Spanish campsites - are they all always so noisy???

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Third campsite five days in Spain, hardly any sleep in any of them. Kids stop screaming about 1am, adults talking and moving about until 2-3am. We've also had party goers using the campsite as a short cut (talking at the tops of their voices at 4am) and bars/nightclubs playing music until 6am!

Help! We are in rural Galicia. I didn't expect this and I'm going mad. And we're here for 12 more nights...!

We've had this in France the last week and although it is finished at midnight it is too much for us.

Germany is just lovely....

I lived in Spain for a while and yep, the Spanish are bloody noisy. It’s why I will never, ever go camping in Spain 😱 (I have low tolerance to camping in France and England as it is!)
That said, I do want to visit more of the northern coastline so we’ll be looking up a private villa when we do! It is so beautiful, and I hope you enjoy the rest of your stay

We've just returned from a holiday in Spain (not camping) and found the Spanish daily routine very different from ours, very loud until very late (noise in our apartment block only stopped at about 2am - very noisy families and kids, not drunken party goers or anything!) restaurants also serving evening food only from quite late (8pm in some instances)

We had to adapt our daily routine quite quickly to fit in, but we are usually early risers and we missed our early mornings.

Good luck, my advice would be to try to fit in with others routines, drink lots of wine!

We also stayed on a (lovely) Eurocamp site in Northern Spain recently and while the campsite itself was very quiet there was a festival in the town (at least 2km away) and there were bands and a compere hollering into a microphone until 5am! I have always loved listening to the Spaniards starting their dinner preparations at 9pm as we are bedding down in our tent for the night when camping in South western France. There was something comforting about that hubbub, the town council allowing such a level of noise til 5am was a totally different kettle of fish though! There must have been locals having to get up for work the next morning being woken by the noise!

The north coast is indeed beautiful and worth a visit. But I think I'll save a return visit for when we don't have to holiday in the school holidays (DD is 10). Or stay in a villa!

I'm used to the daily routine now, we get up at 9-9.30, breakfast at 10, lunch at 4, dinner at 9.30-10, bed at 11-11.30 (this is WILDLY late for us ). I'm even used to the locals shouting at each other when they're standing right beside each other. But booming music midnight to 6am - not so much!

Off to google hotels...

I would slap a week on a credit card and just do it and forget about the costs for now.

So unfortunate to be having such a bad time with no sleep!

Hallelujah it's raining driving everyone into their tents/vans early. Now just hoping there isn't a rave within a five mile radius!

Spanish everything is noisy 😂

The Spanish are always very noisy, particularly when it's Fiesta time. Usual routine is finish work 9ish, eat with family, go out at 10ish. Get in at 4ish, unless it's a Fiesta, then get home at 8am.

I'm half Spanish, and have hundreds of cousins etc in the north (family originally from Galicia), but I can't hack the pace so don't visit as often as I should.

Galicia is beautiful, though. Hope you have it to Santiago.

Thursday night was bliss, not much noise after midnight except for some hysterical dogs barking some distance away. But the campsite was near some works - maybe a quarry? - so blasting started at 8am. Friday night was BAU - music until 6am from a bar down the road. We've moved again and the campsite has promised us silencio absoluto after midnight so we're keeping our fingers crossed!

DH's AFib usually last less than two days but we're now on day 5. He can't walk uphill for more than 10 metres before having to stop so that's putting a bit of a dampener on things. He never knows what causes it but tiredness seems to be a factor.

Oh, and to top it off, DD has nits

We're now queuing up to get on the ferry home. Hurray!

The last four nights have been as mixed as the rest of the holiday. Sometimes it was quiet midnight to 8am, sometimes it was 6am before the noise stopped.

Despite this I would very much recommend Galicia and Asturias as a holiday. It helped that we had amazing weather. The beaches are endless and stunning. It was generally much less crowded than UK beach destinations. Everyone we met was lovely (albeit noisy). It's a vast area and we really only scratched the surface in 16 days.

I've had a few camping holidays in Galicia and Asturias and the campsites have been really quite peaceful! It might be because they're quite small sites I tend to go to. Sorry you've had such bad luck but I'm glad you were still able to enjoy the scenery etc.

Thanks Shoes. I'll definitely go back, but maybe either out of there height of the season or staying in a villa.

We are now on the ferry with a vanload of delicious and super cheap Spanish wine so we will toast the crazy nocturnal Spaniards at a respectable hour when we are home!

Spain in August is holiday month and I never go for that reason, even to very settled areas. I will never forget staying near Alicante in Aug and it seemed like the entire extended families of the Spanish residents moved in for the month. Kids throwing fireworks till 2am, no one talked if there was a chance to shout. July is better for holidays there before the madness begins!

DDs fiancé is Spanish. Lovely young man, his family are great too. We've spent time with them in Spain. I've realised the Spanish default is LOUD. & that's it. At least you'll know better in future OP and can plan holidays accordingly.

Try Italy. Campsites silence by midnight at the latest. Only whispering allowed around the tents otherwise the security guard tells you to be quiet. Bars on the campsite stopped serving bang on 11pm. They don’t get up too early either. Chilled.