Which fellow campers make your heart sink?

[Tabarnak]

You’ve worked out the perfect spot, set up, and are just settling down with a cold drink when THAT fellow camper comes and sets up next you.

Which fellow campers make your heart sink?

(in the spirit of today’s threads about other people being anti social or just not what you want on beaches , in restaurants etc etc)
(on the whole I find camping folk lovely)

Me: An enthusiastic parent producing a bubble machine / bubble wands / vats of bubble detergent that will burst all over my canvas tent wrecking the whatchamacallit properties of the cotton canvas and destroy the waterproofing.

Not a camper in the slightest but i would detest anyone setting up too close to me. The most annoying would be the one that is too loud and narrates everything. Loudly. I don’t mind a hello and maybe a chat but I don’t want to hear you

Pitch up, put on loud music, especially if on a quiet more ‘in nature’ type of site.

Long time since I've been camping, but my vote goes to anyone who rocks up with 5 adolescents obsessed with playing ball games.

Oh, and the tiny but viciously snarling fluffy little yappy dog.

Anyone with a dog.

The ones with fairy lights, ABBA Greatest Hits on repeat, and numerous boxes of wine. (The fairy lights are fine with me; the rest less so).

The ones who swear profusely and loudly, bring out the crate of beers and then play loud trance music late into the night. If anyone dares tell them to quiet down because children are trying to sleep, they turn the music up louder due to their neighbouring campers' audacity.

The ones who's Tesco delivery turn up and it's just alcohol. Happened in St Ives to us. Sadly it rained every evening!

One end of the scale... the canvas yurt&bunting, showy parenting sort. Showing "benign neglect" as their kids run all over the place late into the evening then allowing them outside at 6am for more loud "wholesome" activities

And at the other... projectors, tvs, amplified music, kareoke machines etc.

Haha - yes to all these, though I am a fairy light offender, only one string of warm white up the front guys and across the door.

Not a massive flashing neon pole that I gather are popular.

I do not book sites that allow any amplified or electronic music, or dogs, and now that our own Dc are grown I am thinking of trying adult-only sites.

A few years agi we invrsted in a battery and solar panel set up and go for basic campsites instead of EHU. Greatly reduces the number of idiot campers.

Feral children with the parents not giving a toss mainly because they are busy getting pissed.
ball games very near your tent, making it uncomfy to sit out
people who don't talk but shout and do not seem to have no volume control
kids who use the showers and toilets as playgrounds running about like idiots

Anything involving a groundsheet is a no.
Went camping as a child. Dreadful.

The ones who turn up with a giant Bedouin style tent complete with a generator and a Tv.

Electric hook up, generator, anyone under about 14 years old, large tent that fills their plot and spills into mine (we have a hiking tent and motorcycle, we should be charged half!!!) I avoid all these issues by mostly camping at bike rallies which are more fun anyway, hardly any kids and generally a good rock band on Saturday night

The ones with yappy dogs and uncontrolled dogs. Once we were setting up on site, motorhome arrived several pitches away, dog ran out as soon as they opened the door, homed in on our pitch and took a great steaming dump on the grass by our camper. The owners grudgingly cleared it up after we objected but were not even very apologetic.

The ones that sit in their caravan with the tv on so loud you can hear it across the site.

Fairy lights, can't stand 'em, no particular reason!

🙄🙄🙄

Any playing of music. That includes both speakers and an actual guitar being played although obviously the former is far worse.

open field mountains of space ,pick your spot and someone parks right next to me. Well joke was on them i was being polite i had a boistress young child ,i was trying to give other campers some peace hahaha

Multi-family groups who think their children's screechy football/cricket/croquet/whatever game is not annoying everyone else on the site.

Ok, anyone with a dog who doesn't follow the site rules and keep it on a lead.

Anyone with very noisy or badly behaved children. I’ve done my time with kids and I need some peace now please!

A couple of years ago we were stuck next to a couple with both a huge dog that barked and strained at its leash every time anyone moved, as well as a football-mad 5 year old who kept hitting our tent with his football. The parents got drunk every night and had very loud arguments. That’s the only time we’ve been unlucky though - always had good camping neighbours otherwise.

The one where we pitched up in an empty field … walked to the pub for dinner. Came back to find another tent so close that their guy ropes were crossing ours! The field was still empty.

We spent the rest of the evening playing loud card games with lots of music … they were gone the next day. Dicks.

The guy with a guitar that things he’s Ed Sheeran and subjects everyone to awful music in the evenings