H_Bruemmer
Thou shalt not miss Mickey's Not So Scary Hallowee
- Joined
- Dec 31, 2007
Hello Everyone!
We are experienced Disney goers, having stayed at all but 3 of the resorts (Poly, AK, Old Key West) and usually I find some way to take advantage of a special promo or something to make it work financially.
However, the family keeps growing (we're up to seven now) and so each time the trip gets more expensive, especially since our kids are getting bigger. The three oldest are only a year apart so that means one who becomes an "adult" this year, one next year, and one the year after that. The tickets alone will kill us, but we hate the thought of giving up our yearly trip. We have stayed at FW in the cabins with the kids. For our upcoming trip (in June) we have reserved a preferred site and intend to tent camp. Having never camped with all five kids I am a little nervous. My concerns are specifically:
1 - How hard will it be to cope with the inevitable rain?
and
2 - How hot and uncomfortable will it be at night?
We have the opportunity to buy a used pop up pretty reasonably, which would give us AC, but it will be taking a chunk out of this year's already diminished budget. We also have to get a towing package installed on the minivan (we have been assured it can pull the pop up in question) which is even more $$$.
I would appreciate any thoughts or tips from experienced tent campers on whether this would be worthwhile. We have a large four room family tent with a gear loft and front awning, plenty of folding chairs, air mattresses, lanterns, etc. already, but have never used them in bad weather or more than an hour or two from home. Thanks!
We are experienced Disney goers, having stayed at all but 3 of the resorts (Poly, AK, Old Key West) and usually I find some way to take advantage of a special promo or something to make it work financially.
However, the family keeps growing (we're up to seven now) and so each time the trip gets more expensive, especially since our kids are getting bigger. The three oldest are only a year apart so that means one who becomes an "adult" this year, one next year, and one the year after that. The tickets alone will kill us, but we hate the thought of giving up our yearly trip. We have stayed at FW in the cabins with the kids. For our upcoming trip (in June) we have reserved a preferred site and intend to tent camp. Having never camped with all five kids I am a little nervous. My concerns are specifically:
1 - How hard will it be to cope with the inevitable rain?
and
2 - How hot and uncomfortable will it be at night?
We have the opportunity to buy a used pop up pretty reasonably, which would give us AC, but it will be taking a chunk out of this year's already diminished budget. We also have to get a towing package installed on the minivan (we have been assured it can pull the pop up in question) which is even more $$$.
I would appreciate any thoughts or tips from experienced tent campers on whether this would be worthwhile. We have a large four room family tent with a gear loft and front awning, plenty of folding chairs, air mattresses, lanterns, etc. already, but have never used them in bad weather or more than an hour or two from home. Thanks!