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Our Tentrr campsite was beautifully situated on a swimming pond. 

The Tentrr website is easy to use. You can sort by location, available dates, and the number of campers. Each site comes with a dreamy glamping style canvas tent, a platform with a deck and Adirondack chairs, and a queen sized cot. There’s a campfire site with a grill, a picnic table, a sun shower, and a camp toilet. Dome tents are available for up to four additional people at no extra charge.

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Amenities like luxe bedding made camping out a bit more comfortable.

Hosts may offer additional amenities like bedding, pillows, extra cots, an air mattress for the queen cot, cooking equipment, and other niceties for free or at an additional charge. Paying a few extra dollars for the air mattress and bedding, including a duvet, upped the experience and made it even more convenient. Check each listing carefully to see what's provided by the campsite and what counts as an extra.

The fancy bedding and platform tent make you feel like you're glamping, but Tentrr isn’t all luxury. You won’t find bathrooms or running water at your site. Instead, Tentrr provides a sun shower (an outdoor shower heated by the sun) and a camp toilet, which encapsulates your business so you can carry it out with your other garbage. I’ll leave it at that, except to say we were pleasantly surprised to find that our hosts had built an outhouse. Phew!

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Camping + marshmallows = happy kids.

You can also search campsites by nearby activities. Tentrr currently offers sites all around the Catskills region of New York’s Hudson Valley, so there are sure to be lots of family activities nearby. Our site, Frog Pond, was very near the Delaware River, and I planned on doing some rafting or tubing, but we were so charmed by the lovely swimming pond (there was even a kayak for us to paddle around) that we ended up never even leaving our campsite except to run into town for food and provisions.

The privacy factor can't be underestimated. We listened to coyotes and frogs, but nothing else!

At night there were no lights or sounds from other humans, just us and the fireflies and the frogs, and we heard coyotes howling in the distance on our second night. This is what getting out of the city should be. Tentrr has put camping at the top of our no-hassle, awesome weekend getaways list! Check it out on Tentrr.com.

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