October NEC - what were your best bits?

Tammy - I have a teenage daughter and an 8 year lad. They don't want to share beds  and my daughter likes privacy.

Our current van is a 6 berth Coachman 640/6 with end bathroom,side dinette ( now used as a bed for daughter) and fixed beds on the side wall. It has been an ideal van for the past 6 years but we ,or they,are growing out of it !!!

TG, 'not sure' is probably the answer....

does this mean that, with (say) a teenage boy and girl, three sleeping areas would be required?.....like in a 6 berth van?

ours, one boy, one girl, never came away in a van with us, we didnt take this lark up till we retired, but in hols abroad they would have been in a 2 bedroom + lounge bed apartment, so each happy... 

blooming kids, eh?

With 2 boys we never had that problem but both sets of granchildren are boy/girl, its not been a problem taking them with us while they are young but the eldest girl is now 10 brother 8 so it won't be long before they will not want to share. We have no intention of going to a 6 berth van so they can have seperate sleeping areas, so it will either be 1 at a time or they will not come with us in the future. Doesn't apply at the moment as we only have a 2 berth 

Tammy - I have a teenage daughter and an 8 year lad. They don't want to share beds  and my daughter likes privacy.

Our current van is a 6 berth Coachman 640/6 with end bathroom,side dinette ( now used as a bed for daughter) and fixed beds on the side wall. It has been an ideal van for the past 6 years but we ,or they,are growing out of it !!!

This is exactly what I was refering to. I remember going away with my parents and brother and sister, we had a 6 berth van but I'm the youngest sis the eldest there is 8 years between us. Big sis got fed up of having to share with a KID and of course I couldn't share with my brother.

How do families with growing children/teenagers and more than say 2 or 3 cope.

Tammy - I have a teenage daughter and an 8 year lad. They don't want to share beds  and my daughter likes privacy.

Our current van is a 6 berth Coachman 640/6 with end bathroom,side dinette ( now used as a bed for daughter) and fixed beds on the side wall. It has been an ideal van for the past 6 years but we ,or they,are growing out of it !!!

This is exactly what I was refering to. I remember going away with my parents and brother and sister, we had a 6 berth van but I'm the youngest sis the eldest there is 8 years between us. Big sis got fed up of having to share with a KID and of course I couldn't share with my brother.

How do families with growing children/teenagers and more than say 2 or 3 cope.

...Bung them in the awning,

A "pup" tent.

Some sites don't allow sleeping in the awning or in a pup tent although both clubs do..

It also means that a quick overnight stop on the way somewhere else becomes far more complicated than it needs to be - all because the UK manufacturers don't seem to recognise that kids grow

We have lads but they like a bit of privacy for getting changed and certainly wouldn't share a double.  We've always had a decent sized washroom which helps

It just shows how society has changed ,when every one now wants their own "space",gone are the days when it was quite normal, to all muck in together,and "top and tail" at bedtimes 

Ah yes the good old days....

There's still no excuse to ignore the fact that youngsters nowadays are much taller than they used to be. Both mine were 1.75m at 11 when they started high school

Dear CT, 

              I had my Chimney swept the other week & was darned surprised when the sweep turned up with mechanical aids to do the job. Whatever happened to the excellent practice of sending a child up the chimney, they don't know they're born these days. I think the CC should be campaigning to get us back to the Victorian era, the good old days without a doubt.

yours faithfully colonel(ex Punjabi rifles) cholmondly-Smythe(DFS, MFI, MRSA)