You cant go wrong with AOC, you spelt out all the great assest to the CT, i took mine to the cape for 2 months last year, and the one thing i liked mostly was the ease of set up/pack up, for my wife, she loved the kitchen, everything at your finger tips.
Regards bedding for kids, we have to young kids also, the options we have are,
1. swags for each of them which go on the floor at night, our prob with that though, is that my youngest, a girl 3 doesnt sleep well in it and tends to wake during the night a few times, making our sleep crap.
2. a fold up stretcher for either her or myself which works well, and TBH ive slept on it mostly and she shares the bed with my wife, no prob as the bed is massive and we all have a good sleep, my young bloke sleeps in his swag on the floor at all times, hes easy jumps in and of to sleep.
3. lastly, bunks which we only use if were going somewere for a week or 2 and know we arnt moving, TBH they are a PITA to assemble, but do work well once ereceted, the kids sleep well on them, but they are tricky to get on and off for the top bunk, well for us my young fella goes to the toliet during the night..there is a trick to packing the bunks up, but as our bed folds in half, it becomes to smal to leave togethor and place on the bed, so therefore why you have to disassemble which just adds to being a PITA.
Whilst we are on bedding i will add that i find the matterres that comes with the CT very ****y, to thin for my liking, im just on a 100kgs
, and the matteress is crap, ive added a matteress topper and some eggeshell which has heped, but yet to sign off on a better sleep.....so keep this in mind when buying etc.
Regarding food and cooking gear, we trialed 2 options, firstly we carried all our food in a couple of clear plastic contaniers which worked fine, but in the end my wife found that she was for ever pulling them apart to get any items she needed....PITA, so we changed things around, she thinned out her cooking gear, pots and pans etc, and now has the food in the pantry beside the stove, and carries pots and pans in one the containers which we used for food, there is at times some spill over with food (nibbles), which goes into a woolies bag in the kitchen.....this works much better, we still have to move things at times, but nothing like before....much more practical....we also used small containers (lunch box size) inside the pantry, so when we have to we just pick up a container to get to things, and not 10 items one at a time....its not 100% perfect but works for us...
You have chosen a great CT mate, they are without doubt very underated as CT's go, and also built with plenty of strength.
Anyway hope the info helps.
Enjoy your travels.
Swanny
