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**Stefrobrts** · 08-19-2007, 10:44 PM

My husband and I got such a laugh out of this article about rich folks 'roughing it' in the latest craze - glamour camping - or 'glamping'. Enjoy

Say, has the butler cleaned the trout yet? - Los Angeles Times

Please note: they aren't joking about the butler!

Fyrzowt · 08-19-2007, 11:04 PM

Puleeeze...

Excella CM · 08-19-2007, 11:13 PM

Reminds me of a time at the Hollywood bowl when the guy in the next box (linens, crystal, etc., etc.) asked if he borrow our corkscrew as he saw we were drinking wine too. So, I offered him my pliers.

TBRich · 08-19-2007, 11:14 PM

Ditto, Fyrzowt...

That's too much! And here I feel like I'm not really camping out when we're lucky enough to enjoy an AS...(I always feel like it's more like watching other people camp)... but "glamping"...that's way out there. I'd rather save up my money and buy a new generator!

TB

Wayne&Sam · 08-20-2007, 03:08 AM

And we can return to the "Plastic or glass wine glass" discussion.

Maybricks · 08-20-2007, 04:13 AM

Good article... this is sorta one of the things we do in England but with vintage trailers and caravans

cept I wish we had the 'wilderness' we could expand no end.... lol

Moonstruck · 08-20-2007, 04:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Fyrzowt

Puleeeze...

Beejeesus! Some people really do live in cloud-cuckoo land!

I must admit something of a surprise that any goooooooogling with the combination of luxury+camping didn't just bring back the results:

Airstream

Airstream.......

AIRSTREAM

yukionna · 08-20-2007, 05:04 AM

At least the boys had the sense to ask to go camping -- there's still hope for them!

I got a kick out of the mother's interview where she turned her nose up at real camping like it was some kind of infectious disease.

safari57 · 08-20-2007, 07:46 AM

This is hilarious. We have a couple we hang out with who are like this in many ways - they love the luxury of these resorts, yet they live in a phenomenal log home that's huge and that they built themselves. I think for them these vacations are a reward for working very hard and very smart and making very good money, while at the same time their normal lives are quite relaxed. They could live fancy all the time if they chose to. I sent them the article - it will be interesting to see their response.

Barry

cameront120 · 08-20-2007, 08:32 AM

Maybe I could pitch a few tents in my back yard during the 2010 winter olympics and sell people the idea of winter glamping.

thecatsandi · 08-20-2007, 08:42 AM

That is soo funny! and a little scary. They are one of my five neighbors! They can send a butler over to me anytime!

vswingfield · 08-20-2007, 10:49 AM

Too funny!

Vaughan

dmreilly10000 · 08-20-2007, 11:07 AM

Kind of pathetic, really. I feel sorry for the kid. His parents are making him useless.

Eddy · 08-20-2007, 11:18 AM

I can't even imagine thinking like this.

Anon · 08-20-2007, 11:49 AM

I have always been told that "camping in an Airstream is not REAL camping" from all of my buddies.
This takes things to the extreme!
Anyway, I always thought we had a maid when I was camping. I called her "Mom".

My kids now have one of those too!

Mel · 08-20-2007, 11:57 AM

This article inspires so many rants in me, I don't know where to start (and probably wouldn't be able to stop).

Silvertwinkie · 08-20-2007, 12:35 PM

Wow, just goes to show there are all kinds out there....

Minnie's Mate · 08-20-2007, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Mel

This article inspires so many rants in me, I don't know where to start (and probably wouldn't be able to stop).

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Originally Posted by Silvertwinkie

Wow, just goes to show there are all kinds out there....

As I put my asbestos coveralls on, I just don't see what everybody's getting so upset about.

I'll admit I'm not going to pay $595/night to sleep in any tent, king sized duvet or not, but I see nothing wrong with it. As the article says, it's really no different than Dude Ranches of the '50's and '60's. If you compare lifestyles of then and now it is the same type of thing, just on a more modern scale.

This kind of thing has been around for years. More than twenty years ago when I moved to Atlanta I remember the "yuppies" going to concerts in the park and having catered picnic baskets with folding tables and chairs, linen table cloths, fine china, crystal, and silver with silver candlesticks, and fine wine. No different just different activity.

Besides, I told my wife I thought I saw some reporter type nosing around the golf cart at Ft. Wilderness ovn July 4th while I was grilling the fillet mignon on our stainless steel gas grill and sipping that rather fruity pinot noir.

**Stefrobrts** · 08-20-2007, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Minnie's Mate

Besides, I told my wife I thought I saw some reporter type nosing around the golf cart at Ft. Wilderness ovn July 4th while I was grilling the fillet mignon on our stainless steel gas grill and sipping that rather fruity pinot noir.

Ah-ha! They're in our midst - I should have known!

I just got such a kick out of people who have so much money, just beyond imagining to me. I think even if I had money I would not spend it like this, which just shows I apparently don't have imagination enough.

Just think if those folks had to dump their own waste! Oh wait, I forgot, it probably smells like roses

dmreilly10000 · 08-20-2007, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Minnie's Mate

As I put my asbestos coveralls on, I just don't see what everybody's getting so upset about.

I'll admit I'm not going to pay $595/night to sleep in any tent, king sized duvet or not, but I see nothing wrong with it. As the article says, it's really no different than Dude Ranches of the '50's and '60's. If you compare lifestyles of then and now it is the same type of thing, just on a more modern scale.

This kind of thing has been around for years. More than twenty years ago when I moved to Atlanta I remember the "yuppies" going to concerts in the park and having catered picnic baskets with folding tables and chairs, linen table cloths, fine china, crystal, and silver with silver candlesticks, and fine wine. No different just different activity.

Besides, I told my wife I thought I saw some reporter type nosing around the golf cart at Ft. Wilderness ovn July 4th while I was grilling the fillet mignon on our stainless steel gas grill and sipping that rather fruity pinot noir.

I don't begrudge anyone the fruits of their labor. But raising your children like this will probably make them into rotten, spoiled, useless, brats; which will grow up to be rotten, spoiled, useless, adults.