"We had to make some changes to the drawings so that the headboards all pointed towards Mount Batukaru," said Yunsar, the owner of Sang Giri, a new luxury camp resort in the verdant mountains of Jatiluwih, slap bang in the middle of Bali.
We ate better on the second night, dining on well-flavoured chilli, steak and turkey at the Wild West-themed Camp Resort – yet another accommodation option, with tipis, wagons and log cabins plus a saloon, and firepits where a group of German school kids shared their marshmallows with my little boy.
Within 10 minutes, two helicopters were dropping water, and in 15 more, DC-10 air tankers were painting the valley and the overlook to the east, on which stood an old-style family camp resort, Hoberg's, with pink fire retardant.
In an effort to attract families — and charge more — private campgrounds across the country have been reinventing themselves from sleepy, rustic campsites to bustling "camp resorts".
They had spent the previous 10 weeks volunteering for a charity at a remote camping resort in the Woody Cape area of Port Elizabeth.
"The council complains that we are shutting up all the beaches and that they want access for everyone, but we've said we want a camping resort down there so it will be open," she says.
But the two men have decided that Fife's, a 15-acre camping resort in the lower Russian River Valley, a 90-minute drive north of San Francisco, is probably more their kind of place.
Head for the breathtaking Chianti hills, to the four-star luxury – yet affordable – camping resort, Norcenni Girasole, near Greve, and preferably in May or June, when the weather is usually superb but you can avoid the high-season crowds and prices.
But it turns out that in 1986, an 8-year-old boy visiting from New Hampshire suffered serious injuries when he was attacked by a gator at Disney World's Fort Wilderness, a themed camping resort not far from the Grand Floridian Resort & Spa where Tuesday's attack occurred.
IF YOU GO Victory in Sight (717-338-1776; www.com/eventseneralstore.asp/events.atp) at Granite Hill Camping Resort in Gettysburg, Pa., on April 18 and 19 features American, German and Russian troop encampments representing the period around spring 1945, armored vehicles and a closing-night dance.
In Europe, at least two piebald camels are present in a herd of a Dutch farm producing camel milk for the European market,5 and some more live in a camping resort on the Mediterranean French coast, where they are used as amusement for children and for touristic parades;6 they all come from the Canary Islands.
