#Glamping unplugged Offline#
What is your take on wifi availability in camping sites and the use of smartphones when camping? It is something that someone should complain about? Share your thoughts with us through the comments section below.Wanna get off-the-grid on your next getaway? From Badlands adventure, to wilderness glamping, to stargazing parties in a bona fide “Quiet Zone,” we’ve handpicked a bevy of offline escapes, guaranteed to send you home de-stressed, recharged, and ready to plan your next unplugged adventure. But within the national parks why let phone ringtones and message alerts invade our national parks, the last bastion of peace and tranquillity left in our modern world. At the campsite in the clubhouse, by all means, check your Facebook feed and send some Snapchats to family and friends. But I say let’s keep wifi for designated places. They are right, we do all have the choice and internet can play as large, or as small a role in our camping experience as we let it. We all have the choice and to have wifi there as an option makes for a safer camping experience. Let the techno-junkies have their fix and you can relax without the need to log on. Many will argue that if you don’t want to use the wifi, don’t use it.
#Glamping unplugged update#
National Parks like Karlu Karlu, Wangi Falls in Litchfield National Park and Watarrka are now offering wifi connection to visitors, so you can instantly update your Instagram profile with pictures while taking in the splendour of nature through your iPhone camera lens. The modern work environment requires us to be connected every day.
#Glamping unplugged free#
However, the sad reality is that campers are much more likely to opt for a campsite which has free wifi. We returned to civilisation more rejuvenated, the kids spent the trip talking to each other instead of burying their heads in their digital opiates and we were all the better for it. We created a refuge from the modern world for the duration of our trip and it paid infinite dividends. They behaved like kids, instead of mini-adults crouched over computer screens. The kids went cold turkey, they climbed, they invented games, they laughed, they threw mud at each other. It was fantastic, the free campsite had toilets but not much else. Last year we went to Mambi Island on the Lower Ord River. Their little eyes are drawn to the enticing backlights and technology policies have to be decided upon and agreed to.
If the wifi is there, the kids have it as a constant temptation. In my kids the difference between camping with wifi and without is striking.
Strengthening existing bonds, forming new bonds, lounging around on collapsible chairs, cold beers (on a good day), lukewarm beers, great scenery, this is what makes camping great. While of course, it is convenient and maintaining a tidy inbox might make those first few days back at the office a little less hectic, but it isn’t what camping is about. In recent years, I have been more and more surprised and saddened by the number of Australian campsites now offering wifi across their facilities. I wondered when wifi signal became a criterion by which we judged the merit of a camp site. I was looking at campsites to plan my next family trip and was surprised to see a review on trip advisor for a beautiful but remote campsite which read “very nice campground but bad wifi”.
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