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Rowdy, noisy neighbours

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paisleyleaf · 04/08/2010 16:52

Maybe I've just been unlucky, but noisy neighbours have been a real problem for us - more this year than any other year previously.
Just no etiquette or respect for others within the vicinity who might be sleeping, listening to the sounds of the forest, whatever. Every evening, getting back from a day out/dinner out after dark and setting up a party, shouting to each other etc like they're just oblivious to everyone else.
I did have a little moan at one site - they said they've got more people camping who never have before or perhaps wouldn't usually.
Is this going on at campsites up and down the country?

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ivykaty44 · 04/08/2010 16:57

tis quite on some sites - just have to find out of the way with less facilitys sites - then you will find others that don't like all the hustle and bussle will be there and quite aswell

though snoring is soemthing you can never anticipate.

fidn soemwhere with basic and only basic facilities

Batteryhuman · 04/08/2010 17:16

We only go to small quiet sites with very few facilities and a "please be quiet after 10.30pm rule". Snoring is avoidable by only going to sites with really large spread out pitches. Kids getting up at dawn on the other hand.....

moogalicious · 04/08/2010 17:21

small family friendly sites that state no groups, no evening entertainment, basic facilities. And ear plugs!

We went to a large site once - never again. A stag party pitched up 2 ft from our tent. . .

moogalicious · 04/08/2010 17:23

try looking here - there are impartial reviews.

nappyzoneloveschinesefood · 04/08/2010 17:33

one without a pub/ club is the only type i will consider now and i always ask if they have an on site warden.

mousymouse · 04/08/2010 17:39

we went to a holiday park once, because all other camping sites were full and we hadn*t booked in advanced. never again. children screaming until quite late at night, loud base sounds coming from the bingo hall...so it is back to basics for us (and booking in advance).

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paisleyleaf · 04/08/2010 18:07

This is a site we have been to a couple of times before. Admittedly there is a pool, but nothing else entertainmentwise, no bar or anything. But it's changed.
They do specify 'no groups' - maybe the 6 halfords tents together near us craftily booked separately.
Feel a bit sad about it now as it has been a favourite site before. But yep, if we want to go in school holiday time we'll go for less facilities, or maybe less of a tourist hotspot.

moogalicious, thanks, I do go on that site sometimes, it's great.

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ampere · 09/08/2010 19:39

moogalicious - sadly, UK campsite can no longer be relied upon as it refuses to publish some negative reviews or edits them to meaninglessness. There's a thread about it on 'camping' here....

ampere · 09/08/2010 19:42

We learned a lesson about 'pre-set-up' tents in Jersey a couple of weeks ago. Was full of 'Aye-oop' northerners who couldn't afford Torremolinos this year. Had no concept of talking quietly at 11pm. They were there for the 'cheap' accommodation not the 'camping experience' at all.

TonariNoTotoro · 09/08/2010 19:44

ampere. Generalisation much?

SanctiMoanyArse · 09/08/2010 19:44

We go to a big site once a year with parents but oin full knowlkedge of what we will get- though the swearing was getting annoying this year.

Otherwise we keep to small sites and it works out OK

There have been a few incidents with people I don't think I would class as 'campers' including some quite nasty name calling at disabled ds3 on one site

But other than that no, it's been OK: and the name calling was over the footie season adn I tbink they were there to watch a large screen

SanctiMoanyArse · 09/08/2010 19:46

Aw Ampere LOL thats not always true

My aprents are looking at them now as theyc an't manage to pitch any more

Mind, they can be nightmare campers- up at 5am cooking and I swear Dad has one voice volume (although much merriment was had this season when dad was heard to say to Mum 'You'll have to work harder than that to get it hard dear'- alledgedly about a pump up bed )

ampere · 10/08/2010 14:38

No, I am generalising, I concede, but blimey! We really felt surrounded and easily could have asked every family along our row to keep the noise down at some stage over the course of the week! And I don't mean the odd high spirited child or squawk, or even the low drone of quiet after-hours conversation. I mean full scale, boozy, shouty, bursts of hysteria at 11.45pm and alcohol-tinged conversations conducted at full volume re the location of a toothbrush at midnight from inside tents- followed by the shriek of laughter as one of them falls over our guyropes, 50cms from my sleeping children as they try and find their way to the loos.

There was supposed to be 'quiet' between 11 and 7. It meant the karaoke stopped at 11 but I don't think there were many on that site who needed shussing at 7am....

Fwiw, the site had a few 'stand alone' pre-set up tents scattered around its 'independent' fields which would have been ideal- far away from the bar and the serried rows of shouty Brummies where we found ourselves, cheek by jowl.

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