Glamping, a new old concept? Which features are more interesting?

Are glamping something new we have just discovered?

Glamping is not something so new as many people think. Maybe the name yes, but not the concept.

The tent is an old invention that was already used in the ancient Egypt and the Roman or Persian empires. And we shouldn't forget that the nobles, emperors or kings wanted to have a good comfort standard in their homes even if for a great part of their lifetime their homes were no the big palaces they built, some of which still remain for the joy of visitors, but just a portable one: Their tent.

Those tents were plenty of luxury and still today in the colective inconscient remains the remembering of such a luxurious places to stay anywhere they needed to be.

To me, the glamping appears to be a glamurous way of trying to imitate these powerful rulers of the ancient world but at a lower scale. The mankind has always been attracted by nature and has always tried to have a safe way to live as near as possible of it without disturbing it or, at least, with the minimun altering of it.

Modern society has got conscious of the necessity of protecting nature as much as we can and to preserve it, making our path through the Earth something without footprint. Even if we know this is not going to be possible we try to approach this idea.

Glamping reveals itself as a means of spending some days of vacations that nearly comply those conditions: To stay at nature, in a luxurious temporary home, without altering nature too much and without leaving, as much as it is possible, our footprint there.

To achieve all that, we cannot do it like those ancient emperors did, count with an army of slaves who prepared their tents with all the comfort standard that they expected to have, without thinking about the cost, the weight or the time to erect the tent.

Nowadays, if we want to offer an unforgetable glamping stay to our customers, we cannot do it at any cost. It is important to offer the best at the best price, and to be able of amortize our investment at the minimun possible period of time. Now we have to look for the compromise between cost and benefit.

What about if we had a glamping tent that could just be put over the soil, without the need of attaching it by pegs to the ground? What if we could displace it from the place we erected it, because we discover that the position in the soil, to the sun, to the dominant winds or just the view have been not well chosen and we would like to reorient the position of the tent? Could be interesting to be able to move the tent around without disassembling it, avoiding in this way a double work?

Is it something we expect, to need a small army of workers to assembly our glamping tents and to waste time looking for small pieces that can get lost easily? What about if our glamping tents could be assembled in few minutes with a reduced number of persons?, and what if their pieces were big enough not to get lost easily?

In my next post, I will suggest some indicators to consider, in order to obtain a good ROI (Return of Investment) of your investment in glamping tents .

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How to select the right tent for Glamping?

When trying to choose a tent for Glamping (glamorous camping) one should first think on his or her clients.

What will they be expecting to find in our Glamping site?

Any person who is willing to spend some days at a Glamping site has mainly two expectations: 1) to be near nature but under nice comfort standards; 2) to feel free of obstacles around, but protected against annoying situations like insects, reptiles, spiders, dust or water coming into the temporary housing

First of them can be solved if you offer your clients a place where they can enter into like in their own home, without bowing as they cross the door, where they can be standing up and be able to walk around inside as they usually do. After centuries of having conquered the erect position, a glamper doesn’t want to resign to this goal!

Then, you need space enough, a Glamping tent should be some kind of “luxury inside nature”. The main characteristic for a luxury housing is the inner space, one should feel himself as being in a hotel suite, with a wide bedroom, a nice place to sit around, some furniture to keep the clothes and valuables safe and clean, and a table where to have some meals, while having a covered space outside to prepare a nice barbecue or having a refreshing drink.

The second question is very important, but frequently forgotten, it is quite common to find not well solved Glamping sites, where after being inside your tent you want to go for a walk and then you must to walk several meters apart the tent just to avoid the guy ropes that many Glamping tents of Romans’ age  are still using, then your surrounding become a messy labyrinth of crossing ropes that have to be jumped over, bringing your glamorous feeling to an annoying reality not relaxing at all.

Then the protective issue, It is quite disgusting to be having a good time with your couple or family and then to be upset by an unexpected visitor, so it is important for a tent to have their holes covered by mosquito nets, and to be isolated from outside in such a way that there are no uncovered holes at floor level, in order to there is no space for the small alive visitors to come into or for the water to break our mood.

There are of course some other features you should expect at a comfortable Glamping tent, one is the thermal isolation. To be sure that you have a warmer temperature when outside is cold or a cooler one when outside is hot, you need some useful isolation not just a nominal one. The best way, as in your windows or walls at home, is an air chamber that can guarantee the inner comfort conditions.

None of these attributes are enough if when it rains and you are inside the tent you can get wet, leakage is reported to be one of the most common problems of tents. Only a tent which avoids that fabrics can create pockets of water can avoid water to penetrate inside the tent and is safer enough against humid situations. Be sure your Glamping tent always keeps the fabrics tight.

Finally, you do not want to have to stretch the fabrics every day or every time the wind blows a bit, you really expect a tent that do not need to be stretched and that is able to keep its shape as it was when you first put it up.

If you are able to have a Glamping tent that joins all those features together, then you are ready to have a really relaxing nice Glamping stay!!!


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