Is it time to extend the quiet period to 8 am?
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That is another good suggestion👍🏻, we need a happy drink inventing to enable tolerance & consideration😊
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As most of us enjoy our UK breaks in one form or another the subject of noise isn't a major concern. Noise disruption can happen anywhere, do your homework applies too. You will occasionally get unexpected noise on any sort of holiday.
Summer is here, going off in a van is an outdoor adventure, enjoy it.
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How careful one has to be re noise will of course depend on the ambient. Our last site (Aire) was in a town and by 7:00 the little motorbikes beloved of the young had shattered the peace.😂 A few years ago we visited the Gatwick site, you could have had your TV on full and rolled your waste master about from very early and nobody would have been any the wiser.
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When this thread started I made a bet with myself that sooner or later a post would be made that abroad sites are far better in this respect than club sites and lo and be hold I was right. It would appear that even silence is (far more) golden over there.
But in reality I've found campsites in Italy far far more nosier than in the UK and certainly much later into the night as well with people sitting outside their outfits.
As said it's all about consideration and club sites are a a haven of peace and quiet compared to those..
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I disagree with this (as covered in more detail in my post above on page 5). In my view background or ambient noise does not give people the excuse to make excessive noise. Moreover, having stayed at Gatwick three times, a site I used to really enjoy until the buses from outside were withdrawn, I can assure you that I would be very much aware of campers with their TV on full or rolling a waste master from very early.
But, in fairness, I do accept that, my tolerance of noise is perhaps different to many. Noise that no one has control over does not tend to bother me. But noise created by people who should be showing more respect and consideration drives me to distraction. I guess I am just different!!
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I dont think it's a complaint, David, but to repeat your earlier words to me "just comparing two different environments" and certainly not seeking site recommendations.
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Sorry David and a good try I admit but I have not complained in this thread or ever about Italian campsites, if you read my post carefully all I did was say say they are nosier by comparison to club sites but that was not a complaint. And really the irony of your post is amazing. Why you keep trying to bring in abroad sites at every possible opportunity is puzzling. I'll keep this oT from now on and not playing your games.
Civilised
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Can I please request that conversations about overseas sites are kept to the overseas section of the forum. We love your feedback and appreciate your comments but please make sure these are posted in the relevant area. Many thanks.
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Would it be too much to ask for the quiet period to extend on site to 8am,.
Yes, it IS too much. It’s an active holiday venue, not a geriatric retirement home.
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ambient noise does not give people the excuse to make excessive noise.
I don’t believe I said it did. However, there is no denying it does have a masking effect. I quite liked Gatwick as well, however I was hard pressed to hear our own TV, let alone one inside a caravan over 6 metres away and my hearing is very good.
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Me and the wife enjoy the brisk workout of the race to and from the filling points with the wheeled water and waste containers.
last one back makes the drinks.
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I am pondering how anyone could rationally choose Gatwick or Seaview for a peaceful holiday. I once watched a full episode of Coronation Street on a stationary train alongside Seaview I was that close to someone’s van🤣
It’s perfectly possible to have a peaceful holiday in the UK, just as it is elsewhere. The unknown factor, here and everywhere else is the simple fact that you don’t know who else will be on your site. Only a fool would think otherwise.😉
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Seaview is a lovely site, been there lots of times, hardly notice the trains. If there is a good swell the noise of the waves breaking on the beach is noisier. Now Gatwick is another story. We used it as we were visiting somewhere nearby and it was the only place with vacancies over a bank holiday. Having said that it was fascinating watching the planes take off, you could almost touch and certainly feel them.😀
I think this just underlines that folk need to be respectful, rather than have hard and fast rules. Noise is clearly different things to different people.
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We stayed at Seaview many years ago, it is a nice site, but you have to block out the trains😁 I think noisiest club site we have used was Tredegar, constant roar of traffic all the time in day, little bit quieter at night. We once left a site because of the noise, rural CL. Should have been lovely, but it was on a B road used by locals as a race track, and then by HGVs rumbling along all day. One night was enough, you couldn’t sit out it was so bad. Shame as it was, is, a very nice CL.
Noisy neighbouring outfits are different, be it TV’s, raised voices, children constantly screaming, dogs yapping. All within the realms of what can be controlled if required. But that’s how some folks live their whole lives, and they won’t see the problem. Or hear it…..
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So, what about the furious infernal din of the ever present little Orange tractors waging their relentless war on any grass that dares grow longer that 0.5cm?
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I'm reminded of the review of Shawsmead some years back, complaining about the cows on the neighbouring farm mooing too loud and too early in the morning!
Consideration for others is, of course, the byword, but in all our years of touring I don't believe we came across anyone who was deliberately noisy early (if 8am can be called early) in the morning. If anything consideration was more lacking at the other end of the day. But just bear in mind that one is sharing a relatively small outside space with many other folk who may not share one's idea of what is "early".
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Some people are unreasonably ‘sensitive’ to noise.
see ‘suggestions’ that people walk on the grass as the noise of gravel underfoot causes them great aural distress,
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"Unreasonably". That seems a bit unfair. We are what we are 🤷🏻♂️
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The question is of course who defines unreasonable and sensitive - you MTH?
Two thread up you appear to say that cutting grass could be classed as that with your furious infernal din comments? Yet I don't find grass cutting on sites either loud (furious din) or unreasonable, others might be bothered by it but I don't and easily tune it out, in any case it's isn't done till after 9am.
(btw what's with all the use of quotes?)
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What is one person's noise isn't necessarily another person's.
Like a few others I like Berwick Seaview site, the trains don't bother me at all. I like sites on the coast like Rosemarkie where I can hear the sea crashing on the shore and the shingle rolling back into the sea.
I must admit Tredegar was a whole different noise, traffic like a motorway in the distance doesn't bother me but Tredegar was just noise all day long, thankfully we won't need to go back there.
Its inconsiderate people making noise that really upsets me. Everyone who does this hobby has to except that there are times where you can't avoid making a noise, winding the canopy in can sometimes be noisy, as can knocking in pegs or winding up or down legs on a caravan.
These noises are acceptable but not when it's accompanied by shouting, there is no need to shout back and forth.
Loud TVs, music, mobile phone conversations, none of them are acceptable.
I'm not sure where certain members got the idea I don't like CAMC sites.
I do prefer CLs, and I do prefer to be where I am just now (mainly for the weather) I don't mind CAMC sites, I do mind the cost and the few inconsiderate people that frequent them but that doesn't mean I don't like the sites. I use them when and if I need to, I just don't feel the need as much as some. 😊
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Surely you don't go to club sites to sit round "all day"! Going on holiday is about seeing what's in the area, you can sit at home all day and listen to your neighbours mowing their lawns. If in fact you do go out from the site how do you know that those dreaded mowers are "racing" round "all day"?
If the Tredegar site is anywhere as bad for noise as the Durham site is it is definitely one that we shall avoid.
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Methinks he’s winding us up, Nellie. There’s quite a history of it 😄
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I think some folks do sit on Club Sites all day though Nellie, puzzling though it is to us. That’s why we get all the drivel about early arrivals, vehicles racing around, dogs crying, children barking etc… It’s not something we notice much, as we are out most of day, every day if on a Club Site.
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