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Here's a real novice question...

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unicorn · 13/06/2006 20:10

How noisy are the campsites you stay at, and what time do your kids go to sleep?
Can you hear the other campers nocturnal noises? (ooh er Mrs!... more like snoring in our case)

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FillyjonktheFluffy · 13/06/2006 20:11

depends on the campsite

oooh isn't that helpful

but the answer is...sometimes...

my kids go to sleep pretty late, tbh, around 2-3 hours after normal bedtime. But they're little (2 and 1)

Blandmum · 13/06/2006 20:13

it depends on the site. Some have very strict 'quiet' times....snoring and kids are exempted! By loud noise etc is banned.

Some sites are more 'party' oriented.

I quelled a mini riot of teenagers on one site, by flashing a torch, shouting at them and threatening them with my kids at six in the morning....the next day all the other campers thanked me!

LucyCampCat · 13/06/2006 20:14

We go for campsites that say all quiet after about 10pm and then have a warden/owner to enforce it! The dd's went to sleep at about 9pm (they go at 7pm at home) but it still took them a while, being city kids the sounds of the sheep and cows in the next field gave them the giggles!

Unless you are crowded together you generally can't hear other people in their tents - someone will come and tell you to shut up if it is snoring.

I'd like to think that I'm super considerate about noise, constantly telling the kids at the start of the holiday, until they get used to the tent again, to shush!!

Blandmum · 13/06/2006 20:16

We also keep the kids up a few hours, and they tend to sleep in a bit. A combination of fresh air, running round like mad things and a later night.

nannyme · 13/06/2006 20:19

Good question.

I am going to look a tw@t if it's my kids keeping the whole site awake - must remember not to mention what my job is (sleeptrainer!)

peachyClair · 13/06/2006 20:20

apparently, if you want strict quiet, jin the camping and caravanning club and they are very much that way.

It can vary otherwise: hollands wood was bad this Whtsun, but it was one idiot out of 500 tents, just our bad luck they were near us.

Janbo25 · 13/06/2006 20:22

I am going camping for the first time in a couple of weeks with my dh and ds who is 17 months old! am i mad!

FillyjonktheFluffy · 13/06/2006 20:23

janbo, i am going camping alone with a 2 yo and a 11 mo for the next 2 weeks, madness is very relative.

crunchie · 13/06/2006 20:23

My kids go to bed when it gets dark tbh, as do most kids, so around 9.30 in mid summer. Noise can be an issue, but most people are pretty good, re noise. snoring cannot be helped, actually I have the giggles when it is so loud and I hear it from another tent!!

peachyClair · 13/06/2006 20:24

why mad? And if you want us to tell you that you are- do you not think you're in the wrong place ? hmmmm?

You'll love it.

Janbo25 · 13/06/2006 20:35

any recommendations for sites around wales?

LucyCampCat · 13/06/2006 20:38

North or South?

roisin · 13/06/2006 20:47

Campsites usually full of happy noises of children playing until about 9.30, then pretty much quiet thereafter. (But we deliberately don't pick noisy ones)

The birds can be really noisy at dawn - 4 am at half term! And once the campsite starts to wake up - 7-7.30 am, it tends to get quite busy fairly quickly.

Ds2 is unlikely to lie-in in such circumstances, but he is happy to go to bed/sleep when others are still playing.

Janbo25 · 13/06/2006 21:19

looking for north wales or lake district that sort of vicinity

sallystrawberry · 13/06/2006 21:23

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Mercy · 13/06/2006 21:29

Fillyjonk, you're camping for 2 weeks with 2 little ones? Just you, no other adults?

WOW!

Where are you going btw?

sparkler1 · 13/06/2006 21:34

We went to Freshwater Holiday Park in the last school hols and we had a right bunch opposite our tent. They were partying every night of the four nights we were there - they had young kids too. There were three families who had all pitched their tents next to each other and were obviously all on holiday together. One of the women had the most horrendous laugh, really loud and squeaky. Everywhere I went on that camping site she seemed to be there day and night - in the showers/toilets, on the beach and in the bar. As soon as I put my head on my pillow at night she would start.

sallystrawberry · 13/06/2006 21:38

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Nemo1977 · 13/06/2006 21:39

hi unicorn.
WE went at the weekend and couldnt hear other peoples noises apart from the occasional tent zip although was worried thers would hear me peeing in bucket

Ds[2] usually goes to bed at 8pm but found it all very strange so was not going to bed till gone 10pm and was woken by things like the wind.
DD[5mths] went to bed at normal time and slept soundly.
Site we were on was supposed to have a warden at 11pm but they never came around however only noises was people chatting etc.

sparkler1 · 13/06/2006 21:42

Really sally? You wouldn't be able to miss her. I think the group had London accents.

Nemo1977 · 13/06/2006 21:43

Janbo weekend just gone we went to shell island dont know if that is accessible to you...was 2 hr drive from liverpool and fab place.

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