Camping Travel Store Blog

We have just returned from this years Club meet which took place at Hopleys Camping on the outskirts of Bewdley which is situated on the banks of the River Severn. With the weather forecast to be atrocious, we packed the trailer expecting a re-run of the previous meet where all but one tent cancelled. But not this time... We arrived on site to the joyful sight of a grey 350 in all it's glory and a burgundy 350 pitched a little further down. We took our 300 and 220 combination tent and also dragged my parents away with us, so they were staying in our 325 with sleeping extension. It was great so see these all set up. Especially as were were also joined by a 350/350 combination set-up. Not only was this a big set-up it also had provision for a 240 to be added. Friday night saw most of us sending out for take outs. We had fish and chips from Merchants in Bewdley. Absolutely delicious. Friday night was on/off rain, with a reasonably dry start to Saturday morning. Again most

Whilst we have recently delivered two fantastic Karsten set-ups, the Club has been made aware of this fabulous Karsten Tent over in Holland - If anyone can match it we'd love to see some photos. Click HERE to see slide show and other residential Karsten's for hire in the UK & Europe!

May has been and gone and our next event will be the Karsten Tent Club - Midsummer Meet 2011! Revisiting May, saw us showing the Karsten Tents at two venues, the first was a follow up show to the British Leisure Show at Newbury - always a favourite site with us and then us travelling up to Delamere to the Fishpools Farm Caravan Park. Needless to say there are a few more Karsten owners amongst us and another trip down to Newbury saw us delivering these two stunning set-ups. With more owners set to join the Club in the coming months, we are really seeing the varying combinations available when specifying options and designing a Karsten Inflatable Tent

This was always going to be a challenge as we have never embarked on such a show. Setting up the Marquee in the gales that were sweeping the race course was really 'good fun'? But once up and staked down with about a dozen ratchet straps holding the thing together and on the ground, we set to trying to fit most of the Karsten's in our collection onto the rest of the stand. With us all set up and ready to greet the public, the weather was forgiving and the crowds started to turn up. There was a great deal of interest in the Inflatable Tents, especially as there was also a new but polyester inflatable tent on display with another Company. All the comments we received with respect to the Karsten Tents were really positive and complimentary. 'Its really good to see a quality tent on display in the UK'. 'Love the colours' 'Cannot believe it's inflatable' 'Great modular design' With people seeing both the different inflatable tents, they coul

February took the Karsten Tent display to Town Farm Camping in Ivinghoe. This site is run by Charles who has a great attitude towards campers and camping. The working farm has fantastic views in all directions with good facilities that keep on improving. As I had booked this during the half term, I had to engage help from a good friend....for his first time in erecting these, we had all eight Karsten's up in 3 hours. It was a good weekend for us as it was also preparation for the British Leisure Show in March. One of our visitors was Alan Taylor of the Ultima Carp Fishing Team who decieded that the Karsten Carp 240 Tent was the one for him...... Hopefully he should be using it by the end of March.

We will be display a few Karsten Family Tents and combinations at Brookhouse Inn - Castle Cary , Somerset this weekend 28th/29th January. There is camping available to the rear with all the warm trappings and charm of the Inn for the evening. We will be showing: Karsten 300 & 220 Tent Combination Karsten 325 with Sleeping Extension Karsten 350 Standard All with various awning combinations Tents available for viewing from Saturday 10am to Sunday pm (approx. 3pm). Display Link HERE

We are please do announce that the Camping Travel Store will be showing a selection of Karsten Inflatable Tents at the British Leisure Show in March at the Royal Windsor Race Course. For further information from our website please click HERE For further information from the British Leisure Show please click HERE British Leisure Show 11 / 12 / 13th March 2011