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Beansprout30 · 01/08/2023 00:28

Im on a family holiday,
me, kids, reluctant hubby and my mother in Cornwall. Worked hard all year for this break, me and mum like to wrap up for the great British summer and sit outside for a drink and a chat and some CF has just ‘sssh’ us at 11.15, some guy trying to sleep. Are we being unreasonable?! No music, just a mum and daughter chat outside our house after a crazy day with the kids ……

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ns87 · 02/08/2023 09:45

Everyone has their windows open, and after 11pm it's completely reasonable to want quiet.

Mutinyonthecrunchie · 02/08/2023 09:33

I'm always relieved when certain types of tourists go home, the stupidly noisy pissed ones, those who litter everywhere and the wankers who should have never had kids because they can't parent them in any respect.
A message to them, empty your wallets and then fuck off home, don't bother coming back.

KimberleyClark · 02/08/2023 07:44

ImGonnaHaveToTurnMyBackOnYou · 02/08/2023 00:06

Some people forget that 'holiday villages' etc are actually residential villages.

And that the people who live there are not “staff” whose job it is to make your holiday experience better.

KimberleyClark · 02/08/2023 07:42

Mutinyonthecrunchie · 01/08/2023 19:33

Yabvu. It's very unusual that people talking outside don't laugh either and that is a huge pita along with the talking that late at night.

And the volume of said talking and laughing increases if you are drinking.

PriamFarrl · 02/08/2023 07:37

ImGonnaHaveToTurnMyBackOnYou · 02/08/2023 00:06

Some people forget that 'holiday villages' etc are actually residential villages.

And people forget that not everyone who lives in a ‘holiday village’ is reliant on tourist income. So often you hear ‘well you need tourists’. It’s the equivalent of ‘I pay your wages’.

Munches · 02/08/2023 07:31

GoodVibesHere · 01/08/2023 18:46

I am very glad indeed that I don't live near you.

You sounds incredibly selfish and oblivious to other people.

Agree

ImGonnaHaveToTurnMyBackOnYou · 02/08/2023 00:06

Some people forget that 'holiday villages' etc are actually residential villages.

SoYoung · 01/08/2023 23:43

The nerve of that guy, trying to sleep at night? In his own home? Jesus.

Also, reluctant hubby? What's the about? Maybe fed up of your cf ways.

Frazzledmummy123 · 01/08/2023 23:20

I am very sensitive to neighbour noise and it is something I can't stand so if this man is anything like me, he might have shooshed you because he panicked at how late you were going to be up talking. Were you laughing and raising your voices? If I know neighbour noise is likely to stop, or of it was just chatting at the same volume, I would be less likely to complain until at least midnight. When you are being kept awake and dont know when it's going to stop it is torture.

AmbleInAnnBoleyn · 01/08/2023 20:43

Beansprout30 · 01/08/2023 14:50

We were outside as we just enjoy being out in the fresh air, my kids sleep through anything so it’s not because I didn’t want to disturb them . I must come from an area where we are inthe minority then as our neighbours are often outside having a drink and socialising well into the evenings

How very Onslow.

LifeExperience · 01/08/2023 20:35

YABU, bigtime. Your holiday is someone else's daily life. If you can't be quiet, take it inside.

Signed, someone who used to live on the beach in Florida but moved inland because vacationers were SO FLIPPIN' LOUD on the beach that we couldn't take it anymore.

Someoneonlyyouknow · 01/08/2023 20:29

Wonder how early the banging and drilling will start tomorrow? By waiting till 8,30 he was being considerate. I think an apology tomorrow from you might help

LegendsBeyond · 01/08/2023 20:27

YABU & selfish. That’s too late to be sat outside making noise. Show some respect to the neighbours.

Beachbreak2411 · 01/08/2023 20:22

Beansprout30 · 01/08/2023 14:25

we are staying in a very busy popular holiday town and nearly all of the apartments are holiday lets. We were out all day so no the chaos wasn’t inside the house. But we had his banging and drilling upstairs at 8.30am!

Ah you poor people…. A resident doing work on their home inconveniencing you? stay inside keeping your own family awake. 2 old women outside being irritating. I’d have thrown water over you not just a request to be quiet.

Chiccaletta · 01/08/2023 19:46

You would be surprised how far voices carry outside, sounds all the worse at night when it's dead quiet all around.

I have this every couple of weeks with my young neighbours down the road chatting in their garden with their mates.
Drives our whole road insane, I can pretty much hear the conversations word for word from my bed and struggle to get to sleep so I have to side with your holiday neighbour on this.

Thoughtful2355 · 01/08/2023 19:44

Yeaaah once it passes 10:30/11 I would have gotten inside, its rude to keep people awake just so you can have a chatter outside

Mutinyonthecrunchie · 01/08/2023 19:33

Yabvu. It's very unusual that people talking outside don't laugh either and that is a huge pita along with the talking that late at night.

Silvers11 · 01/08/2023 19:32

Oh Dear OP. The fact that you refer to the man who asked you to be quieter, as a CF, says volumes about you and not about him I'm sorry. If you weren't disturbing him he wouldn't have asked you to be quiet and 11.15 is late for many. He obviously lives there and not on holiday if he was banging and drilling at 8.30am. You need to show some consideration for others, even if you ARE on holiday

Voices travel much further and sound much louder at night and 10pm is probably late enough to be outside chatting and having a drink. YABVU

AnxiousFairyQueen · 01/08/2023 19:23

You seem to think that the person being kept awake should consider that you’ve had a crazy day and just put up with having en exhausted, crap day tomorrow.

Beachbreak2411 · 01/08/2023 19:14

Think you’re staying near me 😂 it’s bloody annoying tourists being ignorant to residents! You might think it’s only you chatting; but noise travels! I hate abhor and loathe the people who stay in the air b&bs next to me. They forget we live and work here. Cornwall isn’t a theme park with your service staff bused in. Don’t be ignorant… go indoors after 10pm or shut up

WonderingWanda · 01/08/2023 19:01

After 11pm it doesn't matter where you are, even if you think you are being quiet, it is entirely reasonable for him to have asked you to be quiet if it was disturbing him.

OutDamnedSpot · 01/08/2023 18:52

I live next door to an Airbnb. Note live: this is my home, and my kids’ home. When holiday makers fancy a ‘chat’ in the ‘evening’ because they’ve ‘worked hard all year’, I still need to get up to work the next day, and the day after they come home singing, or have a fight in the car park, or any other antisocial activities. You’re the CF, not him.

CatMum27 · 01/08/2023 18:49

The only CF here is you. 11.15 is too late. Your needs don’t trump anyone else’s and you were probably being louder than you realise, especially on an otherwise quiet night. If everything else was quiet and you were talking the sound would be that much more noticeable.

GoodVibesHere · 01/08/2023 18:46

Beansprout30 · 01/08/2023 14:50

We were outside as we just enjoy being out in the fresh air, my kids sleep through anything so it’s not because I didn’t want to disturb them . I must come from an area where we are inthe minority then as our neighbours are often outside having a drink and socialising well into the evenings

I am very glad indeed that I don't live near you.

You sounds incredibly selfish and oblivious to other people.

Chillichic · 01/08/2023 18:44

Beansprout30 · 01/08/2023 14:25

we are staying in a very busy popular holiday town and nearly all of the apartments are holiday lets. We were out all day so no the chaos wasn’t inside the house. But we had his banging and drilling upstairs at 8.30am!

If he is doing work in the apartment I’m guessing he lives there. He was more than polite, you’re being unreasonable expecting the world to bow down to you because you’re on holiday. I really feel for all those living near air bnb’s or similar, the crap they must have to put up with