I have seen some nasty ppl who are over sensitive too, who expect an almost silent campsite and do not like to be disturbed. Ppl like that should go to adult only site rather than complain about children. I can understand some circumstances. But I once saw a women complain because she was woken by a child who shouted that they needed the toilet in the night! she said it was only once but once too many!! The child turned out to be 4 years old and was across from my friends, she was a very well behaved little girl who was told to ssshhhush for the rest of her trip. Poor little tike couldnt help it if she was half asleep!
I absolutely agree with everything that's been said here. The quieter and more basic the site, the less you're likely to have nuisance neighbours, although on the very basic sites you can occasionally have campfire singing into the night!
By the law of averages, the more the units on any site, the more likely you are to be bothered by noise, so do your homework, check the reviews and go for sites that seem laid back and have fewer units. Also consider that on some more isolated sites you won't need playgrounds and entertainment for the kids, as you can take them round the wild bits where you're camping and give them a wonderful adventure/exploring holiday.
Remember that at any time there will probably be only one or two threads here complaining of noise or nuisance on campsites, when these boards are used by thousands of people who go camping week in, week out, year on year and don't have any problems to post. Also bear in mine that someone might be bothered by behaviour of other campers which you might not find at all bothersome. We all have different standards and thresholds.
We are very careful in the choice of sites we go to. One such place was exactly as described, lovely remote location, adequate facilities, views you can only dream of.
To top it all, the neighbours were perfectly behaved and there was no noise from the few caravans and tents.
But we were rudely woken each morning at 5am by the ear splitting bawling of a 2 tonne bull. The big lad had a routine of strolling along in the adjacent field (about 3 feet from our heads) giving it the full beans, I'd guess about 130dba. Seems he wanted to get to his girls (Farmers words)
The moral of the story............? There's no way you can be sure of total P&Q, just enjoy the experience and look forward to the next one.
Hah - a bull? Oh dear.. reminds me of when I camped near Glastonbury, over the hedge from two ancient oaks, Gog and Magog. Should have thought... dead wood = woodpecker, but no. Was woken verrry early each morning by the tommy-gun effect of the woodpecker drumming. Yeesh... apart from that, lovely site, very quiet! Sites that have a 'no noise after 11pm' rule and enforce it are my favourites.
2.30 am on saturday last weekend we had some load mouths arguing , when the woman said where,s the hammer , i thought i,l stay in bed and leave them to it ,[glyn]
Having only camped 3 times so far I have not really ome across this problem yet and hopefully will not do so. Blossom park and some rowdy groups but were in a corner away from most so didn't really bother us. both other sites I stayed on you could hear a pin drop by 10.
However reading some posts on here I would say it seems to be a growing problem as people just can't afford Ibiza for a holiday so choose to camp in large groups instead which seems to lead to the noise problem.
Having said that the group who were at my last site were out sat by the fire til 23:00- 23:30 but were very quiet about it. As were we. My children have been told since day 1 no playing ball games by tents and 10pm is quiet time. Look for sites with a noise curfew, Doward Park is one I stayed on but there are plenty of others too. Also some sites do not allow groups of more than 3 pitches which can also help.
------------- March Townsend Farm
July Brokerswood Country Park
One thing though, noise travels at night and sounds a lot louder than it would during the day -- I've found that groups of people sitting outside their tent and having a quiet chat a few doors down can still stop me from getting to sleep, even though they are being really quiet. I always wear earplugs now, because the slightest noise stops me from dropping off. http://www.snorestore.co.uk/ are brilliant. They also help block out those barking dogs/mooing cows that start up early in the morning
We've just come back from our Bank Holiday break in North Wales and wonder whether the timing is the problem and Bank Holidays bring out more instances of less desirable behaviour? On Saturday and Sunday night I began to feel like General Custer, surrounded by kids running round the tents after dark as one dad passed torches out to his brood and told them to go play hide and seek! I didn't want to be "that grumpy woman" but it did make me a bit twitchy having kids running round the tents in spite of neon guy ropes. We could hear one group of adults having bit of a get together until quite late both nights, I don't think they realised how sound carries at night. One woman came onto our pitch early one morning (we were still abed at 7 am) to have a loud natter with her friend in the next field (tin tenting) so was standing right next to our sleeping area - I know they were heading for Harlech but were hoping their youngest boy wouldn't be travel sick again - nice. Others used the space at the back of the tent as a cut through along the fence, but it didn't make the walk to the loos any shorter and they had to step over our ehu cable. I thought it was a widely understood unwritten rule that you don't go onto someone elses pitch, am I wrong?
On the Monday loads of folk went home and as we were staying one more night I was looking forward to a quieter night, then my heart sank as a large family group with about 6 kids and 6 adults complete with two large labradors pitched up next door. I resigned myself to another noisy night - how wrong could I be? What a lovely family, it was a pleasure to watch 3 generations playing cricket in the field, happily barbecuing in the evening and by 10.30 pm all was quiet, kids in bed while the adults had an hour or so sat outside, chatting very quietly.
I know I sound like Mrs Meldrew - I do know kids usually mean noise, I had 2 myself, but I would never have allowed mine to run round others tents, whooping and yelling, much less at night. Nor do I pitch my tent up against a family with a small child, wait until they put it to bed then stick my radio on at full blare. I hope I'm a considerate camper and would hate to think I've disturbed someone else. This was a smallish campsite, no clubhouse, no pub nearby so I can only assume the Bank Holiday brings out the "occasional" campers who forget there is only a flimsy bit of material between them and their neighbours.
We've been camping 20 years now and have had no major problems we normally stay on c&cc sites or small / large sites with no club or pool and on the majority of them by 9pm most people are off to the toilet block PJ'S on and toothbrush in hand! I'm an early bird so any noise after 6am doesn't really bother me, though been woken more by sheep and army firing ranges than people. At the back of my tent i tend to put the washing line this then block those trying to run around, but a loud reminder to my boys not to go on other pitches normally suffices as a warning to those children that do!
------------- Taffy
2012 Planned
Easter - Cornwall
July scout camp
August North Wales
It takes all sorts. theres nowt as queer as folk. life is a minestrone.
Three ways of saying the same thing, this world is full of different people, basically you could take a hundred trips and never have to put up with any of the nightmares mentioned anywhere on this site, or you could go away for the first time and meet the family from hell.
Your question should have been " if we go away and have a dreadful time with the animals next door should we risk a second or even third trip and put the bad one down to experience"
The answer is a resounding yes for every bad trip you will have many more that you look back on with nothing but fond memories and pretty soon the bad ones will only be like that dream you had about being chased by a vicious five headed dog all the way up deansgate till you managed to get into boosey and hawkes and grab a trombone to beat him off with .. ooops sorry that was my bad dream but im sure you get what i mean.
Quote: Originally posted by JdDerek on 24/8/2011
Interestingly I have just read the thread “Thinking of giving up camping altogether! “
Where a lot of this is also being discussed
The conclusion from this is to avoid the sites that offer Pub/Bars as this attracts the kind of campers that I would be trying to avoid
Thank you all for your comments I do feel a little easier about the subject now
I'm still not 100% but hopefully that will come with time ? ?
Honestly, you'll be fine. There are some lovely sites around this neck of the woods. Definitely avoid the "camping parks" with static homes and bars and kids clubs if you want peace and quiet. We stay away from those places altogether and have never had trouble. I think the worst we experienced was a couple of young families opposite us who were talking in cockney accents - terrible it was .
Look at sites like Graffham (kind of Chichester direction) and lots of the smaller sites in that area, and also over in Kent.
I've been camping since I was a little girl and I think i've only ever had one bad experience and that was on the camping and caravan club site at scarborough last year where we were pitched by a toilet block and close to the childrens play area. I had 3 young children and we kept being woken up a by a group of girls hanging around in a wooden gazebo behind a tent - this went on till 11pm at night.
I think a lot of it is down to the timing. go camping in the height of august and the sites will be busy and noisy. It's also worth finding out how stict campsite owners are about keeping curfews and if they live on site and therefore have the ability to monitor things.
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