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

@BeauxRingarde

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!!!

Actually, snorers should go to their GP and they will be given equipment to test themselves at home. Snoring can reveal serious, life threatening conditions and GPs do take it seriously.

Stop being facetious. Snoring is a serious problem that disturbs the sleep of millions of women.

A cursory Google search suggests that 40% of men and 20% of women snore regularly.

White noise is amazing and will help you sleep anywhere.

God I am a snorer. It’s even harder being a sorer when you are a girl. I have always avoided camping and sharing rooms with people because of this. But my kids are getting to the age why they want to go. I was toying with the idea of trying it. Cheers for making me feel bad about myself op. Hope you are perfect in every other way.

Cheers for making me feel bad about myself op. Hope you are perfect in every other way.

Ditto. I am a (female) snorer and was already feeling quite shit after a bad night's sleep and a grumpy conversation with my husband. The idea that I would now be made to feel unwelcome on a campsite has lowered my mood even further.

I wear a snore guard in my mouth, which is horribly uncomfortable, but I persevere with it because most of the time it works. But sometimes it doesn't. I have no idea what anyone would like me to do about that.

@ChipButties

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!!

You've missed the point. I'm laughing at how sad we are. The effort you went to with all the mixed caps though...

This is horrible. This post is by far more selfish than going camping as a snorer. The idea that someone should not be able to do something they love because of a health issue they probably can't prevent?

@Silvergreen I haven’t missed your point then as I’m laughing at how sad you are too, so we’re in good company.

Yabu. You might have a sleep disorder of your own that is preventing you sleeping, or perhaps it’s the anxiety about the air bed.

Other people’s snoring doesn’t prevent people from sleeping. Kids sleep through snoring just fine. Some folk just wouldn’t be sleeping anyway, and the snoring is just the noise they hear whilst they’re not sleeping, so they fixate on it.

😂 no I wouldn't expect you are good company at all.

@purplesequins

I'm intrigued at the concept of there being some kind of remedy or fix for snoring, and people that snore are "selfish".

my dad stopled snoring when he lost weight from 'overweight' bmi to normal range.
I would guess that for at least 80 percent of people excess body fat is the reason they snore.

Yep. The only time I've ever snored is when I put on a lot of weight after a trauma (eating my feelings). Lost a chunk of the weight, have never snored since (DH is a light sleeper and confirms this!). I could feel my flubby extra double chin resting on my neck when I was sitting so no surprise really. Still working on losing more but am no longer in the obese category.

As over half the U.K. adult population is overweight or obese, if more folk got back to into a normal healthy weight range I reckon incidences of snoring would drop a LOT. It's not a solution for everyone, my slim friend snores and has done all her life, she also has bad sinus issues, but it would definitely reduce.

Re camping I feel your pain and would totally want to strangle them!!

I'm pretty noise-averse, like my beauty sleep, and am the miserablist, grumpiest arse going when I'm sleep deprived. My only memory of DC's first year is a foggy haze. And snoring drives me nuts. But it's not as if people can help it.

If they'd been booming out Slayer and Megadeth at 2am, then I'd be over at their tent with the rotten tomatoes and eggs. Otherwise the only solution is to move.

I sympathise, OP. Sleep deprivation is the absolute pits, there's a reason it's a form of torture.

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

We've got a thread full of people who are kept awake by snoring. You can't declare it untrue and suddenly it becomes so.

We are campers and have slept next to some horrendous scorers so I feel your pain not really a lot you can do but get some good ear plugs
The funniest one I ever had was on a plane to Spain tho
Lady on her own, stuck a plastic device up her nose (to stop snoring I think) promptly fell asleep and snores loudly for the whole 3 hours!

@Silvergreen

😂 no I wouldn't expect you are good company at all.

At least I don’t need to announce to everyone I take drugs to make me seem even mildly interesting 😉

I think there are few folk on here taking the thread a bit too seriously.

I love camping but do my research carefully as I prefer to be on more spaced out site where you are 30m + from the nearest pitch which helps reduce noise issues.

Worse camping experience was bank holiday weekend in Croyde where tents were literally touching each other so you could here every snore, twitch, fart and shag in Dolby surround

@MotherOfGremlins

I snore. I've lost weight, I sleep on my side, I've had a sleep study done, I've tried a thing that fits around my teeth to hold my jaw in place, I've tried a little ring that's supposed to act on a pressure point to stop it. I've cut out alcohol, I've asked my husband to wake me every time it happens, I've changed my bed time and exercise routine.

I still snore and there's nothing that can be done - I don't need CPAP because my O2 level is fine.

I also camp because I'm not wealthy and my children deserve a holiday as much as anyone else despite their mother's antisocial face shape. I hope I put up with other people's noise and irritating habits with a bit more grace than I've seen in some of these posts here.

Yep. I love the way there's an assumption on this thread that those of us who snore can be magically cured if only we could be bothered to "do something about it".

I too have tried everything. As a slight female I shouldn't be prone to it, but I am. I spent a fortune on everything from throat sprays to a custom mouthguard, and undertaking checks for sleep apnoea.

maybe it was a one off snoring event.

I remember once being on holiday in a rented house with my family & going on a brewery tour, I was told the next morning that I woke up all 3 floors in the house with my post ale snores

I'm well aware that many snorers can't do anything about snoring. But you can do something about inflicting it on others so nobody but you gets any sleep.

It's really selfish keeping people awake. People tend to moan about those who chat all night or screaming children waking them in the night but snoring is a consistent unnecessary noise.
Its actually a person suffocating and their brain is being starved of oxygen. It's sad that so many people see it as a joke rather than getting treatment.

@ChipButties
Silvergreen
😂 no I wouldn't expect you are good company at all. 
At least I don’t need to announce to everyone I take drugs to make me seem even mildly interesting 😉

At least I can offer generosity when others are being self deprecating and think of my own jokes. 😉

Camping is something only an insane person would enjoy in my opinion!

There are different levels of snoring and it is reasonable to expect some kind of background noise at any given moment while camping. Most snoring is a fairly brief phase, but if it is going to keep the whole field awake for prolonged periods then it is an issue (and probably worthy of medical investigation.)

When my DCs were babies and unsettled with sleep, we went for caravans rather than being a potential disruption in a tent. There was one night that baby DS was loaded into the buggy at 3am and taken for a long walk because he couldn't settle and we didn't know if he was disturbing anyone else on the other side of the hotel wall.

If you know that your behaviours are highly likely to disturb everyone in the field, camping is not the ideal choice.

@B1rthis

It's really selfish keeping people awake. People tend to moan about those who chat all night or screaming children waking them in the night but snoring is a consistent unnecessary noise. Its actually a person suffocating and their brain is being starved of oxygen. It's sad that so many people see it as a joke rather than getting treatment.

My husband isn’t suffocating, nor do his oxygen levels decrease because of his snoring.

Can you suggest where he gets a cure for what causes his snoring, arthrogryposis?

Yep. I love the way there's an assumption on this thread that those of us who snore can be magically cured if only we could be bothered to "do something about it".

The problem is that an awful lot of snorers don't do anything about it. You only have to read the numerous threads on mumsnet about snoring to know this.

DH couldn't help his snoring and sleep apnoea. The doctors don't know why either. When I have accompanied him to sleep clinic appointments he was the only person in the waiting room who wasn't clinically obese.

For those of you with issues that can't be resolved you have my sympathy.

It is those who don't try to resolve their snoring issues that annoy the rest of us.