Was I unreasonable? Camping politics!!

[Seagullsbythesea]

Just been bank holiday camping. On the last day we were there, new people turned up on the pitch next door. We had our tent width ways accross the pitch so the sleeping end was right next to their pitch. They had a camper van & 2 kids also. There is an 11pm noise curfew on the site.

Last night they were up sitting outside their van with their friends talking really loudly at 11.20 right next to our heads!! My kids were trying to get to sleep.

So I went and asked them to keep it down - they really weren’t happy & just carried on. Eventually they did STFU but it was past midnight.

Was i a party pooper on their first night? Or right to just tell them to keep it down- I was polite & just said ‘it’s right by my kids heads’

We are actually leaving today whereas they are staying - I think I was feeling tired & grumpy yesterday & my kids were knackered!!

I was thinking the same 😅 although I do like my EHU and I have a caravan, it does block some noise. I did my apprenticeship of tent camping when DC were young.

We usually have EHU for a heater and a kettle. I don't think I could be faffed taking a TV

Weve just bought a leisure battery so we can start avoid EHU. We use it mainly for phones and the fridge (for the wine, cheese a nd bacon/sausage)

To think I was just looking at campsites for a night of peace and quiet! - however it seems most of my shitty neighbours go camping too!

It’s not just at night either.

last time we went anywhere other than wilder sites, we had the tent next door snore all night (okay, can’t help that maybe) but then the same tent gave their toddler the iPad at 5am and let them watch Peppa Pig, very loudly, for 2 hours (while the snoring continued). Was like sleeping in a circus!

We tend to go “low facility” camping too - this talk of people setting up their own outdoor cinemas is like a different world!

You were within your rights to ask them to be quiet OP. If it was me I would have moved onto the friends' pitch if we wanted to continue the conversation.

We normally stay on very quiet, simple farm sites, so don't have too many problems with noise. The nighttime tank manoeuvres at the site near Bovington Camp in Dorset were an unpleasant surprise though. I know very little about tank mechanics, but they all seem to sound as if they have broken exhausts. That's nice going on for hours on end, and the army aren't going to shut up if you ask them 🙄

YANBU

Making noise after curfew is pig ignorant

I can't comment on camping etiquette, but can recommend a slice of bread gently placed on the roof of a caravan overnight as a good early morning wake up call for late night noisy people

Yanbu op. We once stayed at a campsite with some friends which had a policy of no noise between 11pm and 8am. We got told to keep it down at bang on 11pm, which we did (we were just chatting but one of our group has a booming voice) however, the tent the other side of the hedge had small children who they let make lots of shouting and screaming noises at about 5am. I don't think we disturbed them as there was no noise from them, so I don't think it was retaliation. It is frustratimg the noise is enforced for one time but not the other.