New forest camping

[Panter]

11pm? Really ? That's the most anul thing I have ever heard of. When we camped at homsley there were okish

It's standard practise on caravan & camping club sites.
There's nothing more annoying than trying to get to sleep with people nearby making a load of noise, especially if you're trying to get kids off to sleep! Caravans aren't very soundproof, and in a tent you stand no chance.


Anyway, good luck with your search, the one that Vernon above has kindly linked too looks to be good for your purpose (i.e, one we'd avoid like the plague )

 

[andym]

Yep an 11pm to 7am silence rule is standard practice wherever I've been: that includes the UK, France, Spain and Italy. (Although sometimes the campsite's own disco seems to be mysteriously exempt from the rules).

I'm not saying it's right or wrong. But something to bear in mind if by 'beer music and laughter' you mean something livelier than a few choruses of Kum-By-Yah around the campfire (although finding a site that allows campfires is also not easy).

 

[vernon]

Yep an 11pm to 7am silence rule is standard practice wherever I've been: that includes the UK, France, Spain and Italy. (Although sometimes the campsite's own disco seems to be mysteriously exempt from the rules).

I'm not saying it's right or wrong. But something to bear in mind if by 'beer music and laughter' you mean something livelier than a few choruses of Kum-By-Yah around the campfire (although finding a site that allows campfires is also not easy).

Camp sites allowing camp fires can be found here

 

[rugbyluke]

That's all very well and I thank you but, that doesn't help me if we can't get drunk and have a giggle. Is that so much to ask for?

 

[vernon]

That's all very well and I thank you but, that doesn't help me if we can't get drunk and have a giggle. Is that so much to ask for?

Yes.

If you want to be rowdy and get drunk why not go to a festival?

 

[rugbyluke]

Not a massive music fan thanks. We are not looking to turn the campsite upside down. Just somewhere we can sit together staring into a warm fire. Sharing story's and laughing at each other. The music thing is more for during the day. We all rugby players so of course alot laughter.

 

[vernon]

Try a rugby pitch then.

Try?

Geddit?

I'll get me coat.

 

[vernon]

The thing is Luke, you are very much in the minority when it comes to camp sites.

Most folk want peace and quiet and camp site owners have twigged that they gain customers by turning away single sex groups who, by past experience, have been noisy antisocial and have caused the quieter campers to leave early and seek refunds.

There used to be lots of rowdy camp sites - I know because I used to be a rowdy camper in my youth

Unfortunately for you, many of them have become more respectable to appeal to silent majority. Worse still, some have become caravan only.

I found you a noisy site and a list of sites that allow camp fires. Surely it's not beyond your ability to spend some time with a search engine to find some sites on your own?

 

[rugbyluke]

I have searched but there seems to be campsites only in Cornwall. A bit far to cycle from portsmouth for a weekend. Guess we will just have camp as far away from everyone as possible

 

[jay clock]

Guess we will just have camp as far away from everyone as possible

mmmm sound carries very very very easily across a campsite. Let me know exactly where you are and on what date, and I will be there getting up at 7am and making masses of noise.

Seriously, go somewhere indoors.

 

[Dave Davenport]

Don't know why anyone's bothering to reply to this jokers posts.

 

[Dayvo]

Don't know why anyone's bothering to reply to this jokers posts.

+1

 

[rugbyluke]

Well you posted on here, I'm only trying to keep the peace and try not upset anyone on a campsite. You can get up at 7am if you we will all be up making breakfast and preparing for a good days ride

 

[hubbike]

here's an idea. ask a farmer. explain what you want and he might be up for it in exchange for a few hours hard graft from a bunch of rugby players and a few cans of beer. pick somewhere miles from anyone.

he almost certainly won't let you start a fire, but he might let you look at a pile of smouldering manure.

 

[rugbyluke]

Mmmmmmmmm a nice warm fresh one would be great