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10/8/2018 at 10:12pm
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Yeah, we do Dave, but gees gedsgeep that sounds horrendous! That would honestly be the last time I went camping mate, and I genuinely feel for you for those last few days. Absolutely disgusting behaviour.
Apart from last weekend at Thruxton, or the odd Silverstone race weekend, we never camp in the UK, always France and even then out of season. Apart from very noisy Spanish one night near Biarritz, we have only positives to report.
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11/8/2018 at 12:00am
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Quote: Originally posted by CanonX on 10/8/2018
Quote: Originally posted by Hedgehugger on 10/8/2018
Sounds like the stroppy ones had a child of their own - I wonder if he was miraculously quiet and never cried when he was a baby? I very much doubt it. That was an unfortunate experience, most of all for the poor folk with the baby, but it is the exception rather than the rule. The stroppy ones should look on the bright side - they could have had an all-night snorer next to them.
They did have their own and when we said surely they have been in that situation his response was ”we would walk them up and down the campsite in a pushchair until they went back to sleep” - so wake up their whole camp site then?!
Actually I have done that camping when the kids were 4 and about 8 months, with a greoup of other friends, but on that night without their Mum, 8 month old loudly took aversion at about 1am or soemthing to a bottle of milk (moslty BF, but did have bottles soemtimes, but not now :-(
I plonked her in the buggy and walked around the camnpsite until she went to sleep.(she shut up once being pushed in the buggy, but took a while to go to sleep)
Not sayignt hey should ahve done that though, the other folsk ashould hve been more tolerant. But just like everywhere else in life you come across people lacking in tolerance
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14/8/2018 at 1:48am
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What a lot of intolerant people! If you don't want screaming babies (did you scream when you were a baby/toddler?), use adult only - as a lot of sensible people who feel that way do. It's a simple fact that babies cry when something's wrong - as someone's said it's their way of communicating - and humans are attuned to their distress. Yes, it is disruptive, but also be expected at popular times when families are on holiday. I feel sad for the OP who encountered the situation.
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14/8/2018 at 12:22pm
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Quote: Originally posted by ficklejade on 14/8/2018
What a lot of intolerant people! If you don't want screaming babies (did you scream when you were a baby/toddler?), use adult only - as a lot of sensible people who feel that way do.
ahh, the old "one solution fits all" reply
so, are those with young teenagers not sensible? they cant use an adults only site.
not really a sensible solution all of the time.
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15/8/2018 at 1:50am
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I think a campsite can be reviewed for its campers if the owner / Manager fail to implement the quite hours. Of course I don’t mean babies, or even snorers, but if you go to a site that advertises quiet hours 10.30-8 and the owners do nothing about people yelling, getting drunk, and burning stuff at all hours, then I think it’s relevant.
There are sites where they patrol at the curfew hour and are very firm with noisy folk and carry out a policy to ask people to leave.
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15/8/2018 at 9:19am
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I agree with Deborah, no matter how good the site is, if the owner/ warden does not enforce the rules, then a poor review is in order.
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15/8/2018 at 11:57am
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its not that simple though.
at what point does a friendly accommodating site become a prison camp?
extremes, i know but surely we, as campers should bear the responsibility for our behavior.
i can have my moments, but we tend to sit outside our awning in the evening having a drink. no music, no shouting. the couple opposite shut their blinds at 7pm and went to bed. the bloke a few doors down was gone when we got up and didnt come back till 10pm ish. each to their own, but we have a responsibility to each other.
the problem is...
camping became trendy.
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15/8/2018 at 12:07pm
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i was just thinking.
on the same site, earlier in the week, two cars turned up full of 20 something kids. looked like two or three couples. cars had noisy exhausts, adults had caps on backwards, all that stuff.
they pitched at the bottom of the field and pitched their two tunnel tents facing eachother, and made a communal area across the middle with wind breaks and judicious parking of the cars.
then they proceeded to erect a projection screen between the tents and set up an led projector.
everyone looked at each other and the same thoughts were crossing every ones minds.
not a peep from them. greeted people every time they walked past and drove as slowly as possible through the site.
yet the idiots with the fire were middle aged in a pickup truck and shouted all weekend, disturbing everyone. just goes to show.
we have actually just sat down this morning to plan to go back to the main site in october for half term.
but only for monday to friday.
coz the kids werent the problem.
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When I retired and started camping regularly I always went over the weekend from Friday to Sunday. I don't know why really except everybody else seemed to do that - lol. I never experienced anything as bad as that though.
