Camping Out Ideas
Do you prefer tent or RV camping?
One is more comfortable than the other, but the other gives you more of an experience...in my opinion...
Public Comments
- RV camping is for wimps and wussies! It doesn't even count in my book.
- tent. an RV can't even get to the places I like to camp.
- The tent is definitely the real deal...an RV is like sleeping in a smaller hotel room, not camping at all!
- I agree with Mark. Tent camping is more fun. RV's ain't camping, that's a traveling hotel.
- I have only known tent camping, and would do it again, as long as my RV was nearby. Correction, I have been caravaning. I don't know what you guys call that, towing your accommodation behind the car.
- i have done both, in cold and heat, i am a dedicated RVer I guess the state where you live has a big impact on what a kind of camping/RVing you can do, and since I live in Texas, where 95% of the state is privately own, it makes it hard to rough it, especially in the summer when it get to be about 98 degree's with 80% humidity, so since that is the case i salute you folks sweating in your tents
- I have a hard time calling RV-ing "camping". Once electricity is introduced into the equation, the whole notion that one is "roughing it" goes right out the window. I personally feel that "camping" in a cabin that has no electricity or running water is more difficult that pulling into an RV park and hooking up the water, power, cable, and septic lines. If RV-ing is your thing....great. Lots of people do it, but it's not really "camping" in my book.
- "RV Camping" is not camping at all it is a mobile hotel/motel room than can go wherever you go. Tent camping is camping even from a car campsite. i camp without a tent and sleep under the stars all the time but it cant be beat. My family looks forward to packing up the portable apartment as they call my wall tent to go out and be in the wilderness and hear all the sounds roughing it in a tent. I prefer to sleep on the ground even at 40 to sleeping on a air mattres any day!
- I would say My favorite is Tent camping! But if we are traveling from campground to campground and with the kids, then i wouldn't mind and RV. But since we are not doing that yet, I Prefer tent camping.
- Camping age old question RV's vs. Tent camping. I think camping means getting out into nature and smelling the clean air being away from the city relaxing rather you do it in a tent or RV is totally up to the camper. But since you want to know what we all think I would have to go with this, RV are in my oppinion for people who can't stand being out in nature without the modern comforts of home. I believe in tent camping. The reason for this is i can get a tent in places where I couldn't get an RV. With a tent you can hick into some very pretty remote areas of the back country if you know how to prepare for these type of trips. Tents can be spacious and roomy which an RV seems sometimes a little cramped if you have a lot of people on the trip.
- I've been a camper for many years (40+) and even though my husband & I now live in an RV, I can't say that I even consider that to be camping! Tent camping is great fun- when I was younger, I really preferred it and would have laughed at the idea that going out in an RV was 'camping'- but now that I'm a granny, RV living is a comfortable way to travel and like a turtle, we take our home with us wherever we go. But, it's not camping, which I consider to be pitching a tent in the woods by a stream or a lake, doing lots of hiking and living & cooking outdoors. But then, I don't think being in a camp ground constitutes real camping, either; what I most enjoyed was being off by ourselves out in nature- (with the landowner's permission, of course) lots of peace & quiet and lots of wildlife to see when there's no one else around to scare them off. RE: Big Dawg's Comment below: It never ceases to amaze me that some other campers can be so rude at campgrounds- blaring stereos, constant shouting, not keeping their kids in line, using your campsite as a short cut between their site and some other point every ten minutes, and, as you pointed out running generators needlessly. We almost never stay at a campground, and then, only under duress, and when we do, our hot water, heat and fridge runs on LP gas, which is silent. Who wants to hear the roar of a generator or smell it's exhaust fumes when you're camping? Hope you have better luck on futre trips!
- Tent, An RV is a rolling "Motel 6" room. Plus they irritate the other campers. The last time I went camping, in the best part of the evening, dusk, some RV hooked up a gas powered generator so they could take hot showers. Like that is what is great about the outdoors, they lovely nature sounds of a gas generator.
- i like tents better RV's are for people that shouldn't be camping anyway haha but when we go we usually have a few tents and a pop up because mom has a bad back so she can't really sleep on the ground....i prefer the tent but i was pretty happy we had to pop up when my tent flooded last summer
