Is this the camping trip from hell.

Bugger that. A comfy bed, lots of hot chocolate and coffee, and a clean bathroom are much more preferable to me. And a door to close to keep out the noise/weirdos/other people's annoying kids 🤣😖🤣

This sounds like hell...YANBU!!!!!

Camping is amazing. Out in nature, away from modern life. But only where there aren't other people (properly wild camping).

Camping in a lot of campsites in the UK is bizarre. A field with hundreds of people separated by polyester thinner than a T shirt.

But it's half the fun of camping, which I still get. Maybe cos I am a veteran and have a teenage son. Take the rough with the smooth.

Your notmin Norfolk are you? We had such a bad experience on a campsite in Norfolk once and we weren't even in a tent. We had the inlaws caravan.

It was the absolutely awful Narborough and the campsite total refusal to do anything about it that was the problem. I'm sure most other sites we'd stayed olat they would have been kicked off. I complained when we where there and when we got home, others had complained about them and they did absolutely nothing about them.

My husband was very upset as the kids kept kicking the caravan with their footballs as well. Total disregard for other people's property we didn't feel safe leaving the site while they where their.

Oh my God @Redgreenfroggy the way you wrote this had me laughing, but that’s awful and would drive me nuts. I’d think about leaving. I’m sorry 🥴.

I love camping. You’re missing out if you don’t camp out (even if in your own back garden) at least once in the summer. Whenever I’ve camped it’s been really relaxed, apart from festivals etc

So, blimey, I think you’ve just had a grim experience, OP. Sounds horrifically crowded and noisy. Like a terraced street made of canvas. Is it a field? Sometimes woodland sites can give you more privacy, though harder to have open fires in them. And I do like a campfire.

A respectable campsite should kick badly behaved customers out. Why should other customers suffer?

why should poor behaviour be rewarded?
why should she be the one changing campsites?
why should anyone tolerate yobbish behaviour?
why do we have accept less than good experiences?

I don’t believe anyone has amazing holidays camping I’m afraid. Amazing considering it’s camping, yes. But amazing compared with staying in a building? Not a chance

@cardibach has nailed it here, for me at least.

You usually have fun, but this time you didn't, B and B sounds better. That said, even hotels can be awful if you are above the bar or club, banging doors when people get in late at night, the person above or below you getting up at 5.30am, so there's always a bit of a risk with holidays. I always take ear plugs everywhere now.

I quite like a bit of camping, but we go to sites with hedges between pitches, or very small sites where they have 5 tents per acre. I’ve had a stay like yours OP and it was crap. Glad you’re booked into a b&b. Take the dog with you.

I used to love camping, but I've always found it uncomfortable, but being outside in nature and my eldest loving it made it worthwhile. Now he won't go anywhere without WiFi and my youngest has ASD and bolts constantly. The last time I went camping it was freezing and there was an illegal rave down the roadand i got about an hours sleep. Lovely site, but I'm just too old for it now. I can't do more than two days as I never sleep well, so we just sold our stuff as it was a lot of packing for just two nights.

I will look back on the good trips fondly, but I'm definitely done with it now. Even glamping.

I'd ask for a full refund.
And leave.
And leave a shit review.

I love camping but my dh doesn't so we don't do it anymore. I love sitting around quietly chatting over drinks, I even love being awake early and having my first cup of tea in the open air. But most I love the view we go to the sites for. I always get a sea view and can sit there for hours just watching it.

I would have insisted (via the campsite owners) on the other people repitching their tent if it was that close to mine. It's a fire hazard.

As for the other tent, I'd report them but only as soon as we'd left and make sure I had photos of the car reg.

My parents had an interesting stay at a camp site recently. The police came and were really interested in one car next to a caravan. Turned out it wasn't taxed etc, it was part of a larger group which I think were all family with the men off working all day whilst the wives and kids were living at the site. They only paid for a few nights and had been there for over a week! The kids were causing lots of trouble around the site, making mess, taking things that didn't belong to them amongst other things. The whole group were eventually moved in by the police.

A few PPs suggesting moving pitches possibly aren't campers as it's a massive pain in the backside to do that. The whole setting up of a tent plus setting up all the bits inside takes an age in itself so to take everything down and re-set it up....mmmm nope op shouldn't have to do it. Get to that B&B asap!

Glad you are off to a B and B.
People like that are bad enough on the bus or whatever but camping you can’t escape.

Any camping trip is my idea of hell, sorry 😂

But yours sounds even worse. Can you find another spot with more space?

I’d rather just pack up and go home though.

I love camping but would have left by now. I’d also kick up a stink with the campsite owner to get a partial refund, that you’re having to leave because they don’t want to enforce their own rules.

Out of interest, where are you?

One summer we did a bouje site, the middle class prosecco women were up till 3am and every single time someone went to politely request keeping it down would lower the volume for five minutes before back to full screech.

The relief at the next site, when a big burly voice echoed across the site at 11:00pm 'Time to shut the fuck up' and everybody did.

Please report them. What an abusive family. I couldn't bear to be close to them.

We have a campervan now but used to camp.
After a few dodgy sites, we joined the camping and caravan club, as they are quite strict on noise and pitch size.

I mean you can complain when you've paid your money just like everyone else.

I went camping this Summer and thought great, an end pitch, not many neighbours. Our tent had guide ropes out like the Matrix. Yet, still they walked/limboed right past us, within inches of our tent, like it was a through road, wtaf!
But all in all, it's what camping is, some good ones, some bad ones. I'd booked mine as a bit of a last minute so can't complain.

Feral people.

They sound absolutely horrendous.

We had that experience once as a Student when we were camped in a place and a large feral family pulled up with kids that scattered like dropped seeds and were into everything. Other people's tents- We moved that day, as did others.

You can't be living alongside that.

This is all frustrating, sure, but my god the poor poor dog! You have to report that, even if the rspca don't do anything at least you've tried.

Not sure why but this thread has had me in stitches! 😂

FWIW you’d have to pay me an awful lot of money to go camping!