Last week over half term we stayed on a Hoseasons type park with wooden lodges with balconies. Some are owned, some rented per week. My dc were out playing one afternoon and exploring. They had found some rough stepping stones behind the lodge next to ours and had walked across them (in a few rows of trees marking the boundary of the park). Mrs next door comes out and yells at my kids in a horrible voice - 'don't you know that's a private garden? can't you see it's private? get off my garden!' etc, reducing my 7yo dd to tears. I was WITh them at this point and hadn't twigged it was a bloody private garden! Anyway, I said sorry, we hadn't realised - politely, but she continued yelling. So I repeated sorry and took the kids away.
Told dh about it and he went over to ask them not to tell off our children but if they had a problem, come to us instead. They told him that I had shouted at them and it was our fault if our chikldren were cry babies 
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Anyway, for the rest of the holiday they watched us whenever we came into or left the lodge. They watched us when we walked past their lodge. They sometimes shouted at us. After a couple of days of this we got fed up and complained to staff on reception who had a word with them but this didn't make any difference. They saved goodbye really sarcastically each morning when we left and on the last day they clapped as we left . What a rude old couple. So, AIBU to get upset and obsess about it??
AIBU?
to hate our neighbours on holiday??
CocktailQueen · 07/06/2011 19:15
So they own their lodge and you rented yours and the stepping stones were in the boundary between the two lodges?
They were rude and unreasonable to be shouting at your children when they could have just told them it was a private garden and they were a bit bonkers to be staring, waving and clapping through the rest of the week (although I would love to know how to wave sarcastically, I'd get a lot of use out of that 
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But you know where they 'live' OP. They own that lodge, they won't be going anywhere else on their holidays. So rent the same lodge again next week, take your cat with you and let it poo on their lawn. Then let your children make a lot of noise at various times of the day and night and slow things down a lot at the buffet. Then invite your horrible in-laws and your DH's awful friends to visit you and ask them to bring some dogs that you can keep off the lead and allow to bark a lot. Let the horrible in-laws and awful friends drink a lot and behave obnoxiously. Park badly over their driveway. Do everything that anyone has ever complained about on here but do it better and louder.
Or just quietly fantasise about doing it because it will make you feel much better.
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