Every since I got my electric camping lantern, camping has never been the same again. There is nothing worse than setting up your tent in the dark. Tip number one is always try to give yourself plenty of time to get to your campsite and set up your tent while it is still daylight out. The only thing that beats setting up your tent in the dark is setting up your tent in the rain. But hey, we are supposed to be talking about the camping lantern so let’s get to it.

We go our first lantern as a free gift from some rewards program. It was a Coleman camping lantern and this one just happened to be a rechargeable one. It had two different levels of brightness and a cute little yellow nightlight. I figured the night light was for the times when you wake up in your tent and you need to find something like your pants and you don’t want to wake up your tent partner so you just turn on this night light and all is well.

The two levels of brightness are not very distinguishable. First off the bulb is one of those CFLs, if you don’t know what that is it is the light bulb that looks like a curly cue. I figure that saves more battery power since it takes less energy to power a CFL versus an incandescent light bulb.

We enjoy having our rechargeable camping lantern with us in the tent when we are getting ready for nighttime. It is kind of awkward trying to hold a flashlight and put on your pajamas at the same time so a lantern makes it all a lot easier.

The only complaint I have about this type of camping lantern is that if you lose the charger for it then you can’t recharge it and it is practically worthless then. In my case the charger wasn’t anything fancy it was just a regular AC adaptor, one I can probably find at my local radio shack.

In summary I highly recommend getting an electric camping lantern versus a gas lantern for your camping adventures. It is totally safe and very easy to use.