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So, 12.30am and occupants of the two unit tent next pitch down (male and female) start arguing.

1.00am - still arguing - now getting louder.

1.30am - now with sound effects (throwing all tent contents around tent -as well as still agruing).

2.00am - noise gone up a few decibels and now tent is ripped in half by the man. Call owners of site but no reply (although ex rugby playing partner wanted to go out there and i wouldnt let him--would YOU tackle folk you dont know in these days of knife/ weapon crime?)

2.30am - call owners again with no reply - got to stage where now they have no tent but have good fists to start throwing around (both of them!) 

3.00am - decibels still going up.....as is my temper

3.30am - called the police. Police came and to our suprise obviuosly deemed them stable at this point and let them stay in the car for the night (well, they couldn't stay in the ripped apart tent could they).

3.50am - finally peace at last - although our lovely quiet peaceful site had been disrupted so too had our sleep pattern.

They drove off around 9am leaving all their rubbish behind. Advised the owner of the problem so he was aware in case the police needed to speak to him that day. And asked why we couldn't get hold of him when we needed to. His answer was they tend to turn the bedroom phone off in the night in case they get a fax through or someone needed to ask a question. ????????

The initial problem didnt upset us as its a part of life but i did get worried the owners were not contactable  - could have been a dire emergency they needed to know about.....is this usual that owners "switch off" some level of responsibility at night?

Sorry, I am always contactable at night, I have been got out of bed by my hubby to help a camper sort out where he had been that day, and so where he might have left his new pair of glasses! After discussion managed to phone pub where he'd stopped for lunch, rang them at 10.30 at night, and yes they had them.

Last week the phone rang at 10.10, 4 of our campers had gone for a walk, and were lost. We chatted, I got an idea of where they were and went and picked them up.

We are only a small site, so can do this, you couldn't if you were a large commercial site, however I believe this gives us the personel touch.

Quote: Originally posted by keigcf on 15/7/2012

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Sorry, I am always contactable at night, I have been got out of bed by my hubby to help a camper sort out where he had been that day, and so where he might have left his new pair of glasses! After discussion managed to phone pub where he'd stopped for lunch, rang them at 10.30 at night, and yes they had them.

Last week the phone rang at 10.10, 4 of our campers had gone for a walk, and were lost. We chatted, I got an idea of where they were and went and picked them up.

We are only a small site, so can do this, you couldn't if you were a large commercial site, however I believe this gives us the personel touch.

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Excellent service keigcf  - this too was a small site but i honestly didn't know if it was a requirement of keeping a site that someone is contactable in emergencies etc having only camped 5 times before.

I have to also say that in the first instance, i only wanted to contact the site owner as i felt he wouldn't have wanted other campers to see police roaming the site that late at night. Couldve sent the wrong message to newbies there. When i spoke to the lady owner the morning after, she expressed she would've prefered the police not to have had to come for the same reason but as they werent contactable she agreed with my decision. I feel she had no choice really.

As far as I am aware there are no rules etc regarding an owner to be contactable in the night, but its common sense really to make sure someone can be contacted in the case of an emergency. Doesnt have to be the owner, but someone on site who is on hand to help out when needed.

As for the site that shuts the barrier at 8pm, thats not really on. We have a gate that is closed at 11.30pm and consider that early enough - if people have been out all day they dont want to be restricted to having to be back as early as 8pm.

Sounds really awful and I can relate:

We went to a site in Cornwall a couple of years ago.  A couple in a tent next to us caused quite a disturbance (loud rave music till 2am) and had a very heated loud arguement which was very scary for us next door as the male seemed to get quite aggressive - site had no warden and we had no idea where the owner was or lived as when we checked in nothing was given to us and we saw nobody in charge for the duration of our stay.

We left the site the following morning, as there was no person to speak to I did email the site on our arrival home to express that they seemed like "trouble" just purely out of courtesy really to let the campsite know and also to advise them that the couple were going into the private bathroom together !!  and I never even got a reply.    We haven't been back there since!