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To wonder if people on holiday realise others live here year round?

94 replies

Beewatertrayistiny · Today 08:31

Live in a tourist area. Every morning without fail, the house at the back of us being rented for holidays is seemingly awake and outside from 6.30 am.
Two small children who talk incessantly, cry and scream.
I love kids, have a Dc of my own who can also talk incessantly and cry/shout at times…but..I would not allow this at 6.30 am
I get up every summer when i’m off to have a peaceful coffee in the garden, my Dc sometimes has breakfast with me outside but knows to be quiet as some are sleeping still, but mainly she is indoors colouring or watching some morning tv until a bit later. I personally don’t let her play loudly/make noise in the garden until past 9 am
I’m sure these are very sweet children and I feel a bit mean saying it, but they’re very annoying! and there’s no intervention from the parents.

Aibu to think they wouldn’t do this in their own neighbourhood, but probably aren’t arsed as they’re on holiday and won’t see anyone again?!

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Beewatertrayistiny · Today 08:43

Who can say it’s being unreasonable 😫

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Octavia64 · Today 08:45

I live on a new housing estate that nobody ever visits.

lots of kids out early in gardens near me plus teens out late.

don’t think this is a holiday issue

Beewatertrayistiny · Today 08:47

Octavia64 · Today 08:45

I live on a new housing estate that nobody ever visits.

lots of kids out early in gardens near me plus teens out late.

don’t think this is a holiday issue

6.30? Here it’s 9 upwards

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sandgrown · Today 08:49

Add to that the dumped rubbish including dirty nappies and the tourists who drive at 5mph when I am trying to get to work! But I do appreciate they are the bread and butter of our town and keep people in work

PurpleCoo · Today 08:49

I agree it's not a holiday issue. Plenty of posts on MN of people complaining about noisy children in the garden from early O 'Clock

Motomum23 · Today 08:52

I absolutely hated it when my next door neighbours airbnb'ed their house for the summer a few years ago so you have my sympathy OP.
Although for me its more the drunk tourists shouting down the street at 1-2am that annoy me - kids will always be kids but seriously even when ive been drunk on holiday I know how to be quiet!

arethereanyleftatall · Today 08:52

Do all the guests do this?

you could also flip your stance. Do people who buy in a tourist area not realise people will come on holiday?

Beewatertrayistiny · Today 08:53

arethereanyleftatall · Today 08:52

Do all the guests do this?

you could also flip your stance. Do people who buy in a tourist area not realise people will come on holiday?

It’s the only house in the area bought to rent out, we’re a (normally) quiet cul de sac with long term residents who bought our homes

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xyzandabc · Today 08:54

I'm not in a tourist area and we have a newly built estate at the back of our garden. I'd say 5/7 days there is a family with young kids in the garden and a baby that cries before 7am.

If yours are in a holiday rental they'll be gone in a week. Ours are here all the time.

Beewatertrayistiny · Today 08:58

xyzandabc · Today 08:54

I'm not in a tourist area and we have a newly built estate at the back of our garden. I'd say 5/7 days there is a family with young kids in the garden and a baby that cries before 7am.

If yours are in a holiday rental they'll be gone in a week. Ours are here all the time.

So sorry, I just find it so selfish

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Laiste · Today 08:58

YANBU to be fed up with kids noise at 6.30 - but it's not holiday home specific.

If this is happening a lot my advice would be to find out who the owners are and ask them politely if they could put up a little reminder sign in the holiday house to 'please keep outside noise (kids!) down for residents until 8/9 in the morning'.

Not an unreasonable request.

Divebar2021 · Today 09:00

It sounds annoying for sure. My in-laws live in St Ives in Cornwall and I dare say they have a whole list of annoyances of the tourists who swarm the place every summer. However they also go on holiday to places so it’s not like they’re never tourists themselves. I doubt they think they’re annoying to the residents but I dare say they have been. I was swept aside by a woman in Venice because I was walking too slowly. You could put a note through the door and ask them to be a bit more considerate or message the owners and ask them to have a word.

SummerPeonies2026 · Today 09:00

You don’t sound suited to a touristy area op. I think you should move. If you lived further out and away from a busy place then you would probably benefit.

Chemenger · Today 09:01

I live in a popular seaside village, my main bugbear is that tourists seem to think pavements are for other people and saunter along in the middle of the road without a care in the world. I’m very surprised that the many vans and lorries that need to get to the working fishing harbour don’t just plough into them, driven mad by the frustration of driving at slow walking pace.

Screamingabdabz · Today 09:01

Yep not a holiday issue. A general selfish arsehole issue.

Beewatertrayistiny · Today 09:04

SummerPeonies2026 · Today 09:00

You don’t sound suited to a touristy area op. I think you should move. If you lived further out and away from a busy place then you would probably benefit.

😅 So we have to move?
We are all hard working residents in a quiet area, we have every right to live our lives with some amount of peace. If I want to embrace the holiday makers, I can drive to the centre or beach. I don’t want to for the next month but I think it’s only fair I can have peace in my own garden at 6.30 surely

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Roseshavethorns · Today 09:09

I live in a small village that has lots of visitors. The problem I find is that tourists seem to feel that nothing bad can happen because they are on holiday.
We frequently have people walking out with children in the middle of the road to take photos, stopping cars on bends on single track roads to look at things and, my personal bugbear, letting young children run off on their own to explore. I'm sure they wouldn't ever do any of those things at home.
The (mostly) good natured noise really doesn't bother me.

Daleksatemyshed · Today 09:18

Chemenger · Today 09:01

I live in a popular seaside village, my main bugbear is that tourists seem to think pavements are for other people and saunter along in the middle of the road without a care in the world. I’m very surprised that the many vans and lorries that need to get to the working fishing harbour don’t just plough into them, driven mad by the frustration of driving at slow walking pace.

Yes, they seem unable to see road signs, double yellows or all the other giveaways that they're about to be run over. Do they walk in the road at home I wonder?

YoQuieroVino · Today 09:20

We live in an area that no tourist would ever, ever come to. The neighbours behind us are outside from the crack of dawn with their kids for the entire summer holidays. Their kids do nothing but argue/fight/scream at each other. This has been going on for years.

anon12345anon · Today 09:21

That would piss me right off.....such selfish behaviour....

How have you not shouted "shuut up!"

WendyHoused · Today 09:27

I'm sure if you spoke to the owners they'd be reasonable to add "please no outdoor play before 7:30 in the morning in consideration for the neighbours" to their Airbnb rules.

It's in the owners' best interests to keep on good terms with the neighbours.

One or two reviews of "the neighbours kept shouting at our children all holiday" would have bookings dry up!

Morepositivemum · Today 09:33

The parents could be asleep I suppose? Or normally live in the middle of nowhere where there’s nobody nearby so a bit selfish/ insensitive. I think we all forget ourselves a bit on holiday!We have a rule of 9 and 7 here, can’t go out before nine and have to be in around 7.

Derpytiger · Today 09:35

I live in Edinburgh. The tourist levels in August are insane due to the festival. We can't walk down the street to get anywhere, buses take twice as long because everyone expects the driver to have a full conversation as they get on and I've lost count of the number of times I have to ask people in flats they've rented for short periods to please remember that people actually live here and need to be able to sleep at night.

The rest of the year our city's wonderful, and I normally have all the time in the world for tourists because I love showing off our beautiful city to visitors, but I really hate August.

anaconda1831 · Today 09:38

I think it's very inconsiderate but agree with others that it probably isn't a holiday problem, the family are likely letting their kids out early at home too. We have a 9am rule in our house for my DC, I'd hate to think of my neighbours being woken early by them!

DeftGoldHedgehog · Today 09:39

Some people don't think of others with noise wherever they are.

I remember though a man telling us off when I let the kids play out (on holiday) at 8.30am. They had been up since five and I'd been keeping them in until a more respectable time. To his credit though he actually came back and apologised later and said he had thought it was much earlier in the morning. 😆

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