To pack up early and go home?

[SaferHaven]

Gambled on a week camping 6 hours from home with youngest dc in a popular UK holiday destination.
Usually I love camping but tend to do long weekends in quiet sites and this is a proper Holiday park as felt like maybe I had been depriving dc from this type of vibe and can’t afford an abroad holiday. It’s not been cheap, pitches are stacked together, noisy and am situated right next to an A road feel like I’m sleeping on a lay-by. Feel very vulnerable as well which strangley I don’t do on a quieter out of the way site.
Weathers not been good, dc don’t want to go to the beach again after a disastrous attempt at bodyboarding tuition in rough seas and we have done all the activities on offer here. dc would not thank me for local museums.
I am usually the most positive person in most things I do but am lying here listening to sirens and motorbikes whizzing past. I haven’t slept properly since Sunday - meant to be here till Monday and it’s only going to get busier and louder and I just want 4 solid walls and my bed.

If it's not fun, just go home

I’d leave but also maybe look for another site for a couple of nights. Maybe a farm stay or similar?
You have my complete sympathy though - it sounds tortuous and no fun for anyone.

Go home. Sounds dreadful.

Could you find a quieter campsite for the last couple of nights? Maybe halfway between where you are and home? But if not, I would go straight home for sure, it sounds miserable.

If none of you are enjoying it then go home. Or could you pack up your tent and find somewhere else?

Can you find a nicer place to stay? I don’t ever feel the need to pay for accommodation that’s worse than my house.

I don’t think I’ve got it in me to pack everything up and put it Back up somewhere else same day knowing in a couple of days I’d have to do the same.

Thanks for the supportive comments it’s nice to know I’m not alone - you live and learn and I’ve found a week is too long for me in a tent!

@fashionqueen0123sadly the budget is a non starter for that plan

Are the kids ready to go home too? If yes, do it.

sounds awful,go home, have a chat with dc on the way home about making the next few days fun from home...

I’d leave then!

I’d go home if the kids would also prefer to. If they’re having a nice time I’d stick it out but never book this sort of thing again.

Years ago we booked a Eurocamp site, one new to us, as the last part of a longer holiday. The tents were crammed together and very close to the campsite road. After two frankly unpleasant days we went home early.

If the children are up for it, go home.

I totally get you wanting to try a busier site for the sake of the dc and admire you for that. I also like a quieter one. However, this year I discovered a place where you can have both. Quiet, traditional campsite but loads of kids who all hang out together on the swings, playing football, manhunt after dark. We would go out for the day to the beach or whatever, come back, eat, then ds would be out playing for 3 or 4 hours. He loved it and I got time to chill. I'm normally a max. 4 days in a tent kind of person but could have stayed there for weeks!

If you are in Cornwall (thinking about the bodyboarding), I would throw £80 at different site.

This sounds like a great campsite, do you mind me asking where it is?!

It's called Treverven Farm. Near Lands End.