Is this the camping trip from hell.

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Just want to start by saying we camp 2 or 3 times a year and have loved it. Don’t know if we have been really lucky with campsites.
yep there has been the odd annoyance but on the whole great.

Arrived at a campsite yesterday and the family in the tent next door just seem to yell at each other all the time. If they are not yelling at each other they are yelling at the dog. The adults are constantly swearing at each other and the two little girls just seem to scream

To make it the 2 girls aged about 5 kept running in our tent laughing and running out again. At one point when DH and DS had bobbed to the campsite shop and I was looking for something in the car I looked back at the tent to see both girls coming out of our tent with one of my sons board games. I stopped them and said they should not take things that dont belong to them and to stop coming in our tent. All I got in return was them both sticking their tongue out at me.

When my DH came back he went over and had a word but they parents could not seem to grasp while we didn’t want their little darlings on our tent and said they would only be borrowing the board game.

Woke up this morning at 6 to the girls running around our tent screaming and shouting for my son to wake up. My son is 12 and wants nothing to do with them. Luckily it stared raining so they went back to their tent.

Later this afternoon came back to the campsite after a day out and not only has a new family pitched their tent right up next to ours so we could literally reach out and touch their tent from standing inside ours, they have pitched over were the car is meant to go.

all the tents are pitched so there is a tent and then a car on the right hand side but they have 2 cars and have just taken up their pitch and half of ours. I did point out this to them but I just got a shrug of the shoulders.

We did mention to the owners of the campsite this had happened and they did say they would have a word if we really wanted them too but could we just put our car by reception. We got the feeling they did not want any confrontation. So our car is now by reception. Not a huge deal but still a bit inconvenient.

i am now in our tent listening to an argument from the family next door. The kids screaming and the dog going bat shit barking. Plus the ones that are right up next to us the bloke keeps hacking at the time.
So you get that massive hack noise as if he is trying to bring something up. The women with him had a cackle laugh that would put Amanda Holden and Alisha Dixon to shame.

My DH has gone out to get ear plugs

It sounds horrendous. We’ve only had nice experiences of camping, although the night there was a thunderstorm and gale that broke the tent was a bit stressful! Luckily that was our last night. In your case I would make a really strong complaint and point out the fire regulations too. I would also park my car in their way.

Maybe you could "borrow" all their tent pegs on your way out tomorrow since they seem to think stealing from strangers is so acceptable 👀

(In all seriousness though I'd be sure to leave a completely honest review of the site management, what an absolute wet lettuce not dealing with people being inconsiderate and rude)

Please name the campsite so we can all avoid it

I genuinely love camping and find it much better than being a building, unless it's a ski holiday in a nice chalet for example. There's nothing better than beautiful outdoor space, sunshine all day, being with friends. I have a good thick mattress which is just as comfy as my bed at home, cosy sleeping bag, take my own pillow, plenty of blankets. When I was growing up I used to sleep in a tent in my parents garden all summer

This. How anyone can find camping enjoyable is unfathomable to me. Seeing as you are already on your holiday now, and depending on how much you paid to pitch there/if it would make a significant negative impact on your holiday finances to move, I’d do some research and go elsewhere.

I’d be breaking camp asap and getting outta there. It sounds horrendous.

You do know you can pack a tent up an move it some where else right?

This is precisely why we bought a caravan.....

Gosh that sounds awful
can you be moved or is there anywhere else you can try?

I don’t know why anyone ever thought camping would be anything other than hell. I rather like walls.

Why does staying in a building mean you can’t be in a beautiful space and all day sunshine or with friends? A mattress on the floor is not as comfortable as a bed, that’s a fact - particularly since my mattress would fill the car in its own. Plus it’s at floor level so getting out of it isn’t fun. Then you have to walk bloody miles for a wee and share showers with a load of strangers.

“sunshine all day”???
where is this mythical place?

Urgh. This happened to us one year. Exactly the same. I packed us up, threw everything in the car and drove straight home.

Just reading your posts OP has depressed the hell out of me. Sounds utterly crap. It’s not nice having a window into the lives of others sometimes. This, right here, has reminded me why I will never go camping. Just pack the hell up and get to the B and B (or home!)

Oh god, I generally like camping but that sounds just awful. A pain I know, but is there another pitch you could move to well away from this crowd.

My best advice is to do is camp next to a stream or similar. The noise acts like white noise and you can't hear the fuckwits near you. We are a quiet family, and look for campsites that expect silence from 11pm or midnight.

I always go for small campsites as well, otherwise what's the point of 1000 tents in a field. It's not scenic or back to nature is it.

By definition. camping of any variety is hell
Your current hell sounds like it is in even deeper depths of hell.
(I did camp in India once, and there were waiters offering me hot toddys, someone offering to put a water bottle in my bed and my tent had its own loo and shower, that was OK).

Newsflash: read the thread title

I think our trip to cornwall where the tent blew down is one of the DCs favourite trips to talk about!

The last time we did camping ( in tent) was when I was 4. Then we bought campervan or actually the son of the local communist party gave it to my father and then we just starting staying in hotels. I have never gone back to this lifestyle

Sounds shit YANBU! do you fancy sharing the name of the site so the rest of us know to avoid.

Staying in a building means being indoors a lot more, generally. It probably depends on your budget but shuffling round a cramped caravan or a typical dated dingy UK holiday cottage are not better than a green field with views of the sea or mountains. Staying in a building is just more difficult to organise with groups of friends, there are always issues with bedroom allocation and needing to find somewhere the right size for all the people.

I'm only 48 and have no problems getting up off the floor! A 10 cm self inflating mattress is definitely the most comfortable thing I've ever slept on. It does take up about a quarter of the car boot but it's worth it.

I don't mind walking to the toilet in the day - at night just pee behind the car.

Just leave. Camping is shit.

The campsite should require a minimum of six feet between tents, any closer is a safety issue. I suspect their insurers wouldn't want to find they're allowing tents within touching distance.