Glamping

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October 8, 2010 by Jonsky

Tourism experts in Australia predict that the traditional camping holiday will be replaced with one where the tents are pre-erected and supplied with more facilities than a normal hotel room.

I’ve never been to something like this but I think it’s a good idea. Not everyone likes setting up a tent, eating freeze-dried food and sleeping on a camping mat. Something like this will likely lure more people to camping and to experiencing nature.

Tourism Forecasting Committee chairman Bernard Salt said camping was no longer just a cheap holiday for people who couldn’t afford hotels, but had evolved to become a more luxury experience for people who had a deep appreciation of nature.

But if you look at it from another angle, I think too many people can mean trouble for nature. More people means more waste and more pollution and soon or later, the lush green backcountry can turn into a city, with people taking advantage of the booming industry, unless of course if it’s controlled by strict regulations.

Read more at The Australian

October 6, 2010 by Jonsky

Below is your typical camping experience:

As novices to camping holidays our gear was pretty basic. We had a borrowed tent, two air mattresses, decent sleeping bags and a fold-out table and chairs. Our travel stove and gas lantern were about as luxurious as we got, and even then the gas ran out on our lantern about three bites into dinner the first evening.

Here’s glamping, South African Style:

Within hours the campsite filled with Landrover Defenders dangling jerry cans, seven-man tents the size of small houses and children so accustomed to camping that they have no problem hooking up the Cadac gas canister to the three plate stove while Mum peels the potatoes for dinner. One couple told us tales of camping across Zimbabwe where they peered from their rooftop tents as wild game walked beneath them. Their entire family is hooked on camping and all sixteen of them were pitched in the same area with a large circle of camping chairs in the middle for the evening bonfires.

It’s not the glamping I expected when I first saw the title of the article, one that involves a huge luxurious tent with comfy beds, expensive furniture and high tech camping kitchen but it’s glamping all the same. It’s probably the reason why camping is so popular in South Africa especially with so many wild and wonderful places to explore.

Read more at the Telegraph

August 1, 2010 by Jonsky

I wouldn’t exactly call them “campsites” because you don’t actually do any camping (not with a tent, or a sleeping bag or even outside) on them (at least on most of them) but the guys at Mirror.co.uk seem to think they  are.

Here are 5 of the coolest campsites (more like glamping sites) in the UK found with the help of Pitchup.com. (No tents or sleeping gear are required):

1. The Original Hut Company, Robertsbridge, East Sussex
2. The Treehouse, Halse, Somerset
3. Eskdale Pod Camping, Cumbria
4. La Rosa, North Yorkshire Moors National Park
5. Billycan Camping, Arundel Sussex

May 4, 2009 by Jonsky

For those of you who don’t know what Eurocamp is, it’s a self-catering holiday which caters for everyone including families and couples. They have more than 180 sites complete with a choice of accomodation including tents, mobile homes, bungalows and holiday villages. They are the “purveyor of the hassle-free continental camping experience enjoyed by British families for more than 30 years.”

After being absent for 15 years, Eurocamp came back to Britain due to increasing demands as people in the recession hit country are trying to cut their vacation costs. The last Eurocamp site in Britain was closed in 1994 as budget airlines prompted the people to travel abroad leaving Eurocamp empty during the summer.

It won’t be as lavish as glamping but absolutely no camping skill is required for you to enjoy what Eurocamp has to offer. Tents are furnished with beds, furniture, kitchen and more. Everything will already be set up when you arrive.

The nine Eurocamp sites will be available in Lake District, Snowdonia, Yorkshire, Scotland and the South West of England but it won’t be as well equipped as its other siblings in Europe or the United States. There will be no heated swimming pools, flumes or minigolf courses but Eurocamp promises that it will be cheap and well worth it.

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• Eurocamp goes dib dib dob – Eurocamp has announced that it will be branching into the UK with “Brit Camps” to help cash-strapped Brits enjoy a break away and rediscover the British countryside. The nine sites will be based in the Lake District, Snowdonia, …
• Eurocamp UK Escapes – A 7 night stay from Friday 12th June at the Roundhill campsite in the New Forest, costs just £240. For further information or to book, please visit www.eurocamp.co.uk or call 0844 406 0552.

May 2, 2009 by Jonsky

One way to enjoy camping is by having a tent powered by solar electricity and furnished with king sized beds and persian rugs. It’s the outdoors on a silver platter and it’s commonly known as glamping (presumably a combination of glamour and camping. You get the chance to be in touch with nature but still live like a king. If you have the money, then why not? The outdoors can be a refreshing experience for everyone.

Being in the depths of nature does not have to mean you have to be without what you’re used to in the modern world. Most “glamping sites” have internet and telephone connections.

Among the other perks of glamping are:

• Housekeepers to fix and turn down your bed
• Camp butler to build fires
• Hot bath/shower
• Cook to whip up delicious bison ribeye
• Maid to crank up a heated down comforter

See how luxurious it is: