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.

People who set up an entire living room outside their tent or van, complete with TV or projector and giant screen, and a massive speaker. Or the ones who haven't explained personal space and boundaries to their children. Or the ones who don't understand boundaries and personal space themselves (including, but not limited to, setting up so close they're within touching distance). Ones with dogs who bark non-stop without any attempt at intervention.

I'm quite anti-social, really 😂

streuth apart from being fit God help you if you need the loo in a hurry! whoever planned that!

It was not......planned. It simply evolved. Farm buildings with utilities are up here, nearest fields with any degree of flatness whatsoever are either down there↘️ or up there ↗️

People with dogs.
People with screaming children.
People who cut through my pitch!
Parents shouting Oscar Oscaaarrrrr because their little butt head hasn’t come back for dinner.
People who put their guide ropes onto my pitch. Fuck off me land! 😂

Neighbours who have an ice maker in a heat wave and don’t share 😩meanies.

We do have multi coloured fairy lights. We take a fence of wind breakers to stop the cutting through people though we only camp on marked out pitches so we don’t steal land.

My mate offered to bring his guitar to our BBQ. I told him we had plenty of firewood thanks

Oh god, yes, lord save me from the bloke with the guitar that thinks he can sing..arhgg
Also people who pitch their guy ropes too near, just move the fuck over! It’s a mostly empty field!

A family once pitched up next to us, and the kids had a vuvuzela... fortunately they were early risers, so they only played it from about 5 am until they went to bed😭

Bangor boys brigade.

They turned up for a week of camping in July. Unfortunately for everyone else on the site this included the 12th.

They were loud, most seemed to have been drinking even though they were clearly underage.

I was amused though by them being told to "F off you F ing Irish bastards" by some campers.

Thankfully my camping days are DONE. We went from tiny tent, to mid tent (20s) to massive tent +DC (30s) to caravan (40s)

Now approaching 50 and I shall stay only in Mr and Mrs Smith hotels ideally!

But it's a recent one, Vaping. Most disgusting habit. I do not want mouthfuls of fucking love hearts flavoured vape or watermelon or whichever childish flavour you smoke.

It's absolutely revolting. I'd rather you smoked Marlborough lights. I like the smell of those!

I also didn't ever want to talk to fellow campers. I was away with family. Thankfully my children were never the 'make friends with random children' types so it was rare that I had to pass the time of day with anyone else.

The camping weekends we do would be everyone heres nightmare we go to motorbike rallies, so loud bands in the clubhouse till midnight, people groups talking and laughing till well into the morning hours, children running round enjoying the freedom till well late, dogs at some of them barking , virtually no sleep before 2am guaranteed, motorbikes going out early for group rides so no lie in, but they are some of the best weekends meeting like minded people talking bikes and where people are from and always friendly, and no we are not youngsters both 70ish

Just back from a weekend camping. Lovely site and great facilities. Considering it was a weekend at the end of half term, the campsite was nearly full and it was the sort with EHU and a pool, it was really quiet!

Only really annoying thing was a man who kept walking through our pitch. We were two families with two pitches so we left space between our tents for space for us. He kept doing it so we put up a wind break across the gap. Covered all but about a 1m gap and he continued to use that gap! Ridiculous!

Anyone drunk or high - and being loud/obnoxious. Oh and weed smoke. I hate it and I don’t want to smell it.

People who don’t respect personal space (and cut through the middle of your pitch). Loud music (unless I’m at a festival!).

People who don’t watch out for their kids. I’m all for letting children play and run free, but fgs make sure they’re behaving nicely, not trashing the place and staying safe (I say that as a mum of 2DC who have been on many camping trips from when they were babies).

I’m a seasoned camper (tents and bashas for decades, then upgraded to a T2 from last year! The DC have their own pup tents). Done wild camping, festivals, sailing and bike meets, all sorts of things, but when I book a more peaceful site, then I expect it not to be full of people getting pissed, high and playing loud music :)

Hmm..
The groups of families that arrive and set up around you, so kids running between your outfit and theirs becomes every 2 minutes. Usually the matriarch yelling 'PJ, fucking get here' at feral 10 yr old who has so far spat at you and thrown sticks at the dog.

Loud thumping music until early hours unless site wardens are hot on stamping it out.

Kids running through your pitch hoping Ddog will play.

The stink of weed emanating from nearby units.

Mr Socks and sandals who thinks my dog wants to make friends with his rat on a rope. No..its prey! 🙈

I love camping and caravanning but hell is other people. We go out of season and never in school holidays.