Things that annoy you in campsites.

[TiggyOBE]

I think we can take dirty/broken amenities as granted, along with noise from inconsiderate campers.

I'll start with sites that have perfect lawn quality grass pitches to camp on, usually in neat rows. It just feels like you're in your back garden rather than properly outdoors.

Yy weekend campers we holiday in England scottish term time campsite empty till friday afternoon they arrive in droves with windbreakers and coolboxes of beer spoils my peace 😉

I haven't done much camping since I was a child. I often think we should and then I see a Campsite! The whole point of camping is to get away from it all nut on a campsite "it all" is even closer than at home Other people far to close!

OpenMe....you're looking at the wrong campsites. I like the ones with no set pitches where you can be miles from anyone, and have a campfire (which would keep MrsJayy at bay, anyway ).

Blu id be the 1 tutting doing the coughy wavy thing 😀

Recorded music at night when everyone else is quiet. Even if you think you're playing it quietly and you're not pitched close to anyone else, the way sound travels at night you're probably still keeping a lot of people awake.

I am oddly tolerant of bad guitar playing though - I think it's quite sweet.

MrsJayy - we only go to sites that make a feature of allowing fires, so I wouldn't be able to see you through the puther, and with my smoke filled red eyes I might investigate the coughing and come over and ask if it was hayfever and would you like an anti-histamine, though.

I am OK with quiet acoustic guitar playing at civilised times. But then one of our group has been known to commit such a nuisance. And as I say, we are miles from anyone. And we don't all join in, singing Hotel California and House of the Rising Sun.

I did once approach a group who were in full scale karaoke and telling very lurid stories about someone they knew at 1am and say it was all very fascinating and entertaining but a bit loud, and they laughed, offered me a drink, invited me to join them - and then gracefully resorted to being silent.

Mostly, people are lovely: friendly, helpful, well behaved and quiet.

Except the woman out with a toddler at 6.30 a.m, walking the (delightful) little girl away from her own tent and sleeping DP and friend, and close past everyone else's talking and singing very loudly 'Bye Bye Moon' etc.

Ahh, the guitar players...

Just had ten days away (), first a few nights at a perfectly for fine site in Devon and then to Cornwall. Only we managed to find probably the most uncared for place imaginable We actually left early and went back to Devon for the last three nights. Which was actually quite lovely in comparison...

apart from the teenager who had a guitar but only knew the first few notes from Smoke On The Water.

Oh and MrsJayy, you really wouldn't like the next place we're going to. Big field with woodland attached for small groups travelling together with a massive campfire in the middle!

Arggh massive campfire the last place we went to is lovely we have been loads they do love a firepit though but it is worth it

discovered new source of annoyance this week: neighbours had the loudest roaring gas stove/furnace that sounded like space shuttle blasting off. and they spent 15 minutes every night having utterly banal high-volume FaceTime chat out the front of the tent so whole site was forced to listen

Paying £40-£60 a night for a square of grass.

Going to use the accessible bathroom (radar) to find a family in there cos the warden unlocked it for them (every fucking time)

Caravanners.

When the site is almost empty but people decide to come and pitch right next to you.
YY to people walking through your pitch and staring

what is wrong with Caravaners ?

They don't like campfires?

The fact that they roll up to a site and in five minutes they're sat drinking tea and relaxing while the rest of us are still standing looking at a bag of poles and massive heap of canvas wondering where we've put the pegs while the clouds begin to loom darkly overhead, obviously.

Blu Ha thats me told 😂

countess you obviously not witnessed me and he putting up an awning

You must hate Campervans more then, we only have to put the handbrake on :)

The campsite we are in now has only one set of wash basins. That are used for everything. Hand washing, clothes washing, dish washing and the cleaner rinses her cleaning cloths there too. I can't bear to go near them

Our last campsite had thigh buttons! The most amazing invention ever. The buttons for water in the washing up basins were thigh leven so you pushed against them if you need more water. Got me very excited

Airbeam tents. Or perhaps it was just the one owner who felt the need to top up the air in his tent at 11:30pm each night. It makes a racket!

Some of the er...clientele and their little darlings and their yappy dogs.
Push button showers - last week's lasted all of 4 seconds and for me, non detachable showers so you can't properly shower your nether areas and have to bend down and touch your toes!
Young children scooting up and down past your tent on rickety, noisy scooters or bikes at 10pm or 6.30am during the quiet period
Insects in your tent.
A deflated bed when you wake up in the morning.
No, or inadequate, wifi or (last trip!) pay for it at £20 per week per DEVICE, not per family - per device!
Cold nights and needing a pee in the middle of the night and having to undo numerous zips first then the traipse across a field.
Expensive camp shops.
Pigeons - "doo doo DO, doo doo DO, doo doo DO" at 5am.

We are still camping next year though!

Drop toilets

We're caravanners so we're the source of some people's annoyance 😂 But for us it's people who stop what they're doing to watch is backing into our space, children running round or crying at 6am. That's it really, it's mainly just the noisy kids at 6am 😡

People who pitch near me....

I like woodland pitches or pitches with lots of trees/ uneven ground. Screening makes a good campsite. I'm not so keen on the square field set up.

We are going to camp in the garden this week as I can't be arsed with other people and we live in a rural area. 😄