Is this the camping trip from hell.

[Redgreenfroggy]

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

I'd ask for a full refund.
And leave.
And leave a shit review.

I used to love camping, but I've always found it uncomfortable, but being outside in nature and my eldest loving it made it worthwhile. Now he won't go anywhere without WiFi and my youngest has ASD and bolts constantly. The last time I went camping it was freezing and there was an illegal rave down the roadand i got about an hours sleep. Lovely site, but I'm just too old for it now. I can't do more than two days as I never sleep well, so we just sold our stuff as it was a lot of packing for just two nights.

I will look back on the good trips fondly, but I'm definitely done with it now. Even glamping.

I quite like a bit of camping, but we go to sites with hedges between pitches, or very small sites where they have 5 tents per acre. I’ve had a stay like yours OP and it was crap. Glad you’re booked into a b&b. Take the dog with you.

I don’t believe anyone has amazing holidays camping I’m afraid. Amazing considering it’s camping, yes. But amazing compared with staying in a building? Not a chance

@cardibach has nailed it here, for me at least.

You usually have fun, but this time you didn't, B and B sounds better. That said, even hotels can be awful if you are above the bar or club, banging doors when people get in late at night, the person above or below you getting up at 5.30am, so there's always a bit of a risk with holidays. I always take ear plugs everywhere now.

A respectable campsite should kick badly behaved customers out. Why should other customers suffer?

why should poor behaviour be rewarded?
why should she be the one changing campsites?
why should anyone tolerate yobbish behaviour?
why do we have accept less than good experiences?

I love camping. You’re missing out if you don’t camp out (even if in your own back garden) at least once in the summer. Whenever I’ve camped it’s been really relaxed, apart from festivals etc

So, blimey, I think you’ve just had a grim experience, OP. Sounds horrifically crowded and noisy. Like a terraced street made of canvas. Is it a field? Sometimes woodland sites can give you more privacy, though harder to have open fires in them. And I do like a campfire.

Oh my God @Redgreenfroggy the way you wrote this had me laughing, but that’s awful and would drive me nuts. I’d think about leaving. I’m sorry 🥴.

Your notmin Norfolk are you? We had such a bad experience on a campsite in Norfolk once and we weren't even in a tent. We had the inlaws caravan.

It was the absolutely awful Narborough and the campsite total refusal to do anything about it that was the problem. I'm sure most other sites we'd stayed olat they would have been kicked off. I complained when we where there and when we got home, others had complained about them and they did absolutely nothing about them.

My husband was very upset as the kids kept kicking the caravan with their footballs as well. Total disregard for other people's property we didn't feel safe leaving the site while they where their.

But it's half the fun of camping, which I still get. Maybe cos I am a veteran and have a teenage son. Take the rough with the smooth.

Camping is amazing. Out in nature, away from modern life. But only where there aren't other people (properly wild camping).

Camping in a lot of campsites in the UK is bizarre. A field with hundreds of people separated by polyester thinner than a T shirt.

This sounds like hell...YANBU!!!!!

Bugger that. A comfy bed, lots of hot chocolate and coffee, and a clean bathroom are much more preferable to me. And a door to close to keep out the noise/weirdos/other people's annoying kids 🤣😖🤣

This has reminded me of some of my worse fears about camping. Your peace can be taken at the whim of your neighbours' poor behaviour. I'd want my sanity back and would definitely get into an argument. If camping was my only choice I'd save the money for some nice daytrips.

I had 4 nights in a tent at a festival last month and had a better experience than you!

Get a cheap caravan and stay on cl sites , bliss. We have had similar experiences though, camping/ caravanning is great, away from people though, there's some utter twats about unfortunately. I'd deffo pull all their pegs out at six in the morning when you loudly pack up and leave.

I booked a week on a site in Cornwall, had four lovely peaceful nights and on the fifth day a massive motorhome parked up right next door to my tent. I never saw the people staying in it, just heard them and their music all fucking night, men coming out to have a piss by my tent. At 6am I heard someone leave the van saying “same time tomorrow?” and I decided it was time to go home. They were cunts deeply unpleasant people and I’m sure the site owners were well aware of what went on but didn’t want to deal with it.

The most annoying thing was in my haste to depart I left my freezer blocks in the campsite freezer.

I love camping but people’s ever more selfish and entitled behaviour makes me think very carefully about which sites to stay at. Small and basic doesn’t necessarily equal unappealing to tossers, unfortunately, as I found out recently.

Camping is lovely in certain tightly defined circumstances. There are lots of ways it can go wrong. Shit neighbours is one. I think you'll have to move your pitch. Annoying, but the lesser of evils at this point. I would say at least it's a cheap holiday but some camping fees take the piss these days

Please please do this op.

I would be saying to the campsite owners when you leave that you have spoken to a relative who works for the fire service and they have said the other tent being so close is a massive fire hazard. And that you are reporting them to the HSE.

In the meantime does your son want to play any of his music really loudly?

Lol - this!

We have got a full refund from the owners. We did not have to argue they just agreed and gave it to us. We have checked in 40 minutes ago at a lovely b and b. It’s a good job we left as just before we did another couple turned up who had booked on but there was literally no room
for them.

You don't just get it camping,there's kids in our road running amock, screaming and running in and out of the road,all about 5 years old,no shoes or socks and the parents are nowhere to be seen,they just let them get on with annoying the whole street.... constantly looking when their scooters and bikes get to close to the cars... blooming nightmare... can't wait for winter lol

Sorry OP I wouldn't be going to get earplugs, I would be packing up and going home. Sod that for a game of sticks.

Not sure if I am allowed to post details but friends of mine, a lovely husband and wife team, run a small , inexpensive and beautiful Glam Camping biz in North Devon. I get all the above just sitting in my garden, at least I can escape to the house. Manners and respect have all gone South, already booked my handcart!

Pointless you being there if it’s like this. You can’t stay somewhere where you stuff gets nicked! Leave and ask for your money back in full (under UK consumer law, they haven’t fulfilled what was agreed upon so the contract is terminated). Have a few days in a nice hotel. Good luck OP.