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

Surely one advantage of camping is that your lodgings are totally portable and you could’ve solved this in an hour?

We had something like this a while ago. Now I'm super fussy about sites. Really basic ones weed or the twats, or ones with self enclosed bays.

There’s always someone queuing up on threads asking ‘what do I need for camping ‘ to deliver the hilarious and highly original joke ‘a hotel’.

It’s bad enough when it’s a thread on the Camping board… but I suppose this is AIBU.

Also OP do leave an honest review.
Although we no longer camp tent wise we do occasionally camper van and have always been fortunate that reviews I've read have been pretty much bang on so it does help others.

I've had two mostly lovely camping trips this year. It's a different, outdoorsy experience we just can't get in a hotel or Airbnb (within our budget anyway!)

The best places as a pp says are small, cleverly planned campsites. Less likely to attract twats like this and you don't get people crammed in.

At one of the places I stayed this year I couldn't even see another tent from ours!

I've had much worse experiences in hotels than I ever have in camping!

This. The fire thing is shocking in particular as I thought it was standard for campsites to have a gap of a certain amount between tents for health and safety.

The worst campsite we went to had the men in the tent nextdoor weeing around their tent on the pitch in broad daylight ... Vile... people adjacent smoking weed and playing loud music... It was horrific and I am never ever going back. It was a second visit though - our first visit had been brilliant!! It definitely depends who you pitch next to.

Problem is if you've paid upfront as you have to in many sites its a bit unfair if you're not the one causing problems but have to move off.

It's the camp site owner/management that need to put a stop to this type of behaviour and ask those doing the shouting to be considerate or leave then maybe they'll think twice infuture.

Well, if it was a question about whether you like camping or not, then yes it would be fine.

It's a bit odd when posters keep saying it when an OP has mentioned they enjoy camping though.

People do it because they want to have holidays and do not have a lot of money. People who are snide about it can usually afford to be, but many save money were they can for other things.

Fair point - except several of t(e things she says make this the trip from hell are unavoidable when you camp - hearing and interacting with people around you all the time, even at night, for eg. So I guess I’m answering ‘is this the camping trip from hell?’ with ‘yes, but they all are’.

Husband occasionally suggests camping. My reply is why would I go on holiday to something more uncomfortable than my home. We haven't been camping...

Sounds awful. at least you only have one more night. If you saw him kick the dog hard, please at a minimum inform the rspca. That poor animal.

Not sure why but this thread has had me in stitches! 😂

FWIW you’d have to pay me an awful lot of money to go camping!

This is all frustrating, sure, but my god the poor poor dog! You have to report that, even if the rspca don't do anything at least you've tried.

Feral people.

They sound absolutely horrendous.

We had that experience once as a Student when we were camped in a place and a large feral family pulled up with kids that scattered like dropped seeds and were into everything. Other people's tents- We moved that day, as did others.

You can't be living alongside that.

I went camping this Summer and thought great, an end pitch, not many neighbours. Our tent had guide ropes out like the Matrix. Yet, still they walked/limboed right past us, within inches of our tent, like it was a through road, wtaf!
But all in all, it's what camping is, some good ones, some bad ones. I'd booked mine as a bit of a last minute so can't complain.

I mean you can complain when you've paid your money just like everyone else.

We have a campervan now but used to camp.
After a few dodgy sites, we joined the camping and caravan club, as they are quite strict on noise and pitch size.

Please report them. What an abusive family. I couldn't bear to be close to them.

One summer we did a bouje site, the middle class prosecco women were up till 3am and every single time someone went to politely request keeping it down would lower the volume for five minutes before back to full screech.

The relief at the next site, when a big burly voice echoed across the site at 11:00pm 'Time to shut the fuck up' and everybody did.

I love camping but would have left by now. I’d also kick up a stink with the campsite owner to get a partial refund, that you’re having to leave because they don’t want to enforce their own rules.

Out of interest, where are you?

Any camping trip is my idea of hell, sorry 😂

But yours sounds even worse. Can you find another spot with more space?

I’d rather just pack up and go home though.

Glad you are off to a B and B.
People like that are bad enough on the bus or whatever but camping you can’t escape.

A few PPs suggesting moving pitches possibly aren't campers as it's a massive pain in the backside to do that. The whole setting up of a tent plus setting up all the bits inside takes an age in itself so to take everything down and re-set it up....mmmm nope op shouldn't have to do it. Get to that B&B asap!

I love camping but my dh doesn't so we don't do it anymore. I love sitting around quietly chatting over drinks, I even love being awake early and having my first cup of tea in the open air. But most I love the view we go to the sites for. I always get a sea view and can sit there for hours just watching it.

I would have insisted (via the campsite owners) on the other people repitching their tent if it was that close to mine. It's a fire hazard.

As for the other tent, I'd report them but only as soon as we'd left and make sure I had photos of the car reg.

My parents had an interesting stay at a camp site recently. The police came and were really interested in one car next to a caravan. Turned out it wasn't taxed etc, it was part of a larger group which I think were all family with the men off working all day whilst the wives and kids were living at the site. They only paid for a few nights and had been there for over a week! The kids were causing lots of trouble around the site, making mess, taking things that didn't belong to them amongst other things. The whole group were eventually moved in by the police.