Bringing your sky TV and deep fat fryer camping

[Europeangirl2022]

I am in France camping at the moment and there are 2 British families here in caravans with deep fat fryers, freezers, microwaves, sky tv, air con etc etc. They have it all set up outside their vans. One of them also has a god awful strip light too in their awning. They don’t walk around the site either but are just on their electric scooters.

Maybe I am a camping purist but what’s the point of having sky tv etc when you are in the great outdoors?! Surely the point of camping is to get away from it all & be in nature? Maybe that’s just me….they blast out sky news to the campsite in the morning too- it’s nearly driven everyone mad to be honest. Why not just stay in your house in the uk?

aibu? Or a camping snob!!!

Surely the point of camping is to get away from it all & be in nature? Camping on a camp site and “getting away from it all” aren’t really compatible though, are they?

@MereDintofPandiculation its normally a really quiet site- it’s in fairly rural France.

That just seems weird to me! I've not been camping for years but no one brought those things. We actually went to a festival and spent a lot of the day walking around.

I think not everyone who goes camping goes because they love it. They go for a reasonably priced foreign holiday. My general holiday mantra is, it needs to be at least as nice as home, that seems like what they are trying to achieve. Live and let live.

I've been noticing tvs for at least five years now. Some people take projectors too apparently...

Cooking stuff is quite normal though? Especially in a campervan?

I can understand that some people may have children with additional needs who are only calmed by certain modcons at home, but this does annoy me.

It's none of our business what anyone else wants to bring. But people seem to be thinking of glamping as being real camping - it's not the same. It's valid and acceptable but when your telly or whatever is interrupting everyone else's camping break, it's selfish.

I'll need electricity when I next camp due to medical needs. But I won't be bringing my Alexa or rigging up a telly. I enjoy camping which is different to just upping my flat and taking it with me.

Am a Bear Grylls type though, if I could spend a whole break living by bushcraft rules I would.

Why is it annoying you? Everyone is different. As long as they are enjoying their holiday and you are enjoying yours who cares.

I’ve only been on a campsite once as an adult and the TV thing shocked me. Apart from the fact it was so fucking loud and inconsiderate.

Meh, for the most part, camping is fucking miserable but is occasionally the only affordable holiday some can afford, whatever it takes to make it feel like a comfortable trip 🤷‍♀️

It always makes me laugh that when dh went camping in the 70s with his parents they took the kitchen sink, my personal favourite was the pressure cooker that dh was in charge of lugging to the beach to cook their new potatoes in 🤣

@Alliswells most people camp to be outside in nature and not to have sky tv blasting at them every day!

I bet they voted for Brexit too!

@JubileeTrifle its really rude and inconsiderate to be blasting out a TV. I must be one of the few who loves camping & being outside!

@Europeangirl2022 many people camp because they can't afford to rent a caravan or holiday home.

Yes they shouldn't be making loud noise, but other than that there is no rule book on how to camp. My camping experience got a lot better when I insisted that I got a pillow and duvet . I was very impressed by some families when we went camping over the Jubilee that had full on grills and gas bbqs and even one had a laundry whirly gig.

Surely the point of camping is to get away from it all & be in nature?

Well, yes. But you've presumably just used a phone or a laptop to post this, and you have internet. There's a teensy bit of hypocrisy there! You're not exactly wild camping halfway up an Alp.

Maybe my view of camping is different- I do it to get away from living in a box & having loads of mod cons like a TV.

We used to go to camp sites across western Europe in the late 70s/early 80s and the European campers definitely had set ups like this. I was quite envious.

Well we all do things differently.
You do your type of camping, let everyone else do theirs.

Of course, if they are making an inconsiderate amount of noise, then have a word with the campsite management. I my long experience of French campsites, they are pretty hot on enforcing quiet in the evenings.

I love camping & being outside. I also love to relax & watch my favourite show of an evening. Camping doesn't have to be sleeping on the floor & eating cold beans & sausages. They are not doing it "wrong" just different to you.

I deliberately don't go to campsites where this is likely to happen. Very few facilities, no EHU and preferably no play areas etc

EHU would be handy for keeping things cool etc but I won't risk some dickhead turning up with their telly.

Has no one asked them to turn the TV right down? I would have. Not sure why we have such difficulties making reasonable requests in a polite manner.

I would also ask them to turn the flashing bright lights off at bedtime.

But this is why I avoid sites with EHU and caravans, and choose ‘wild style’ back to basics sites with a ‘no amplified music of any kind’ rule.

Are you sure it's not an air fryer? Mine comes everywhere with me now - so convenient

Fine. I agree. People should enjoy their own style of camping.

But relaxing when your walls are polyester is what headphones were made for.

But relaxing when your walls are polyester is what headphones were made for.

The people in question have a caravan so not walls of polyester

For some people camping is about being in nature and getting away from it all, for some people it’s a cheap way of having a holiday and the actual camping is an inconvenience.