Camping with friends or with family?

Hi Samantha,
I guess it does not matter who you camp with so long as you get along well with them.

I have camped with my brothers and their families and with friends at different times but the most important thing is to have a few common interests I find.

Cheers, Bruce.

Hi Samantha In Short we camp with both . We make a date and if you can make it all the better and if you cant well there will be another time. We try to get out once a month . If your beaching it , cricket, botong (like bowls but you throw heavy balls close to the jack ) any ball games pending on ages . We have a mixture from 5yrs to 65 . But you do as little or as much as you want . The trick is not to pressure anyone into anything . Just do things at your own pace . If they join in all the better and if not thats cool too. Board games like up words is a fav of ours . We try to get a pub meal atleast one night while we are away just to take the pressure off the first night setting up and its also a good social . Just remember not everyone camps the same way or has all the equipment so sharing is careing :)))) Hope all goes well

We've had some great times over the years travelling and camping with both friends and family. I agree that it helps to have common interests and its also important to know the people that you are travelling with.

There's some good advice here I reckon;

Travel companions

It's all about getting out and doing it. Baz.

Camping with people you don't know is good too.
We've done this a fair bit with 4wd club trips and other organised groups and this camping is a great way to break the ice with new people.

Hi Samantha, my family don't camp so we camp either with friends or by ourselves. When going by ourselves we always meet people to chat with & for the kids to play with. This January we went on a camping trip with 8 other families. Some I had camped with before, others not. The pre-camp thought was that it would either be great or an absolute disaster. Fortunately it was great & we're all doing it again next Jan. Rule was that everyone was entitled to their own time out when needed & there was no obligation for us all to do things together if we didn't want to. Everyone gave everyone else space when needed but mostly the adults relaxed whilst the kids played.

We did have one really bad experience with a family a few years back. Had camped with them before but they had really bad kid discipline issues which made us decided never to camp with them again. Fortunately they moved OS so we can still be friends from a distance.

Overall though, camping with friends has been overwhelmingly positive for our family.