I do honestly think that its all about being as considerate as you can. Children playing/chattering etc will never bother me, nor will groups of people sat out at night chatting and having a laugh (to me, thats what camping is all about!). However, I do think some people forget that tent walls are not soundproof!!
We have only had to ask a group to be quiet once, when our kids were a lot smaller and I was petrified one of them was going to wake up and make more noise than the offending group!!
Quote: Originally posted by Freebird on 05/8/2008
Huh! Ross Kemp? Why, my wife looks like the hulk ánd she wears armyboots ánd chews gum!
Seriously folks, let's not try and outdo eachother with heftier tales of repressing disturbances. I've been camping since I was breastfed and heve never had to resort to violence once. I'm a bulk of a man and work in security where I've learned that my brain and my mouth are my most effective tools.
Confronting people is never nice for anyones blood pressure but will provoke an upwards spiral of aggression whether verbal of physical. If you have to fight for your right, you've missed out on a chance of resolving things the adult and reasonable way. Only the warden or other form of site representative can determain whether a camper should leave. Throwing weight and bulkyness around has never impressed me so why should it impress a so called anti-social or chav.
Taking care of the problem that way will only provoke retaliation. Why not try and make it a win-win situation where the perp keeps his "face" (in more than one way) and you keep your dignity and the peace and quiet you went out camping for in the first place...
Yes, very witty, thank the Lord for the gift of laughter.
The point I'm trying to make is that if you've got a less than considerate neighbour, have a word with them yourself. Quite often they are unaware of the problem and most will offer embarrased apologies, if however the opposite arises then get the "authorities" involved.
Tutting in a tent at the behavouir of noisey neighbours won't do any good, you have to do something to resolve the situation, when all other avenues have failed then perhaps with a consensus of the other people affected by the situation you can affect a change.
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We've just returned from 4 nights at the Vale of Pickering camp site. Highly recommended by the reviews on this site. No problem with the facilities and the rally field was fine. Pitches well marked out and plenty of space. However, for three of the four evenings and nights we were bombarded with car stereos, foul language and general 'couldn't care less' behaviour. It has really put us off, it was only our second time camping.
What really annoys is that this site has rules but seemed to make no effort to enforce them. I heard the warden talking to a guy who had pitched his tent on the wrong side of the marker. His response was 'Well it gives me more room in front of the tent!' and the warden just walked off and left hime too it. Pity the poor sods in the tent behind who had pitched properly. Never saw the warden in the evening.
I was determined not to let it spoil our break but it is easy to get wound up by it.
I think we're going to look at C&CC sites next as well.
Quote: Originally posted by AngelicMinx on 04/8/2008
Quote: Originally posted by Bri and Fiona on 03/8/2008
Fitted extra spot lamps on my jeep for when that happens to me.
Get woken up at 2-5am
Get in car.
Switch car on
Move car to point at noisey tent (once they are nicely asleep)
Switch on High beam and sit back smoking a cigarette whilst listening to your favourite radio station (but not too loud as to wake other nice campers).
Laugh your tits of when noisey tent unzip and look like theyve just landed on the sun wondering whats happening.
When they approach to enquire whats happening, tell them the batteries are flat on your torch and the wife is in labour.
I'm wondering if this happens to me this year if I should perhaps swing my car round facing their tent, sit with the engine running and lights on full beam.. reading a book.. when they ask what I am doing, say WE CANNOT SLEEP BECAUSE OF YOUR NOISE so I'm just reading in here to keep warm
Another point about the C&CC - some people werent happy about the amount of kids playing in the park at Barnard Castle last weekend. They were in a minority however, as children playing is not classed as Anti-social behavour in most peoples book except the fuddy duddys who forgot they were children. Which if you think about it IS Anti-Social behaviour. If you cant mix without needing to complain about things that are socially acceptable. i.e. Children playing on swings and slides at ANY time of the day BEFORE the curfew - stay at home. Camping is not for you!! In fact I would be hard pressed to think of a holiday that would suit this kind of person.
As one of those fuddy-duddies, I generally avoid sites with play facilities (unless I can book a pitch a long way away from them) and would advise other fuddy-duddies to do likewise. If you go to a site that specifically caters for children, it seems bit ludicrous to then complain about them playing in the prescribed area.
Kids makng a racket playing round my tent is a different proposition however - I go away to get away form the racket of kids playing football outside my front windows, I certainly don't want it outside my tent!
It's a shame there aren't more adult only sites imo, but I daresay there isn't a lot of call for them.
Their argument culminated in him pulling down their tent and retiring to sleep in his car where he set the alarm off every 10 minutes or so. Every time she drew breath to start on another torrent of bad-language, she woke up the small child who was also in their tent who proceded to scream loudly until the shouting stopped.
Thank heavens we weren't there - my dogs HATE shouting and bark at people having loud arguments, so they'd have added to the racket!
I seem to be in minority here but I find the best thing to do is move on.
That's not really a viable solution at midnight though when you discover that the folks a couple of pitches down who looked normal'ish have turned into morons instead of pumpkins!
It might help you the next day but not when the noise is happening.
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Topic: Uncouth Campers Pt.2
