Noisier motorhomers?

[violet]

We are just back from a fairly long trip into Europe and were dismayed at the beginning to have noisy neighbours late at night at our first two stops. We began to think they might be new to motorhoming and not realise how sound can travel. However we only had three more noisy neighbours for the rest of the trip so mostly it was quiet and considerate.
The worst was on a France Passion site where the farmer had directed us, and another bigger van, into his garden so we could park under trees and get shade from the endless heat. The couple in the bigger van then proceeded to make a lot of loud mobile phone calls with their phones on speakerphone so we could hear not only what they were shouting but what the people they were phoning were shouting! The second worse was on another quite isolated France Passion site where a smallish van arrived with two toddlers. The toddlers screamed and cried and the parents screamed and shrieked. Small children might be excused ... but adults?
Our last afternoon though we were the ones making undue noise. We decided to charge the bikes up so took the cover off the rack to see a very well dressed, well fed, and well groomed man holding a mobile phone and wearing a top which said (in French) 'Work is a professional malady', unfold himself from between the two bikes and stagger off. I think he thought he had made it to the UK. We got such a shock!

 

[AndyPK]

Not as much of a shock as him, I’ll wager…..!

 

[CamperJack]

All the time I spent living in my van in Yorkshire I was only joined by another van once. He was so quite I didn't even notice him until morning. And I thought Europe was better / easier than the UK...

 

[PaulOH]

I think we have to put up with a level of noise and you get used to it - even if it is a bit jarring. The noise of MH movement in an MH carpark the morning - particularly through an open bed area window - can be a bit of bugle-style wake up call - I'm always amazed how early some people get up and go to bed - it literally is with the chickens!

I remember going to bed with the kids at midnight after a wild night out at the funfair during the Blanes (Catalunya) Firework Festival (pre-pandemic) and on the one hand, the kids were wired to the moon, and on the other, our self-built neighbour was playing Boney-M with others he'd met at the municipal pitch we were all parked on. At about 1am, as they noisily left, his friends urged him to turn the music down and 15 minutes later he did and it was very acceptable.

I thought momentarily about saying something, but it's cultural and he didn't continue for an unreasonable length of time, so I decided there was nothing to be said. There was also no sound from his MH as my kids kicked off at 9am.

I have heard about people caught in post-nightclub gatherings where people come after closing time for what they call a 'bottellon' here - basically drinking carry-out in a carpark, that can involve people doing donuts in cars and lots of music and shouting, but choose your wild camp spot carefully and that won't happen!

 

[Feltwell]

then proceeded to make a lot of loud mobile phone calls with their phones on speakerphone so we could hear not only what they were shouting but what the people they were phoning were shouting!

I have no idea why but it does seem to be fast becoming the norm that people walk down the street with their phone in front of them on the speaker - even if they're walking on their own - rather than having it to their ear. So the world gets to hear their conversation.

When I say people - I mean the youth - which I now think of as anyone under 30, sure sign middle age has arrived for me!

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[Landy Andy]

I have no idea why but it does seem to be fast becoming the norm that people walk down the street with their phone in front of them on the speaker - even if they're walking on their own - rather than having it to their ear. So the world gets to hear their conversation.

When I say people - I mean the youth - which I now think of as anyone under 30, sure sign middle age has arrived for me!

I disagree with the last bit. It’s everyone, old people too. I now see more oldies sitting staring at a phone than kids.

 

[cyberyacht]

That's because we are trying to work out what button to press.

 

[Caggsie1]

Or hearing it, trying to take off mute because you’ve turned it in using your ear

 

[violet]

Agree that noise happens, we were lucky to have only 5 such nights out of 45!
I was also making the point that sometimes we make noise no matter how quiet we normally are ... granted our noise was in the afternoon but nonetheless when my husband duscovered the would be migrant, he was shocked and shouted, loudly. Hope nobody thought, 'oh those noisy English!'

 

[Reallyretired]

I always have my phone on speaker easier for me to hear.

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[Landy Andy]

And the rest of us.

 

[Lenny HB]

It's the French that wind me up, standing right by my van at the ungodly hour of 8:30am talking in very loud voices while I'm still trying to get some kip.

 

[Langtoftlad]

 

[Shrimp]

We’ve found the noisiest to be parked near, usually on a THS or CS, is a Caravan. They seem to dismantle it and remake the whole thing regularly!
Maybe noisy Motorhomers have grown up from Caravans!