expensive at over £100, is another item that we are really pleased with. Compared to other inflatables, this is a camping sofa, that looks and feels the part. Great material and really sturdy.
After listening to people give reviews on various camping forums and Facebook pages, we also bought the Kampa Diddy heater. But in a family tent, we found that it was not satisfactory, and we were all freezing in the evenings. By day 3 we found ourselves shooting off to the local shops in Torquay and buying ourselves another fan heater. Although it was a good heater, it did not oscillate and was still not as good as the Quest Oscillating fan that we had previously used. That is going to be coming with us again on all future trips.
You can see our in depth and honest reviews on the Yawn Sofa, Kampa Diddy Heater and Outdoor Revolution sofa here – https://youtu.be/-trxbW5Fz4A
We have the Vango, dinner table and chairs, another reasonably expensive buy, but great bit of gear, easily accommodating a family of four at mealtimes.
If you are going camping with kids, buy a toilet! We cannot say how useful this is. Running to the toilet across a field at 3am when your own bladder is full, is not great, but having to do it when someone else’s bladder is full, is no joking matter.
We purchased an electric cooling box from Halfords, 24 litres and this was ideal, kept everything cool and at that size it easily accommodated our drinks and food.
Lights – We have found you can never have enough. We always make a point of taking a mixture of solar, electric charging and battery.
We use sleeping bags as opposed to quilts as we have found that our kids do have a tendency to roll out of anything you put in them, at least with zips around them, you can keep them trapped. Which we really needed to do when it was cold at night.
And a great tip to anyone who has purchased the carpet for this tent and most others, buy Velcro strips off Amazon if you can, we put these on the underside of the carpet and found that it worked a treat in keeping the carpet flat as opposed to it looking as if there were sand dunes under it.
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Note, on this trip we stayed at Wall Park Caravan and Camp site in Brixham near Berry head – Great clean site if you want a base in South Devon to see all the sites of Torbay.
To watch our latest family camping trip and see our new camping gear for 2023 go to – https://youtu.be/ecMOLPjqOE4
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