we had the same, tended to be peoples first nights/days, after that they seemed to calm down.
we did have a family who decided to play cricket, they were wacking the ball everywhere and i mean 100ft in all directions, they hit caravans, infact one of their balls landed inside one of the caravans, best part is in less than a minutes walk there was a huge field they could have played,.
we also had people next to us making noises until 2.45am, the next morning was quiet funny as people were driving past their tent beeping the horn and shouting.
TBH i can tolerate noise until say midnight, but the earlky hours is a no no.
Just a small point but an important one IMO. We often go camping with another family with 3 children under 10 who are all autistic in varying degrees. One of the children in particular has a problem with understanding what is considered excessive volume and it wouldn't be much of a holiday for her if she was constantly being punished for being loud.
We do try and pitch in a quiet area but obviously this isnt always possible and we do try to make sure any disturbance caused isnt excessive. I absolutely agree drunken parents and unruly children does not make for an enjoyable break but I would ask you to consider there may be other reasons behind noisy kids. Drunken parents with no consideration on the other hand, theres no excuse.
I can cope with noisy children through the day but the one thing that really winds us up is that as we a dog and friends we go with have one as well we try to pitch away from children if possible so why why do they have to try to make the dogs bark by running past them and shouting at them we usually ask them politely not to do it but sometimes it doesn't stop them and we have to say it a bit stronger!!!One time we had to ask the parents to have a word with their offspring.All i want is a bit of give and take we will keep the dogs under control if you will do the same with your children!!!
I have a toddler and 6 year old and know that children do make noise and aren't always easy to calm down straight away. However that level of noise sounds far too much, too late. The parents should've been trying to get them to calm down.
I don't mind the sound of the odd baby at night, the odd toddler having a tantrum, children having fun or siblings arguing. However once it gets to that sort of time there should be some effort to get them to settle. We've recently returned from a camping trip where we were at one end of a field and our group were happy to have the kids running about until 10pm, then it was time to be quiet. Caught my 6 year old playing bit further down the field being noisy outside a tend where I knew there was a baby and toddler. Least once I noticed he was shouted at to move his arse very quickly back to our tent and wasn't allowed back down there,
Thank god someone else has complained about noisy kids!! We got back from Newquay a couple of weeks ago and had noisy neighbours but didn't want to put a post up in here in case and parents told me off!!!!
When we pitched up, there were 2 tents opposite us and it was obvious it was 2 brothers, their wives and kids holidaying together.
They were quiet in the evenings but at the crack of bloody dawn did we have to hear the kids messing about and even had them playing football with the ball hitting up against our tent on several occasions.
The things that really annoys me is this - We are asked to keep quiet at night to be considerate to our neighbours wanting to sleep and their children. Why is the same consideration not extended to early morning? We were with my Brother-in-law and his friend who are 19. They'd go out in to town and not get back til 4am and then they had the kids in the next tent making a racket from anything from 6.30am onwards. How is it that they can come back to the site at 4am and a little worse for wear and not disturb anyone yet parents can't keep their kids quiet until a reasonable hour.
We love this particular campsite and don't want to stop going there. I think next year we'll ask to have pitches at the far end of the site away from everyone else and we'll look like right anti-social misery guts!!
6.30 is too early for children to be up and making a noise I agree. However, I think if I'd been out till 4am any time before midday would be too early Claire
If one of them had their way, I think he'd have happily stayed in bed until midday but my brother-in-law still gets up at a reasonable time when he's been out on the razz, that's youth for you, they can hack the pace!!!
Quote: Originally posted by Littlebug on 20/8/2007
I don't mind the sound of the odd baby at night, the odd toddler having a tantrum, children having fun or siblings arguing.
We don't mind that sort of thing either. On Friday night the noise, shrieking etc was constant from late evening until well after 1:30am.
Everybody accepts that occasionally there will be an early morning scream as a child awakens, or a baby crying or an argument between friends/siblings. If it wakes me up, I go back to sleep again...but when the noise is constant, it is a different kettle of red herrings...
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I've had the same thing in the past. We all know that a campsite isn't going to be silent at night, after all you're out in the nature, but people talking loud all night long is wrong. We had it once on Jersey and it was actually the park staff in customer tents getting rowdy, we didn't get offered a penny.
We've just got back from a weekends camping in Dorset where there was a rather noisy family next to us, but the most annoying thing was that at about 12:30am, one of the adults decided not to bother walking across the muddy field to the toilet block but started up his diesel 4x4, put his lights on full beam, did a three point turn to make sure he'd illuminated everyone's tent and drove off to the toilets making a hell of a noise.
5 minutes later as we were just getting back to sleep, back he came, revving the engine as hard as it would go to get up the muddy slope.
As you can imagine, we were not best pleased.
Anyway, on a completely different topic, having convinced the OH that we could stay long enough this morning to have a cooked breakfast before we left, we ended up packing the tent away in the pouring rain. If we hadn't had the breakfast we'd have been gone before the rain came ... the OH didn't exactly say 'Told you so' but you could tell she was thinking it ... lol!
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Topic: Noisy children?
Claire
