Tom Masters

Does anyone have any experience of camping with a trailer tent in Canada? We would like to do a little bit of travelling around the lakes and thought that might be a good and not too expensive way to do it.

Thanks,

Chris

pollard

Hmmmm.....we are looking into this ourselves, and came across the site below


www.gorving.ca

Tom Masters

Thanks for the link to the site - looks very tempting!

dbd33

My parents-in-common-law have a trailer. And a new GMC 3500 4x4 diesel crew cab to pull it. I reckon that, for the cost of the truck, you could stay in hotels a month a year for the rest of your life and you wouldn't be a blight on the life of every driver not dragging a monstrosity around. What's wrong with camping ?

pollard

Worth some karma from you then? LOL

hot wasabi peas

In my experience the hassle of towing a tent trailer has never out-weighted the benefits (assuming you mean the trailers that fold out into a sort of big tent). You can have a similar and better set-up with stuff you can toss in the boot of your car - nice big multi-roomed tent, air mattresses, screened cooking area, cooking stove, good cooler, portapotty (loo) etc... I swear the only thing you're towing in a tent trailer is the 3 square foot hard, elavated flooring.

IMO (single woman, sometimes with a partner and no kids) the best set-up is a camperized van - I had one for years (cried heavily when I sold him ) and it was great. I could use it as a regular vehicle and when I went on road trips I could camp in beautiful campgrounds or, if necessary, just camp in a parking lot or on the side of the road without a lot of bother.

From the website pollard offered a link to, I'm referring to: http://www.gorving.ca/classb.asp (mine was older, rustier - had a lot of 'character') but if you're just renting, well that's up to your budget.

Just my opinion!

Have fun!

Rete

Is a trailer tent otherwise known in these parts as pop-up campers? If so, they are widely used both in the US and in Canada. My sister-in-law has a great Coleman in outside of Montreal and we have our eye on a one formal bed starcraft.

Tom Masters

Thanks for all the replies. Just trying to work out the pros and cons of it all right now. I loved camping as a kid but don't know how much I'll love it now! Ideally, I'd like an air conditioned, luxury cottage by the lake but that won't be happening for a wee while yet!!

Oh well, back to looking at tents etc...

Judy in Calgary

If you like the idea of an RV, I highly recommend that you rent one and try it out before buying one.

Alberta_Rose

I had a brief lok at the link and went to the affordableRV site, but it costs almost the same for a week's rent as the 3 bedroomed house we are looking to rent in Calgary! I think not!

RodRos&Co.

We have a trailer tent in the uk, I haven't seen any Canadian websites that have any like ours http://www.springfield-camping.co.uk/sunseeker maybe i'm not looking in the right places lol,

Possibly a silly question but, can you get trailer tents not the tent trailers on some sites in Nova Scotia?

Scouse

dbd33, normally you press all the wrong buttons with me....except for this!!!
I'm with you 100%!!!

pollard

Finally you two have found that duality that you mention there in your signature. LOL

Scouse

Wanna buy some hubcaps??

pollard

You lost me there, what for?