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Camping for bad sleepers?

MINCTbw
MINCTbw Posts: 18 Forumite
I "enjoy camping" in most senses, and most of my holidays are to pursue outdoor activities of one kind of another... but I have serious difficulty sleeping and staying asleep at the best of times, and when in a tent it's nearly impossible.

I'm not young but not too old for tents altogether, and I'm sure there must be some "sleeping system" (other than a full mattress on the roof rack) which would work for me?

I can't get on with sleeping bags, they get all tangled and I can't settle. No roll mat or airbed stops me from getting dead limbs, and popup camping beds are very awkward as well. I use earplugs and an eyemask, of course.

Does anyone have any ideas? I truly can't afford the going rates for BnB's or cottages in the kind of areas I want to go (Peaks, Snowdonia, Lakes, etc) and I am perfectly happy with camping in all ways except for this. Poor sleep ruins everything, there must be a solution! Anything which will fit in an estate car will be considered.

One idea given already is to take a rolled up futon mattress, which I haven't acquired or tried.


Many thanks,

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