Are you planning on taking a holiday with your kids this year. Rather than going abroad or overseas, you might instead be considering going camping. If that’s the case you need some advice on how to make sure the trip doesn’t turn into the holiday from hell. It can be great fun to go camping with kids, and it offers the brilliant the chance to bond with them. But you have to be careful about how you book your trip and make sure you understand how stressful camping with children can be. Here is some advice that is guaranteed to help you plan your camping trip.
Get The Supplies You Need
This isn’t about making sure you have food packed in the car. Although, thinking about it you should certainly make sure your car has a few snacks if it’s a long ride to the destination. But it’s also about making sure you have things that will make the trip easier. For instance, there’s no guarantee that the weather’s going to be bright the whole time you are on vacation. To account for this, you need to get some things packed that kids can do on rainy days. Colouring books and board games are the classic rainy day activities for the camping trip. As well as this you should remember to book medical supplies. Kids do get sick on a holiday, it happens. That’s why you should make sure you’ve got paracetamol and anything else you might need in your supplies.
Trailer Or Tent?
This isn’t a hard question, you should always opt for the trailer. The reason for this is simple. While you might love spending time with your children, you don’t want them overcrowding you. Remember, this is your holiday too and you want to be able to relax. A trailer RV will give you and your children some space away from each other. This is also helpful on those rainy days we mentioned further up. Your kids will be able to sit at one end of the trailer while you’re preparing dinner in the other. There is also the difficulty of setting up a tent in wet weather that you want to avoid at all costs.
Destinations?
You might think that when you choose to go camping with your children you can head off to whatever location you like. However, you should make sure that there are activities where you are going for children. If you have young children they may not be satisfied with the idea of spending a day hiking up a mountain. Or, heading out in a row boat to go fishing. Some children find these types of activities strenuous at best and painful at worst. It’s best to ask them what they want to do rather than try and force them to try something you think they should in door. Even if you are going camping, that doesn’t mean you can’t stop off and visit a local theme park.
Take this advice and you’ll have fun with your kids, camping this year.
