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No snorers allowed camping

360 replies

Franklyfrost · 20/08/2021 00:29

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

OP posts:
Angryfrommanchester1 · 20/08/2021 09:34

@Fiero

YABU, this is why I don’t camp any more. Lying in a field on a deflating lilo with the noises of Other People around is not a holiday for me.
Hallelujah. I’ve never been brave enough to think about even trying. It sounds like absolute hell to me snd this thread just compounds my opinion on the subject.
BrilloPaddy · 20/08/2021 09:38

We went camping. Twice. Then the whole lot went on Ebay.

It was a slow prolonged form of torture. I'm not sure what was worse.... the late night boozers, the snorers or whining kids awake at 4am........

Booboosweet · 20/08/2021 09:39

This is why I would never camp. Hotel for a nice quiet sleep every time.

therocinante · 20/08/2021 09:43

@Sunnygold

I’m afraid I would yell “Stop fucking snoring!” at the top of my voice.
Yeah, that'll definitely work. How did we not think to solve snoring like this before now?
fourminutestosavetheworld · 20/08/2021 09:43

"Are sleep studies, sleep apnoea and CPAP machines not a thing in England? I can't believe how many posters are so accepting of snoring and saying that it's a thing that happens and you can't do anything about it. Rubbish. It's not normal and it's not healthy. Snorers need to go to their GP and ask for a sleep study to be done. There are options to stop snoring."

None of this worked for DP. Very narrow minded to assume that sufferers haven't tried to solve the issue, or that treatments work for everyone. A friend's DH had surgery - literally bones shaved and so on. He was in a lot of discomfort afterwards and lots of incidents of blood streaming out of his nostrils and down his throat. She said she wished she hadn't encouraged him to do it. It made no difference to his snoring whatsoever. It might be comical and annoying, but it's a medical condition like any other and sufferers don't really deserve some of the unkind - and wrong - comments on here imo.

AngryWhompingWillow · 20/08/2021 09:46

@Franklyfrost

Of COURSE you can't discriminate against snorers, and say they shouldn't be allowed camping, but YANBU to be annoyed by it. DH snores like an old buffalo; has done for years. Had separate rooms since about 2-3 years after he first started, because I flat-out was NOT getting any sleep. So I do get you.

Not much help this time, but maybe invest in a couple of white noise machines for next time. They do have usb charge facility as well as electric plugs (most of them,) so you should be able to use them whilst camping! They block out virtually everything!

Jobsharenightmare · 20/08/2021 09:48

If I knew I snored I wouldn't subject campers to it. This person must have been told by someone in their party. Some people are just inconsiderate.

AngryWhompingWillow · 20/08/2021 09:48

@Sunnygold

"I’m afraid I would yell “Stop fucking snoring!” at the top of my voice."

@therocinante

Yeah, that'll definitely work. How did we not think to solve snoring like this before now?

LMAO! Grin

DrSbaitso · 20/08/2021 09:50

I camped for years. I was 30 before I realised that I hated it.

But the noise is a separate issue. Of course you expect wildlife sounds and actually I did like that part of it. And you realise people might be moving around in tents or going to the loo or talking quietly a little distance away. But these are unavoidable and as long as you can tell people are trying to be considerate about it, it makes it much easier to handle.

Mega loud Magimix snoring that disturbs everyone around you is something else. You surely must know you're doing it, and that it keeps people awake. When one person knows that they're going to keep everyone in earshot awake while they sleep because of their excessive loudness, it's no longer a bit of natural background noise. It's a total disturbance and it's really, really bad form just to expect everyone else to deal with it happily when you're stopping them from sleeping. If you know you snore like a Magimix, pitch up somewhere else. You're the one person causing a disturbance all around, don't expect everyone else to form a mass exodus when you could just take yourself off somewhere quieter.

It's the absolute lack of consideration that gets people, the statement that you have arrived, you will be keeping lots of others awake with a snoring din (horrible noise, too) and the problem is for everyone but you to solve.

LemonJelly76 · 20/08/2021 09:52

It's not the noise as such, being woken by someone going to the toilet, or a car door etc is generally ok...it's they repetiveness of snoring I think..it genuinely is awful and the next morning when it's daylight you start to think was it really that bad...but at night when you're trying to get to sleep it's just horrendous.
It's totally different to random people noises, coughing, etc.
My ex husband was a snorer. He got a CPAP in the end and it made such a difference.

Tal45 · 20/08/2021 09:53

This is one of a myriad of reasons why I hate camping. It's right up there with always being freezing cold over night, it always raining during the day which is really miserable in a tent and the complete general uncomfortableness of it all. I love the idea of it but the reality is just shit.

Silvergreen · 20/08/2021 09:57

@BrilloPaddy

We went camping. Twice. Then the whole lot went on Ebay.

It was a slow prolonged form of torture. I'm not sure what was worse.... the late night boozers, the snorers or whining kids awake at 4am........

Hahaha 😂 I only camp at festivals but by the third evening we're all taking class A drugs to stay awake.
Luna2021 · 20/08/2021 09:57

I fully sympathise with you OP. Having recently shared an airbnb with a loud snorer in another room, I got zero sleep even after moving to the living room couch. It's bloody awful especially when you're on a break away.

Unfortunately, I don't think it's reasonable to actually ban snorers. How would that even be enforced? I do think snorers could perhaps be a little more considerate and camp as far away as possible from others (even popping a wee note on their tent to give others the heads up maybe?).

tempester28 · 20/08/2021 10:02

Think of you experience as being character building…..

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 20/08/2021 10:03

I think if you are a snorer of that magnitude- and haven’t tried to do anything about it for the sake of your own family - you’re probably quite selfish!

Ok we don’t know his history and he might not be able to do anything about it I guess.

But coming to a crowded campsite with the magimix snore is, i agree, very selfish! “Oh I sleep fine when camping” i can imagine him declaring…

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 20/08/2021 10:03

I think too many campsites squeeze too many people in.

Our camping trips have been rather pleasant this year. We had to think outside the box and go to more basic places due to everywhere being crowded and booked out. Means there were less people, more spread out so less disruption.
The sites have been a Scout campsite, a Riverside field and a biker cafe.

Chikapu · 20/08/2021 10:04

I feel more and more lucky that I’m a lesbian.

Because no woman ever has had a problem with snoring?

BeauxRingarde · 20/08/2021 10:05

Those of you who snore - what steps have you taken to address this problem?

I married someone who doesn't care. Job done.

Blue565 · 20/08/2021 10:05

Camping is only ever fun when out of season (as in, school holiday season) in campsites that are half empty

Peak? lol no

ChipButties · 20/08/2021 10:05

Problem is OP, what do you expect the person to do? My DH snores because he has a serious medical condition. I have earplugs and tolerance. People who snore can’t help it, so what would you like that person to do? Not being able to sleep sucks though, so I feel for you as well. It’s a shit one - I’d go and get some really good earplugs today, the foam ones.

CounsellorTroi · 20/08/2021 10:06

A few weeks back DH and I were staying in a hotel. The couple next door were up talking until the wee small hours - 3 or 4am. We had a long drive the following day and needed some sleep The man had a loud and penetrating voice and we could hear everything he said through the wall. In the end DH went and asked him if he could tone it down a bit, he apologised but carried on talking at the same volume. When we asked him again to be a bit quieter he became aggressive and swore at us. In the end we got the night manager to speak to him. Should we have just sucked it up?

BeauxRingarde · 20/08/2021 10:07

Snorers need to go to their GP and ask for a sleep study to be done

That's hilarious! The NHS on its knees and every snorer in the land is going to get a sleep study done because random campers don't like snoring!!! Grin

ChipButties · 20/08/2021 10:08

Hahaha 😂 I only camp at festivals but by the third evening we're all taking class A drugs to stay awake.

Oh my dayzzz, ur SO kooool lolz!!!1!!!11!!

SimonJT · 20/08/2021 10:08

@CounsellorTroi

A few weeks back DH and I were staying in a hotel. The couple next door were up talking until the wee small hours - 3 or 4am. We had a long drive the following day and needed some sleep The man had a loud and penetrating voice and we could hear everything he said through the wall. In the end DH went and asked him if he could tone it down a bit, he apologised but carried on talking at the same volume. When we asked him again to be a bit quieter he became aggressive and swore at us. In the end we got the night manager to speak to him. Should we have just sucked it up?
Talking can be helped, you can choose not to do it, snoring can’t, unless you stop breathing.
BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz · 20/08/2021 10:08

Just put the earplugs in and get over yourself. The kids will still be able to wake you with them in.