Where do you holiday if you don’t cope well with other people’s noise?!

[Sugarcoatedalmond]

I really don’t cope well with other people’s noise & am getting less tolerant as I age!

I recently stayed at a cottage which was part of a cluster of 5 or 6 holiday cottages. Unfortunately there was a large, noisy family in another cottage there and it really affected my enjoyment of the holiday. (Eventually I did politely ask them to keep the noise down (kids were still running around the complex shouting & shrieking at 10pm, so I don’t think I was being completely unreasonable) but it’s put me off staying somewhere similar!

I’ve got a little one myself so we obviously make some noise as a family, but I try to keep it in check.

So, if you don’t cope well with noise, where do you holiday? Happy with U.K. holidays. Unfortunately budget is not unlimited.

And yes I already sleep in earplugs

The Scottish highlands

I know what you mean op, I can’t stand lots of noise either. We go the holiday cottage route too, but always check it’s fairly remote or at least well away from other cottages. The one time we didn’t, the other 3 had been booked out by an extended family who were incredibly noisy and in and out of each other properties constantly. It was very intrusive and totally ruined the holiday. We now have a few places we often return to as they are tried and tested and we know there’s less chance of noise. Unfortunately I really don’t feel like it’s fair of me to complain when other people are simply trying to enjoyed their time away, so I just try to avoid it completely.

B&Bs are usually good - three bedrooms at most and the sort of guests they attract are not usually the noisy type.

Air BnB in a farmers back garden in the middle of Somerset/Devon somewhere.

Somewhere isolated halfway up a mountain or in the middle of a field ideally. Can't bear the idea of holidaying anywhere near anyone else. Always avoid cottage "complexes".

I am a noisy family so not near me

I always hire private rentals, be it an apartment, caravan or cottage and have been lucky to mostly have had either no neighbours or quiet neighbours. I cannot do hotels with all the door banging!
I have to say though kids running around at 10pm on holiday is to be expected really, it's not late. If you go to the med in summer all the kids are out playing at that time as it's too hot during the day. I guess if you want quiet evenings you maybe need to go more rural.

Rural cottage and I check carefully that it is not part of a complex and Google Streetview to make sure there are no near neighbours. It does not have to be remote, my ideal is down a country lane surrounded by fields.

National Trust or English Heritage holiday cottages. As isolated as possible.

Or a camper van in Wales or Scotland or Northumberland or similar. Not in the school holidays.

Don't go to Pontins? It's ideal if you want to listen to other people's music from around 8am to about 2am.

We've found generally pretty good by going for an individual holiday cottage, rather than a cluster. Very rarely had any issues. We had a lovely converted barn somewhere near Minehead, where the only people nearby were the farmer, wife and some geese.
The only issue was our car couldn't get up the drive because it was too steep. (dh is an expert in finding lovely places that are fairly inaccessible with our car. The dc regularly suggest they walk the final mile to avoid it.)

Not the lake district, not Cornwall. Ever.

The west coast of Scotland. In October.

We've had some fantastic, peaceful stays in west Wales and Anglesey. Look at west Wales Holiday cottages. We've now started going to Yorkshire and again, lovely and peaceful. Book at least a year in advance and take your time searching. Doesn't necessarily need to be isolated. Cottages in small towns work well. We stayed in Pickering last year and it was beautiful.

Sounds like you just chose the wrong cottage! Loads are detached/away from other housing.

The Scottish Highlands. Quite pricy ones. Tranquility is part of the attraction.

Yorkshire dales! Much quieter than the Lakes or the Peaks. Always stayed in very quiet properties there with no neighbours nearby.

We have always found it easy to book a holiday cottage somewhere quiet.

We avoid holiday parks like the plague.

The quietest ones were in Cheshire near Whitchurch, just outside Bere Alston in Devon, and just outside Padstow in Cornwall.

You don't have to go somewhere really remote like the highlands of Scotland to get a quiet night's sleep. In fact the quietest was the one near Padstow. At night all you could hear were the sheep.

I don’t like others noise either Op, and I am generally in bed early due to my disability, we stayed on a golf course with lodges once, seemed great when we first arrived, nice quiet family next to our lodge, no problems until a very large family arrived, they were totally out of control, kids hitting golf balls at cars, trying to get a bbq going smoke everywhere (bbqs were banned by the site btw). They were loads of them and the largest lodge was 3 bed, goodness knows where they were all sleeping. Thankfully we were going the next morning. I am sure someone would have complained about their behaviour, but they didn’t seem the type to care.

This is one of the very many reasons why I dislike camping, and am baffled at the love for camping that some people have.

Some beautiful little cottages in north Wales. We book on vrbo so private owners not a complex.
If abroad always go for a villa hate sharing the pool with other people noisy kids, my own are bad enough 🤣

Scotland north or west coast in October, or inland around the Highlands.

Air BnB every time. We've stayed in various huts, cottages and yurts that are in a farmer's field or in someone's private woodland. We avoid anything with potential neighbours.

Northumberland, Shropshire, Pembrokeshire (Wales is fantastic). We stayed in a cottage on a farm in Shropshire last year. The cottage was away from the farmyard, in a field, and the whole place was remote. It was brilliant. Nothing but birds and the odd sheep or cow to be heard. It was about £600-700 for a week in August, and tiny but perfect for us and two DC.

Other than that look for detached holiday cottages . Before booking check out the aerial map view. Read all the reviews. To fit a smaller budget look inland.