To expect parents to try to keep children quiet on campsites early in the morning?

Haha brilliant, wonder how that all worked?

YANBU, obviously you can't help tantrumming toddlers, ND kids having meltdowns or crying babies but at that age they should be quiet until 7.30ish.

The only time I ever went camping we were kept awake by the girl in the next tent having sex with two men at once.
So life could be worse.. 😀

I've been camping loads. I think it's inconsiderate.

I wouldn't expect absolute silence but I would expect children to be hushed until most of the campsite was clearly up and about.

As a camper with children I’d say it’s not acceptable. From 7am hushed chats and movement expected maybe some even quietly cooking breakfast, from 8am I expect to hear normal noise.

If you're expecting a quiet environment and a leisurely lie-in then I'm going to suggest that camping is not the holiday for you. You're sleeping outdoors inside what is essentially a glorified umbrella, you're going to hear everything. Quiet hours on campsites are generally 10/11pm to 7am because they know that as soon as it gets light, people are going to be waking up and that's going to mean an increase in noise/activity levels.

I'd generally agree with this, although I do think the noise sounds a bit too much from the OP's post.

Either there is a strict 8am-8pm noise curfew or reasonable social noise is allowed outside those hours by both adults and children. So adults might stay up until 10/11pm chatting and drinking, but conversely children could be up any time from 6am playing and talking. I don't think it's reasonable for one group to expect total silence from the other.

That said, the non-stop shrieking and shouting sounds excessive - it would be unacceptable from drunk adults in the evening, it's also unacceptable from excited, rowdy children in the morning.

I have honestly NO idea why people go camping. It sounds hellish and you’re actually paying for it!

If you go camping at campsites noise is par for the course, either too loud music, some twat with a guitar or kids running about. You have to roll with it really.

It's like saying you intend to sleep all day, it's so out of the norm, you need to book a different holiday.

It's so uncommon for children to be asleep by 7pm, especially in the summer holidays, that you cannot reasonably expect quiet time. Even in Primary schools, clubs barely finish by 7pm, many ends at 7:30 or 8pm.

When the swimming pool are scheduled to close at 8pm, or have late night until 10pm, when there's entertainment until 10 or 11pm, or when the local attractions are open until 7pm or later, it's obvious people will not go to bed at 7pm.

But what about the people who have lark like children who would like to be asleep at 7 or 8pm? Is everyone expected to also be quiet after 7:30 in case they're asleep early instead of a normal time to be quietening down: say 9:30 or 10pm?

I wouldn't love it personally, but the quiet time on most campsites is 22:00 - 07:00 so they are only 15 minutes early.

Most campers do wake up once it's light.

Agree with PP that adults drinking late is more of an issue.

YANBU So many inconsiderate people around.

YANBU at all,

I have pretty much only experienced this with British families. I think it's an English thing to play the "kids will be kids" and "kids must be up at dawn".

We had 2 camping holidays this year and more in the past, other families and kids were not the most quiet, but other nationalities managed to keep their kids to behave until reasonable hours. I managed as well with mine!

The worst and most obvious was on one campsite, full of French, Dutch, German, Belgium families - you can see the number plates!, all nice and peaceful first thing in the morning for several days, no noise until at least 9am, the swimming pool didn't open until 10am anyway.

A brit family arrived, kids screaming from 7am. It was shocking and embarrassing. It's lazy parenting at best.

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One of the many, many reasons I would never choose to camp.

This!

100% 👌🏾

If I went to a camping event, I would expect lively children awake early, excited. I definitely wouldn't chose to go camping if I wanted a lie in, which is what I assume you wanted. My own DC is an early riser everyday as their school start early and they keep to the same routine on weekends (also have ASD/SLD). With this in mind, I'd love to take DC camping, but I wouldn't because I'd know someone would see it as a reason to give off to me and I couldn't be bothered with the aggro. Obviously these other people are braver than I and good on them.

When I was younger, my brother and I would have easily been awake at that time on a holiday, albeit in a hotel where it wouldn't be as obvious to others. Perhaps you should consider a hotel.

If the parent isn’t even saying “keep the screaming down” that’s pretty crap parenting.

Honestly I am surprised you didn’t expect this when you went camping.
one of the reasons I will never go again.

I'm too old and decrepit to camp these days, but when I camped I took advantage of being childfree and after having a few ghastly experiences (eg child repeatedly skidding their bike on a gravel path for fun, then misjudging it and crashing into our tent) I never went away in school holidays because of the noise issues.

Most campsites have rules regarding noise between certain hours and if your kids can't comply with those, I don't think you should take them camping, tbh.

They're at an event, running around in the fresh air, socialising and having fun, in the last few weeks before the cold closes in.

If you want peace and tranquility you could always stay at home.

It's really inconsiderate and lazy parenting. I have always managed to ensure mine behave appropriately for the time of day. I can't actually believe anyone thinks you are unreasonable TBH.