Looking, but... No Trailers for Neanderthals

Kampfirekid wrote:
Toedtoes, we have always glamped. Canvas on a '76 Rockwood pop-up is as close as the kids have ever gotten to roughing it. It's A/C, showers, TV for severe weather (not movies), and the outdoor kitchen. Never cooked inside a trailer in 20 years. I'd take a trailer without a kitchen.
I doubt the DW and I will ever go without bunks. We have no friends that camp, so we need to accommodate our friends that we chose to invite for a weekend.
I think the kids are going to go with and try the stacked double bed bunks. If they can't handle bunks, then they can opt out of camping, or use the couch/dinette and set up/take down each night/morning. The whole thing is that we won't use the trailer over the next five years that much. High school and competitive swimming has us so busy throughout the year on weekends, our weekends of camping have died out. Seems the school now tells us our family time on weekends and holiday weekends are THEIRS, not ours. Sorry to rant. Maybe the mom & pop trailer IS the way to go.

This post is telling you what to do if you read it slowly again:).

Buy the "mom and pop" trailer and on the occasional times you have others with you, set up a sleeping tent for them. You can glamp it up for them (cots or airbeds as opposed to sleeping bags) to your hearts' content. I'm sure they'll enjoy the in house bathroom and kitchen facilities as well as foul weather convenient public space. All will probably enjoy not having to tip toe in the RV when you choose to sleep early and you'll know you have offered as many comforts of home as you've brought with you w/o spending up to 50k on a new TV or RV.

And yes, it's pretty normal for kiddos to become more involved w/ extracurricular activities and their friends once they leave elementary school.