Camping Ettiquette

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I’m camping this weekend, two tents, two children, two dogs.

This is the first time we’ve each brought our dogs and searched for a long time and through lots of reviews until we found this place... spoke to the owner who said he only takes a certain amount of bookings to make sure you’re all a bit seperate and no one bothers anyone else.

Last night it was amazing... it’s almost like you’re camping totally alone. I can see a group of tents in the distance and the top of another through the trees but it does feel very secluded.

When we arrived the owner was at the gate and told us to drive and find an empty space. I assume he says this to everyone..

Today a new family arrive, and park and pitch up right next to us. And I mean Right next to us. Some of their ropes even cross over with my friends tent. Their table and chairs are right in the siteline of ours, I can even hear their drink open!

To make it worse, their kids seem terrified of dogs. Our dogs aren’t on leads and have been running around ‘our camp’ really happy. Now we’ve had to get the crate out.

AIBU? I’m kind of pissed off. I wish I’d brought hungry hippos or some really loud scream inducing game but unfortunately playing cards and magiclip dolls are all I have..!

Bagpipe music at full volume. That always gets my upstairs NDN to shut up .

Oh I'm loving this thread while I sit here marking undergrad exams on the sunniest Saturday ever. I can smell the grass, the canvas, and the gin Makes me want to say damn the exams, I'm off into the wilderness (or at least a nearby field).

Can you send some woodsmoke and fresh evening air this way?

And the other campers are total twats. Who walks through someone else's campsite. Ugh

Ask them, OP. ‘Excuse me, but are you twats from Grantham or Sutton-on-Sea?’

I'm so going to try that, but it will have to waiting until I have one of my behaving-badly moods.

we are in Sussex too wink

Shall we form a posse, Nettle? We could be the Cheeky-Fucker-Camper-Busters.

I used to camp a lot. Both on sites and in the back & beyond off roading and/or hiking to get it...it NEVER fails to amaze me that some GIT always wants to put their tent right next to mine. I have asked a few people of they’re scared to sleep alone...fuckwits. Years ago I’d seethe quietly, now I’d just tell them to move. There’s no way I’d crate the dogs or stop them wandering over to the woodpile they’d been happily sleeping by. Not when there’s acres of bloody space. Fuck muppets.

I hope you have a great evening. It’ll be such a shame if their kids can’t settle with you playing cards & having a laugh...and I hope you tell them to sod off if they complain.

Dh had the cinema equivalent to this the other week.
He went on his own on a Wednesday afternoon. He was the only person in there, so ignored his ticket number and sat in a random seat in the middle. Just as the film started, a couple arrived and asked him to move as he was in their seat. They could have sat anywhere in the entire place, but insisted on the exact ones they had booked, meaning dh had to collect up all his belongings and move. He considered just shifting one seat sideways and invading their space.

I don’t get why you haven’t said something. Rather like the couple who won’t say anything to the lady on holiday, swimming in their private pool...

The minute she dropped the can I would have said something. Not on. You were there first.

Has the owner been round yet?

Im in Sussex too, shall I bring my two yappy terriers

Yay, that makes a trio of terriers with my girl! And 3 of us. And OP has gin and fillet steak. This is shaping up to be a good night out.

The CheekyFuckerCampers will rue the day they ever banged a tent peg in Sussex soil, you mark my words.

I have mental images of o.p barking inside her tent

Does this remind anyone of the people who had to do a midnight flit in their caravan to get away from some other campers.

Well, I don’t really want to approach them, they are clearly not very nice people. I didn’t see it but I think they just hit their little girl. They were shouting at her and getting frustrated then a sound then crying.

They’re frustrated because there a hole in their air bed and it won’t inflate.

Karma!

Bunch of weirdos getting that close. It is a pain but moving is the best option

Oh dear. Maybe find the warden and get him to ask to move as it's a fire hazard

Ok, if they sound scary you may have to move. Or call the campsite owner and say it's a dangerous fire hazard and he needs to come and sort it out.

Well. Obviously the time to have raised it would have been when they were setting up!!

But now either i) speak with them and / ii) speak with owner and / or iii) move.

Don’t bother with the PA crap or ‘looks’ or encouraging the dog to be antisocial

Oh ffs either say something or crack on with your evening
Am I such an old gimmer that all this passive aggressive nonsense irritates the shit out of me.

You can borrow my uncle. His snoring can be heard a field away, through caravan walls.

I had to ask two teenage girls to move their tent away from mine once. Their parents had clearly sent them to pitch it away from theirs and were not best pleased when I sent them back. Their little tipi’s edge was under my tent outer- any rain would’ve rolled straight down under my tent!

My guess is that they’re first time campers- seasoned campers are generally good eggs.

They hit their DD?

So they're not only PITA but also abusive parents. I would be tempted to report to Social Services - if you don't want to do it now, make a note of their car reg & do it later. In the mean time, Let your dogs out, make loads of noise and generally be as annoying as you can. And complain to the owner that you really need them to move as you picked a secluded spot so your dogs could have a bit of freedom.

I think people must be right. Maybe it’s ‘their’ spot. From your photos ALL of the spots look lovely. It's not like you've got the only flat spot on a steep slope.

OP I have tent envy and I don't even LIKE camping.

Honestly you've spent hours being annoyed by these people - you should just have moved, what a waste of your holiday.

Hobnobs why the pissy face? Would you ignore a child being hit?

I have tent envy too btw - I may have to get one for the garden