Should tents be banned or segregated?

[cgtmiles]

KIds go ferrel the last couple of weeks of the school holidays. I think it's great. I just try and go with the flow. We was all young once even back in the Victorian era.

Sorry, my kids are in their late teens now but we obviously parented them wrong as we always tried to ensure they did not disturb other people, maybe limiting their inner (or not so) child in the process. I believe they knew enough to enjoy themselves not to the detriment of others. Is this not exactly the issue being discussed here?

Although, actually my issue is not with kids camping but kids camping in tents, not all kids camping in tents, not all tents but I for one will look at sites which don’t allow or limit tents in future

 

[Lubrown]

View attachment 300805Lights back on and flashing now (for the “don’t put your dog in the tumble dryer” crowd) as despite being lite up like a Xmas tree someone still seems to trip over a guy last night rocking the van and waking us up

Edit: sorry the photo might appear a bit foggy, that’s from the fire pits

Looks good.

Having done a stint as a bridge engineer though I was put through “high speed road training” (yes, there is a day long course for this)!

One thing we were told was that the bright yellow ‘hi-viz’ jackets we wore actually attracted drivers towards us. Apparently some drivers, with the same mindset (and no doubt eyesight and IQ) of moths, see something bright and focus on it. As any motorcycle instructor will tell you you go where you look.
I found out when a Saab driver clearly appreciated my fashion choices so much he spanked my ass with his wing mirror.
Still better than getting a bottle of pee thrown at you by a trucker because your roadworks held them up (like their six mile long overtakes are fun for everyone else).

So yeah, not surprising someone has tripped over them. You’ll find these people in all walks of life - don’t let them get to you. Enjoy your camping

 

[cgtmiles]

Looks good.

Having done a stint as a bridge engineer though I was put through “high speed road training” (yes, there is a day long course for this)!

One thing we were told was that the bright yellow ‘hi-viz’ jackets we wore actually attracted drivers towards us. Apparently some drivers, with the same mindset (and no doubt eyesight and IQ) of moths, see something bright and focus on it. As any motorcycle instructor will tell you you go where you look.
I found out when a Saab driver clearly appreciated my fashion choices so much he spanked my ass with his wing mirror.
Still better than getting a bottle of pee thrown at you by a trucker because your roadworks held them up (like their six mile long overtakes are fun for everyone else).

So yeah, not surprising someone has tripped over them. You’ll find these people in all walks of life - don’t let them get to you. Enjoy your camping

I kinda hope if I hang my arse out over the guy that would help people keep there distance! I can’t try it for a few hours but a man’s gotta sleep!

 

[cgtmiles]

Oh, you don’t even want to know what we’ve seen people do to the drinking water tap in front of us

 

[DXX]

I’ll openly admit to reducing a tent to a wasteland with the occupants still in it, they were adults who should have known better and were forewarned but carried on.
Kids are kids, life is pretty grim for many of them, if they’re having fun just be glad.

 

[Stay Frosty]

@cgtmiles Are you camping in Gaza or is this a UK site and if so any clues so us elderly folk can avoid.
Off topic though, as ever but this thread has got me just a little bit excited looking to Busfest and basically all the horrors mentioned above but no tents (well not many) or fire pits, unless you're trade, and loud, no, properly loud music, none of that blue tooth player K pop demon hunters stuff from the poxy kids, just incredibly loud music that stops at bedtime well before midnight... Shakatak this year too for any other old jazz funkers.

 

[Kind of Blue]

That’s what kids do, people complain if kids sit on their Ipads all day and they complain if their running about and active……just like it was in the good old days.

Should be seen and not heard

 

[Ali-G]

Should be seen and not heard

That's what I was always told.

 

[Bargy62]

That's what I was always told.

 

[The Van Cave]

As an ex tent camper maybe I shouldn’t be saying this but I think tent campers need to be separated from normal campers. I’ve been camping in one form or another all my life, my first birthday was spent on a C&CC site, I bathed in a caravan sink as a kid but things were different then, my grandparents went to the same site each weekend camping whatever the weather with basic canvas tents and my nan cooked a roast dinner before they went home (some how). Half the campsite here maybe bought their tents on the way here and have no idea what they are doing except they know they need a fire pit and if they’ve been camping before it may have been at a festival, I wouldn’t be surprised to find half the tent left in the field
after the weekend.

The same site has a C&MHC section with 5 pitches. I don’t like it and it may be my age/grumpy general demeanour but I wish I was in the section, 4 caravans and a MH in an organised and tidy paddock, no kids playing football, no fire pits, no people walking millimetres away from people’s (my) pitches. (Kid literally tripped over my
Awning guy rope as I’m writing this)

As a campervanner and I feel I should generally align more with campers rather than caravanners but I’m beginning to think there are limits

This is one of the most ridiculous suggestions I’ve ever seen on this forum.

I’ve spent many summers on camp sites in my 44 years. Many as a kid with my parents and many more as a parent with my wife and kids, who aren’t really kids at all anymore.

We’ve had tents and touring caravans of our own and sometimes stayed in static vans too.

To suggest banning or segregating an entire group of campers simply because of their choice of accommodation is ridiculous.

Behaviour has nothing to do with the accommodation, it’s the people. I’ve seen plenty of dickheads in and around touring caravans, camper vans, motor homes and static vans over the years, and I’ve met plenty of lovely people in tents. I’ve also met plenty of dickheads in tents and nice people in all these other forms of accommodation too.

Discriminating against anyone who chooses to stay in a tent because of the poor behaviour of some is just incredible.

This is an opinion that would have been better kept to yourself.

 

[Pewt]

The irony

For Sale Thread 'Regatta Kivu 2 v2 2 man tent'

1 Jun 2025

Selling one of our tents. We have 2 for the kids when they used to come away with us but when we couldn’t be bothered to put up a big awning but as my son will never come with us again it’s time to get it sold.

Great tents, pack down small but have plenty of room inside including some porch space for wet shoes etc. Really quick and simple to put up.

Only known issue is that the inner tent zip has 2 zippers on it but only one is working. Still fully zips up but you can’t choose to have a hole at the bottom, you can’t still leave the top open for air though which I think...

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[Bargy62]

Sorry, my kids are in their late teens now but we obviously parented them wrong as we always tried to ensure they did not disturb other people, maybe limiting their inner (or not so) child in the process. I believe they knew enough to enjoy themselves not to the detriment of others. Is this not exactly the issue being discussed here?

Although, actually my issue is not with kids camping but kids camping in tents, not all kids camping in tents, not all tents but I for one will look at sites which don’t allow or limit tents in future

join the CMHC and go to CL sites that dont allow kids or should I say over 18s only and there's no tent dwellers

 

[DXX]

The ultimate outdoor residential home for the terminally intolerant.

 

[Stay Frosty]

I reckon you should be able to voice your opinion on here without it turning into a bun fight or worse still a lynching.
We had a similar situation to @cgtmiles in Bakewell a couple of years back when we got put on a grass pitch among the tented community and we toughed it out but what with kids tearing around on adult electric scooters, cars parked either side of each tent and not in the allocated carpark plus why is it that the noisy feckers don't play murder ball by their tent and use the side of your van as a goal so they don't have to keep fetching the ball?
As has been said it's people and to some extent a generational situation probably stoked by the media and click bait putting one age group against the other?

 

[Kind of Blue]

join the CMHC and go to CL sites that dont allow kids or should I say over 18s only and there's no tent dwellers

To be fair I think he was just having a time of the month grump and not really suggesting it for T6 Meets and other camp venues. Just fed up of having his guy ropes twanged by the irresponsible. I think the excessive and high pollen counts can make any one grumpy or more irritable than normal.

No pollen was hurt during this conversation. It is a pollen friendly site and I have already been punished for the sexist sterio type I am out numbered here. I know my place ,och ow

 

[The Flying Scotsman]

I find the older I get the less able I am at tolerating other people’s shit.
So I can relate to the op.
That’s why I’ve spent a fortune on making my van totally independent off grid.
I’m much happier pitched up on my own somewhere remote.
It’s also why I like fishing.
I’m much happier miles away up the glens on my own or with pals with nobody else for miles around.
Just the birdies singing and the water flowing.

 

[Kind of Blue]

I reckon you should be able to voice your opinion on here without it turning into a bun fight or worse still a lynching.
We had a similar situation to @cgtmiles in Bakewell a couple of years back when we got put on a grass pitch among the tented community and we toughed it out but what with kids tearing around on adult electric scooters, cars parked either side of each tent and not in the allocated carpark plus why is it that the noisy feckers don't play murder ball by their tent and use the side of your van as a goal so they don't have to keep fetching the ball?
As has been said it's people and to some extent a generational situation probably stoked by the media and click bait putting one age group against the other?

Absolutely just keep agreeing with me ha. I think it is people in general or parents sparing the rod and not attending to proper parental control but that is also a societal thing both parents young, needing to work to make ends meet, the easiest thing is just give in and over indulge kids with distracting toys and scooters rather than give proper time to children’s education and installing within them understanding and decency. I do not think that governments have helped with specific good such as scooters. Britain is not a very reasoned and mature country and electric scooters should never have been legalised. It was always going to be a problem just as electric bicycles have been in some places such as towns and city centres riding on the footpath. In fact riding on the footpath years ago was considered an offence. I believe that legalising new things and indulgences should be a very considered exercise and not an automatic reflex to popular demand.

 

[Sackmycook]

To suggest banning or segregating an entire group of campers simply because of their choice is ridiculous

Think you'll find alot of sites already do this to a certain extent, so not that ridiculous.

 

[Bav]

Think you'll find alot of sites already do this to a certain extent, so not that ridiculous.

Yeah, but on the basis of differing needs and expectations, rather than on the basis of poorer behaviour from those in tents.

 

[Sackmycook]

Yeah, but on the basis of differing needs and expectations, rather than on the basis of poorer behaviour from those in tents.

But the segregation is sometimes there and only the site owners know why they do it that way. Could be a variety of reasons and I don't think many would admit poor behaviour as a reason for fear of damaging their own business.