Is it possible to camp without loads of night time noise?

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I am on a holiday park, but even so its SO noisy. I've stayed in caravans in similar places and never noticed it. Is it to be expected? The DC are knackered but can't get to sleep.

The kids have shut up and now the seagulls are at it.

I only went to a holiday park type campsite once, and the kids playing a huge football game at 1am drove me to the edge of sanity.

The new craze for projectors and screens, TVs in tents etc can only make it worse.

There are a lot of new campers this year too, with less understanding of camping etiquette.

I now camp in much more basic sites where you can pitch where you like and there is enough space for miles between tents. And where any form of amplified / electronic sound is banned at all times.

I believe there are quiet civilised family sites where wardens are serious about noise after a certain time (but it is probably no earlier than 10) and there is a vibe of quiet consideration.

Check out reviews. Check out the rules, don’t go for anywhere that allows big groups, single sex groups, amplified music etc.

Get the silicone type ear plugs from Boots.

Yes, but you need to choose your campsite - we go to somewhere that is a quiet site and silence after 10 is totally enforced. Not somewhere to go if you want entertainment/club house etc, and some people don't like the restrictions on music/racuous groups in the evening but I love it and you get an amazing nights sleep

Join the Camping and Caravanning Club and choose your sites very carefully - look for ones which specifically mention noise restrictions and which have wardens to enforce them if needed. Read the reviews - and if you get ones from people complaining about how quiet and boring the site is then that’s they’re the ones to pick!

Yes, but as others have said, choose your campsite wisely. Some sites advertise as quiet site with no music and noise after 10/11pm, this tends to put off partying campers. Basic sites with no ehu tend to be quiet, there are several I love staying at in the lake district that are so peaceful at night, apart from owls hooting.

Small, basic campsites, no electric hook-up, no amplified music and avoid anywhere within half a mile of a pub.

Depends where you stay. I've never found this but we dont camp at places with entertainment/pool/etc.

Ive camped at smaller places that allow you to have a fire. Usually no electric hookup so you don't get all the people with noise!

Agree with a pp, you need silicone ear plugs. Problem sorted. They will cut out all noise, and you will sleep like a baby!

I'll second The Camping and Caravanning Club sites. At the one we go to they patrol after 11pm and politely tell people to STFU. There's no bar or anything but everything is immaculately clean, there's a central children's playground and it's small enough so they can run wild. The big static site down the road has a pub and entertainment should you wish.

However, owls hooting at night, wood pigeons cooing at first light, crows fighting and cawing at any time are round the clock camping din anywhere!

You sort of acclimatise to it.

Dd stayed on a campsite in Cornwall where there was no noise after 10.30pm. one noisy group got chucked out the next morning. So they do exist!

Good earplugs. Top of my packing list.

I think its luck sometimes... you can't chose your fellow campers.

Avoid ones who allow large groups. Our worst experience was being next to an extended family who booked six adjacent plots... but their own kids at one away from the noise, and had their party with karaoke at the other end next to other peoples kids (including our toddlers).

No EHU gives quieter experiences as well.

I went and told a group to be quiet at 11.30pm last week at a campsite which had a no noise after 11pm policy (although there were no wardens). They didn’t do it again for the whole week we were there.

I think there are just a lot of new campers around at the moment who have no idea how far their voices carry across sites where thin nylon is the only barrier.

We always have EHU but often go to more basic campsites. However the worst noise was some crowd squawking at 4.45 am one weekend!! Can also depend whereabouts on site you are. By luck more than anything else when weve been on busier sites weve often been a further walk from the clubhouse or pool. One we were told about when we booked and they made it sound like a bad thing but we actually preferred it.

As an aside, I frequently use ear plugs and feel like they only cut out about 10-20% of noise and i can still hear DH snoring stuff.

Crowd = crows!!

We take a power bank (if no EHU) and a white noise box from amazon - spoils the sounds of nature which I quite like but stops most noise disturbing you. We take it for the little ones (they use them at home) but works a treat for us all.

LOL I would complain if someone played a white noise box within earshot of me at night!

But then I go to sites where no amplified sound is allowed at all, so they would be banned.

I'd be pissed off if I could hear a white noise box too. Hopefully the sound doesn't carry far.

I take it you don't use your white noise box outwith the 'no noise' hours?

White noise! No thanks 😂

Honestly, on the site we were on you wouldn’t have heard a white noise box from another tent. The screeching shouting kids would have drowned it out

Earplugs are the only way but not the little foam ones, has to be the silicone ones that mould to your ear. They block out everything.

Once in the middle of the night the husband and kids were up trying to repeg the tent in the middle of an epic thunderstorm and I slept all the way through it

I'm not keen on earplugs , I like to be able to hear my own children.