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Glamping Pod review

Having previously stayed in our motorhome at Abbey Wood we decided to give a Swift SPod 4 a try for a four night visit in January 2019. First the good news. The glamping pod was well prepared and warm on our arrival. But we quickly realised the drawbacks to using these glamping pods when it is freezing outside. Swift do not appear to have insulated the floor, which was always cold, no matter how warm the air temperature in the pod. Heating in the bathroom is confined to a heated towel rail, plus any warm air that spills in from the lounge. There's not much of that, so a room you really want to be warm when stepping out of the shower never quite lived up to expectations. Heating in the lounge is by way of blown air heating. Switch it off and the pod rapidly cools. But my wife and I don't like blown air heating when trying to sleep. It's rather noisy, and dries the air, leading to stuffy noses. But switch it off, and by morning the internal temperature is close to outside temperatures. A bit like camping in a tent. So for us the lesser evil was to leave the heating on overnight. Not good. Matters are made worse because Swift have designed an external vent, roughly letter box size, that admits cold air from outside. There's no control over it, so we used a cushion to block it. The kitchen has a microwave and fridge, but is small. In motorhome terms it's more Chausson than Autotrail. Apart from that, we liked it, and would use a pod again, but only when overnight temperatures are likely to exceed 15°C.

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