Glamping

Ubbquittious

Have you ever been glamping? It's all the go these days. There is a glamp site opening near me this year. Filled with wild atlantic goodness and a little spiel to over-romanticise the absolute fook out of it of course. I did try it once on Cape clear with a girlie but all in all I think I prefer wild camping as it is much .. wilder

Never tried

Bollixology. Like the spoofer who came up with "motel".

More hipster bullsh1t...

The wild Atlantic way is ludicrous too..

Musefan

Didn’t like it. Damp, cold, floral fabric everywhere.

Signore Fancy Pants

Glamping is just fancy dogging.

MMXX

Signore Fancy Pants wrote: »

Glamping is just fancy dogging.

Fogging.

Ubbquittious

No

Musefan wrote: »

Didn’t like it. Damp, cold, floral fabric everywhere.

What's wrong with floral fabric? Really brightens up a place I find

theteal

Just plain old camping for us, none of this new fangled comfort and the like. . . .

buried

Never did it but could see the appeal. I like to go wild/stealth camping myself and I bring as much as I can to make the experience as comfortable as I can. Good food, firebox, air mattress, stove. It's nice to be out in the woods and listening to nature but you don't need a glamping site to do it.

corner of hells

buried wrote: »

Never did it but could see the appeal. I like to go wild/stealth camping myself and I bring as much as I can to make the experience as comfortable as I can. Good food, firebox, air mattress, stove. It's nice to be out in the woods and listening to nature but you don't need a glamping site to do it.

Yeah , I used do that but the restraining means no closer than a hundred metres to her house.

_Brian

If folk like it what harm.
Plenty of options out there without spending a pile of cash in a hotel.

We use Airbnb a fair bit or our caravan between Easter and Halloween.

buried

You can buy all sorts of camping gear around this time dirt cheap to use in the summer. Things like fireboxes and honeystoves are cheap as feic all year round anyways. If you can cook a hot meal and sleep on a basic air mattress you are golden in this country year round. Places like the Slieve Bloom mountains are great places to go and camp and explore and are usually very quiet. Great Holidays

Millionaire only not

No

Did it once , I got up at 4 in the morning left the girlfriend to go home to the wife I was frozen !
It’s like having a bed in the middle of a field !

buried

Nothing like a bit of wild camping out any of the woods near you and you hear this sound what wakes you up at 3am that sounds like a Banshee legwaxing her hairy legs and then you realise its a fox/owl/deer. Or you hope its one of them anyways.

touts

Back in the 70s and 80s for most people camping in Ireland was what your poor neighbours did for their holiday rather than staying in a proper building. The social heirarchy of holidays went
Hotel
B&B
Mobile Home
Caravan
Tent.

Then the Celtic Tiger hit and no one was poor any more. Now the heirarchy was how many stars the hotel had. B&B's were for retired people who had retired before wages shot up. Mobile Homes and Caravans were for Travellers. And tents were for surivalists.

So in a last bid effort to get people into their tents the owners of campsites decided to build fancy new toilet blocks with things like hot water and private showers and buy fancy looking tents that looked like something from a Mars mission or a Wigwam or such. Then they changed the name to "Glamping".

And **** me it worked. Suddenly they could get posh people to spend a few days in a tent AND charge them three times as much for it.

Assetbacked

No

touts wrote: »

Back in the 70s and 80s for most people camping in Ireland was what your poor neighbours did for their holiday rather than staying in a proper building. The social heirarchy of holidays went
Hotel
B&B
Mobile Home
Caravan
Tent.

Then the Celtic Tiger hit and no one was poor any more. Now the heirarchy was how many stars the hotel had. B&B's were for retired people who had retired before wages shot up. Mobile Homes and Caravans were for Travellers. And tents were for surivalists.

So in a last bid effort to get people into their tents the owners of campsites decided to build fancy new toilet blocks with things like hot water and private showers and buy fancy looking tents that looked like something from a Mars mission or a Wigwam or such. Then they changed the name to "Glamping".

And **** me it worked. Suddenly they could get posh people to spend a few days in a tent AND charge them three times as much for it.

It's not just a tent with private showers though. Comfortable bed, heating and ready to use kitchen. All adding to the glam aspect of the camping. I think it's great; the people that go glamping are more likely to stay in a hotel over more rudimentary camping anyway. There doesn't seem to be any loss anywhere, Glamping just adds something new and great to the holiday experiences we like to have.

Badly Drunk Boy

buried wrote: »

You can buy all sorts of camping gear around this time dirt cheap to use in the summer. Things like fireboxes and honeystoves are cheap as feic all year round anyways. If you can cook a hot meal and sleep on a basic air mattress you are golden in this country year round. Places like the Slieve Bloom mountains are great places to go and camp and explore and are usually very quiet. Great Holidays

I camped, normal-style, at 13 of the 14 Electric Picnics that I went to (there was no camping the first year). I never once had an air-mattress, thinking that that was glamping.

freshpopcorn

I've seen it advertised.
It seem very expensive for what it is.
From what I've heard from people who do it. It's generally cold and damp.

topper75

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

I camped, normal-style, at 13 of the 14 Electric Picnics that I went to (there was no camping the first year). I never once had an air-mattress, thinking that that was glamping.

They are cack anyway and will deflate at 3.30am.

Foam roll is all you need.