Might you be able to find ways of enjoying yourselves without upsetting your neighbours?

There's a nice quiet civilised site ?

...we also had a good water bomb fight.

Interesting topic this.

A number of years ago the TVRCC would sort out a large group booking and there would be 4-5 rows of TVR owners and many rows of other car clubs all together on Houx in the same area and it was 99% of the time a great lively little part of the World. There would be loud music until 1am ish most nights, perhaps a little later on Friday and Saturday, and plenty of RLM floating across the air.

You could find the odd knobber on the site but mainly those who were less inclined to think of others would be found on other camps, Annex and Bleu spring to mind.

When the ACO changed the booking rules for Car Clubs 100’s of spaces on Houx were up for the free for all that had previously been the reserve of the more mature race goer. Many ‘new# people moved onto the site and with them a small number of people who were not interested in the race so much as themselves.

That year we had a delightful group of 4 Dutch guys who turned their music on at 11pm at full blast and would serenade us until 4 or 5am. Their tunes of choice varied from hard house to mellow chill out tune then thrash metal then happy house then jazz then Mozart and so on. In other words you would just be able to put it to the back ground and then the tempo and beat would radically alter to ensure you were wide awake again. Just in case you were able to cope with this they would every twenty minutes or so set off a large firework, usually next to your tent or that of anyone else who had had the temerity to ask if they would keep the noise down a little after 2am. The surrounding cars were constantly peppered with bits of firework, as were tents. I know that the paint on one Aston was damaged quite badly, not to mention the covering of bits and hot embers that ruined 2 of our tents alone.

People did try to ask them to be a little more considerate, not stop what they were doing but just think of others a little who might like to watch the cars, unlike our Dutch friends who would sleep all day other than the odd trip to the shops and then keep as many as they could awake at night and in the early hours. More than a few would cheerfully have driven over their camp by the Friday.

When you go to LM you do not expect a quite weekend in the country. You expect a bit of a party, a few mad stories and a good race. Most people think of others and seriously loud music is turned down about 1-2ish to a background level. Sadly though there are a minority who go to these sites with no obvious interest in anything other than trying to destroy the enjoyment of others by depriving them of any sleep (let alone the 4-5 hours per night most of us would hope for down there).

Being asked to turn music down as people are eating isn’t really playing the game, nor is acting in a manner that you know is upsetting and destroying other’s enjoyment of the week.

Since then I have been lucky enough to be staying in a motor home inside the circuit and should I not have that option in the future will seriously be considering not bothering with camping anymore, or at least if we do only from the Friday onwards and spend the first few nights in a hotel in Town. Not a choice I want to make but one forced on me by the total disregard for others shown by the few.