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Family camping holidays are a great experience: we did all that years ago until well after our youngsters grew up and did their own thing. As I have mentioned on another page, we started our annual camping holidays taking our own gear because that was the cheapest way, and because we could save money by doing that it allowed us to travel further and go to France, Italy, Netherlands and Northern Spain. If you are newbies to camping with your family you will be amazed at how the locals love children abroad and how much their attitude to them differs to ours in the UK.

After our kids had grown up and we had become slightly better off we quickly sussed out that taking our own camping gear was a waste of resources when going to France etc on holiday because there are masses of companies out there which offer tent camping holidays with all facilities in the tents apart from showers and toilets and they will be very near to the pitches anyway. Usually the tents have beds, cookers, fridge freezers and sometimes bedding is available but it is best to check on that before booking.

If you are taking your family on a camping holiday abroad, France for instance, then the campsite has to be registered and of a certain standard before they are allowed to take customers. This is great and goes a long way to assuring people that they will be staying in somewhere of a certain standard. On the other hand, you can do what our daughter and some friends did some years ago - well against my advice I may add - and they stopped for a weekend somewhere on the English/Welsh border in a farm field where, unbeknown to them the farmer had very recently kept sheep and where the grass was infested with sheep ticks. Understandably they were all scratching when they returned home and duly passed on Scabies to their families, ourselves included. I was distinctly unamused to say the least. But that just demonstrates what I mean about standards in campsites. Go to a properly registered one and you won't end up scratching for weeks afterwards.

It affected us in the past and no doubt it affects you guys now - the cost of family holidays in Easter, Summer school holiday weeks I mean. This of course is when the tour operators cash in and make their real money for the season, but you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that if you can possibly get away to that holiday in France a week or so earlier it would save you a small fortune. Of course if you have a very young family and they aren't at big school yet then June and early July are superb times for camping holidays as they are relatively cheap then and the weather in France is usually really excellent at that time.