No snorers allowed camping

[Franklyfrost]

Just that.

Having finally managed to get to sleep on our mysteriously but persistently deflating air mattress someone in the field next door wakes me up making a noise like a food processor being turned on and off. I have young kids in the tent with me and older kids in the tent text door so I can’t wear eye plugs. It’s a family campsite so it’s not just me who won’t be able to wear ear plugs. Just don’t go camping near others if you snore. They must know they snore because they’re not pitched up alone, so their party must all have come prepared with earplugs.

YABU camping is for everyone, you can’t discriminate
YANBU camping is not for someone who makes a really loud noise all night long to show off how well they’re sleeping while stopping anyone else from getting what rest they can

If you can't take the snoring, don't go camping.

Snoring in your sleep is not a deliberate action.

No, but if you are aware of the fact that you are a persistent loud snorer then perhaps camping in the vicinity of others knowing that you will be keeping half the site awake would make you think twice.

@LozzaChops101

I'm the child of a snorer and I'm a shit sleeper Absolutely dread being in the vicinity of my snoring mother overnight, she can wake me up from 3 rooms away. HOW do snorers sleep through their own racket?!

We don't! I've frequently woken myself up when I've been in a deep sleep and then snored. Worse still, I've actually poked my husband accusing him of being the one to snore! Luckily, it doesn't happen a lot!

@Franklyfrost

I’ve not written a note. I planned to have a chat with someone who was at their pitch but hopefully not the snorer (so as not to embarrass them) and as nicely as possible if there was anything they could do. However I chickened out because their tent set up made me think they’d be unfriendly. It was perfectly pitched, two chairs at right angles to the tent, evenly spaced apart, nothing outside the tent bar the chairs and matching windbreak, also at perfect right angles… it was so eerily neat my judgey self freaked out (ridiculous I know but it’s the truth).

We’re happily flying kites on the beach and occasionally chasing them too. Tonight when the snorer starts I’ll try to remember that camping has these good moments too.

Christ you sound like a pleasant person. So judgemental.

I think the moral of your story is don’t go to campsites if you’re a light sleeper who will be disturbed by snoring from other tents!

Either wild camp or get a cottage?

I do have empathy as I hate campsites (always noisy, if it’s not snoring it’s dogs barking or kids crying or people talking loudly until dawn). I can only sleep in a tent if I have prescribed sleeping pills!

The person snoring probably has no idea they snore (or how bad it is). Very U to say only people who don’t snore should be allowed to go camping! It’s a bodily function you can’t control, like waking up 6x a night to wee and disturbing people in tents near the toilet block!

@DillonPanthersTexas

Snoring in your sleep is not a deliberate action.

No, but if you are aware of the fact that you are a persistent loud snorer then perhaps camping in the vicinity of others knowing that you will be keeping half the site awake would make you think twice.

But that's making the assumption that the snorer in the op is aware and is known for being a snorer.

Alternatively, people who choose to camp know there is a chance that they will get a disturbed nights sleep as they are choosing to sleep in an area with no soundproofing and they can take steps to help themselves.

Campsites have issues with noise. Whether it's people going to the toilet, talking, sleep talking, snoring, babies/children crying etc. If you are a light sleeper or think you will struggle in that environment either do something to help yourself, or decide it's not the environment for you.

People snore. Hotels aren't exactly free of then either. What's next? If you snore you can't stay in a hotel?

My neighbour’s a noisy bastard, even when he’s asleep he snores so there’s never a time when he’s quiet. I came away to a Premier Inn for a rest from the cunt, but I have a feral child in the room above me who’s been thumping up & down all night long. How I long to be deaf.

tigger1001

Most reasonable people who enjoy camping accept that there is going to be some noise. Nobody is expecting total silence at night time. However there is a world of difference between being temporarily awoken due to someone nipping to the toilet, sheep in the field next door, an unsettled baby etc and some loud snorer who literally prevents you from sleeping at all.

Also, I find it hard to believe that someone can reach adulthood and not realise they snore loudly.

Other people’s snoring doesn’t prevent people from sleeping

"Are you taking the piss?"

They clearly haven't been kept awake by a Magimix snorer.

@DillonPanthersTexas

tigger1001

Most reasonable people who enjoy camping accept that there is going to be some noise. Nobody is expecting total silence at night time. However there is a world of difference between being temporarily awoken due to someone nipping to the toilet, sheep in the field next door, an unsettled baby etc and some loud snorer who literally prevents you from sleeping at all.

Also, I find it hard to believe that someone can reach adulthood and not realise they snore loudly.

In a campsite though it's not one person going to the toilet, could be lots during the night.

I suspect most people snore at some point in their lives. Can you honestly say you have never snored?

If you are a light sleeper or are worried that sleeping will be tricky in a different environment, use headphones/earplugs. Job done.

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I have to say having camped right on the walk though to the toilets. No it’s not really a lot of people going back and forth all night.

You’ll get the odd one every so often but once asleep you won’t hear them walk by as they tend to go alone not in groups.

A lot of people also take their own toilet buckets if they have children and even more so since covid so again unless it’s the tent basically next door to you the zips won’t wake you up.

Children have woken me once at around 7/7:30am and tbh we had pitched right by a tree swing so expected children right outside ealier and later.

Snoring however woke me up and kept me up till they woke up and a lot of other campers from the mutterings in the toilet block in the morning and by the breakfast shop.

In a campsite though it's not one person going to the toilet, could be lots during the night.

I'm a pretty seasoned camper, have stayed at dozens of sites from the lake District, Devon, Dorset and Cornwall. I don't think I have been ever been kept up at night due to a constant stream of nocturnal toilet goers.

I suspect most people snore at some point in their lives. Can you honestly say you have never snored?

Of course I have snored at times, usually when I have drank too much or have a stinking cold. I am not however a persistent loud snorer like the type described on this thread.

Yes the difference is we are talking someone who literally snores the entire night. That level of being kept awake is so different to the couple of people who might whisper at 3am to the toilet block.

As several people have said, snoring not only goes on all night but there is something about the regularity and repetition that makes it absolutely torturous. It's not like the noise of people moving around or even talking quietly at a small distance. It's maddening even if it isn't preventing you from getting any sleep.

We went camping the other week. The tent right next door were blasting Mrs Brown’s Boys on speakers until 3am. And loudly cooking on a BBQ at 1am. The CF also woke up before 8am before my DC. They were banging and clattering so I couldn’t even get revenge on them by letting the DC out!

How can the op and anyone else posting here know if the person snoring is a persistent snorer who knows that they snore? We don’t know. It’s an assumption.

Some people snore sporadically caused by allergies or bad sleeping position. Camping is likely to set off allergies (and not everyone knows that they have a mild allergy to something) and cause bad sleeping positions.

Yes, they snored all night, doesn’t mean that they regularly snore or are even aware of it.

So, you don’t like risking being in the vicinity of someone snoring then don’t go camping at a busy campsite.

@DillonPanthersTexas We actually don’t know if the the person snoring is a persistent loud snorer just from the op’s one night of being disturbed by it.

Funnily enough I'd rather have the snorer than the occasional noises. The occasional noises will wake me up and I'm a pretty light sleeper. My brain will do it's job with the regular repetitive sound and I won't hear it after a few minutes

Some people snore after a beer, lots of people drink beer whilst camping.

@OneTC

Funnily enough I'd rather have the snorer than the occasional noises. The occasional noises will wake me up and I'm a pretty light sleeper. My brain will do it's job with the regular repetitive sound and I won't hear it after a few minutes

If I go to sleep before DH starts snoring it’s fine, I sleep through it. But he will often do an extra loud snorty snore just as I’m dropping off. He is good about moving to the other room though, in fact he says he needs to because I make clicky noises in my sleep which annoy him!

You have my total sympathy as I live with a snorer, he has however been diagnosed with sleep apnea and got a breathing machine which has made the world of difference to all our lives…it goes everywhere with us (we’re caravanners) so hopefully we don’t keep the campsite awake any longer!

My dd was born with a cleft palate. She snored loudly (worse than when her dad had had too many beers!) even when sleeping upright (like in a stroller). She has grown out of it now but did it until she was at least 6. For all you know, it might be a child with similar issues. Should they not be allowed camping either?

Camping requires a certain toughness - but also ear plugs, a robust bladder and high tolerance of human behaviour - maybe camping isn't for you

I am excited about going on my first holiday in years because a year ago I got diagnosed with sleep apnoea after YEARS of begging for sleep tests and being laughed at by my UK GP who told me snoring is a cosmetic issue. I now live in another country, where my symptoms gave them cause for concern, and I got the treatment I need. I have a CPAP machine that is small enough to travel with. Camping was never on the cards and even hotels were tricky. We got in the habit of only going away for one night because my family couldn't bear to share a room/apartment with me. So YANBU in that I know how much angst and frustration my condition caused others.