Real reviews pulled from verified buyer feedback on tents, sleeping bags, stoves, cookware, lighting and more. From budget picks under £50 to premium kit worth the price, find out which camping gear is worth buying and which to walk away from. UK-focused, honest about trade-offs, and updated as products come and go.
Pitch on a soft grassy field and these £3.97 pegs will likely make you very happy. Hit a stony pitch or a baked summer lawn and the story changes fast. The single biggest factor in whether you love or bin the ANSIO 20-pack is not the pegs at all, it is what you are pushing them into.
At 50% DEET this is the strongest insect repellent you can legally buy in the UK, and the no-bites reviews back it up. Buyers re-buy it for years, but two specific gripes keep recurring: it is oily, and the bottles can leak in transit. Both are easy to plan around once you know.
One reviewer packed it Monday morning, left it in a hot car for two nights, and the milk was still cold on Tuesday. We dug through 100 reviews to see whether that holds up, and where this £16.99 cooler quietly falls short.
One camper swears it kept him cool in 40-degree Spain all summer. Another says you'd get the same effect from a tea towel under the cold tap. We dug into the reviews to work out which camp you'd land in before you buy.
Some personal fans are gimmicks. This one keeps showing up in reviews from theme park queues, stuffy tents and long-haul flights, and the people carrying it tend to come back for a second. We sorted the reports by where buyers actually used it.
These slim 200ml blocks get great reviews and grumpy ones, and the split almost always comes down to one thing: what you're trying to keep cold. Get that right and they fit a lunch bag like they were made for it.
Half the campers who bought these pegs swear by them. The other half bent a fistful before the tent was even up. The deciding factor isn't luck, it's what's under your grass.
These slim blue blocks split their reviewers neatly down the middle. The people slipping them into a lunch bag give five stars; the people loading a full cool box for a weekend often wish they were thicker. We went through 100 reviews to work out which camp you're in before you spend a fiver.
One reviewer came back from ten days in Florida with zero bites. Another was still in Kos, wearing a band on each limb, counting 17 bites and rising. Same £7.95 pack, opposite holidays. So which camp are you likely to land in?
Most freezer blocks are chunky bricks that eat half your cool bag. These 1ABOVE ones are deliberately thin, so they slide between your drinks and sandwiches instead of squashing them. We dug through 100 reviews to find out what that thinness costs you.
One camp of reviewers insists these are just a damp scarf with good marketing. The other camp, full of heatwave survivors and menopause sufferers, won't leave home without them. Both are sort of right, and which one you land in comes down to one thing.
How do you stay cool in a tent during a UK heatwave when there's no fan and definitely no air con? Thousands of campers have an answer that costs under £5 a towel and fits in a jacket pocket.
