My Family Tent
It's quite a trailer but we've done it all. Started 20 years ago with a Canvas & Steel Poles family tent.
We liked camping in France so much that we invested in a cheap Trailer tent which did us proud for many years but still needed pegging out when it all folded out of the trailer. This made it a bit of a pain to use for over-nighting and in wet weather. The cabin was also just bedrooms so it was fairly unuseable without the awning erected.
4 years ago we bought this folding camper. The main trailer part takes about 15 minutes to set up and needs no pegging. It has 2 decent mattress beds, a theford flushing loo and washbasin , a 3 hob cooker, grill and oven, built-in fridge (and we take our old 3-way chest fridge as well), cupboards and shelves & sink. If you hook it up to the mains then it has hot/cold running water (seriously).
If we're staying for more than a couple of days then we'll put the awning up. That's a faff, just like a regular frame tent. It takes about 30 minutes. In England we zip the zides in but abroad we use it as a sun canopy.
The awning is about 6mx3m. Simply zip out the side window of the base unit and you have a superb living area on hols.
I know, I know
"it isn't proper camping". That's what we used to say as well, but it's bloody great to turn up on camp and be set up, drinking some local plonk 30 minutes later.
Here it is in short-stay mode
In Sun-Canopy mode
and in "I never ever want to go home" mode
Everything you need for your hols fits in the trailer so, in theory, it's ready to go at the drop of a hat.
At the other extreme is my Coleman "Viper" 2kg but no luxuries. I'l lbe getting a Vango Spirit 200+ at some stage.