What time do you start making a noise when camping?

[SherlockHolmes]

I only ask because the family in the tent next to us started at 5.30 this morning. I understand that young children make noise, but there was no "ssh"ing, in fact the parent were loud, almost shouting at times. I was really pissed off, but as we were leaving today I didn't bother to say anything. Now I'm wondering if I was being selfish in thinking they shouldn't camp with a baby and 3 little children if they can't keep quiet?

monkey that sounds so hectic! are you sure you even want to go camping, I mean I would be a rag if I was surviving on 2 hours sleep a night and camping with 2 children!

camping with 2 kids is fine - i've done it regularly with 3 (with the youngest being 3year old). But they sleep till 9am (assuming no noisy neighbours). BUT agree with gapants, doing it with only 2 hours sleep is another thing entirely.

Hmm, monkey - you say that you don't want to wreck other people's holidays - have you actually thought about how much of a holiday this is going to be for you???? It sounds pretty grim, to be honest. I've done the 'overtired adults with very tired and grumpy children who are missing out on their usual level of sleep' holiday and it Was Not Fun - only the fact we'd travelled a long way (were attending a family wedding at the end of the holiday) prevented us from going home early - it was no holiday for any of us.

Sorry, I don't mean to sound so gloomy, just don't want you to have a stressy time!

Well, I think most people agree that they don't like noise before 7.30/8 in the morning. I don't feel quite such an old grouchy pants now

It seems very one sided those. Adults can make noise till 11-12pm when most LOs are in bed by 8-9pm. BUT heaven forbid the children make noise . Kids have the reason of being kids, adults have no excuse. We went camping and one group of teens were shouting in the woods at 3am!!

Personally, we try and keep girls quiet with tv and cereal till 8am, but I also have a dog too.

Its camping, just chill and if needed have afternoon kip

The 'but my kids are asleep by 8pm so they should be entitled to be noisily awake at 5.30' posts strike me as a bit odd. IME of camping, most folk keep their kids up late and then they sleep late in the morning! Everyone's happy. We've been camping with our kids for 6 years, since they were tiny, and that's how it's always worked for us.

People who find it hard to be sensitive to other campers' needs might be better off wild camping or staying in a cottage. Tolerance, flexibility and consideration are crucial on campsites.

8-9pm is late for my girls!! Mine are alseep by 6.30-7.30 at home.
If I keep them up late I'm not promised a lay in but am promised a hellish day the next day

Mine are the same Lisa - I keep them up at night and they wake same time next morning and are very grumpy all day, so when they wake at 6.30 (or 5.57 as has been known) we try to keep them quiet. We don't always succeed but we try. Suspect sometimes the noise of our shushes is louder than the original transgression but it would seem that's ok from this thread.

I would also expect others to behave courteously at night time and respect those who have children asleep.

Well I have been known to send DD to play outside the tent full of adults who were up partying noisily until 2am (and who should definitely know better).

Otherwise I try and keep the noisy down till 8ish, for my own sake as well as everyone elses. I'm not a morning person.

When ours were little, we discovered that by day 3 of very late nights, they started to wake up late too - well worth persevering to get that lie-in

I agree that it would be great if campsites had different areas for quiet till 9 / a bit of noise any time afer 7- less stress for everyone.

Night three of camping has never occurred for us. By night two we are usually insensible with exhaustion, freezing and have completely run out of clothes/ chocolate.

I've never really had a problem with children early in the morning, most parents do their best to keep theirbdc's quiet but I do get sick of noise late at night.

I would never expect anyone to take their children off a campsite early in the morning, that seems like a miserable holiday.

We are very quiet campers and I like to think I am fairly accommodating and not too grumpy but noisy campers aftr 10pm pee me off. I'm not talking general noise but loud, shouty behaviour that means my ds's can't sleep. My poor ds's never even tried to sleep before 10pm but the noise levels, even at that hour were awful.

That was CCC site, the Cromer one.....and no, we won't go back. The site at Sandringham was lovely and quiet but Cromer was like camping in piccadilly circus.

Norman, your neighbours are probably insensible with exhaustion too You need to do a longer hol in France - better weather and facilities

FWIW, I don't like noise after 11 or before 9. We just shout at each other between those hours!

Monkey, you'd be surprised at how knackered they will be after a full day in the fresh air. The first night my dc's 4 and 2, were up until 11.30pm, The last two nights were 10pm and 9.30pm and slept roughly until 8am without a peep.

To be honest, I did not mind noise after 7am with any of the other campers. It were the ones at the side of us who, after arriving at their tent at 11.55pm (yes, I do know the exact time because the 'dad' shouted it out) continued to laugh and talk at the top of their voices until they decided to make bacon and sausage sandwiches at 2.30am. Then, finally, after I had just driftered off at 4.30am, their daughter (roughly 8/9) decided to kick off because she was cold and she wanted to go home!!

our trip last week was on a site which insisted on "silent 11pm-7am" and in practice everything did go quiet shortly after 10 and some noise started nearer 8. Unlucky that the sodding tweeting birds couldn't read the signs though

I'm back. Had a fab time and the kids were much better than expected. They went to bed a fair bit later. Basically after dark. They woke at 5.50am the first 2 mornings and 6.20am this morning. My DD woke frequently the first night and my DS woke at least 3 times each night but I'd put DD's airbed next to mine which was right next to DS's travel cot so was able to deal with them quickly and efficiently. Also left a light on all night so they didn't freak out. When they woke in the morning they were happy to have a cuddle with mummy and read books (in a whisper) for about an hour (ie 7ish) then I popped DS in his travel cot with a lot of toys while I got breakfast and told DD she had to use a quiet voice. DD wasn't allowed out of tent to play with friends till after 8am. They are well behaved kids, just early risers. I heard other people's young children crying in the night, but never for very long. My mate doesn't mind the sound of children, it's the snoring that gets her. I slept well, feel great, think it must be the fresh air. Oh and the campsite had a quiet policy of minimal noise from 10pm - 8am.

I was woken yesterday by a gang of kids outside my tent at 7am clashing friggin' badminton rackets together! I wouldn't mind, but they were camped at the far end of the field, the parents must've sent the little darlings down to our end to 'play'....[grr] I didn't say anything, but they got a hard stare!

We were at a festival recently where the family in the next tent let their two toddlers wander around with a guitar and a ukelele at 6.30 in the morning.

You can't complain about noise at a music festival

At 6 bloody 30 I can!

glad you had a good time MonkeyChicken.

Where we camped for Legoland we were right by the M4. Constant hum of traffic - fine to sleep with, and drowned out all the noise from other tents, if there was any. Our dc were too exhausted to make noise after 10pm so peace all round.