Inconsiderate early morning leavers
We have had complaints about inconsiderate dog owners and parents/guardians and their off-spring.
This morning I had the pleasure of the early morning departee who started packing up at 06.30 with much banging of both caravan and car doors😡
They were most taken aback when I asked them to show some consideration for those of us trying to have a lie in and to can the racket till after 08.00. To rub salt in to the wounds they didn't actually leave until just before 09.00😤
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It is like with everything else, there will always be the few. ☹️ Most early leavers are very considerate, and do as we do, ( on the now very rare occasions we leave early) and do everything to minimise noise. Often the first indication anyone has left is when you raise the blinds.
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Interesting subject. I am an "early leaver" in that I usually like to be on the road by 8am on departure day, but having a M/H there is no door slamming I can fully close the hab door with a light press. The first thing anyone would hear when I leave is a bit of gravel crunching when I recover the "umbilical cord" (
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I try to be as absolutely quiet as possible, but often wonder what is considered generally acceptable...?
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It happens....early ferries...long day ahead....habitual early risers....many reasons?
Someone needs to start a thread about the CC introducing a curfew to stop all these inconsiderate people from disturbing the sacred few who do no wrong........enough said!
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Have you ever noticed, despite there being no rain, some people when packing their car insist on opening the door and/or boot or tailgate then closing it again for every little piece of luggage they load.
Watch when you see someone packing up, it's really odd behaviour. Door opened, small item loaded, door slammed closed, door opened another item loaded, door closed and so on.
Leave the door open heavens sake
Agree with the OP though, when packing early on departure day, try to be as quiet as possible
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That door thing is funny - I have found myself doing it (not at unsocial hours though). I am now working on the habit - but it seems just when I think I have finished packing I find something else that needs to go in that door! It's a bit the same when unpacking. I think we are so conditioned to close car doors - but not at the expense of the peace on site!
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For some reason it is the 'sliding doors' (usually on campervans) that really annoy me.
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When we are leaving early I always try to do as much the night before departure, no noisy waste master from us. Everything ready then start car, hitch up and away. Final check outside gate, minimum of fuss, on our way.
PS If you are a neighbor who parties all night.....guess what, all the above goes out the widow
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All the CMC need to do is to introduce a "Quiet time" policy across their sites network. --- No noise between certain hours. A suggestion would be Between 23.00 hrs and 07.00 hrs.
If anybody needs to leave earlier than that, say for a ferry, they could quite easily use the LNA .
K
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The other club have that policy, no traffic movements between 11pm and 7am. If there are exit barriers, they won't raise before 7am, disabled by a timer during the 'quiet' time. Doesn't stop the doors banging from 6am though
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With people leaving sites so early it sounds as though new arrivals could be allowed in to the vacant pitches well before midday.
Has that ever been suggested?
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Laying in bed util 8am is disgustingly lazy.
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No I haven't. How do wardens discourage people when we're able to select our own pitches?
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As a Campervan owner I try to close the sliding door quietly at all times!!
what really annoys me is the early leaving caravanners that use drills to retract the legs. Why must they? Oh and then there is the hitch up pantomime of "jeany" shouting to "jimmy" - back a bit, left a bit - too far try again!!!
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Err, no.
Good try, JV, but it takes more than that to fabricate an argument.
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Oh, yes it does!
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I though arguments were automatically induced on CT when the third post was made on a thread.
And what about all those early rising birds that disturb the lieerins?
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It doesn't matter what type of camping equipment you have because it is irrelevant to the point of the thread. There is no excuse for disturbing neighbours before 7.0 am. Rule or no rule!
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So the frying of bacon at 6:30am is hereby banned . . . . ?
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