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Quote: Originally posted by Karen13 on 07/6/2007

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I don't object to people coming home late and taking 15 minutes or so to get to bed, especially if they're considerate people and at least trying to keep it down - not shouting "G'night John Boy!" as they go.  What I do object to is people being inconsiderately loud on site for hours, when you have no idea when its going to end.

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Aah you've caught me Lidd - I'm a child of the Waltons' era

I'll just have to try Frankie's suggestion - any excuse.

We went away for our first trip last weekend, at a C&CC site.  A group turned up at about 7PM and pitched next to us and cooked a meal with a disposable barbeque, watched Big Brother (loudly!!) until 1030 and then were quiet for a bit.  The silence was broken at about 1130 with lots of car door banging and then the car driving off at midnight.  Fortunately that was the last we saw of the noise was them packing up and going home :)

So much for the 'no vehicle movements between 1100 and 0700' rule...

Oh Scooby, that's not funny.  I would've been livid.  I'd either have had to rant at the owners (I'm a little misguided when I'm ticked off) or rant at the inconsiderate gits next door.

I was still umming and arring about going down the van for August Bank Holiday, but this thread popping up again makes me very dubious.  OH says No, but I don't want the kids to miss out (one of the other kids on the site has a birthday party every year on the Saturday).  I just know its a bad idea though.

My husband has threated this year if we get people/family from hell camping next to us, all our camping gear is going on ebay!!!!!!!!!!!!

I,m so worried now he never has enjoyed camping as much as me

kirsty

I was at a small CC site beginning of May, in a tent. In total there were about 30 pitches, no overnight warden.

A group I had mentally earmarked as likely to be troublesome (a couple of families, several cars, kids and dogs) were all tucked up quietly by 11.30pm.

Next to me were two middle aged couples in a caravan and awning. At 11pm they were socially chatting, but as the time wore on (and presumably the levels in the bottles went down) the voices got louder and louder. They were still sociably chatting, but I think there's a rule of nature which says the more you drink the louder your voice becomes! This continued until 1am when car doors started slamming (I think they were car doors, but there were so many of them I think it was actually an old fashioned charabanc parked next to me) and for a while there was so much "activity" noise I thought someone had come on site and was starting to pitch a tent - I poked my head out, but sure enough no tent just the foursome next door.

Being on my own I didn't have the courage to challenge them, but it just goes to show that it isn't necessarily the people who you think are going to be a problem that actually are. Or, putting another way, another lesson in don't judge by appearances.

Stayed on a large, family filled site last weekend and all quiet by 11pm. So the type of site isn't necessarily a guarantee of a peaceful night either.