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Just got back from our first trip with the new tent.

The Good Bits:
1.The tent was great and not too bad to put up for the first time (even though i forgot the instructions.)
2.The amount of room inside the Khyam ontario 8 is excellent added to that the extra sun porch and we were really pleased with our set up.
3.The weather was fine for the 2 days but a little chilly during the night.
4.The facilities on the site were very good.

The Bad Bits.
1.Having to pitch in the centre of the field with, for my liking, too many other tents.The closest tent to us was certainly less than 3 metres away.
2.Unruly children left to there own devices.
3.The inconsiderate campers who have their music blaring or sit talking too loudly and worst of all the drunken cackling women (still going strong after 1am).

This experience is what i feared most when i finally agreed to take up camping and has certainly left me wondering if is always like this. I certainly don't like explaining to my 7 year old why people won't let her go to sleep at 1 o'clock in the morning. So please someone out there tell me that it isn't like this and there are nice quiet sites with considerate campers or i may just have wasted a lot of money.

Hi sleepyol

One of the first things my wife did when we got back was join the C & CC and i have been looking at a few sites already. All is not lost just yet

Thanks

I've just come back from Wing Lakes near Rutland Water and they have a strict quiet after 10 policy. Probably easier to enforce with the darker evenings but all I could hear after 9ish was the wind in the trees, the wildlife and the odd snore from neighboring tents. Until the rain started.... However they do have a "no groups of young people" policy

Other members of my family are currently on a site near Tewkesbury and were kept awake till 3am Friday night/Saturday morning by a hen party pitched near them. I hope they complained.....

I was going to say "Join the C&CC", I've been on several of their sites and (so far) haven't heard a pin drop after 10:15pm.  The pitches are all well-spaced apart and as they pride themselves on the quiet rule, you can ask the managers to have a little word if you think things are a bit noisy. One thing I've noticed though is that 'noise' is very wind-dependant - for 2 nights I could see their were older children at the play area but didn't hear that much (they were gone by 9:30pm) but on the last night I could hear a lot more. There were more children, but also the wind was blowing my way so the road & child noise was too.  But you can also use the CS network through the C&C Club and they have much fewer pitches - fewer people, less noise.

Stick at it!

Hi stealthdog

Please don't be put off by this experience you just need to choose you site more wisely!  Kenneggycove.co.uk this is the answer to a wonderfully idyllic holiday!  No clubhouse, no icecream van or burger van on beach and a 10.00 curfew (meaning very quiet) just the odd quiet conversation between considerate campers enjoying a bottle of wine by candlelight!  Trust me it is beautiful.

admittedly the site was only chosen because it had pitches available at short notice but going on the reviews we thought it would be better than it was (although i guess this is not the sites fault).

My idea of camping is a nice quiet field on a farm in the middle of nowhere getting back to basics. Now we have joined the C & CC i hope this is what it will be like (after a quick look at some of their Certified Sites i am hopeful)

I'm with you on this, too. I'm also new to camping and I did a lot of research looking for a quiet family campsite this summer, but our trip was spoilt by inconsiderate neighbours keeping us awake. I like the campsite atmosphere -  barbecues, people chatting, kids playing, that's nice, but I hate being woken up and listening to people who've had too much to drink.

It annoys me that campsites are advertised as quiet, with no noise after 10pm rules, but it's not enforced - even when you complain.