Do you love the great outdoors but want to be able to enjoy it without having to use bushes as a washroom and fire as an oven? You need to try “glamping!” Glam camping is taking North America by storm and if you want to kick your camping up to a new luxurious level, Coleman Canada has just the products you need to do it! Here are Coleman’s top three tips for turning camping into a glamorous experience:
- Ambiance is key: Amplify the nature experience with a few items from home like flowers, bedside lighting, tablecloths and linen napkins. You should also bring along a cozy portable chair, a small rug and a tented shade for the ultimate outdoor Zen zone.
- Eat like royalty: Don’t let your dinner suffer just because you’re roughin’ it! Thanks to a little bit of preparation and some great new portable appliances, you can enjoy your gourmet goodies just as you would at home. Take it up a notch and bring along some posh snacks like cheese and crackers and a nice bottle of wine to really wow your campsite guests … and taste buds.
- Deck out your tent: Turn your tent into an outdoor oasis to truly unwind on your glamping retreat. From a collapsible nightstand to host your iPod dock, to those 900-tread count sheets that sooth you to sleep – this is sure to be your classiest camping trip yet.
We head out camping every summer and to make our experience more luxurious this year, Coleman sent us the fabulous new Coleman Instant Tent 8. Remember those days of juggling tent poles, forcing them through the tent’s fabric and desperately trying to get the rain cover fitted on properly…all just so you could sleep crushed together on the hard ground? Those days are no more with this fantastic eight-person tent!
The Coleman Instant Tent 8 has a suggested retail price of $299. It goes from the storage bag to the campsite in just a minute or two and can be taken down just as quickly. When assembled, it stands more than six feet high so that even Mom and Dad can walk around inside without hitting their heads. It doesn’t require a rain cover. And it even has an optional room divider so that you can use one half of the tent for sleeping and the other half as a living-room area.
Finding it hard to believe it can be assembled so quickly? See for yourself just how easy the assembly process is!
The Coleman Instant Tent 8 made our camping experience a lot more enjoyable; the boys loved using the tent as a play area when they wanted to spend time on their own without the rest of the family. And I loved the high vertical walls that helped make the tent feel so roomy. We even put a pair of camping chairs inside one of the rooms and used it as a sitting area when the bugs were bad!
Coleman has tons of other amazing products to let you enjoy a proper glamping experience; one of my other favourites is the Coleman CPX 4.5 Mini Lantern. We actually have one of these handy lanterns and it really is a camping essential whether you’re a seasoned outdoorsman or a confirmed city slicker. It features lifelong LEDs, a colour-changing battery metre and is both impact and water-resistant. And with its small size and bright light, it’s perfect for everything from backpacking to lighting up the picnic table at the campsite!
Coleman Canada wants to help make your camping experience a little more glamorous so they are very generously offering one lucky Mommy Kat and Kids reader their own Coleman CPX 4.5 Mini Lantern worth $30! To enter to win, just leave your favourite tip for making camping more comfortable.
I really love the way that camping has become such a comfortable and enjoyable experience thanks to a bit of planning and amazing new items from Coleman. If you’re heading out on a family camping adventure, check out the range of products for yourself and see how they can make your trip a little more luxurious. With some help from Coleman, a night in the great outdoors can be even better than a hotel stay!
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Would love to win this! Thanks for the chance!
a bit of dry cedar make starting a campfire so much easier
Lots of blankets to make the ground softer
Seems like the perfect addition to our camping gear… here’s hoping I win!
Have an air mattress that your sleeping bag can lay on top of
Take lots of non-perishable food, blankets, lanterns, first aid kit and waterproof jackets!
I like to take an air mattress for a little comfort and lots of blankets.
Always bring comfortable weather appropriate clothing.
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Would love to win this handy, versatile lantern.
Prep meals before leaving home have everything sorted packaged ready to cook
A camper!
An air mattress definitely helps add comfort!
An air mattress is the best with a lot of blanket
Lots of good food!
Bring an air mattress. My first camping trip with my boyfriend, we were so unprepared. We brought food(ran out in the first day of the 2 days camping trip), water (ran out half way through the second day), tried cooking over the fire but forgot to bring tongs(we used sticks to cook our hotdogs). We brought blankets, but we put our tent ontop of a red ant hill, and my bf woke up with bite marks all over his feet(lol)
Lets see, what else, we ran out of wood the first night.
We had beer though, so I guess that helped soothe our wounds, lol.
It was a great trip.
Air mattress
in my tent with air mattress and sleeping bags in my back yard
When our daughter was a baby we bought one of those 3 room tents. It was big enough to fit the playpen in one “room”, our bed in another and all the stuff in the other. Well worth the money.
I would love to win this!
use a comforter for the floor
bring a pair of warm hard-soled slippers. they’ll keep your feet warm and you can sleep in them and not have to go looking for shoes in the middle of the night if you need to exit the tent.
air mattress
Always take your own pillow and some foam or an air mattress!
bring an air mattress.
relax and enjoy the experience – plus make a list of things to bring
bring a camp cots, a good night and comfortable sleep makes the difference…
lots of outdoor games for the kids
AIR MATTRESSES!!!!
extra blankets
Blankets, bug spray, tarp will definitely help for any weather to make your camping more enjoyable!!
Bug spray, air mattress and lots of extra blankets
pillows. lots of pillows.
I find if I bring an airbed of mat It is much more enjoyable, no rocks in the back and the damp cold ground dosent get to you, funny as you get older you notice these things more
Bug repellant is key!
Always take a coleman heater, they also have air mattress beds out that are off the ground, also buy a solar light you can charge during the day and they hang in the middle of your tent like a lantern.
I bring a camping cot with a self inflating air mattress, it’s so much better than sleeping on the ground.
take an air mattress for sure, bug spray, and waterproof shoes,,,,,the rest is good food and lots of blankets
Sometimes a fan would be nice when you’re out camping.
Freeze gallon jugs of drinking water…they will keep your food cold and give you clean drinking water after they melt. They also last longer than ice cubes.
Please scratch my entry…I did not see that it was canada only.
Definately an air mattress and lots of blankets!
blow-up mattress under the sleeping bag
Brings clothes and footwear for any weather condition.
Bring LOTS of bug spray and some sort of mosquito repellent light.
Great question. We’re leaving for 5 days of camping and I wish I had the answer. To be fair, we’re not tenting it (staying in a wooden cabin) but I think that roughing it and being (a little) uncomfortable is what it’s all about. Having said that, an air mattress is nice…
Besos, Sarah
Zookeeper at Journeys of The Zoo
My vote is for the air mattress – it is a MUST!
camping is always better with blankets and air mattresses!
Bring actual sheets and blankets and not a sleeping bag.
Tent, blankets, table cloth, food, hand sanitizer
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pack in as many extra comforts your car can hold
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