Accommodation family of 4

Jan, Setting up a tent and the bedding each night and packing it up each morning can become tiresome, however plenty of people have done it before so if you are aware of all thats involved and are prepared to do it, thn go ahead. You will enjoy camping in a place for several nights to be restful.
Have you considered hiring a camper trailer for that period.

Jan, we took our kids round Oz twice using tents. They take time to get up and down, and a couple of times we slept in the car. We also had a motel where availiable, around every 4 or 5 days, just to remain civilized.
The kids are all grown up now, and both of them love to travel...but not with tents :))

Hi Jan,

When it was just the wife and me, we only owned a tent - putting it up every night didn't seem to be such a hassle at all.

Once we had 2 kids, I bought a camper van so we could get away camping again as a family (was only boys trips in between). Tenting and 2 very young kids seemed too hard and camping is supposed to be fun (maybe we were simply too soft!). So we had an offroad van for ~4 years and it was great.

But the problem being i started to take this "off-road" van places it was simply too big and ended up having to re-skin both sides . As the kids were now older, I sold the van and went back to tenting.

But I think the van really did make me too soft and I have found tenting not the same (ie. not as enjoyable and just too hard) and have decided to buy a camper trailer.

So, in my experience I personally would save a bit harder and get a camper trailer. The last thing you want to do is make things too hard and thus give up on camping totally. But many, many people have done it and enjoyed it so it really is up to the individual. Best thing to do is go away for 5 or so days (moving on every day) and I am sure you will soon know the answer by then!!!

Cheers

Captain